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Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.bsky.social |
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📢 Public Health, Climate Justice, and Science Communication
🎓 Columbia, Cornell, Cambridge, Adelaide
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Science is clearly political. The more we ignore this, the more we allow political decisions in which science is suppressed to maximize corporate profits at the sacrifice of people's health and lives. Speak up!
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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From SCOTUS ruling that it's ok to ignore scientists, to the minimizing of COVID, the growing rejection of vaccines, the increasing restrictions on abortion access, and the lack of sufficient action on climate, the US is really is going all in on science denial. Dark times.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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From the food we eat to the air we breathe, federal regulations are needed to save lives. The SCOTUS Chevron decision that allows courts to overrule experts at agencies, shows that ultimately governments care more about industry profits than our health.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Any country that makes protecting your health or being poor a crime is not a real democracy.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Your regular reminder that COVID is a bipartisan failure.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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I think they haven't updated their website yet, as they announce it will be a fully masked march just today www.instagram.com/p/C8sO5Y0uFfm/
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Reminder: Fascism rose partly as a result of the 1918 pandemic. Do not stay silent about the attempts to ban masks and protests.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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NY Governor Hochul is not only banning masks, she is ending sick leave for COVID. Shame.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Source: www.instagram.com/p/C8sO5Y0uFf...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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In response to Governor Hochul's and Mayor Adams's push to ban masks, NYC Dyke March has updated its policies to require masks.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Banning masks has nothing to do with preventing crime. Japan has one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and everyone there wears a mask regularly.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Even before mask bans become law, simply the act of politicians speaking about mask wearers as criminals is stigmatizing a critical public health tool, and encouraging harassment of marginalized groups. That is incredibly reckless and making our cities more unsafe.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Right wing think tanks like the Manhattan Institute are creating model legislation for mask bans, which Democrats are trying to make law.
manhattan.institute/article/mode...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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BREAKING: Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass says she is discussing a mask ban for protests with the City Attorney.
Source: youtu.be/5R6krNYXnZI?...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Such an ableist comment
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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There is zero evidence mask bans are effective against crime or hate. But there's a lot of evidence that shows banning masks will put everyone's health at risk, and increases harassment and targeting of higher risk people and communities of color. Mask bans make cities LESS safe.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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When leaders talk about banning masks for safety, they ignore the safety of many diverse communities. People who are higher risk, and Asian people have been attacked for wearing masks. Black and Brown communities are disproportionately targeted by police. Safety means EVERYONE.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Source: www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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This is such a misinformed and biased response. (1) EVERYONE is at risk of health impacts of COVID, other viruses, pollution etc. (2) EVERYONE has the democratic right to participate in protests, and take precautions when doing so, no matter their health status.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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The erasure of COVID by the entertainment industry has played a huge role in sanctioning government abandonment of public health. Creatives are complicit in the ongoing harm caused by COVID. What a difference it would make if they actively portrayed the pandemic in their work.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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You can file a complain about the restaurant at Chicago O'Hare denying service to mask wearers here: www.hmshost.com/about
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Wow. A restaurant in Chicago O’Hare, one of the biggest airports in the world, banned an infectious disease doctor from entering because they were wearing a mask. This is unacceptable.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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If our leaders were really interested in making cities more safe, instead of funding increased surveillance and introducing useless laws like mask bans, they would: ✅ Fund public health ✅ Fund libraries ✅ Fund education ✅ Fund affordable housing ✅ Fund public transport
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NYC COUNCIL RALLY TO SUPPORT LIBRARIES Sunday June 23 11:30 am Walt Whitman Library
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Politicians say mask bans should come back as pre-COVID, they were law since 1845. But scientists discovered viruses in the 1890s, discovered how they worked in the mid-1900s, and discovered SARS in the 2000s. Mask bans are outdated, anti-science laws that belong in the past.
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Dr. Samantha Montano
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This is an emergency management policy issue. Libraries are critical to many city’s response plans — we need to fund them.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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New York City's libraries can't fix broken A/C during a heatwave, subways have halted making more stations accessible, but instead of trying to fix these critical problems, the Mayor is focused on a useless mask ban that doesn't improve safety, and in reality makes it worse.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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UPDATE: Governor Roy Cooper has vetoed North Carolina's anti-mask bill.
The bill now heads back to the state legislature, where the Republicans will likely use their supermajority to override the veto next week.
Source: governor.nc.gov/news/press-r...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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"Truth tellers are the Achilles heel of collective denial. And so those who wear masks are ridiculed, scientists reporting on COVID-19 risks are cast as fearmongers, and those with long COVID are dismissed as having anxiety disorders." Fantastic piece on the tactics behind denial by sociologists.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Tips to beat the heat: 💧 Drink water 👕 Wear light and loose clothing 🏡 Stay indoors ✊ Dismantle the fossil fuel industry
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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A mask ban makes our communities LESS safe. It makes everyone more at risk of COVID and other health concerns. It increases harassment of higher risk people, Asian people, and many others. It increases profiling of Black and Brown communities.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Kids are losing 'huge chunks' of their childhood to long COVID. Too many are being told it's 'all in their head.'
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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A timeline of New York's destruction of public health.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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As usual Asian people have been left out of the discussion about masks and hate. Asian people have been attacked throughout the pandemic for wearing a mask. A mask ban would further stigmatize mask wearing and encourage further harassment and violence against mask wearers.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Despite government abandonment, COVID conscious advocates and mask blocs have done an amazing job educating people, distributing free masks, and holding COVID safe events. Instead of supporting this important public health work, governments are making it even harder with mask bans. Ridiculous.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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This is horrible. Reporting from Reuters revealed that the US military ran disinformation campaigns, including creating fake social media accounts, to sow doubt in the quality of COVID vaccines, masks, and tests produced by other countries.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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It says everything about the US attitude towards public health that they want to ban masks and abortions before they ban guns.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Mask bans will not stop crime. Mask bans will not stop protests. What mask bans will do is put people's health at greater risk, and make society less accessible.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Banning masks and halting congestion pricing puts the health of all New Yorkers at risk. Kathy Hochul is an anti-public health, pro-fossil fuel Governor.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Yes! Both are things which make public health worse!
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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ACTION ALERT: Contact Governor Kathy Hochul & say that you are against banning masks in NY, & she should issue a statement retracting her comments on CNN supporting a mask ban.
Call: 518-474-8390 (press 1 to leave a message, press 2 to speak to a person)
Write: www.governor.ny.gov/content/gove...
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Source:
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Pre-pandemic laws banning masks from group events were always harmful. We should have learned from the pandemic that we need to do more to normalize public health tools like masks. After seeing so much death and harm that is continuing, it makes no sense to roll back mask laws.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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UPDATE: NY Governor Kathy Hochul said on CNN last night that she is considering a ban on masks. This is absolutely shameful! New York has suffered so much from COVID, and COVID is not over. We should be normalizing and depoliticizing masks, not banning them.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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COVID is not over. Scientists are worried about bird flu. We need to be ready for the next pandemic. Right now we need to depoliticize and normalize mask-wearing. North Carolina’s anti-mask bill recklessly does the exact opposite.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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"Black and Hispanic adults were twice as likely than their White peers to be unable to renew their Medicaid enrollment after the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency" The end of the public health emergency was a disaster for health equity.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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The irony.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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With North Carolina's anti-mask bill on the verge of passing, now is one of the most important times than ever to wear a mask. The fewer people who wear masks, the easier it makes it for right wing politicians to recklessly ban them and put everyone's health at risk.
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Dr. Lucky Tran
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Link:
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