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19 Jul, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Covid19 in Tunisia, where there is a severe shortage of oxygen. This is the director of the public hospital. Part of me says I shouldn't retweet images of a stranger's agony. Another part says, "Maybe seeing this will move people to help."
Tunisia’s health system has collapsed. Bodies of the victims have been left for as long as 24 hours because there aren't enough staff to transfer them to mortuaries--and no room at the mortuaries, either. They set up field hospitals, but they've overflowed.
Patients are sharing what little oxygen remains. france24.com/en/africa/2021…
If you can donate any of the following, contact the Tunisian Embassy nearest you: facebook.com/Ambassade.Tuni… Masks, surgical masks, gloves, PCR tests, oximeters, oxygen generators, ER respirators, Optiflow, syringes, radiology machines, ECG monitor, infusion pumps ... Image
They need all of it, desperately.

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16 Jul
For all of my new followers, and Twitter tells me that for some reason a whole bunch of people (like, a thousand) started following me last week, let me introduce this series and the @cosmo_globalist generally. Stick with me on this thread, okay?
@VivekYKelkar (who lives in Mumbai) and I (in Paris) are the editors of @cosmo_globalist, claireberlinski.substack.com/about?utm_sour…. We've kicked off on Substack, but our big launch to our own website is coming soon. Very soon. Image
We publish in English, for now, but plan to expand to other languages. We treat *global* events from a genuinely global perspective; our correspondents come from around the world, and we mean for every article we publish to be of relevance and interest to you, wherever you live.
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7 Jul
This is very comprehensive, yes. It's excellent. But the simplest argument, I think, and the one that I hope might persuade people who won't read anything longer than a tweet, is this one:
Assume, for the sake of argument, that the spike protein is a poison.
You have two choices.
Would you like a finite dose of poison?
Or would you like your poison attached to a virus?
Proteins don't replicate. *Viruses do.* Viruses take your cells hostage and turn them into virus-making factories. Each new virus comes with ... a spike protein.
So which is the better bet? Spike proteins in a dose so limited that your immune system can quickly despatch it to hell? Or spike proteins travelling on a virus that replicates, meaning within days there are more of these proteins than there are grains of sand on the earth?
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6 Jul
What's even more alarming about this story is that it happened three months ago and this is the first hint of it in the media. But the State Department has--from the article--been involved from the beginning. Shouldn't this have been an obstacle to a big Biden-Putin summit?
A summit, incidentally, followed by massive Russian cyberattacks? I think we're failing to convey properly this whole message we've been assured Putin was given, about "consequences." Either that or we're failing to inflict them.
Does anyone seriously think he'll stop if no one makes his life--and that of the people around him--a lot less pleasant than they are right now? It only stops when things get a lot less fun for Putin. He *enjoys* these jolly escapades in international vandalism.
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6 Jul
For those interested in our epistemic convulsions, @jon_rauch has written quite a bit about this; here's the essay on which his book is based: nationalaffairs.com/publications/d…. He's more optimistic than I am. He thinks our institutions are holding up reasonably well against the onslaught,
and will ultimately prevail; I would argue that no, they can't be said to be holding up well at all. If anyone's interested, I'll go through the institutions he names, one by one, and explain why I think so; I don't see that any of our institutions really have the alacrity--
--or the sense of urgency--to respond to the attack on what he calls the constitution of knowledge. Like Rauch, they deep down believe that they've been around forever and they'll be around forever, so they don't have to treat this as an emergency.
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5 Jul
I can no longer remember the name of the professor who taught my intro to logic class. I can't even remember his face. But that class had more influence on me than any other I've had.
It was just a standard intro class. Basics of predicate and propositional logic, truth tables. But they got to me when I was young enough and my brain plastic enough that it *really* stuck. It had the effect on me of a religious conversion.
I don't know why logic is no longer considered the proper foundation of childhood education. It shouldn't be possible to get any kind of undergraduate degree--in the sciences or liberal arts--without taking a class like that.
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5 Jul
I suspect some people won't read an argument about vaccines and risk if it means reading a long essay, but might read it if I tweet it, sentence by sentence. I don't have the patience, but I'll repeat some of the arguments: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/epistemic-ch…
If you want to base your views of the safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines or ivermectin on the most reliable information--not perfect, not infallible, but "best we've got right now"--"we" being humanity--here's a reasonable way to do it:
1. Get off social media, stop listening to YouTube and podcasts, and instead open Google Scholar. This gives you access to literature that's been published, at least, in the goal of increasing humanity's stock of justified, true beliefs.
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