Thread by @shallit43

Gonna try something different today. If you like it, join in and contribute some of your own. Warning: 25 tweets or more ahead.

1. If you claim "no vaccine in history was developed/approved as rapidly as the Covid vaccines" without having examined the timeline for the Salk polio vaccine, nor the technological advances that made rollout so speedy, you might be a #covidiot .

nature.com/articles/d4158…

2. If you are still babbling about the distinction between "with Covid" and "from Covid", but never looked at a death certificate and can't say what the two classifications for causes of death typically listed on them are, you might be a #covidiot .
bmj.com/content/372/bm…

3. If you claim CDC statistics about Covid deaths are lies, but don't realize these statistics are collected from many diverse jurisdictions with all sorts of political leanings, and you won't say what source of statistics you WOULD accept as valid, you might be a #covidiot .

4. If you believe masks can't stop the spread of Sars-Cov-2 because "the pores in masks are bigger than the virus", and as a kid you also played with water ballons that didn't leak, you might be a #covidiot .

Links:

physics.stackexchange.com/questions/1485…
wired.com/story/the-phys…

5. If you falsely claim the mRNA vaccines are "useless" for stopping Omicron infection and spread, you might be a #covidiot .

Link: jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

6. If you claim that VAERS reports are proof that the Covid vaccines aren't safe, but you haven't read the prominent disclaimer on the VAERS database saying that its data CANNOT be used to infer causality, you might be a #covidiot .

Link: vaers.hhs.gov/data.html

7. If you claim that Sars-Cov-2 is "the same as the flu", without realizing that influenza viruses are in the family Orthomyxoviridae , while Sars-Cov-2 is in the family Coronaviridae, you might be a #covidiot .

8. If you insist that "viruses don't exist", but can't tell me what is displayed in the attached photo, you might be a #covidiot .

the recommendations of actual experts in virology, epidemiology, and public health, you might be a #covidiot .

Links: mcgill.ca/oss/article/co…

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

10. If you're still blithely accepting the claims of an epidemiologist who guessed that "covid-19 will result in fewer than 40,000 deaths this season in the USA", when the total number is now a factor of 25 higher, you might be a #covidiot .

washingtonpost.com/opinions/witho…

11. If you claim that "masks don't work" to help stop the spread of Covid, and you haven't read the dozen scientific studies that show that they actually do, you might be a #covidiot.

link: cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

12. If you're still pushing Sweden as a model for how society should handle Covid, but can't admit
that Sweden's had twice the number of deaths per capita as neighbors Denmark and Finland, and 3
times the deaths per capita as neighbor Norway, you might be a #covidiot.

13. If you're tweeting the opinions of Brownstone Inst. contributors, who have no obligation to reveal conflicts of interest, while simultaneously refusing to accept the verdict of experts who *do* have these ethical obligations and they state them, you might be a #covidiot .

14. If you're still claiming that Covid could have been cured by Ivermectin, but "Big Pharma" tried to suppress it to make money, while not realizing that drugmaker Merck is one of the largest makers of Ivermectin, you might be a #covidiot .

15. If you're still pushing hydroxychloroquine as a remedy for Covid, when study after study showed no benefit, you might be a #covidiot .

link: nature.com/articles/s4146…

16. If you're quoting stuff from the site "Swiss Policy Research",an anonymous website that doesn't reveal its authors,contributors, or funding, while ignoring results in the peer-reviewed literature where all three are stated, you might be a #covidiot .

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Pol…

17. If you're still claiming the IFR for Covid is 0.1%, when so far 1,061,000 Americans died from Covid, meaning that if every single American were already infected, the IFR would be 0.322%, you might be a #covidiot .

18. If you reply to the observation that the death rate from Covid in the US is 3221 per million, while in Canada it's only 1116 per million by saying "the US has more people", you're definitely a #covidiot who doesn't know what "per million" means.

19. If you're happy to quote scientific results from loony partisan political sources---left or right---without looking up the original papers themselves to ensure their results have been summarized correctly, you might be a #covidiot .

20. If you say "What other vaccine did we need four of in less than two years?" as if it's some kind of gotcha, and you don't know what the DTaP-IPV-Hib vaccine is or why you get 4 in less than two years, you might be a #covidiot .

Link: health.gov.on.ca/en/public/prog…

21. If you dismiss Covid as "just a disease of old people", while not realizing it was the #1 or #2 cause of death in most age groups in the US in January 2022, you might be a #covidiot .

22. If you're babbling about the "Nuremberg Code" and fantasizing about violence against public health officials, you might have antisocial personality disorder and also you're a #covidiot .

Link: ctvnews.ca/health/coronav…

23. If you're claiming that everyone who gets a Covid vaccine these days is "part of a clinical trial", but can't produced a signed form where you agreed to be part of that trial, you might be a damned liar and also a #covidiot .

24. If you're quoting early scenarios on mortality by Covid modellers that stated they were based on "no mitigation efforts", while deliberately ignoring the ones that were based on various levels of mitigation, you might be pathologically dishonest and also a #covidiot .

25. If you believe the VERY SAME EXPERTS who were able to detect myocarditis as a very rare adverse effect in some Covid vaccines would NOT have also detected a huge rise in vaccine-caused cardiac deaths, if it existed (it doesn't), you might be a #covidiot .

#9 got messed up:If you listen to known fabricators like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Alex Berenson, while ignoring the recommendations of actual experts in virology, epidemiology, and public health, you might be a #covidiot .

Links: mcgill.ca/oss/article/co…

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

#26: If you see a cluster of deaths locally and then immediately tweet suggesting that all of them were caused by Covid vaccines, without any investigation that would have revealed cancer was the actual cause, you might be a #covidiot .

medpagetoday.com/special-report…

#27: If you're posting data about Covid deaths from more than two years ago and imply it represents the number of deaths from Covid today, you might be a pathologically-lying propagandist and also a #covidiot .

#28: If you post claims like this and don't know what the "base rate fallacy" is, you are definitely a #covidiot .

Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate…

#29: If you're claiming that wearing a mask is a danger to people because it lowers O2 levels, you might be a #covidiot .

Link: smartairfilters.com/en/blog/n95-fa…

#30: If you insist that the Sars-Cov-2 virus "has never been isolated", but ignore all the published papers that did exactly that, and don't know you can order stocks of the virus directly from the CDC for research purposes...you might be a #covidiot .

cdc.gov/coronavirus/20…

#31: If you claim Kary Mullis said "PCR can't be used to diagnose infectious disease", and don't know that he has a patent and a famous 1988 article in the journal `Science' touting exactly that capability, you might be a #covidiot .

Hat tip: @lizditz

#32: If, like Randy Hillier,you post fake mortality statistics,and rely on people not knowing that accurate mortality data can be incomplete for a year or more after the date, you might be a #covidiot .
(Left: what Hillier posted in Dec 2020; right: what was actually known then)

#33: If you claim that the IFR for Covid was "the same as for annual flu", then you're a liar and a #covidiot to boot. Estimates for IFR of annual flu are around 0.05-0.1%; for Covid it's 0.68%. Huge difference.

Link: bmj.com/content/370/bm…

I know it's hard to believe, but I've seen exactly this kind of argument over and over.

#34: If your response to every negative trial for HCQ or Ivermectin is to object that they "gave too much" or "gave too little" or "gave it too soon" or "gave it too late" or "didn't use it with zinc" or "they didn't say 10 Hail Marys", you might be a #covidiot .