so the first and most important thing people can do is go out and get vaccinated. that will keep people, kids, adults, everybody out of the hospital at very high rates. that is probably the most important thing. and then we know how to manage rsv. most children, most adults, relatively mild. small somebody of kids that get sick from it, we can take care of it. we need to make sure the beds are open for children which is why it is important to protect yourself from influenza and covid as well. are we going to be seeing makeshift hospitals or wards for children this winter? i hope not. we re seeing a lot of rsv right now. my hope is that turns around. what worries me is if we then add in influenza and covid on top of that, that s where we can get into trouble, but we don t have to. we can t control everything, but there are things we can control. the two most important things now are going out and getting the influenza shot, the flu shot and getting the new updated covid sh
scott, who would not attack something trump said. don t we also have a responsibility to not only not do it but also to say when someone does it, that that s wrong or we disagree with it forthright and not try to kind of pull out punches? absolutely to i agree with you. one of the things that just shocked me early in trump s presidency was when he would use words like deranged and human scum to describe his enemies, enemies of the state. and i m from a generation when we would address our opponents by something like my right honorable opponent. what a what a fall in just the civility of our nation that was introduced by trump. and i don t think anybody can really justify that. i don t think it helps them at all. i agree with you. yeah, it should be renounced and called out. we re at the top of the hour. i just want to underline one final thing here because you brought this up, and i remember when nancy pelosi said that she prayed for donald trump, and he said, oh, that
prince hall masons founded a year and a day before the signing of the declaration of independence. and the ultimate social network, formed by our enslaved ancestors called the grapevine. even john adams in 1775, right after the battles of lexington and concord, in his diary he noted that these black people had this odd way of communicating, miles and miles, and it was the grapevine, which to which booker t. washington gave its formal name in 1901, likely before clubs, fraternities, sororities, secret societies, black doctors excluded from the ama formed the national medical association, black dentists, the national dental association, black lawyers, the national bar association. there were even black bridge clubs and black skier society. yes. and the sort of forcing to have an alternative, right? obviously having to have an
got their charter, again, from england, and not from the united states. since 1775, people have been talking about this invisible network that united black people together, even under slavery. john adams was the first person to notice that black people had formed what we now call the grapevine. this is what he said in his diary, a few months after the battles of lexington and concord, black people have a wonderful way of communicating intelligence about themselves. it will run several hundred miles in a week or a fortnight. and booker t. washington named that the grapevine telegraph and we see it today in the digital world on black twitter. this has united our people from 1775. what i wanted to do was talk about the vibrancy, the amount of agency it takes to refuse to allow white supremacy to define who you are as a people.
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Learn about the first battles of the American Revolution, which made famous Paul Revere and the minutemen
Overview of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening engagements of the American Revolution.
Battles of Lexington and Concord, (April 19, 1775), initial skirmishes between British regulars and American provincials, marking the beginning of the American Revolution. Acting on orders from London to suppress the rebellious colonists, General Thomas Gage, recently appointed royal governor of Massachusetts, ordered his troops to seize the colonists’ military stores at Concord. En route from Boston, the British force of 700 men was met on Lexington Green by 77 local minutemen and others who had been forewarned of the raid by the colonists’ efficient lines of communication, including the ride of Paul Revere. It is unclear who fired the first shot. Resistance melted away at Lexington, and the British moved on to Concord. Most of the American military su