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10 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
I retract this comment.

I found the CDC definition of breakthrough case, and it does require the ct value be reported if defined using PCR, but the definition of a case does not require PCR or any specific ct value.

cdc.gov/vaccines/covid…
However, I stand by my criticism that not counting the breakthrough cases unless they are hospitalized or die prevents us from knowing the hospitalization rate and case fatality ratio for vaccinated individuals.

cdc.gov/vaccines/covid…
This 28 ct value guidance is specifically for ensuring high levels of RNA in samples that will be sequenced for variants after breakthrough cases have been identified:
The real problem here is not that they are suppressing the breakthrough case count. It is that they literally aren’t counting the breakthrough cases at all.
Here is the original in screenshots, which I’m deleting because it’s getting a lot more circulation than the retraction.

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7 May
The quotes from these southern elementary school history textbooks are, besides terribly pro-slavery, also laughably promoting their home state like a hotel brochure. Each state teaches that the surrounding states treated their slaves terribly but the home state masters were nice
I didn’t grow up with anything like this, although I never had much respect for history as taught in elementary or high school anyway.
My BA is in history. My favorite teacher had taught us left-wing and right-wing interpretations of every era, made our exams essays where we had to pick a side and defend it, and I never had a damn clue what his own views were.
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5 Apr
Super interesting speculation of @vol_christopher in interview with @profplum99:

The Fed and US govt may be allowing bitcoin to freely run right now because it absorbs a trillion dollars preventing real estate and other assets from skyrocketing, smoothing stimulus fallout.
He suggests they see this as helping to calm political instability and civil unrest that would otherwise occur from skyrocketing prices in things that are not merely speculative instruments.
He also suggests that at some point in the future if we have stagflation they could ban BTC as a tool of monetary policy to release the trillion (or I would imagine by then $10 trillion).

However, that strikes me as them playing with fire. At some point BTC is “too big to ban.”
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3 Apr
It’s notable that the USSR targeted churches and nuclear families as its greatest enemies. One of the first things it did was make it so you could get a divorce simply by mailing in a postcard.

Why?

Because these institutions were stronger than the state.
If Disney World can operate with temperature checks, masks, and distancing in lines without making Florida an absolute cesspool of COVID superspreading, why can’t they make a list of protections for people to safely join their families for thanksgiving and Easter?
I don’t see any rationale for this except the purposeful disruption of social cohesion around centers other than the state. They want one and only one center of social cohesion, the state, and they are making apps and currencies to enforce state-sanctioned behaviors that form it.
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27 Mar
IBM, the company that collected fees when its program determined a Nazi concentration camp laborer was unfit for labor and destined for the gas chamber, has teamed up with Cuomo, who sent COVID-infected elderly into nursing homes, to make a vaccine passport.
It looks like the aim is a very World Economic Forum-friendly creation of a two-tiered society where you will need the app to show a green check to allow you to do anything connected to society.
There’s no information available about how this will protect the privacy of people’s medical records.
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26 Mar
At 2:24:28 @balajis says to @tferriss:

The world is splitting into woke capital (America), communist capital (China) and free capital (crypto).

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the…
He predicts internet censorship will ramp up so aggressively in America that if you want any free speech you will need VPNs to get around IP address level filtering.
The crypto capital will represent the fully distributed free world.
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27 Feb
In wondering why an “economic” forum would want to shut down the economy, including factories, I considered what they said themselves in the video and I think I have the answer:

They realize tech will replace most workers, so most workers don’t matter. (thread)
If robots can replace most workers, then we can pay most workers universal basic income to shut up and sit in their apartment.

Granted delivery has to be done during lockdown, but they can be replaced by drones soon.
Now, what about Main Street?

The thing is, how many ultra billionaires are there? They only need enough Main Streets to provide nice ambience and service in the areas they frequent.

So they just don’t need that many Main Streets.
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