📝A note—Many say racist things to me—& some folks don’t like I share precautionary/doom-y COVID data. Some call me a CCP spy, pharma shill, attention seeking personal brand builder… But I’m none of those. Who I really am:🧵
This from exactly 10-yrs ago—
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2) I have no publicist, and unlike many “Twitter docs” during the pandemic, I have never paid for one. I have no website, merch store, or YouTube. I only recently started a mini substack—but I barely use it—& I plan to donate any incidental amount I get from it to COVID research.
3) When I tweet—what I think of is all the lives we could save. All the hospitalization suffering. All the PTSD endured by overworked doctors & nurses. All the long COVID sufferers. Sometimes I’m a misunderstood scientist—but that’s okay if it saves lives in a pandemic.
6) Why else do I urge precaution? For immunocompromised kids like @WajahatAli has. I was an immunocompromised kid once upon a time too. I want every kid— including all immunocompromised kids— to survive the pandemic and live to adulthood, Damnit!
7) I truly madly deeply hope we don’t repeat the blasé attitude in Jan 2020 that led us to the pandemic. Sometimes taking the heated attacks is part of the price of warning loudly. Let’s hope we learn from history & not repeat it. Stay precautious & safe.
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8) thank you to everyone who have stayed with me all these years… let’s all help each other stay safe. 🙏
9) Longer discussion thread 🧵 about my philosophy about the pandemic and why we have a selfishness problem and lack of empathy….
10) My 19-year master “con” is complete… wait for the end. 👇 … and thanks for everyone’s kind words of support.
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