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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

30 Mar

🧵THREAD🧵

Tomorrow will be 3 weeks since Texas lifted it’s mask mandate. Coronavirus cases have been steadily declining since, w/ yesterday the 18th day in a row of decreases.

But you may remember the left & the media promised the reverse would happen. And I’ve got receipts.⤵️

@JoeBiden

The only place to start this thread is with @JoeBiden, whom you may remember referred to Texas’s opening up as “Neanderthal thinking.”

Perhaps the White House would like to follow up about why?

@GavinNewsom

Other governors also took shots. Here’s @GavinNewsom, whose decision to keep his state shut down cost the state 52,000 jobs.

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

29 Mar

My unpopular opinion is that vaccine passports are fine so long as the government isn’t the one requiring them for anything.

If the trade off is the vaccine passport for things like entirely full sports stadiums and entirely packed bars, I think it’s worth it.

Another benefit that surely will not pacify the haters is that it would actually, you know, create an incentive to get the vaccine (something govt keeps refusing to do).

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

29 Mar

https://twitter.com/newsweek/status/1376322092598185985

We’re just gonna keep doing this huh

https://twitter.com/newsweek/status/1376322092598185985

Has anyone even pretended to make the case that there is a need for this? That conditions are so bad that we need to do an unprecedented thing for a **fourth** time? Or are we beyond that?

One of two things is true:

Either the government can give out a lot of money directly to people without consequences, or there are serious consequences to giving out “free” money to people.

Until recently, we all agreed it was the latter (even the first stimulus!)

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

22 Mar

Quick 🧵.

I think the idea that “lockdowns saved lives” doesn’t make sense in pretty straightforward ways that we don’t seem to be talking about enough.

(1/12)

The most prominent US study (story on it linked below) suggests that lockdowns helped avoid 60 million coronavirus cases. Otherwise, we’d have about triple the number of confirmed cases we have now.

Let’s use that as a starting point.

google.com/amp/s/www.wash…

(2/12)

To make things simple and round, let’s assume that 3x cases = 3x deaths. This overstates the current mortality rate of COVID (esp accounting for true caseloads vs. positive tests) but accounts for some inexact pressure on hospitals and other systems.

(3/12)

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Drew Holden

@DrewHolden360

19 Mar

Okay fine🧵.

Guys. People lost their minds when Trump walked slowly down a ramp one time.

I don’t think the Biden stair stumble stuff should matter. But boy did the media set one hell of a precedent about presidential walking patterns.

And if you’ve forgotten, read on ⤵️

@nytimes

Remember this very earnest and concerned @nytimes story (and video!)? Suggesting his “halting walk” “raises new health questions”??

I wonder if we’ll hear about how Biden is the oldest president when (if?) his stair story hits print.

@kylegriffin1

And people picked this story up. This was a whole news cycle! Here’s @kylegriffin1 and @jaketapper sharing this story as if it were something that mattered.

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