I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden imbeciles;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed—and gazed—but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the imbeciles.

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26 Jul
1. There is no "unexplained adverse event signal in VAERS." I'll return to this in the next thread.

2. IVM does not "address escape variants." There is scant evidence it does anything at all, no less address these variants. What's more, the reasoning is backward:
Even if it were effective, it's therapeutics, *not* vaccines, that should cause us to worry about escape variants. See:
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/upl… The way to avoid those variants is to get as many people vaccinated, with both doses, as possible. As fast as possible. Image
It's especially important to prevent the spread of the disease to the immunoincompetent, which for obvious reasons requires *the whole community* be vaccinated.

3. There have been *no* reports of ADE from the vaccines. They've looked for it in animal studies: None.
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25 Jul
This column by @davidfrum gets at something I sense, too. He asks, "Will Blue America ever decide it’s had enough of being put medically at risk by people and places whose bills it pays?" Then concludes rhetorically: "Check yourself: Have you?"
Still, theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Then what? Yes, this is different, somehow, different even than realizing a large minority of the country voted for Trump--twice. This is a far more personal and physical assault. People are sick of the pandemic. Sick of fearing for the people they love. Sick of lockdowns.
Sick of cripplied economies. Sick of the burden on the healthcare system and above all the healthcare workers. And everyone understands that the obstacle to returning to normalcy is the anti-vaxxers--a danger to themselves, their families, their communities, and their countries.
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It is inexcusable, unacceptable that @US_FDA is stalling on this. They're slowing a vaccination campaign and fueling hesitancy amid the most deadly pandemic since 1918. Hard to imagine greater fecklessness. @FrankYiannasFDA @FDACDERDirector @FDA_Drug_Info @DrWoodcockFDA @FDACBER
@FDACBER, Peter Marks is dead wrong and @EricTopol is entirely right. nytimes.com/2021/07/09/opi… Public trust in FDA being damaged *by the delay,* which is *assuredly* contributing to vaccine hesitancy and thus to needless suffering and death.
In your opinion piece, you say, "get vaccinated right now." Yet by foot-dragging, your own agency is doing more to undermine this message than any other part of our government. @SenatorBaldwin, can you get on the phone with @DrWoodcockFDA and say, "This is unacceptable?"
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19 Jul
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…
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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?
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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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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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