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4 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Colbeck was, alas, my state senator. He was ahead of the curve among @MIGOP to become Trumpy. It overjoys me to see his conspiracy theory nonsense coming back to bite him. 1/
Here's the actual letter. It was a joy to read. 2/ scribd.com/document/50142…
In addition, @pjcolbeck is antivaccine. 3/ respectfulinsolence.com/2018/01/25/sta…
But @pjcolbeck's embrace of pseudoscience goes beyond just being antivaccine. He's into 5G and wifi woo as well. As you can imagine, having such a crank as my state senator for eight years was painful indeed. 4/4 respectfulinsolence.com/2018/03/20/sen…

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Whenever I see anyone describing those countering medical disinformation as “tribal,” those spreading misinformation as “thinking for themselves” or “encouraging thought,” and the process of countering disinformation as “debate,” I know I’m not dealing with a serious argument. 1/
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What most pundits, scientists, and doctors don't realize is that this is not a new alliance. Rather, it's the fruition of an effort by antivaxxers to court the far right. It started by portraying school vaccine mandates as an unacceptable government assault on "freedom." 1/
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I’ve asked this very question of ##COVID19 minimizers/deniers advocating just letting the virus run rampant to achieve “natural herd immunity.” Why don’t you seek out COVID patients and spend an hour in a closed room with one of them without PPE? 1/
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Lovely. @comcast is completely out now. No Internet, cable, or phone. “Routine system maintenance”? If it’s “routine,” then why couldn’t you have given, say, 24 hours notice so that I could plan? If it’s not routine, if it’s an outage, why call it “routine”? Highly irritating.
So, @comcastcares, so much for my getting much work done tonight. (There’s only so much that I can do using my phone’s Internet access.) thanks for nothing!🤬
The weird thing is, even though @comcast Internet goes out all too often around my part of the Detroit area, it’s very rare for the TV to go out too. Total outages are quite rare. So WTF is going on? I guess I might as well go to bed and hope I have Internet in the morning.
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