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Dec 24 5 tweets 2 min read Read on X
"We celebrated"

"We declared"

Let's take a quick look at the BS explanation of the justifications given for ending the emergency.

There is a plot twist that no one will see coming.
1. Decreasing trend in COVID-19 deaths.

Because pandemics don't have increasing and decreasing trends?

2. The decline in COVID-19 related hospitalizations and intensive care unit admissions.

Because governments haven't killed reporting?

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3. High levels of population immunity.

It's a coronavirus. There is no permanent high level of individual or population immunity. In fact, repeated infections end in worse outcomes.

Tedros says because it is an established and ongoing health issue, it's no longer a Image
public health emergency of international concern.

Hmm.

That's interesting...the WHO does not respond well to emergencies which are not emergencies to Americans.



And the US declared their emergency over in May 2023, as well. So Biden could declare en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_he…
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Dec 18
Respiratory etiquette. Cough/ Sneeze etiquette.

You cover your cough or sneeze so as to not send droplets. To provide source control.

It is an ancient idea, but was recently put into standard IPC practices in American hospitals.

It is BS to save $$$ for corporations. 🧵
Some recent examples in this century. Handkerchief usage, etc.

But did you know that the @CDCgov has it as part of their official Infection Prevention and Control guidances?


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@CDCgov It's all throughout the CDC website. But here's a good example.

Germs can easily be spread by coughing, sneezing or TALKING.

But they ignore talking and breathing to emphasize covering your cough or sneeze with tissue or your elbow.

cdc.gov/hygiene/person…
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Dec 18
I expect Bob Wachter to do a 25 tweet long thread:

"How I rationalize ignoring LongCovid And the Cumulative Danger of Reinfections so I can still eat out."
Holy Banged Up WasteBasket. He did it!

Do I know Bob Wachter or what? Come on....give me a like or a retweet for that.

Ya gotta give it up!

Twitter just tweaked, so adding in pics.

Thank you @cbr160! Made my day! Image
Read 5 tweets
Dec 14
1-4% LongCovid among athletes? None among vaccinated?

Hold up, folks. Sounds too good to be true.

Quick 🧵 on why I trust this study as far as I can shotput a Division 1 linebacker.

cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/study…
I work in IT. IT always needs bodies.

If you ask the right people.

The ITAA put out study after study saying more folks were needed. But once you were in the field?

You saw it was BS. That is because the studies were from surveys of IT hiring managers.

In whose
interest is it to have a large labor pool to choose from?

Yeah. Now, if you wanted to keep open college athletics, what would you reply if asked how much LongCovid you had?

"We surveyed a convenience sample of 18 collegiate school administrators, representing about 7,000 Image
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Dec 10
@WanderWithBrian

I think you want your readers to travel safely so they can enjoy the amazing destinations you describe.

You took a study from 2018 to write your article on how to travel safe, and published it just the other day.

That's a problem for them. And you.
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First - the flu is airborne just like COVID. Below is a thread of study after study showing that the flu is airborne.

This is important as the study you used is written by those who think it is transmitted by droplets.

They are wrong.

Here is a NYTimes article using the same study, which helped me track it down.



The study:


Below you can see the lead author dispensing droplet based advice. archive.is/DYiPf
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

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Dec 7
At what point does an airborne disease that can...

shrink the male sexual organs, cause the male female ones to not work, shrink the brain, cause diabetes, accelerate dementia, cause permanent personality changes, cause COPD-like lung fibrosis, heart attacks, strokes, eczema,
5 different kinds of arthritis, total or partial collapse of various parts of the immune system, literal brain shrinkage, reactivation of EBV/the herp/TB, cause retinal cotton-wool spots and microhemorrhages,deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, liver and kidney damage,
polyneuritis, Guillain–Barré syndrome (GBS), meningitis, encephalomyelitis, encephalopathy, oculomotor nerve palsy,skin chillblains, erythematous skin lesions, urticaria, vesicular lesions, Maculopapular skin lesions,
Splenic white pulp atrophy and the reduction of lymphoid
Read 5 tweets
Dec 2
A fair number of big accounts r putting out tweets emphasizing that this M. Pneumoniae outbreak is to be expected.

We can agree to disagree on that.

But I sensed a note of frustration from them. "Why are all these people freaking out? Why don't they trust the WHO and
CDC and us?"

Let me remind THEM that the reports coming out of China was that it was an atypical pneumonia.

And the last time we heard that?

Wuhan.



And the WHO said it was not human to human, followed up theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
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by Tedros saying it was not airborne.

And today, the CDC director stating that high cases in Ohio were no big deal. Coming from a CDC that has buried COVID cases, refuses to say it's airborne to this very day, and is in the process of implementing the HICPAC recommended
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