In George Orwell’s 1984, the Ministries of Oceania are satirically responsible for perpetuating the exact opposite of what they purport. Likewise, every aspect of the COVID pandemic response has facilitated the opposite of that for which it was supposedly intended.
4/ Mass PCR testing, declared early on by "experts' as necessary to "reopen" the economy, have in fact been the key to creating the endless casedemic necessary to keep the economy closed. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…
5/ Anti-lockdown activists fighting for human rights were early on pegged as “neo-nazis.” apnews.com/article/884571…
6/ Herd immunity—the inevitable scientific endpoint of every epidemic—was alleged to be a violation of human rights; ironic, given that lockdowns are, literally, a blanket suspension of all rights.
7/ Stopping the economy was supposed to save it, but actually did nothing but destroy it. fortune.com/2020/09/28/cov…
8/ Social distancing, supposedly meant to prevent contagion and protect the elderly, actually caused contagion and killed the elderly through increased stress, isolation, lack of light and exercise, and the delay of herd immunity. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/h…
10/ Lockdowns, supposedly intended to prevent epidemics of deadly disease, have actually caused several epidemics of other deadly diseases. nytimes.com/2020/08/03/hea…
11/ The “novel” nature of the coronavirus supposedly meant that it could spread asymptomatically and rendered t-cells, seasonality, and prior immunity irrelevant, but we now know that it responds to all of those things in the same way as any other virus. aier.org/article/when-w…
12/ And censorship, supposedly necessary to prevent scientific “misinformation,” actually served to prevent the public from learning that none of these policies were based on any existing science at all.
13/ Which does makes one wonder—without necessarily arguing for or against vaccination—given every step of the COVID response has done the opposite of what was advertised, why exactly DO they want us to take these little-tested mRNA vaccines so badly?
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Thread – How Donald Trump shut down America: Reexamining Trump’s role in the response to COVID
Trump knew lockdown was a lie. He did it anyway. 1/
On March 13, 2020, Trump began announcing initial lockdown measures.
“This is why I outlined…my administration’s, the fact we’ve issued a requirement suspending all medically unnecessary visits to various places, but particular nursing homes.” 2/
March 13, 2020: Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services quietly issues the initial template for COVID lockdowns. 3/
THREAD – The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up
Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way. 1/
Early COVID data from China had suggested that ventilators would need to be used widely in the treatment of COVID patients, and this led to a major rush by politicians and hospitals to procure tens of thousands of ventilators. A small sample of the headlines from that period. 2/
However, it soon became clear that ventilators were being vastly overused. Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower, sounding the alarm in a widely-shared video. 3/
A semi-chronological, open-access library of the most important and viral video clips from throughout the response to COVID. This thread has no end, so videos after the first hundred or so may be added ad hoc. Be sure to bookmark! 1/
Jan 2020 – Shortly after Xi Jinping announces the strictest lockdown in history in Wuhan, China, videos begin going viral all over the world supposedly showing Wuhan residents spontaneously collapsing and falling to their deaths from the new virus. 2/
Feb 2020 – In some of the most powerful propaganda of the entire COVID saga, viral videos purport to show CCP officials welding Wuhan residents into their homes to prevent them from going outside during lockdown. 3/
THREAD - HOW ZEYNEP TUFEKCI AND JEREMY HOWARD MASKED AMERICA
Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize. 1/ michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-zeynep-t…
After three years of speculation, an authoritative gold-standard Cochrane review including results from 78 peer-reviewed RCTs confirmed that across populations, masks, regardless of type, made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/ city-journal.org/new-cochrane-s…
The Cochrane review seemed to settle the matter. Mask opponents had their trump card. But alas, the pro-mask establishment responded with a trump card of their own: an NYT op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci: “Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work” 3/ nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opi…
BREAKING: Wet market theorists find another poor animal in Wuhan to scapegoat.
The problem with every one of these zoonotic origin studies—like the lab leak studies—they’re too wedded to the idea COVID began in Wuhan simply because of Xi’s lockdown. 1/ theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Once you see it, it’s incredibly obvious. They ignore countless peer-reviewed studies showing vast, global early spread many months before the initial COVID theatrics in Wuhan.
Another peer-reviewed study demonstrating vast, global early spread many months before Wuhan, which the authors of these wet-market studies have brazenly and repeatedly ignored. 3/ link.springer.com/article/10.100…
THREAD: Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for COVID to Ring In the ‘New Normal’
Balaji’s ‘prophecies’ may be the best evidence yet that there was a plan to recreate China’s COVID response globally, down to the particular details of how the world would transform. 1/
Going back to the initial weeks of 2020, prior to the western world’s first lockdown in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21, it’s remarkable how normal things were. The Atlantic, for example, published a great piece titled You’re Likely to theatlantic.com/health/archive…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
There was Xi’s lockdown in Wuhan, but most commentators opined on how brutal and illiberal it was. One thing virtually no one in the world was doing prior to the lockdown of Lombardy was hoping the rest of the world would adopt China’s lockdown policy. 3/ theguardian.com/world/2020/feb…