1/5 I tried to ignore the political theatre of the Rose Garden event since I find it a ridiculous use of resources.
Now, however, that Fauci is using it to suggest an outdoor event without masks could cause a large outbreak, it needs to be addressed. aljazeera.com/news/2020/10/1…
2/5 The first obvious issue is that the event was not only outdoors; it was an indoor/outdoor event.
This makes tying an outbreak to “rose garden” impossible to determine and irresponsible to suggest.
3/5 Next, of the 11 positive cases (out of 107) 5 are constantly around each other in a variety of other indoor situations.
In other words there is no evidence that being near each other in the rose garden was the cause of spread for Trump, Melania, Christi, Conway, or McEnany.
4/5 For the other 6, there are far more likely transmission times:
Drago and Journalist: Multiple indoor/outdoor events prior to +
Laurie: At multiple events leading up to Rose Garden
Jenkins: Most likely got it from a close colleague
Lee & Tillis: Many other indoor engagements
5/5 Add in the possibility of false positives, the lack of any major health issues as a result, and the fear that comes from suggesting outdoor spread is common.
2/5 By any metric Urbana is safe to reopen given their testing levels and low positive %/hospitalizations.
Also, they need to reopen:
“It troubles me that we’re backing off of in-person attendance when these truancy rates are way beyond what we’ve experienced in the past,”
3/5 Urbana's poverty rate is 16.4% higher than the state average; many families need in-person class
“I know we didn’t hear from very many of those families in our public statements, but I hear from them quite often — parents who are begging us to bring our kids back to school”
1/6 THE QUIET PROFESSIONALS
These are the researchers who often get lost in the noise of Twitter. Their important work at times runs counter to the accepted Covid-19 dogma and thus does not get amplified.
Read their work, share it with others, and seek out more.
2/6 @mgmgomes1
Gabriela found the potential herd immunity threshold for CV19 and could be much lower than predicted. Her research was rejected because it could impact public policy and influence a relaxation of strict CV19 lockdown mandates.
There is a crisis of loneliness/depression in our elderly population and it is caused by poorly thought out lockdown policies that value CV19 prevention over everything else.
2/7 Oct 1st: Elderly Hardest Hit By Covid-19 As Lockdown Loneliness Impacts Mental Health ewn.co.za/2020/10/01/eld…
3/7 Sep 9th: “People are really distressed, particularly the elderly,” said Bolden. “They have been cut off and they’ve been made to feel vulnerable when they didn’t feel vulnerable before.” theguardian.com/world/2020/sep…
People that haven’t followed the CV19 panic closely may wonder why so many are skeptical about the mainstream narrative that is parroted daily by many leaders and news outlets.
This thread provides 5 examples from just the past week:
2/7 GOVERNMENT
Starting at the top level, there is consistent misrepresentation and often outright deception as @andrewbostom points out in his response to Fauci v. Paul:
3/7 MEDIA
In the face of obvious mistakes that lead to poor decision making (as shown by @alexanderrusso), media organizations still continue to push a narrative of panic and fear: