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8 Oct, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Apparently, there is a fly on Pence's head

I am not watching the debate
Every person in the U.S. simultaneously googles "Is fly on head a sign of COVID-19?"
Oh hey look
Note: the image in the above tweet is FAKE, I just thought it was funny

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7 Oct
Men* with deep voices more likely** to be unfaithful***, research**** claims

*Chinese university students
**p=0.018
***to score higher on a self-report tool rating attitudes towards infidelity (r² = 0.22)
****single correlational study, n=234

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Honestly, this is a hilarious example of somewhat meaningless research being touted far and wide in the media
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5 Oct
I have great respect for people willing to take on the difficult question of balancing direct COVID-19 harms against the damage that control measures can do

I have no respect at all for people who minimize the harms of COVID-19 in order to make this argument
Yes, there are harms to disease-prevention measures. We should certainly be weighing these against the potential harms that unmitigated epidemics do and think carefully about our choices
But pretending that we can largely ignore COVID-19 without cost is just a disingenuous and nonsensical position that flies in the face of all evidence gathered to date
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You have to wonder at a statement that contains factual inaccuracies in the opening paragraphs

It is very much not certain that all populations will reach herd immunity 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️
It doesn't really improve from there. These exact measures - or virtually identical ones - have been attempted in pretty much every country across the world for aged care

Unfortunately, it is REALLY HARD to keep COVID-19 out
This represents a very basic misunderstanding of COVID-19 risk - THERE IS NO EASY DELINEATION OF LOW/HIGH RISK
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4 Oct
Fun fact: Trump's doctor being an osteopath in any country but the U.S. would be super weird quackery but because osteopathy is weirdly integrated into medicine in the states it's pretty much normal there
Even more interesting is the history of osteopathy in the US, which started as pure quackery and then slowly drifted towards legitimacy over 150 years
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The more I hear about the White House COVID-19 precautions, the more it sounds like prevention theatre that was really only designed to make people think that they were safe
I mean, rapid testing is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME without quarantine and/or isolation as well as rigorous contact tracing. The moment that one person tests positive, everyone has to respond
Rapid testing doesn't catch every case, so you still have to take basic precautions because otherwise you risk an outbreak
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2 Oct
Apropos of nothing, according to our systematic review and meta-analysis of the age-stratified IFR of COVID-19, a 74-year-old person who catches the disease has a 1 in 25 risk of death Image
The preprinted paper can be found here: medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
I also feel it's worth clarifying - I do not wish a COVID-19 infection on anyone. It is a horrible disease
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