Thread by @soncharm

Thread of things I’ve not been persuaded of. Not that I believe in their converse, just that I haven’t been persuaded of them, by anyone.
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HCQ doesn’t help with the Wuhan Virus

The 2020 Presidential election was on the up-and-up, its outcome was consistent with what a perfect tally of valid voters’ cast-votes would show, were this possible

That IVM stuff doesn’t help with the Wuhan Virus

The Wuhan vaccines are safe to a degree that they are worth taking by all people in all age categories for which they’re currently approved

FBI didn’t instigate the foiled kidnapping plot of that Governor and it’s untrue to think it wouldn’t have happened absent its informants and their instigation

Fed instigators and infiltrators had no meaningful role in the ‘1/6’ insurrection

There wasn’t anything like a conscious choice made to remove security/police personnel from the Capitol in 1/6 in hopes that the crowd would overreach and riot allowing for a crackdown

Epstein killed himself (obviously)

Widespread masking is a helpful tool in controlling spread of the Wuhan Virus, and this has been demonstrated via respectable scientific research.

Seth Rich’s murder was a senseless street crime.

The Wuhan virus was probably zoonotic and not a lab leak. Gain-of-function research had nothing to do with it, and Dr. Fauci had no knowledge of the ongoing funding of this research anyway. He couldn’t have known or suspected it to be connected to the pandemic.

The Trump-Russia investigation was borne of genuine and sincere counterintelligence concern on the part of the feds, and did not trace to oppo research meant to smear a political opponent.

Christine Ford didn’t conspire with some feds and insidery DC lawyer types to concoct the Kavanaugh accusation from personal anecdotes blended with bits & pieces from Mark Judge’s book

It’s also ridiculous to think that the reason DC’s mayor wanted to withhold a security presence from the Capitol on 1/6 is that she, and others like her, feared whoever was sent would be ‘loyal to Trump’ and help execute a coup for him.

Public-health experts at the CDC give masking a central role in their guidance because they genuinely believe masks help significantly.

We don’t know where the gathering described by Christine Ford in her Kavanaugh accusation took place, but we know it wasn’t the house where her boyfriend at the time lived, about 6 short blocks away - a short walk - from the Columbia Country Club

No one I know has died due to complications that were a direct consequence of having taken a Wuhan-virus vaccine.

The DNC/Podesta emails that got leaked to the web got there because they were pilfered by Russian hackers

The DNC/Podesta emails being published and also various Russia social-media influence operations swayed 2016 voting to a significant degree, and the direction of that sway was toward Trump net-net.

Epidemiological science has long said that societal lockdowns are a key and effective way to suppress a respiratory virus.

It’s very understandable that public-health authorities have responded to the Wuhan virus with the various restrictive NPIs that they have, due to what its death rate (IFR) is. Historically, any virus with that IFR would’ve been reacted to similarly.

Bret Weinstein is simply wrong to posit that opposition to the IVM stuff he champions might trace to a regulatory-capture-related desire of pharma companies to eliminate alternative Tx’s so as to qualify their products for EUA approval.

The recently-released UFO videos might actually be something truly mysterious or even alien, and don’t simply trace to lens effects and similar visual artifacts.

(just to throw in a non-conspiratorial one to keep the mood light)

George Floyd’s death was a murder rather than an overdose.

Closing schools last year saved lives.

The 1/6 defendants are being treated by federal authorities exactly as people who did the same exact act but in favor of a D candidate would be treated in the same situation.

No one in a position of power thinks China has meaningful culpability for the Wuhan Virus. But if they did, they’d surely do something about it.

When all is said and done, the lives saved due to lockdowns/NPIs will exceed those lost, directly or indirectly, near- & long-term, due to their effects.

In hindsight, the guy in this video is crazy. What a lunatic!

https://twitter.com/kylenabecker/status/1420451205675945988

The Washington Redskins & Cleveland Indians had to change their team nicknames because they were offensive to Native Americans.

Raising income tax rates on higher incomes would help fight inequality

It’s not like some states/districts are going to end up requiring masks on children all day forever, or anything.

The ‘Clinton Body Count’ is complete nonsense. Every single death on it has a valid explanation.

If we could just convince/get these damn vaccine holdouts to get the jab, this would all be over.

No one is saying kids should be wearing masks in schools forever. Come on. No one wants that.

The Benghazi attack was prompted by an organic groundswell of anger over some sort of youtube video.

John McCain wanted to win the 2008 Presidential election

The 2007-08 financial crisis had nothing to do with equity-motivated housing goals/agendas prompted by the federal government at multiple levels/agencies

Michael Jordan just wanted to try baseball for a while

The best way to govern is to follow the science.

If we could just get together with other countries and make the right agreements about carbon emissions, it would turn around global warming.

MMT has shown that the deficit hawks’ intuition/fear that higher deficits will just mean tax hikes down the road is totally off base.

The key to a lot of things is just helping more people to go to college.

Democrat-leaning people in this country were sincerely worried about Russia & Vladimir Putin - what he would to do our country, and stopping his ambitions - during the Trump years

The reason the Church’s witch-hunts were so wrong, ultimately, is obviously that ‘witches’ didn’t exist.

The Wuhan virus is more dangerous to the average minor than is the flu

The key to economic growth and prosperity in this country is to increase immigration. And look, even if you’re squeamish about more immigration overall, it’s obvious that more *skilled* immigrants as per the H-1B program would be desirable for this country.

You might think it’s been tough, but because of their harsh NPIs, Australia & New Zealand’s success in largely containing the Wuhan Virus means that they will never see the sorts of case counts suffered in other countries.