Notices by Naomi Wu (sexycyborg@mastodon.social), page 2

"Omicron is mild"✅
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220127/deaths-due-to-omicron-higher-than-from-delta

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1601788/v1_covered.pdf?c=1651763984

Omicron variants killed more people than Delta in many places. While Omicron is less deadly *if you get infected*, the infection rate is far higher- so often the total mortality rate is higher.

"Long-COVID isn't a thing"✅
It is.
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2022/11/similar-long-covid-symptoms-noted-after-omicron-delta

https://www.axios.com/2022/10/06/long-covid-cdc-data-disabling

https://english.news.cn/20221109/bdada3bfdaaf4a25af37d25e0cb02ee0/c.html

"We have to lie, to avoid a panic"✅
This one probably killed more people than anything else because once you've lied and lost the public trust you can never get it back.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/09/16/trump-woodward-elite-panic-coronavirus-pandemic/

What should be done- but is not, is Chinese language education that reflects the latest science about how COVID is transmitted. Instead, we get "wash your hands" and "wear a medical mask"- interventions we know to be ineffective against Omicron.

We know precisely what a sharp off-ramp from Zero-COVID on the Mainland will look like by looking at Chinese Taiwan and Hong Kong- who have far better healthcare systems. If we do as "well" as TW- over 800k will die in less than a year. If as "well" as Hong Kong- over 2 million.

COVID minimizers in positions of power like @szdaily1@twitter.com, suffering from normalcy bias have *consistently* contributed to significant losses of life in *every* country by leaving people unprepared and ill-informed- and it will do the same here.

RT @BobBrigham@twitter.com

@WalkerBragman@twitter.com China is so ridiculously overpopulated that Covid was a blessing and the only problem was the absurd government overreach.

China deserves judgement, even from places dumb enough to have shut down schools.

??: https://twitter.com/BobBrigham/status/1597130165129478145

Least they're not dancing around it anymore. You'll start seeing bigger accounts repeat this, at first tactfully, then they'll drop the pretense. When I say "we aren't people to them" you'll see what I've been talking about. This isn't a fringe opinion, it's just out in the open.

Here, you want to see why Bob is so smug and comfortable?

Hey @MichaelEHayden@twitter.com @WajahatAli@twitter.com @Shayan86@twitter.com @abughazalehkat@twitter.com @MelissaRyan@twitter.com @ScottHech@twitter.com- thoughts on giving clout with a follow to a guy openly advocating genocide?

Again, when people push the narrative that all Chinese nationals are "bots", have no personal agency, aren't creative (like machines), are brainwashed ants- this is not harmless speculation. These are racist attempts to dehumanize us- and most of you quietly accept it.

This is something that Asians are *specifically* subjected to. Japanese-Americans facing internment were assumed to be loyal to Imperial Japan, while white German and Italian-Americans were assumed to have personal agency.

Most of us have heard of Tokyo Rose- the sinister duplicitous Asian-American who sided with Japanese against her own country? Except Iva Toguri didn't, she remained loyal to the end and was smeared and imprisoned for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iva_Toguri_D%27Aquino

But Rita Zucca or Mildred Gillars? The Italian and German American women who did voluntarily what Iva would not do under duress? Well, that doesn't fit the narrative, so almost no one remembers them.

After the war- Germans were punished for their warcrimes against Europeans- who were people. But Japanese? Well Asians aren't *really* people, it's not the same...

The idea that we aren't people, our lives are cheap, that we're collectivist ants is a foundation of Western self-image, media, and foreign policy. Anything that implies we are thinking, breathing, individuals the equal of any is an obvious Oriental trick to loudly denounce.

The accusations of "wumao" (paid propagandist), "CCP Shill" "bot" that follow any Chinese national on social media, voicing the most average, uncontroversial, typical Average Zhou perspectives from China are not harmless- they are deliberate attempts to dehumanize an entire race.

"You are Chinese therefore you are not a real person with agency and opinions like me" leads to exactly this- the same folks who claim "I don't have a problem with Chinese people just the CCP" casually advocating for mass genocide while their neighbors stand silently by.

This is awesome on so many levels?

Via @histoftech@twitter.com

RT @m_aslany@twitter.com

A female led revolution :

For years the Islamic Republic has tried to shame Iranian women in the most intimate ways. Today, protesters in Iran are using sanitary pads to cover the regime’s CCTV cameras, which could identify protesters.

Ingenious acts of defiance.
??❤️

??: https://twitter.com/m_aslany/status/1593262504360251392

RT @RealSexyCyborg@twitter.com

@totobobo@twitter.com I don't really have the option of ignoring it. I tried in the past, character assassination campaigns were successful, nearly cost me my career and still cost me income to this day. If you don't refute their narrative, that narrative becomes the truth in the minds of the public.

??: https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1594259466811473920

Oh my god with the drama. Yes we get it, you've never been forced off a platform integral to networking in your profession and earning a living before. It's the end of the world?

It happens regularly to marginalized folk and we all told you you'd be next. You didn't give a shit