Joni Ernst’s hypocrisy

Joni Ernst sparks backlash for getting COVID vaccine after spreading conspiracy https://t.co/vQFId4fMIQ
— Daniel Uhlfelder (@DWUhlfelderLaw) December 21, 2020

How it started: How it’s going: pic.twitter.com/9yFXKyYNuR
— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) December 21, 2020

Anyone claiming that #COVID restrictions, including masks, aren’t needed, should NOT be amongst the first to get the vaccine. #disparities #inequalities https://t.co/d3X5c1HrOY via @DMRegister
— Megan L. Srinivas, MD MPH (@YourlocalIDdoc) December 21, 2020

Reporters should never quote Ernst again on anything without noting somewhere in their story that she lied about covid and spread conspiracy theories about it even though she likely didn’t believe them and therefore shouldn’t be trusted on whatever she’s currently lying about https://t.co/C45PEpgunS
— Matt Negrin, HOST OF HARDBALL AT 7PM ON MSNBC (@MattNegrin) December 21, 2020

The problem with this is that it was clear who Joni Ernst was and how little she cared about ordinary Iowans last month. They sent her back to the senate for another six year term anyway. https://t.co/EqCurzeISD
— Daniel Gilmore (@gilmored85) December 21, 2020

Armed far-right mob in Oregon

VIDEO: Arrests made following protests at Oregon State Capitol https://t.co/hLnAjyHRID
— Statesman Journal (@Salem_Statesman) December 22, 2020

Heavily armed far-right mob floods Oregon capitol https://t.co/JEsAJjqpxO pic.twitter.com/W6hVd37cat
— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) December 21, 2020

State troopers declare a 'Reopen Oregon' protest at the Capitol an unlawful assemblyhttps://t.co/DabwrgAb5V pic.twitter.com/3CthA376zC
— KATU News (@KATUNews) December 21, 2020

after arrests at the capitol, a mass text goes out to all Oregon chapters of this group founded by Ammon Bundy. in Idaho, it's linked to protests of health districts/officials. In Oregon, local militias are backing businesses that defy public health restrictions. pic.twitter.com/MZZj9B1tsT
— Emily Cureton (@emilycureton) December 21, 2020

Oregon's legislature isn't open to the public today, and as a result, please enjoy this absolutely bananas thread about the protest where righties discover to their horror that maybe the policemans are not their friends. https://t.co/abFzgg522J
— 𝕁𝕚𝕞𝕤𝕜𝕚 🩸+🖐=🐘 (@Jimski) December 21, 2020

Salem Police said the streets and grounds around the Oregon Capitol are closed as authorities handle a protest deemed an unlawful assembly:https://t.co/DabwrgAb5V https://t.co/61fVQryVoH
— KATU News (@KATUNews) December 21, 2020

This ant-lockdown protestor intimidated and assaulted journalists, after this video he tackled this reporter pic.twitter.com/gwYAyJD1iF
— Sergio Olmos (@MrOlmos) December 21, 2020

Florida manipulated COVID-19 death data

“[Florida] state officials withheld information about infections in schools, prisons, hospitals and nursing homes, relenting only under pressure or legal action from family members, advocacy groups and journalists.” https://t.co/M0Fc9Ka15G
— JM Rieger (@RiegerReport) December 8, 2020

COVID data has apparently been manipulated for months and yet only one person has spoken out publicly. Here’s why. https://t.co/QSInmdDi8j
— Slate (@Slate) December 18, 2020

Rebekah Jones, a fmr. Covid-19 data scientist, says the raid on her home by armed Florida state police officers was intended to "scare people" after she raised concerns about the state's handling of the coronavirus. https://t.co/5nSbleWx7a
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 18, 2020

SPECIAL REPORT: An astonishing pattern emerged in Florida’s #COVID19 death tally — one that suggests the state manipulated a backlog of unrecorded fatalities, presenting more favorable death counts in the days leading up to the presidential election. https://t.co/dKcZoTO2gc
— South Florida Sun Sentinel (@SunSentinel) December 16, 2020

Miami-Dade mayors say they they’ve been unable to talk to Gov. Ron DeSantis, who in September intervened in local COVID-19 responses by barring local governments from closing businesses or enforcing COVID-19 fines. https://t.co/T89cHAdjSp
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) December 17, 2020

Opinion: Even by Florida standards, Gov. Ron DeSantis is a covid-19 catastrophe https://t.co/RIpzQv4z8p
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 22, 2020

Trump’s failure led to the pandemic catastrophe

The inside story of how Trump’s denial, mismanagement and magical thinking led to the pandemic’s dark winter https://t.co/ngmJSNbBjW
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 19, 2020

Mark Meadows, Stephen Miller, Scott Atlas, Marc Short, Brad Smith, Donald Trump.

A roundup of miscreants exposed by the @washingtonpost's latest COVID report, and what they did. https://t.co/DSovorSLwp
— Will Saletan (@saletan) December 22, 2020

Coronavirus outbreaks 12/18/20

Stupidity? From Queens Republicans in Whitestone? Who could’ve imagined. https://t.co/MWgP4ZZbJf
— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) December 30, 2020

Two separate Covid-19 outbreaks have been traced back to a person who went to work while sick and later tested positive, officials in Oregon say.

Seven people died as a result of the first outbreak, and hundreds had to self-isolate over the second one. https://t.co/Z8Pf7ZmxOt
— CNN (@CNN) December 23, 2020

Eight nuns living in a convent in suburban Milwaukee have died of COVID-19 in the past week, according to a statement from the School Sisters of Notre Dame’s Central Pacific Province https://t.co/2yWbBePC0h
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 17, 2020

Note that none of the 7 people who died attended this wedding. So people planning a big Thanksgiving aren't simply jeopardizing their own families; they're saying, "I'm happy to kill strangers if it means I can have what I want." https://t.co/PMnja4z631
— Mark Harris (@MarkHarrisNYC) November 16, 2020

#AUSvIND #COVIDー19 #Sydney | Cricket Australia on alert after Covid outbreak in Sydneyhttps://t.co/IAH8zp0rtY
— IndiaToday (@IndiaToday) December 18, 2020

Covid: Sydney residents urged to stay home amid new outbreak https://t.co/Z2vohB4q2b
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) December 17, 2020

POLITICO: Emails show unvarnished truth. The massive scale of the outbreak in U.S. was intentional, at least according to one top Trump appointee advising HHS ‘We want them infected’: Trump appointee demanded ‘herd immunity’ strategy, emails reveal https://t.co/RUs7FW3ZYn
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) December 17, 2020

Tennessee now has the worst current coronavirus outbreak in the United States … and it's not even close. The CDC says we are reporting 129 new infections per 100,000 residents in the past 7 days. Oklahoma is second at 98. https://t.co/ilvnI5ifk5 pic.twitter.com/r0CQVYYVVe
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) December 17, 2020

Outbreak closes meat plant #Ontario https://t.co/eGFkaOjxGJ
— Castanet (@CastanetNews) December 18, 2020

Coronavirus vaccine polls 12/14/20

BREAKING: More than eight in 10 Americans say they would receive the coronavirus vaccine, with 40% saying they would take it as soon as it’s available to them and 44% saying they would wait a bit before getting it, according to new @ABC News/Ipsos poll. https://t.co/48awcPeIjx
— ABC News (@ABC) December 14, 2020

62% of Americans say they would be uncomfortable being among the first to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Just 37% said they would be comfortable. https://t.co/QCLgtdi0QD pic.twitter.com/44eLsUwa4D
— Pew Research Center (@pewresearch) December 4, 2020

Wow. 55% of Black people said they would not take the Coronavirus vaccine. Wow. I'm just wow. https://t.co/lqpoCEkCaa
— Young Daddy (@Toure) December 5, 2020

About 82% of Americans agree with the CDC’s guidance that health care workers and residents of nursing homes should get COVID-19 vaccines before other Americans, according to a YouGov poll. https://t.co/8yPU5lT4PI
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) December 12, 2020

More women than men in U.S. nervous about fast rollout of COVID vaccine, and that's a problem: Reuters/Ipsos poll https://t.co/F7AhvhOwtI pic.twitter.com/DWpxpcVTwg
— Reuters (@Reuters) December 11, 2020

This is a tough topic to poll, but one reason I haven’t been too worried about vaccine hesitancy: a lot of people expressing hesitation just want to wait and see a little, and they’re probably going to have to do that anyway. https://t.co/fugD5EnJRM
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 9, 2020

Polling has consistently showed that African Americans are more skeptical of taking the #Covid_19 vaccine than other groups of people in America, but the reasons for this aren't just based on "older" instances of poor medical care. A thread…. https://t.co/ZY8Isx9a30
— Jason Johnson (@DrJasonJohnson) December 14, 2020

A new AP-NORC poll finds only about half of Americans are ready to roll up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots when their turn comes as states gird for months of mass vaccinations. https://t.co/I8LwLp151f
— The Associated Press (@AP) December 9, 2020

Coronavirus statistics 12/14/20

New covid deaths yesterday in the US: 3,538

Total covid deaths since the pandemic began:

Japan: 2,688
Australia: 908
South Korea: 612
Norway: 402
New Zealand: 25
Taiwan: 7

Total covid deaths in the US: 314,629 (and counting)
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) December 17, 2020

Shocking COVID stat:

~1 out of every 500 residents in New Jersey dead.
— Steven Dennis (@StevenTDennis) December 13, 2020

US coronavirus cases via @CNN:

0M-1M: 98 days
1M-2M: 44 days
2M-3M: 27 days
3M-4M: 15 days
4M-5M: 17 days
5M-6M: 22 days
6M-7M: 25 days
7M-8M: 21 days
8M-9M: 14 days
9M-10M: 9 days
10M-11M: 7 days
11M-12M: 6 days
12M-13M: 6 days
13M-14M: 6 days
14M-15M: 5 days
15M-16M: 4 days
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) December 12, 2020

As of Thursday, coronavirus has killed a higher percentage of Gove County, Kansas, residents than any other county in the United States: One out of every 132 people has died. https://t.co/dhdst6sp5G
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 12, 2020

If the ratio of new deaths to new cases over time holds, we'll be averaging 3,500 deaths a day by the new year and pass 300,000 dead early next week.

Many Americans and elected leaders chose to let the virus spread. This was the inevitable result.https://t.co/AnXgsDuurs pic.twitter.com/JgFyTV6sKe
— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 11, 2020

At least 356,000 more people than normal have died in the U.S. between March 15 and Nov. 21 according to our analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That is nearly 20% higher than what would be expected in a normal year. https://t.co/MikvQt4yqb
— The New York Times (@nytimes) December 10, 2020

Coronavirus outbreaks 12/11/20

Unreal: Researchers now believe roughly 330,000 COVID-19 cases across the US and around the world can be traced back to the two-day Biogen conference in Boston.

Infections from this one gathering made up 2% of all the US cases, @hannaskrueger reports https://t.co/OvilBh9hK5
— Ellen Barry (@EllenBarryNYT) December 11, 2020

After Giuliani visit, Michigan House says nearly 30 have tested positive for Covid this year https://t.co/hIX8q67psb
— julie k. brown (@jkbjournalist) December 10, 2020

Owner of an events company says his 4-day swingers convention in New Orleans last month has been tied to 41 new coronavirus infections. https://t.co/wNWakLHjEs
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) December 2, 2020

Fifteen members of the Aragonez family have tested positive for coronavirus since a get-together on November 1. Although the family is still healing, they took the time to make a public service announcement warning against large gatherings of this sort. https://t.co/efyaPWX4sK
— CNN (@CNN) November 24, 2020

A Washington state wedding that was called a "super-spreader" event may have caused deadly COVID-19 outbreaks in two long-term care facilities. https://t.co/GRfP3y5vdQ
— ABC News (@ABC) December 6, 2020

A birthday lunch left 15 Texas relatives battling covid-19: "Please don’t be like my family" https://t.co/8E7l04uNEk
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) November 23, 2020

A traveler who tested neg 48 hrs prior to flight was infectious by day of flight, pre-symptomatic; using genomic analysis, traced to 4 cases of in-flight transmission

This doesn’t mean don’t get tested; it means *don’t travel unless an emergency* #covid19 https://t.co/1DIundqlY5
— Abraar Karan (@AbraarKaran) November 21, 2020

900 on Mayo Clinic staff have contracted coronavirus in last two weekshttps://t.co/9vJ3JwzeQw
— Jesse Lehrich (@JesseLehrich) November 18, 2020

NEW: I investigated a giant, unsanctioned “superspreader” homecoming dance in Missouri. Turns out it was thrown by parents, and they may have tried to hide the number and identities of attendees in order to make contact tracing harder. https://t.co/SARHeOoimX
— Olivia Messer 🌻 (@OliviaMesser) November 13, 2020

Biden will have the White House cleaned before he moves in

Good idea! It’s a covid hotspot. I wouldn’t go there now.

Before the Bidens move in, the White House will first undergo a Covid-19 cleansing, top to bottom, from East Wing to West Wing. The total for the amplified White House inauguration deep clean right now hovers near a half-million dollars https://t.co/Er02VjNCZe
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) January 12, 2021

Expect a White House deep clean when Joe Biden moves in https://t.co/Hl3foyGWxH pic.twitter.com/CFVE0p9Tin
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 10, 2020

There have been over 40 COVID-19 cases in Donald Trump’s circle, so Joe Biden's team plans to “thoroughly clean and disinfect” all the surfaces in the White House before moving in. https://t.co/f0kv8qn0C3
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 10, 2020

That includes plans to "thoroughly clean and disinfect" all furniture, doorknobs, handrails and light switches, before Biden and his team move in.

A private contractor will provide "disinfectant misting services" to clear the air of lingering droplets. https://t.co/j7Fr7vLPSM
— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 10, 2020

Anti-mask ignorance

The political battle over masks in some rural areas and small towns has led to a sharp spike in local COVID-19 cases, which now surpasses the rates of new cases in urban areas. https://t.co/ldE82sjyeG
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) December 11, 2020

Dave Ramsey, who does not require masks at Ramsey Solutions and said he would like to "start a crusade" against them, has had more than 100 cases of COVID-19 at his 800-employee company.

They're planning a giant Christmas party.https://t.co/hBaItBDoju
— Steve Cavendish (@scavendish) December 11, 2020

Been waiting for this ⁦@MonicaHesse⁩ piece to run.

“From then on, when a male customer requested she take off her mask — and it kept happening — it almost felt like he was asking her to take off her shirt.”

NOW can we eliminate the tipped wage?! https://t.co/upIeL15YHU
— Karla L Miller (@KarlaAtWork) December 10, 2020

Tensions rise over masks as virus grips smaller US cities (from @AP) https://t.co/sekjCoZPQH
— darlene superville (@dsupervilleap) December 10, 2020

He refused to wear a mask at a Florida Best Buy. Then he started coughing, police say https://t.co/qxk16z1CJZ
— Miami Herald (@MiamiHerald) December 9, 2020

An anti-mask mob descended on the home of a county commissioner as she prepared to vote on a mask mandate—while she was at the office and her kids were home alone. @MichaelDalyNYC calls her "a true patriot in a time of preposterous imposters." https://t.co/ew7etOGl1i
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) December 10, 2020

Idaho public health officials abruptly ended a COVID meeting after the Boise mayor and chief of police said intense protests outside the health department building – as well as outside some health officials' homes – were threatening public safety.https://t.co/ikGdjQr2KJ
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 9, 2020

Anti-mask protesters burned face masks in Brooklyn, NY, as COVID-19 cases continue to rise across the U.S. pic.twitter.com/or09iUkvMV
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) December 7, 2020

Anti-masker in San Jose, California wants to talk to corporate about the mask policy pic.twitter.com/OHlMY1ir81
— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) December 9, 2020