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…
THREAD: In addition to his military career & drunk driving arrest, there’s another topic about which @Tim_Walz has been lying for political purposes —the conception of his own children. Since IVF treatments entered the news earlier this year, Walz has been repeatedly claiming he & his wife owe their two children to IVF. But today both CNN & the NYT confirm the Walzes did not in fact use IVF.
Here’s Walz a month ago on Chris Hayes’s show: “Today is IVF day. Thank God for IVF, my wife and I have two beautiful children.”
Here’s Walz two weeks ago in Philadelphia talking about IVF: “This gets personal for me and my family”
Here’s Walz in Wisconsin two weeks ago again claiming his kids were conceived thanks to IVF: “Some of you may have heard this. [IVF] is personal for my wife and I. When Gwen & I decided to have children, we went through years of fertility treatments. The phone would ring, tenseness in my stomach, & then the agony when you heard the treatments hadn’t worked. So it wasn’t by chance that when we welcomed our first child, our beautiful daughter, we named her Hope.”
As usual, Justice Thomas is the only justice who seems to have read the U.S. Constitution. The 2nd Amendment prohibits the federal govt from restricting an individual's right to bear arms, regardless of how politically unpopular they may be. As Justice Thomas notes, Americans can now lose their 2nd Amendment rights without due process.
Justice Thomas: The majority cites 17th century English law to justify disarming citizens, without acknowledging the 2nd Amendment was specifically intended to protect Americans from laws like this
Justice Thomas also mocks the majority for having to rely on proposed constitutional amendments that were ultimately rejected — as if their original proposition carries more weight than their being voted down.
Lest there be any doubt, the role of “fact checkers” like CNN’s Daniel Dale (@ddale8) is to create smokescreens & distractions whenever the public starts getting too close to facts.
Take the Biden WH’s engineering of the DoJ’s case against Biden’s chief political rival. Dale has regularly taken to the airwaves to insist there’s “no evidence” the Biden W.H. had anything to do with the administration’s case against Trump. Like this clip from June last year:
Despite his ostensible role as a checker of facts, we could have given Dale the benefit of the doubt, presuming perhaps he was too busy eating bear-claws to do any research.
However, I helpfully sent him a link reporting an admission from FARA that the Biden WH was in fact coordinating the anti-Trump operation.
One might expect a professional arbiter of truth to thereafter quickly take to the airwaves to issue an apology & clarification.
Instead, the unrepentant Canadian has returned to the air, spreading the same misinformation (and according to what I’ve learned from America's Ministress of Truth, Nina Jankowicz, if you knowingly spread misinformation that makes it “disinformation”). @wiczipedia
Seven books everyone should read to make the world a better place:
1) "Politics of Prudence" by Russell Kirk. One of those books w/ impenetrable logic. Kirk argues there is no ideology that’s better than every other, and that conservatism, at its core, is the negation of ideology. Permanent things like creed, culture, & customs are how civilizations take shape & perpetuate themselves, enabling individuals to live in peace while orienting themselves toward excellence & beauty. Especially dangerous is the revolutionary impulse; its hard to create civilization but very easy to destroy. The book is an excellent intellectual foundation for today — when the barbarians are not only inside the gates but commandeering our institutions. If everyone became less ideological & dogmatic, the world would certainly become a happier place. amazon.com/Politics-Prude…
2) "How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes," by @PeterSchiff . An illustrated story explaining in the simplest possible terms basic economics. "I wrote it for 3rd graders so even Congress can understand it," Peter used to joke. I have bought this book for many people as it’s one of the easiest ways to learn what many intuitively presume is complicated terrain. If only our elected leaders were required to understand basic economics … we’d avoid so many of the problems plaguing our modern world. Sadly that will never happen, so the next best thing is for the people themselves to learn so that at least we can try containing politicians’ destructive impact on our lives. amazon.com/How-Economy-Gr…
3) "Primal Blueprint" by @Mark_Sisson , or “The Pristine Blueprint” by Dr. Beth McDougal, or “Death by Food Pyramid” by @deniseminger, or … really there are now countless books that do well explaining the basics of nutrition. In short, our bodies thrive on food nature designed us to eat — meat, fish, fats, healthy carbs (including salt & dietary cholesterol). Once you learn the basics you’ll realize that everything the government is telling us about staying healthy is not only wrong but dangerous — to thrive, doing the opposite of what the govt advises is usually a good rule of thumb. (I've been geeking out on this topic for the last few years and have many more recs, if anyone's interested … DM me.) The key point is for people to assume responsibility for their own health & start learning what it takes to thrive. Because as we saw during Covid, if you outsource your health to "experts," you can easily end up dead.
16 Reasons Biden's Worse than Trump for "Democracy"
16. Biden Admin turned the FBI against parents who opposed his DEIfication of schools & tried using anti-terrorism laws to target them congress.gov/117/meeting/ho…
15. Biden's FBI is currently using the FBI to target MAGA-aligned voters ahead of 2024 newsweek.com/2023/10/13/exc…
14. Biden's bragged about locking up hundreds of Trump voters ahead of 2024. Many spent months in solitary confinement before anything like a conviction.