📍Winter surge is coming—and it won’t be gentle. Germany, Austria, & many other European countries reporting all time record high #COVID19 cases again. Bavaria (Munich region) has now officially declared a public health emergency disaster. ➡️This will happen in US+elsewhere too.
2) UK 🇬🇧 already is having a wildfire. Especially in children where it has neglected mitigations. This is a failure of @BorisJohnson
3) Germany 🇩🇪 is now at record record high for cases. Deaths are surging too. #COVID19 is not over no matter what fanciful COVID dismissing folks may have.
4) Netherlands 🇳🇱 also soon about to break its all time high #COVID19 incidence shortly as well. And yes deaths increasing behind it too, with a time lag.
5) COVID fight is not over. @ASlavitt has the humbleness and foresight to admit this. We should all be like Andy and not declare the pandemic over until it is truly zero.
6) Am I being overly alarmist? Some people have called me ‘alarmist’ for 20 months. I think with 5 million people dead from #COVID19 worldwide, & likely 20 million+ actual deaths, I do think pandemic alarmism is warranted.
7) Listen to Merkel: "We need measures to contain the increase (of the numbers) & the coronavirus does not take into account whether we have a caretaker government or coalition negotiations, but we need a renewed national effort.”—that’s good government.
8) Germany’s Cologne Carnival festival is reckless: ➡️ it’s so insane that you don't need to wear a mask at “Carnival events and comparable traditional events with SINGING TOGETHER, ***SINGING OR DANCING INDOORS***”. ⚠️ #COVIDisAirborne — hellooooooo!!!
10) Germany’s CDC begs people to avoid crowds and large events. But Cologne Carnival concert meantime…. and with no indoor mask mandate for parties either!!! 🔥
Racist, me thinks, the judge, is. Murder trial judge for #KyleRittenhouse says— ➡️ “I hope the Asian food isn’t coming on one of those boats from Long Beach Harbor”. 🔥 What a complete joke and circus this #KyleRittenhouseTrial now is.
2) And yes it is RACIST. The boats in the harbor are majority boats from Asia. And he said Asian food - which further connects the Asian boats. It’s racist c’mon.
3) Most Chinese-Americans knows the racist idiomatic slang “Slow boat to China” to mock anything that takes a long time. I’m Asian-American immigrant - I heard this crap all the time. It’s racist. He could have just said the lunch was late.
⚠️More children age 0-19 died of #COVID19 in England🏴 in October than any past month of the pandemic. Plus—kids hospitalizations & #LongCovid also ~highs. But UK🇬🇧 still hasn’t approved vaccines for kids 5-11, nor 2nd shots for teens.
2) Also, Damnit, UK doesn’t mandate masks in schools. “186,000 students were absent from school on Sept. 30 with confirmed or suspected cases of the virus, 78% more than the number reported on Sept. 16, and the highest number since the pandemic began.” nytimes.com/2021/10/05/wor…
3) Kids are **critical spreaders** — detailed tracing and genomic testing prove it. See thread 🧵 below 👇
⚠️KIDS <12 are “CRITICAL HIDDEN SPREADERS”—New 226-person study found 2 school kids <12 set off a #COVID19 outbreak. ➡️”Activities of children in the school🏫 spread the virus to their classmates (G2)”, then classmates’ families (G3) & factories (G4). #Vaccinate school-kids! 🧵
2) Apparently two young kids (G1) had been infected by their dad. ➡️ How did we know who in school were infected by which kid? Well genomics 🧬 sequencing showed one kid infected 11 classmates & other infected 12 classmates. (Yes, you can use 🧬 to know) medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
3) Also super frustrating — the middle age father of the 2 G1 kids brought it back from outside of China 🇨🇳— and then caught the virus “during quarantine” after entry into China. Oy—this quarantine cross contamination transmission has been seen before in many places.
BOT NETWORKS are now heavily pushing anti-vax content on Twitter, according to @NovelSci. Bots heavily RT each other—tricking @Twitter to further promote the content. This matches what we at @FAScientists found for bots also pushing natural infection “herd immunity”.🧵 #COVID19
2) Last year, our FAS teams found bots also driving the “herd” topic that Trump’s advisor Scott Atlas was promoting. It was pretty damn clear it was bots that initially propelled it.
3) In that analysis last year… FAS identified both bots that pushed for herd immunity mass infection, as well as keywords that pushed against it… you might recognize someone 🤷🏻♂️
German ad is now trolling America… for 1 in 6 Americans (49 million) go hungry. It’s been true for a long time—➡️ we pay trillions to defense contractors but can’t spare change to help feed kids—especially healthy foods that aren’t junk or cause diabetes.
2) Whether or not the ad is just a trolling ad is besides the point — the scale of food insecurity in America is real.
3) “Hunger – defined as not having enough to eat sometimes or often during the previous week – has been reported between 19% and 29% of Black households with children over the course of the pandemic. This compares with 7% to 14% of white American families.
What the hell—8 people died at the concert, ranging in age from 14 to 27, all crushed in the 50,000+ crowd. Yet the #AstroWorld#TravisScott concert continued amid ambulances and paramedics. ➡️Dystopian—no wonder so many also don’t even care about pandemic #COVID19 deaths either.
2) Was #TravisScott aware of the ambulances? Yes. But he just continued the concert like nothing happened. Sickening.
3) “It was like hell. Everybody was just in the back, trying to rush to the front.”
“People were literally grabbing and pinching at my body trying to get up from the ground,”“I was fighting for my life; there was no way out.” nytimes.com/2021/11/06/us/…