went back to screeshot some of the comments, and...
Dr Alexander has responded to the SPLC piece on his substack. Before I get to that, I recommend the OG SPLC piece by @CreedeNewton here if you haven't done so. It's solid and a good look into Alexander's involvement with both the Canadian and US convoys.
Alexander was contacted for comment by the SPLC author on March 22 offering him the change to comment on "Mr. William Marshall’s two donations to Dr. Paul Alexander’s GiveSendGo COVID research campaign" and to provide a response. This is pretty standard.
Next, Alexander provides another email from the SPLC referring to an earlier response. Dr Alexander's initial response to the SPLC is not included in the substack article.
He does, however, include his later response to the SPLC. In it he refers to Dr Bryam Bridle (we'll get to him in a minute) and Dr Roger Hodkinson.
I recognized Hodkinson's name from when I reviewed Dr Alexander's GiveSendGo donors yesterday (on the fundraising page, sadly I don't have the creds to get access to the data).
Someone donated $1,000 to Dr Alexander in his name 5 months ago- could be fake name, could be legit.
For example, someone also donated $1,000 in the name of Robert Chasanoff. The first page of google results for that name brings up a "Horse Racing Nation" - it's possible someone donated in this name as a "horse paste" joke. who knows? (again, wish I had fancy creds to get data)
Ok, now on to Dr Bryam Bridle. First, @NarcTranslator has already covered a bunch about him pre-convoy. Go here and read that first.
(As an aside, I nearly made myself sick laughing about someone named Dr Bridle, pushing horse paste as a covid treatment. I recognize ivermectin comes in forms other than horse paste but I gotta take the humor where I can find it nowadays.)
Someone also bought BryamBridle.com, put a duck on the front page (quack!), and used it to debunk his claims, in detail, point by point.
This combination of accuracy and pettiness is something I can only aspire to. Well done, @ByramBridle
Dr Bryam Bridle PhD was a supporter of the Canadian convoy, along with Dr Paul Alexander PhD and the aforementioned Dr. Roger Hodkinson, a pathologist.
Time to wrap this up. I'm an NOT factchecking Alexander's SubStack response to the SPLC's piece. It's long, a bit unhinged, and contains a lot of conjecture mixed with a very few facts. I do not get paid enough to break this down in detail.
Here is Alexander's response- regular text is SPLC ?'s, his response in bold.
It boils down to "I am an immigrant from the Caribbean, I didn't know my allies are far-right, and wouldn't care if I did know, but also I wouldn't tolerate racism, the gov't lies, & Trump is great."
I'm honest to god surprised the SubStack piece is still up. I've written stuff like this before when I'm drunk and mad, but I don't post it. Anyway, just another indication this Saturday's rally will probably be a high emotion event. /end thread
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Malone saying he invented mRNA vaccines is like Orville & Wilbur Wright saying they invented the Boeing 747. He did work which contributed to the field but he's not the sole inventor at all. Read this thread to learn more about some of the folks who helped develop them. 🧵
If you want a great story about a scientist who worked for decades on the technology that eventually lead to the mRNA vax, read about Dr. Katalin Kariko. Her dedication to the mRNA field is impressive, and her life story even more so. nytimes.com/2021/04/08/hea…
Dr Kariko worked for decades with Dr. Drew Weissman University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Here's a bit more about him. washingtonpost.com/science/2021/1…
JoshuaMacias "allegedly can be heard narrating a live video from behind the camera during a recent 'trucker protest' in Washington and that he attended at least one political rally for a Virginia candidate who has called for the execution of everyone involved" in Biden's election
The Daily Beast article refers to "a meager attempt by a social-media account using his name to organize a “Freedom Convoy,” a possible reference to some kind of U.S. sequel to right-wing trucker protests in Canada." thedailybeast.com/joshua-macias-…
1. Non-convoy 🧵- Reddit reminded me it's been 6 months since the Sept 2021 post titled- "Is The Worst Over? Modelers Predict A Steady Decline In COVID Cases Through March"
LOL
Modeling is imprecise- a good thing to remember now as restrictions are (again) being relaxed
2. From the NPR article "There's wide range of uncertainty in the models, he notes, and it's plausible, though very unlikely, that cases could continue to rise to as many as 232,000 per day before starting to decline."
Cases hit a daily average of about 800,000 in January 2022.
3. "This scenario assumes that the U.S. doesn't get hit with a new variant that's even more contagious than delta. If it does, a bleaker scenario from the Modeling Hub projects far worse numbers: just below 50,000 cases a day by next March." We started March at 58,000 cases/day.
I've found more, but don't feel comfy adding it till we have confirmation that this is Brandon Jackson. It will keep, or someone else will post it first- both are fine.