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Aug 11, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read Read on X
🧵PUBLIC HEALTH CREDIBILITY 🧵

Yesterday the CA Senate held a hearing on “Lessons Learned From Covid,” with politicians screaming about misinformation and public health officials lamenting their credibility issues.

But they made a mistake. They invited Michael Osterholm.

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Osterholm made several points that public health officials don’t like to hear:

“The 3 most important words I own today are ‘I don’t know.’”

“We have far too often felt the need to have all the answers.”

Remember the last time a PH official said THAT? Yeah, me neither.

2/6
When he expressed concern in Jan 2021 that new variants might evade immunity and prolong the pandemic, he was “taken to the woodshed” by colleagues and canceled by the media who didn’t like his message (remember this is when Biden promised to “defeat” covid in 100 days).

3/6
Another example? Masks:

“Frankly some of the information that we gave to the public was not scientifically correct.” 😬

“…bc people wanted to hone in on an answer without having all the facts about what that answer meant.”

Oops.

4/6
How does “I don’t know” resonate in this room?

Ask @DrPanMD, who knows everything with such certainty he’s pushing #AB2098 to punish doctors for spreading “misinformation,”

…or CDPH’s @DrTomasAragon, who still pushes bogus studies and recc’s cloth masks on kids in 2022.

5/6
So Osterholm’s comments likely fell on deaf ears, like with masks.

It’s hard to adopt “I don’t know” when you’ve been lying about what you DO know for over 2 years…and are now trying to silence those who always knew.

They still have *all* the answers. And 0 credibility.

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More from @scottyd121

Nov 30
The @latimes and @UCLA want you to think they’ve organically created a diverse student body without using race-based admissions.

This is a lie.

And an admission of how DEI broke education.

Short 🧵 1/10 Image
They tell you an anecdote of a black student who decided to attend UCLA simply b/c she saw a black professor.

Good reminder that racism is still encouraged in America, as long as it’s reverse racism.

Imagine a white student saying this about a white professor.

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The reality is UCLA made marginal gains in minority enrollment.

But despite what the DEI crowd tells you, this is still a zero sum game. To enroll ~100 more minorities, they accept ~100 less white kids.

Does this just “happen,” or do they have their thumb on the scale?

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Jun 19
🧵In Fauci-esque fashion, San Diego's dying newspaper @sdut pens a swan song for the retiring public health officer who got everything wrong and harmed millions of San Diegans.

Let's take a final journey through yet another attempt to rewrite pandemic history...

1/11
"I do not regret any...orders or decisions that were made, not at all."

Like Fauci, "Dr" Wilma Wooten stands by everything she did, which included:

1. Stay at home orders.
2. Mask mandates.
3. School closures.
4. Gym closures.
5. Restaurant closures.
6. Vax mandates.

2/11 Image
For those keeping score at home, she went 0/6 on these, without even getting into the generational harm caused to children, adults, minorities, the poor, businesses, civil liberties, and trust in public health.

Even the mainstream media has admitted this horrible failure.

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Nov 27, 2023
The "surprising answer" is Florida did better than California on Covid when you compare apples to apples and adjust for demographics.

@latimes finally mentions this, but its readers and own reporters are trying REALLY hard to ignore it.😆

A short and laughable 🧵1/9
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We first have a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and "investigative reporter" deliberately cutting off the story before it mentions the age-adjusted mortality.

@latimes RT'd this.😬

How biased and incomplete were his decades of investigative reports?

2/9
Next we have Michael Hiltzik, another Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for @latimes simply responding that of course California handled Covid better.

Did he even read the article? Maybe he can't afford a subscription to his own paper?

3/9
Read 9 tweets
Dec 16, 2022
The @ACLUVA has been bragging that due to their Virginia lawsuit settlement, parents demanding peers mask around their at-risk child is a reasonable accommodation.

But that's not what their settlement says...at all. In fact, it's almost the opposite. 🤔

Let's discuss!

🧵1/13
.@ACLUVA says the settlement "affirms that masking is a reasonable modification for students with disabilities."

But the settlement language only states that VA law allows a parent to REQUEST peer masking as a reasonable modification under the ADA.

See the distinction?

2/13
It doesn't conclude that peer masking IS reasonable, just that a parent is allowed to request it and claim it is.

Legally, it is up to a school district to make the determination as to whether it's reasonable or not.

Would they? Unlikely...

3/13
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Jul 7, 2022
Covid (UC-Team Reality) Chronicles, Day 841

THE DIE IS NOW CAST: I have Covid-19.🤒

Despite doing everything WRONG, I avoided the most highly-contagious aerosolized respiratory virus on Earth for 2+ years.

Bobby W says this profound moral failure REQUIRES a 25 tweet 🧵

1/25
With a Biomedical Science degree and having read Richard Preston's "The Hot Zone" (origins of ebola) one too many times in high school, I was always paranoid of pandemics.

I kept a hazmat suit, box of latex gloves and N95s in my house for years.

2/25
When the WHO declared a Global Pandemic in March 2020, I knew the enemy:

A mild respiratory virus of very little risk to the vast majority of kids and adults.

I threw away my gloves and hazmat suit (they were old and expired anyway) and donated my N95s to the hospital.

3/25
Read 25 tweets
Jan 19, 2022
🧵1/12 N95s & Kids: A Warning from the CDC, FDA & OSHA

The CDC admitted that cloth masks are ineffective, but officials are pivoting to N95s, which are RESPIRATORS, NOT masks. This is dangerous for kids!

See linked memo. Short 🧵 to summarize:

documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri…
2/12 A rational person would realize that if cloth masks are ineffective, yet schools still had low case rates, then masks weren't needed.

But instead of dropping this useless intervention, public health officials are demanding "better masks."

theconversation.com/time-to-upgrad…
3/12 Except most of these aren't masks, they're RESPIRATORS - medical devices regulated by the CDC (via NIOSH), the FDA and statewide by Cal-OSHA.

N95s are approved in US, but KN95, KF94, etc. - are NOT approved - 60% are likely counterfeit.

fda.gov/medical-device…
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