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THREAD – The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up

Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way. 1/ Image
Early COVID data from China had suggested that ventilators would need to be used widely in the treatment of COVID patients, and this led to a major rush by politicians and hospitals to procure tens of thousands of ventilators. A small sample of the headlines from that period. 2/ ImageImageImage
However, it soon became clear that ventilators were being vastly overused. Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower, sounding the alarm in a widely-shared video. 3/
In interviews with major media outlets, several practitioners later disclosed that patients had often been put on ventilators not for their own benefit, but in order to protect hospital staff and stop the virus from spreading. 4/ ImageImage
As Dr. Rich McCormick told the House COVID Select Subcommittee, “we were intubating people that probably shouldn’t have been intubated.” 5/
As Meredith Case, an internal medicine resident at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital, put it in a series of since-deleted threads, hospitals were “early intubating” patients for “many days if not weeks” “to avoid aerosolizing procedures to protect staff.” 6/ ImageImageImage
This practice of prolonged intubation was apparently consistent with guidance from China. As Zeynep Tufekci had put it, “Chinese scientists” advised “many COVID-19 patients need to stay on mechanical ventilators as long as four weeks.” 7/ Image
Some hospitals in New York began engaging in “split-ventilation”—putting patients on ventilators two-at-a-time. “Split-ventilation” made intubation even more dangerous than it already was. 8/ ImageImage
Even Anthony Fauci eventually admitted that having “very very readily put people on mechanical ventilation” may have “caused more harm than good.” 9/
The New Yorker featured a harrowing account of one early victim’s final moments before he was put on a ventilator and died—even though he didn’t even “feel sick” at the time he was intubated. 10/ Image
A study in JAMA later revealed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over age 65 put on mechanical ventilators. Patients over age 65 were more than 26 times as likely to survive if they were NOT placed on mechanical ventilators. 11/ Image
Overall, mortality among COVID patients in New York area hospitals fell by over two-thirds between spring 2020 and summer 2020. 12/ Image
Yet astonishingly, despite all this evidence, the establishment is arguing that *no patients* were killed by ventilators in spring 2020. An astonishing argument, even by the abysmal standards of the COVID era. 13/
The data bears out that ventilator use was sharply curtailed after spring 2020. Overall, CDC data shows that about 10,000 patients died with COVID in NYC hospitals after being put on ventilators in spring 2020. 14/
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As I’ve previously written, the percentage increase in excess deaths in the greater New York area in spring 2020 vastly outstrips the percentage increase even in other cities with similar climate and social and economic demographics. 15/
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Further, as @EWoodhouse7 has documented in meticulous detail, New York City experienced an unnaturally sharp, breathtaking mortality event just after its lockdown began, unlike anywhere where else or at any other time. 16/
(Source: CDC Wonder mortality, 2018–last month). Image
A side-by-side comparison of inpatient hospital mortality from 2018 to present in NYC vs America’s other largest metro areas illustrates this unnatural, sharp spike in mortality in NYC in spring 2020. 17/
(Source: CDC Wonder mortality, 2018–last month). Image
Moreover, the spike in mortality among young people is inconsistent with COVID’s heavily-stratified IFR by age. This is the most widely-cited data on COVID’s IFR by age. Thus, the unnatural spike in mortality in NYC in spring 2020 cannot be attributed to COVID. 18/ ImageImage
The establishment has responded with studies claiming “early intubation” actually reduced time on ventilators, but this is a straw-man. The real issue is whether patients were put on ventilators unnecessarily, or kept on them too long. 19/
Even more strangely, most attorneys with whom I’ve discussed the ventilator issue agree that there’s actually little litigation risk for the medical establishment given the perceived global emergency and the information coming from China at the time. 20/ Image
This, too, leads me to believe that the real number of patients killed by ventilators must be frighteningly high; even absent any real litigation risk, the embarrassment alone is leading to this broad cover-up. 21/
Given all the clumsy, self-contradictory arguments about ventilator deaths coming from the medical establishment, you’ve probably gathered that these are not sophisticated crooks. Rather, these are ordinary people who can’t seem to face what really happened. 22/
As I detailed in Snake Oil, it’s the hallmark of any great dictator to be able to bring out the evil even in ordinary people. And some men are uncannily good at what they do. 23/ ImageImageImage
Nonetheless, the situation is morally inexcusable. We need to know how these patients died, not only so we know what really happened during the initial response to COVID in spring 2020, but also because it’s the least we can do to honor the deceased. /end
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May 16
THREAD – The Ultimate COVID Video Library

A semi-chronological, open-access library of the most important and viral video clips from throughout the response to COVID. This thread has no end, so videos after the first hundred or so may be added ad hoc. Be sure to bookmark! 1/ Image
Jan 2020 – Shortly after Xi Jinping announces the strictest lockdown in history in Wuhan, China, videos begin going viral all over the world supposedly showing Wuhan residents spontaneously collapsing and falling to their deaths from the new virus. 2/
Feb 2020 – In some of the most powerful propaganda of the entire COVID saga, viral videos purport to show CCP officials welding Wuhan residents into their homes to prevent them from going outside during lockdown. 3/
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Mar 26
THREAD - HOW ZEYNEP TUFEKCI AND JEREMY HOWARD MASKED AMERICA

Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize. 1/
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After three years of speculation, an authoritative gold-standard Cochrane review including results from 78 peer-reviewed RCTs confirmed that across populations, masks, regardless of type, made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/
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The Cochrane review seemed to settle the matter. Mask opponents had their trump card. But alas, the pro-mask establishment responded with a trump card of their own: an NYT op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci: “Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work” 3/
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Mar 17
BREAKING: Wet market theorists find another poor animal in Wuhan to scapegoat.

The problem with every one of these zoonotic origin studies—like the lab leak studies—they’re too wedded to the idea COVID began in Wuhan simply because of Xi’s lockdown. 1/
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Once you see it, it’s incredibly obvious. They ignore countless peer-reviewed studies showing vast, global early spread many months before the initial COVID theatrics in Wuhan.

Here’s just one of those peer-reviewed studies showing global early spread. 2/
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Another peer-reviewed study demonstrating vast, global early spread many months before Wuhan, which the authors of these wet-market studies have brazenly and repeatedly ignored. 3/
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Mar 9
THREAD: Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for COVID to Ring In the ‘New Normal’

Balaji’s ‘prophecies’ may be the best evidence yet that there was a plan to recreate China’s COVID response globally, down to the particular details of how the world would transform. 1/ Image
Going back to the initial weeks of 2020, prior to the western world’s first lockdown in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21, it’s remarkable how normal things were. The Atlantic, for example, published a great piece titled You’re Likely to theatlantic.com/health/archive…twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
There was Xi’s lockdown in Wuhan, but most commentators opined on how brutal and illiberal it was. One thing virtually no one in the world was doing prior to the lockdown of Lombardy was hoping the rest of the world would adopt China’s lockdown policy. 3/
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Feb 28
THREAD – Tomás Pueyo Returns: The MBA Who Shut Down Europe on Masks and the Cochrane Review

Pueyo is an MBA who came to sudden fame for his March 10, 2020, article Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now, in which he urged leaders around the world to emulate China’s lockdowns. 1/
Having been relatively quiet for the past three years, Pueyo has returned with a new viral thread purporting to debunk the recent Cochrane review concluding that mask mandates made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/
Pueyo had no relevant credentials or prior interest in epidemiology but, strange as it may seem, Pueyo’s article was one of the most-shared articles of the 2020, and the most influential causes of global COVID lockdowns. As one academic at Sheffield University summarized: 3/
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Feb 22
THREAD – NYT Surrenders to Reality: Admits ‘Mask Mandates Did Nothing’

NYT’s admission is a promising step in the right direction. But NYT and other lockdown supporters have a very long way to go if they ever wish to fully atone for what they supported during COVID. 1/
In a show of capitulation, NYT deputized their top conservative columnist, Bret Stephens, to pen an article on the recent Cochrane review showing masks made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. Stephens’ article is blistering. 2/
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Stephens minces no words in his criticism for the CDC and Director Rochelle Walensky, including a reference to Walensky’s awful testimony insisting the CDC’s guidance to mandate masks in schools would “not change with time” regardless of new evidence. 3/
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