Starting a thread of deaths resulting from Covid quarantines. 1) NHS Scotland sees hundreds die after hospitals keep patients on waiting lists as Covid is prioritized
7) "The rate of children ending up in Victorian emergency rooms after self-harming has jumped by a third since this time last year, according to government data seen by the ABC." abc.net.au/news/2020-08-0…
8) "Pennsylvania hospitals are treating more children with severe child abuse injuries, indicating the state's most vulnerable kids are not safe at home during the coronavirus outbreak." eu.usatoday.com/story/news/nat…
9) Study: 'Years of life lost due to the psychosocial consequences of COVID19 mitigation strategies based on Swiss data' medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
10) "More than 40 states have reported increases in opioid-related mortality as well as ongoing concerns for those with a mental illness or substance use disorder in counties and other areas within the state" since lockdowns began ama-assn.org/system/files/2…
12) "Multiple cases of COVID-19-related suicides in the USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Bangladesh, India and other countries have been reported in mass media and psychiatric literature” academic.oup.com/qjmed/advance-…
13) "A 2011 meta-analysis of international research .. found that the risk of death was 63 percent higher during the study periods among those who experienced unemployment than among those who did not” mises.org/wire/unemploym…
14) "According to the latest survey from Survivor Views … half (51%) of all those surveyed reported some impact on their [cancer] care due to the virus … nearly one in four report a delay in care or treatment.” ascopost.com/news/april-202…
15) “The number of people in Denver who died of cardiac arrests at home in the two weeks following the statewide stay-at-home order was greater than the total number of people who died of COVID-19 in the city during that time.” coloradosun.com/2020/08/17/den…
16) "The number of deaths due to the disruption of cancer services is likely to outweigh the number of deaths from the coronavirus itself over the next five years. The cabinet was told it could be up to 150,000 avoidable deaths." thetimes.co.uk/edition/commen…
17) Covid-19’s collateral damage: More Americans are dying from heart attacks and other health issues wsj.com/articles/death…
18) Hundreds of thousands of cancer screenings were deferred after worries about Covid-19 shut down much of the U.S. health-care system .. Bc many cancers can advance rapidly, months without detection could mean ... more deaths wsj.com/articles/covid…
19) Death tolls soar, not from non-Covid; diabetes victims up 86 percent in 6 months; prostate cancer victims up 53 percent; breast cancer up 47 percent; bowel cancer up 46 percent pressreader.com/uk/metro-uk/20…
20) Ontario shut down non-urgent health services in the spring. Now hospitals are seeing many more patients with advanced cancers thestar.com/news/gta/2020/…
21) Suicides Up Nearly 100% Among Young People in Wisconsin’s Second Largest County madison.com/wsj/news/local…
22) In UK, Number of patients waiting more than a year for non-coronavirus treatment highest since 2008, with 139,545 patients waiting more than a year for treatment news.sky.com/story/covid-19…
32) "Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period." cdc.gov/media/releases…
33) Thread detailing teen suicides since the government began imposing lockdowns and social isolation
35) Pregnant woman dies during childbirth from treatable condition undiagnosed due to coronavirus restrictions, family says washingtonexaminer.com/news/pregnant-…
39) Friends say former Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh became incurably depressed after Covid lockdowns hit, which resulted in drug abuse and his eventual death forbes.com/sites/angelauy…
40) Three NYC school kids killed themselves in three weeks amid COVID-19 pandemic nypost.com/2021/02/17/3-n…
44) Study projects 27,644 to 154,037 "deaths of despair" (alcohol, drugs, suicide) resulting from Covid lockdowns/social isolation drive.google.com/file/d/1MiezBY…
As today’s the 60 year anniversary of JFK’s assassination, I’d like to share the most interesting information I’ve come across while recently reading a few books: “Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination” by Lamar Waldron & Thom Hartman, “Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government,” by David Talbot, and “Chaos: The Truth Behind the Manson Murders” by Tom O’Neill.
Waldron’s basic conclusion is that the CIA’s partnership with the mafia — involving myriad criminality, such as trying to assassinate Fidel Castro — spun out of control & the mafia, angry at AG RFK’s crackdown on organized crime, exploited their insider-role in Washington to assassinate Kennedy (as any proper investigation would expose the CIA’s enabling of the then-three largest crime families). Waldron acknowledges that many of the most mobbed-up CIA agents also admitted being involved in the assassination, such as the CIA’s Miami station boss, David Morales (who, the more you read about him, the more he sounds like a serial killer who happened to work for the government), but Waldron stops short of blaming anyone at the CIA for orchestrating the hit.
Then by destroying evidence & hampering investigations into JFK’s assassination, the CIA — and their enablers in Washington — left in place a criminal architecture that was later used to kill both MLK and RFK. (Waldron reports one of those involved in JFK’s assassination, a white supremacist named Joseph Milteer, was able to orchestrate the hit on MLK, thanks in part to the FBI explicitly forbidding their agents from following any leads that revealed the conspiracy behind killing Kennedy). RFK’s assassination, which I knew virtually nothing about before this book, is another clear case of conspiracy. Like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan was a patsy — who, even if he shot any of the bullets that hit RFK — was merely being exploited by powers greater than he.
Did you know that starting August 22nd, BRICS nations are meeting in S. Africa, where they're rumored to announce the launch of a gold-backed digital currency, obviously meant to dethrone the dollar as the world’s reserve currency?
For years I've thought "Wouldn't it be awesome if someone made something like Bitcoin, but using actual money like gold & silver, as opposed to intrinsically worthless digital vapor?" Then Peter Schiff started a company called GoldMoney that tried to do something like that.… https://t.co/G75LqW7HUmtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
So it seemed allowing U.S. consumers to transact with real money was dead in the water. However, in the last two months I've learned about an incredible new project called Kinesis (@KinesisMonetary), which, so far as I can tell, solves every problem related to money. In short, it… https://t.co/hrO1PxErFhtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Morning Joe defends Biden & Hunter's working relationship:
@Lemire: "We should put this in context; this is the time when Beau Biden, the president’s other son, was ill & dying & then passed away. So perhaps he wasn’t as attentive to what he should have been"
Rep. @danielsgoldman: "Let's put this in context: Beau Biden got very sick in 2015. He died in 2015. It was right in the middle when Devon Archer had his business dealings with Hunter Biden. At that point Joe Biden and Hunter Biden began to speak every day because they were… https://t.co/hul2OjQiDstwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
A folksy, aw-shucks Scranton-born Irish Catholic who just loves the working man, Corvettes, & the American Dream?
Or, a lifelong, self-dealing politician whose moral depravity & corruption make him uniquely unsuited for public service?
Thread ->
— Went straight into politics and to this day has never had a real job; he has no real-life experience
— Forced to drop out from presidential race after being caught repeatedly plagiarizing
— Credibly accused of rape
— Despite trying to destroy Clarence Thomas's Supreme Court nomination with her testimony, Biden admitted privately that Anita Hill "was lying"
— Staff say he likes to call them "dumb fuck"
— Aggressively attacks voters who question any part of his record ("fat," "low IQ," etc.)
— FBI confidential human source reporting Joe Biden told Burisma for $10 million he’d make their legal problems go away, which is exactly what then happened
— Joe attending more than a dozen meetings w/ Hunter’s biz associates
—… https://t.co/b80b4XpGjrtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
I’ve yet to encounter a coherent argument explaining why conservatives should vote for Trump over DeSantis
I’ve lost 200 followers since this tweet (as happens whenever I go after Trump). And I have to say, I’m seeing a lot of commonality btwn hardcore Trump fans & maskers/Covidians more generally — no amount of empirical evidence will convince them they were fooled; instead they… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…