Thread by @LazarusLong13

After reading a study, and reaching for my phone, if the first thing I do is check to see if I have @'d someone in the past?

That's not a good sign.

I have never @'d them, and this is not directed @ them.

But this IS a debunk thread.

And it starts with who.

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Study here. Before you read it?

This thread is about providing context. Read the thread, @SalvMattera's comments, AND THEN, read the study.

0/10 from me.

thelancet.com/journals/lanep…

Who paid for it? The Dutch government - who has been spectacularly almost Tegnell-like in their downplaying of LongCovid and masks.

Lead authors are from RIVM, their CDC.

RIVM was antimask even when they FINALLY recommended masks in OCTOBER 2020.

nltimes.nl/2020/10/03/dut…

RIVM's attitude has transferred to the Dutch doctors - the stories of Longhaulers being gaslit there are particularly bad.

Study
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/6/e…

Personal story
turningdutch.com/2024/02/28/the…

So, @rivm has a real need to minimize LongCovid. They will look bad, unless they do.

If I was of a Machiavellian mindset, and wanted to wind down a pandemic, what would I do?

We all know the answer over here, but we are an uncouth lot.

No, run a series of studies that just so

happened to find a reduction in LongCovid. Down to 0.0 in this most recent one.

Actually, EVEN NEGATIVE! It's a miracle! Covid cures LongCovid in the Netherlands!

But where did it start in this magical land of no LongCovid?

Study 1 in the series. By the RIVM. For the RIVM.

They found 12.7%.

Here's part of the trick. The symptoms list is only 23 symptoms long.

Y'all know that there are over 200 symptoms on the LongCovid Symptom Roller Coaster, right?

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

And when we look at the latest RIVM study? 23 symptoms.

But they are different symptoms. And yet, the authors of this Magical™️ study say, " See! LongCovid (PCC) has gone down in comparison to those different symptoms."

8-9 are different. How can they make that claim?

They can't.

I could go on all day, but I am tagging @davidtuller1 to see if he wants to do a deeper dive.

In particular, the CIS checklist was used. Fun fact- it was developed by those who think ME/CFS is psychosomatic.

I am not a blue check, so see below.

@davidtuller1 .Elon's app cut this off. Here's the rest.

This connects the 2025 VASCO study directly to the same Dutch psychosomatic research tradition that Rosmalen herself likes to play in the mud in.

And David tangled with her, for all of our benefit!

virology.ws/2025/04/04/tri…

@davidtuller1 Good observations here.

@davidtuller1 And good observations here.

I would ask what gives with the RIVM and these studies....but we already know.

@davidtuller1 .The Little Dutch Boy is
@rivm.

Behind the dike is COVID and LongCovid.

There is no Magical™️ study, thinking, wishing, or finger that will hold back that pressure.

Silly RIVM. We see you. We really see you.