Join me at my (new) home in Austin, TX for a fundraiser to support @Rstorechildhood. Their mission is to make sure what happened over the past 2+ years NEVER happens again ➡️ documentation, advocacy and research. Want to meet #TeamReality? Come! donorbox.org/events/372292
3/ This group is GOOD. They have done incredible work documenting the harms of pandemic policies. For a taste, check out here. youtube.com/restorechildho…
4/ If you can't join us, consider donating. Roy (my husband) and I have made a very sizable donation (for us) funding a very important piece of research that has been "missing" from the debate. We'll need more than just us to do more. restorechildhood.com
5/ Also, the weather in Austin in November is incredible (I hear). Average high of 71. So, there's that.
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1/ Chickenpox vax doesn’t stop infection, DOES mostly prevent disease. You need a booster (after ~4 yrs). Developed 1974 ➡️ on US vax schedule in '96.
COVID vaxes don’t stop infection OR DISEASE. Boosters ~4mos. Developed in 2021--ACIP voting tomorrow (2022) to add to sched.
2/ Would you get the chickenpox vax if you still got chicken pox--seemingly more frequently than people who didn't? Probably not.
Even as it is, the chickenpox vax isn't recommended in the UK. Because it doesn't stop infection, and chickenpox not a bad disease for most.
3/ Yet ACIP is voting tomorrow to add this to the US kids' vax schedule, despite being disallowed for administration in children in many European countries. The safety signal is atrocious. The benefits--especially for children--non-existent.
1/ I see a lot of stuff now about whether fascism is left or right. It doesn't really matter.
Totalitarian mechanics are always the same--terror, isolation, atomization--they just have different motivating ideologies. The results are the same, whether Bolshevik, Nazi, Maoist.
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We fail to recognize this new threat as totalitarian, because it lacks the charismatic leader that we are used to--no hitler, no mao.
But the totalizing nature of the ideology, the inversion of reality to suit the ideology and so many more are unquestionable hallmarks.
3/ I can't recommend strongly enough Hannah Arendt's "The Origins of Totalitarianism". It's dense, but you will find so much of what she describes (the last third is most pertinent), describes what we are experiencing--just without the leader.
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The authors of this newest mask study acknowledge that masked districts exempted masked close contacts (all) from testing, but still claim it is legitimate. Let’s explore.
2/ But as usual, the opposite is true. We looked at data from more than 20 million kids, and found that masked districts missed 3x more days of school last year, than mask-optional.
1/ Effective immediately, I am withdrawing my candidacy. In search of normal, will be relocating to Austin, TX. This move is 100% due to the policies of the last 2 yrs.
2/ We have been unable to protect our children from the shrapnel of fear emanating from the media & Beacon Hill.
Our kids are set to be un-masked on 2/28. But I can't trust that. All it will take to undo, is a louder, more potent constituency making its demands known.
3/ So, we are leaving. Despite living here for nearly 20 years—longer than any other place we have lived.
18 months ago, I thought this was impossible, from a professional and real estate perspective. But necessity is the mother of invention.
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In addition to society-crushing vax mandates, vaccination rates DO NOT correlate to people going out, rather they are linked to greater FEAR, which keeps them home.
2/ What's more, new data makes it clear that at no point, are vaxed protected from omicron--rather at higher risk for infection. Why would you want to do that?
3/ And of course, just for good measure, here's Boston hospital capacity as of 12/31 (Yellow is covid). And this includes all of those people there WITH COVID, not FROM COVID, which we knew LAST december was ~40% of all patients. emilyburns.vote/covid-dashboar…