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Apr 8 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
I now have something in common with Speaker Pelosi, AG Garland, Sec Raimondo, Senators Collins, Warnock, & Reps Craig, Schiff, Castro—

Now caught the ‘Rona too. Having some cough, chills & small fever tonight, but doing okay. Luckily boosted. Please #GetBoosted folks.
2) Never went to any parties/social events. Haven’t met with anyone outside family. My son was positive yesterday—he’s been video gaming since. I was negative & no symptoms all yesterday & this morning. This new virus comes on fast. Take it seriously folks. Stay safe.
3) I do wish I had all of my right lung 🫁 though - lost part of it when I was 17 years old. A thymus gland would give me more peace of mind too. But such is life. Many people have unseen immunocompromised/ risk factors. Let’s all try to protect each other. 🙏
4) What does annoy me is I don’t exactly how to report my + antigen home test to authorities. It’s great the Biden WH sent out millions— but if positive, then what?? There’s zero instructions about reporting it for officially statistics. This is why I trust wastewater more 👇
5) Ugh crap, @BiobotAnalytics dashboard shows wastewater surging even more since my update yesterday. Bookmark this link — it’s the best database, better than even CDC’s.

biobot.io/data/
6) Fun fact: Biobot founders @NewshaGhaeli & Mariana Matus once had to desperately convince folks of wastewater testing. Others laughed... @BiobotAnalytics was just honored now as Time 100 Most Influential companies of 2022. Both founders are immigrants.

time.com/collection/tim…
7) I’m told by a nearby county health dept staff that Virginia has now dismantled case reporting — not even any reporting of cases by any state employee. This is all due to @GlennYoungkin’s administration’s dismantling of Covid reporting infrastructure

doli.virginia.gov/2022/03/22/rev…
8) #BA2 is much more infectious. One way to see it is in the SECONDARY ATTACK RATES— how many close contacts get infected from an initial person? BA2 has a much higher secondary attack rate. This will spur larger outbreaks. Hence where we are. Dropping mitigations bad idea too.

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Apr 10
Residents in #Shanghai screaming from high rise apartments after 7 straight days of the city lockdown. The narrator worries that there will be major problems. (in Shanghainese dialect—he predicts people can’t hold out much longer—he implies tragedy).
2) “yao ming le” & “yao si” — both expressions meaning “life and death” but they also more literally means “asking for death”. Narrator eventually implies shit is gonna hit the fan soon if this continues.
3) The video has been verified by @patrickmadrid’s family. It has also been verified by my sources as commonplace. Also, Shanghainese is a local dialect (not really propaganda useful)—only 14 million out of 1.3 billion Chinese even speak. I only speak it because I was born there.
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Apr 9
BREAKING—China’s grip on BA2. At least 23 cities in China on full or partial lockdown—cities with over 193 million residents. Food shortages throughout even Shanghai. Doctors and nurses also exhausted—this doctor collapsed, and was carried off by patients at an isolation center.
2) A lot of people in Shanghai running out of food. And this is a city of 26 million. Even a fraction is in the millions. nytimes.com/2022/04/08/wor…
3) “I’m used to the feeling of being hungry now,” Mr. Guan said in an interview. “I never expected that in the 21st century, in a big city like Shanghai, I would experience what my grandparents’ generation lived through, of not being able to fill my stomach.”
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Apr 9
My friend has now tested positive for 7 consecutive days. 💡Did you know—70% of people will continue to test #COVID19 positive on day 5? This is why CDC’s 5-day exit rule without any testing is ludicrous. CDC consulted with experts who told them it’s stupid—CDC did it anyway.🤦🏻‍♂️ Image
P.s. he caught it at a DC happy bar last week no less. Lots of people thought it was safe if cases low.

even though official cases still low, wastewater doesn’t lie. Image
3) Ooops, did I just reveal conversations that CDC leadership have with experts but then refused to listen to them anyway? Yes. But is it in the public interest to know such info? Hell yes.
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Apr 8
Welp—just got denied Paxlovid by my healthcare plan. Got told they will only give out to severely immunocompromised—like organ transplant, chemotherapy, or HIV. So, not having a thymus gland doesn’t qualify🤷🏻‍♂️. (“T-cells” officially called thymus-derived lymphocytes)

Meanwhile: Image
2) So I’m in an HMO — my Kaiser insurance is also my in-network hospital system. So it was the Kaiser Permanente doctors who denied me the Paxlovid under their Kaiser prescribing rules for it. @aboutKP @KPMemberService
3) I lost my thymus gland when I was 17 years old. T-cell maturation mostly happens when you’re young and in teenage years. So its borderline debatable how immunocompromised I am. But thymus can stay active until 40s.
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Apr 8
Finally official acknowledgement that aerosols is the main method of transmission. Deeming #COVIDisAirborne places a burden on businesses, schools, and other indoor venues to ensure proper masking & revamping air systems or adding filtration & ventilation.
finance.yahoo.com/news/us-who-of…
2) Dr. Alondra Nelson, head of OSTP, announced the highly-awaited words.
"The most common way COVID-19 is transmitted from one person to another is through tiny airborne particles of the virus hanging in indoor air for minutes or hours after an infected person has been there,"
3) research shows changing the air in a room multiple times an hour with filtered or clean outdoor air – using a window fan, by using higher MERV filters in an Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) system, using portable air cleaning devices… whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-upda…
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Apr 7
⚠️BREAKING—The @CDCgov will now allow infectious #COVID19 cases to fly & stop such reporting—Effective 0001 ET on April 7, 2022, CDC will discontinue applying public health travel restrictions to most COVID-19 cases and contacts with reported air travel.

CDC is getting worse—🧵
2) Moreover, @CDCgov’s memo to state and local health departments says: “You may stop reporting the following to CDC as of April 7:

1) COVID-19 cases with reported upcoming air travel and

2) COVID-19 cases who traveled recently (i.e., after-travel notifications).”
3) then @CDCgov goes into further DOUBLE SPEAK saying “CDC continues to recommend that people who test positive for COVID-19—regardless of vaccination status—NOT travel until a full 10 days after their symptoms started or the date their positive test was taken (if asymptomatic).”
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