Thread by @jhaskinscabrera

The Gainesville Sun is running a disparaging piece on me in tomorrow's print edition. This thread summarizes my response, or you can read the whole thing with links to references here 👇

1/13

alachuachronicle.com/legacy-media-o…

Nathan Crabbe, Opinions Editor at the Gainesville Sun, emailed me: “I’ve been following the coverage of your analysis of COVID-19 death certificates. I was planning to write my Sunday column about that and Gov. DeSantis’ other steps to raise questions about COVID reporting.”
2/13

Note that he wasn’t at all interested in my article about COVID-19 death certificates; he was interested in the COVERAGE of it. That “coverage” was mainly a hit piece in the Miami Herald

3/13

alachuachronicle.com/death-certific…

Crabbe says DeSantis “tries to act like science is on his side in the decisions he makes,” so I guess Crabbe hasn’t watched DeSantis’ roundtable with scientists from Harvard and Stanford, who all supported his policies

4/13

alachuachronicle.com/governor-desan…

Crabbe then moves on to my article about death certificates – but, of course, he doesn’t deal with the content of the article. He says we “mysteriously” reviewed the death certificates; what he means is that I won’t reveal my source.

gainesville.com/story/opinion/…

5/13

Crabbe goes on to disparage my degrees in electrical engineering and Len’s degrees in economics (from institutions like Princeton, Berkeley, the Air Force Academy, UF, and Stanford) as proof that we can’t be trusted to report on government policy changes...

6/13

that led to counting COVID deaths that even the WHO says shouldn’t be counted. Apparently you can’t say that without an approved degree.

7/13

In my opinion, one of the biggest mistakes the United States has made regarding COVID-19 was anointing one virologist (Dr. Anthony Fauci) as the “expert” and ignoring all opposing views.

8/13

We’ve had no public debates, and Fauci has never had to explain why his policies directly contradict the CDC’s own previously-existing pandemic plan.

9/13

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/6…

So instead of allowing debate between scientists who would be forced to defend their views, politicians and the media have decided that there is “consensus,” and anyone who disagrees must be destroyed.

10/13

They are completely uninterested in whether my information about death certificates is correct; they have a narrative to push: that you should be so terrified of getting COVID that you will comply with any restriction they care to place on your life or business.

11/13

It is clear that Florida's legacy media outlets are terrified that @GovRonDeSantis will remove restrictions on businesses, effectively freeing Florida from the tyranny of COVID emergency orders

12/13

It’s time for both sides to present their evidence for the people. Since that is unlikely, it's imperative that Florida continues to stand as the counter-example to states like NY, NJ, and Illinois, which have all just announced new restrictions as cases increase.

13/13