Psst - I think someone's trying to pull a fast one on us.

One week ago, masks were required at State Of The Union by the Sergeant-at-arms on Thursday, February 17.

H/T @Amal4Solutions and @FinchTH

sports.yahoo.com/sergeant-arms-…

Three days later? Masks are optional.
wafb.com/2022/02/28/cap…

What happened?

Did transmission rates
drop so suddenly that masks are no longer required?

Not according to the new 'community' levels.

Firmly, orange. Which would be bright red on the old map.
No, what happened was politics.

Biden is going to try and convince the nation that he has beaten CoVid.

He's got all of the public health authorities to set aside public health for his political health.

@CDCgov for all of American health.
Congress’ Office of the Attending Physician for all of Congress.

Can that Office legitimately say that Don Young (R) at 87 years old is going to be ok? Or Eddie Johnson (D) at 85?

fiscalnote.com/blog/how-old-i…
Tara's question applies to the Congress’ Office of the Attending Physician as well as the CDC:
I don't trust the @CDCgov farther than I could throw their 10 year old laptop that is
hosting their rickety Community Levels at this point.

Gregg's thread analyzing those Community Levels really struck home.

Finally, I still am waiting for someone, anyone, to explain WHY we needed to change the metrics.

Given those celebrating that change are either Biden health cheerleaders or #urgencyofnone bad-faith actors like Prasad?

Bullshit.

Why?

Psst...one more thing.

The below antibody study indicates that we should treat novel variants of novel viruses much more carefully.

And that both of Biden's political decisions here on public health?

Are colossal disasters.

H/t @MLS_Dave (I believe) for this :

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A 🧵of Smart 🧵(with the exception of mine) on the the new dumbed down CDC's Community Levels.

"Dumbed down" because CoVid actually causes IQ loss and brain fog.

These Community Levels will cause more CoVid. Thus literally, dumbing down America.
At the writing of this thread BA.2 is ripping up multiple countries including Hong Kong and Denmark.

It is also spreading across America.

As part of the changes, the CDC is recommending no longer doing universal contact tracing, so it will be more

difficult to track these cases.
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Feb 28
Dr. Roselyn Epps was born in 1930. If she had been born just 20 years earlier?

There might not have been a Dr. Roselyn Epps.

She would have been 8 years old when the 1918 pandemic struck Little Rock, Arkansas.

cfmedicine.nlm.nih.gov/physicians/bio…
Here are the beds in the Eberts Field medical facility for the influenza patients.

That airborne disease ended up infected 1/3 of everyone. Fun fact - you could end up bleeding from your eyes and ears.

cbsnews.com/news/the-1918-…

Not showing pics of that. Image
There was lots of downplaying. Image
Read 8 tweets
Feb 28
When I am agreeing with those opposed to public health?

Walensky has done more to harm the CDC's reputation for public health than Redfield, Trump's stooge.

We expected that from Trump.

To have a Democrat appointee do it?

This will be devastating to public health.

Short 🧵. Image
Mercola just retweeted my thread on Slavitt editing out the scarlet mask.



I immediately thought of deleting it because I was so disgusted.

Oh, you don't know who the Prince of Darkness and Greed is? Image
H/T @JHowardBrainMD

Literally - "The Most Influential Spreader of Coronavirus Misinformation Online"

archive.fo/Y2vos

He works by casting doubt on vaccinations, which leaves people in search of something - which he sells them. His vitamins. He's worth $130 million.
Read 7 tweets
Feb 27
Great points, and great article, @AbdulElSayed!

Thank you both! Quick tease to the article and then link to a "Late Effects" thread.

Because we are not ready.

And our LongCoVid-ignorin' @CDCDirector just opened Pandora's box on unfettered transmission here. ImageImage
For the rest of us, we should be careful with novel viruses because they can result in consequences as our immune system begins to decline around age 50.

Got your attention? Good. Image
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Feb 17
The Urgency of Normal ala The Urgency of Demasking Children.

This was announced by @drlucymcbride on January 24th, and it has only one main action - to make school masking optional.

This thread will show you why McBride is arguing in bad faith - through her own life and words. Image
As we all know, kids are typically in lesser quality masks. Do they, the UoN, advocate for better quality masks? No. Just back to school with NO masks.

But per McBride's MOSHPIT, masks, ventilation, and talking are important to prevent CoVid.

web.archive.org/web/2022021623… Image
She's quite proud of her ability to talk to her patients to help their mental health! We should all be so lucky to be able to talk at length to our doctor!

Of course, you will be paying $1,800/ year for the ability to JUST talk to McBride.

foxhallinternists.com/prime/ Image
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Feb 16
@DrTomFrieden - do you endorse the #urgencyofnormal group that is a school antimasker group?

It certainly appears like you do - because you are the STAR of their toolkit.

urgencyofnormal.com/advocacy-toolk…

Are you aware of that?
@DrTomFrieden - you were informed of this on January 25th.

Ok, maybe you don't pay attention to non-bluechecked accounts. Let me flag it to some of them to make sure it gets across your desk so you can take action.
@trishgreenhalgh @DrTedros @DrEricDing @JudahWorldChamp @mehdirhasan @jljcolorado @kprather88

Can someone reach out to @DrTomFrieden either via DM or via tweet and let him know that the urgency of normal toolkit that is being used to fight
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