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28 Apr, 4 tweets, 2 min read
.@districtai's story about how he started down the path of Covid Analyst got me to thinking about my own journey.

Here was my first "thread" on Covid. Couldn't even string the tweets together LOL. Talking about IHME and Covid Tracking Project.

1/n
The IHME numbers being so terrible, predicting Texas would max out its hospitals on April 12, and we not even hitting 10%, just made me dig harder.

Started doing graphs. They were sad, terrible graphs, you can barely read them. LOL

2/n
Found Berenson, The Ethical Skeptic early May. I remember the first time TES responded to me, I thought I had arrived, LOL. It just kind of took off from there, kept learning, about seasonality, stratification, IFR, the Texas Border. Off I went.

3/end

4/PS

This one was TES Admonishing me for using the word hoopla. But I was so thrilled the great TES had admonished me. Like getting yelled at by a virtuoso, slapping my hands on the piano because I did it wrong. I just get trying to get better.

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8 Apr
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The Branch Covidian Church, a "Cult of COVID," is the fastest-growing religion in the world, whose spread has been made possible by the powerful public-health establishment & large corporations.

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The Branch Covidian cult of Covid has its own clerical elite, commandments & modesty norms. Its fanatic adherents shame and silence heretics for defying the public orthodoxy.

The faith’s First Commandment: Thou shalt stay locked down.

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Other Branch Covidian commandments

* Thou shalt always wear a mask
* Thy children must suffer a lack of education & socialization
* Thy liberties are subservient to the greater hypochondriacal & tyrannical good

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7 Apr
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**Covid Passport Summary Letter (FINAL)**

US entities that institute Covid Passports will likely be found to have acted illegally, its just going to take lawsuits

The amount of exemption & reasonable accommodation found in privacy & discrimination laws is too high a bar
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Here's additional detail around Existing Vaccination requirements and HIPAA

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29 Mar
Thus far the biggest complaints from those that want and desire our corporations and government to require us to show papers are:

1) Schools require vax papers - I will have a paper on that this week.
2) Businesses not CE - while technically true....

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...that argument misses the entire point of my HIPAA primer. My point is that here we have a law that is designed to protect PHI and we pretend it doesn't exist because businesses can claim they are not CE.

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I argue if you are requiring the validation a person's record of provision of health care (i.e. vaccination status), PHI, you are functioning as a CE. You will have to pull PHI records to prove yes/no. Does HIPAA need to be amended to encompass new business types. Probably.
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16 Feb
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TSA Passenger numbers through 2/15

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* Air Travel in the US continues to follow along a mostly seasonal pattern, defiantly outperforming the new Covid-19 peak seeing during what used to be Flu Season
* 2021 Traffic thus far mirrors last year, albeit down 60-65%

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* During the height of Covid Season last month, traffic dipped back into the 35% YoY range, but in the past couple of weeks its climbed back to 40%.
* Outside of Christmas, its the strongest YoY since Thanksgiving.

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* 7DMA bottomed out at the end of January at about 665K, but has risen quickly to 900K over the past 2 weeks.
* Buoyed by a President's Day weekend bump in traffic
* Flight search trends are as encouraging as they've been in the last 12 months, will it translate?

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27 Jan
Curt Schilling, despite:

* exceeding HOF Statistical standards
* being an Ace for 3 WS Champs, including the 1st Red Sox Champ in 86 years
* no hint of PED use
* multiple MLB humanitarian awards

Doesn't make the #HOF in 9 tries because he has the wrong political beliefs
And those HOF statistical metrics I posted...he compares favorably to an Average HALL OF FAMER. Not a borderline between Hall of Very Good and HOF. Not bare minimum HOF. No, he is better in virtually every category compared to the average/median Hall of Famer. Its not close.
Take all the pitchers in the Hall of Fame, and Curt Schilling is better statistically than more than half of those Hall of Famers. He is in the Top Half statistically of all Hall of Famers. And 3 rings. And no PEDs. And upstanding citizen during his career. Its a travesty.
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1 Jan
Dick Clark rolling in his grave watching car dealership blow up crazy people balloons, empty streets, Planet Fitness safe zones, and me kissing celebrities when the ball dropped for 2021
Plus I put on the Covid 20 apparently.
Cindy Lauper wearing a face shield on the empty streets of New York, LOL. #2020
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