@ChristineTatum Bat soup was an old wives tale from the start. The Wuhan market was a statistical cluster that not even the first paper — which mentioned the cluster from the market — said was the only source. Another paper in February 2020 described person-person transmission. Almost nothing/1
@ChristineTatum we've been told by the legacy press OR the upstart press OR politicians on any side has been accurate. Many of Fauci's "lies" — like reserving masks for first-responders — were said openly in March and ignored, to become lies when they were said again in June./2
@ChristineTatum Many of the hysterical predictions in March — like 2 million deaths in the US by August — have been forgotten. The lab leak story, which has been a possible hypothesis from the start, were actively suppressed because Trump said it./3
@ChristineTatum HCQ, for which there are now more than 200 papers reporting positive results, can get you pulled from YouTube, suppressed by Facebook, and suspended by Twitter./4
@ChristineTatum I can't think of ANY topic about which so much misinformation, disinformation (Eric Feigl-Ding, I'm looking at you), and outright meshugas have been promulgated. By practically EVERYONE./end in disgust
You know this is one of the problems. As time goes on, what really happened seems to be diverging farther and farther from the original stories. Have there been any firearms charges at all? Why for example were the medical examiners conclusions on Sicknick withheld so long?
How did the story of Sicknick being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher continue to be repeated so long and so often when it was known not to be true within at most days?
You’re not old enough to remember when AT&T was the phone company. So ask around to somebody who is old enough and ask them what the reaction would have been if AT&T had declared that GTE could no longer have access to the long distance phone network....
Followed by GTE’s bank announcing that they would no longer handle GTE accounts. Followed bye landlords of GTE rented property “coincidentally“ all announcing that they would no longer renew the leases and in fact were demanding GTE vacate in 48 hours. ...
While top executives of AT&T, the bank, and the real estate holding firm all except high-level positions in government.
That's the problem. If it were ONLY twitter, then this might be a valid argument. But what we've seen in the last 24 hours has been an apparent coordinated effort to remove opposition accounts from Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and Shopify, ...
.., and a similarly coincidentally-timed effort by both Apple and Google to remove the main likely competition to Twitter in Parler. We have discovered that the "public square" has gates guarded by Democrats and their allies.
And as I said before, people who worried about Trump being a fascist aren't realizing that the real fascists operated with big corporation's cooperation and support.
The people who claim to worry about a cyberpunk world of corporate fascism are bringing it about./e
@janemiami@AncientMirror@GodonFrank@RonColeman@tracybeanz@GovMurphy@pnjaban Yeah, but check who said what. Fauci said that HCQ was unproven and reports of success were anecdotal — BUT that if he had a family member with the virus, he'd prescribe it and he would enter a clinical trial if he caught it. This was turned into "Fauci said it's worthless."
@janemiami@AncientMirror@GodonFrank@RonColeman@tracybeanz@GovMurphy@pnjaban Pretty quickly that turned into conspiracy theory: Fauci was saying it didn't work because he was friends with Bill Gates and Soros and they wanted to (a) make money (b) make everyone take a vaccine (c) use the vaccine for mind control.
@secupp The media in this whole crisis has been horrible. When Trump wanted to reduce traffic from China the media said he was a racist. When he said hydroxychloroquine had the potential to be in a treatment and trials were being contemplated, the media attacked him for that./1
@secupp As a result several several democrat governor‘s and other officials have been trying to block trials. And Nguyen to Darwin award candidates overdosed on aquarium additive the press blamed Trump using pictures of the human drug. /2
@secupp At least the last I looked the pictures of the drug not the aquarium additive are still up on the stories. So until you admit the press has a problem you can sit the fuck down./e
@outta_so@Sjanderson86@Neoavatara didn't mean to be short, I was on my phone. Basically this idea has been around for a while. IF there are lots of old cases that simply weren't identified as COVID-19, THEN it would drive the case fatality ratio down. Fauci talks about that here. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
@outta_so@Sjanderson86@Neoavatara Numbers for influenza-like-illness were high this year; that wouldn't be inconsistent with lots of occult COVID-19. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
But people may also just be going to the doctor for respiratory bugs more often