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Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
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Jan 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
IMPORTANT

The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline

"Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year

@EvanBlake17 @BenjaminMateus7 @arijitchakrav Image
What this means is that the level of SARS-CoV-2 virus in the environment will be reported as the difference between current readings & the readings of a year ago

If Jan of 2024 reading was 1,000 & Jan 2025 it's also 1,000, Jan 2025 wastewater levels will be reported as 0 (zero)
It is difficult to fathom just how cynical this is

It's a bureaucratic admission that not only do we need to live with a constant and very high amount of SARS-CoV-2 virus around us but that this constant and very high amount will represent "normal."
The first chart are actual SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels from 2022 to present prior to normalization

The second chart is the same thing just for 2024

The third is a predicted chart for 2025 assuming wastewater levels in 2025 are ~ to 2024

Much less scary, eh?

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Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Dec 11, 2024
Luigi Mangione’s manifesto is remarkable in its banality
I say banal because anyone who encountering our health care system has the same experience as Mangione

The same cruelty-for-cruelty’s sake, the same rapaciousness, the same desert of empathy

To wit
1.Unsatisfied pleas to fix his mother’s and his ailments

2.Endless cycles of incompetence and repetition of failed processes that have not succeeded in the past

And have no promise of succeeding in the future
3. Frightening demands for payment. Payment for failure

An institutional shakedown compelling people to pay what they cannot live without at a price they afford

4. All packaged in an uncaring cascade of disdain from providers and payers upon the hapless patient
Read 13 tweets
Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Oct 23, 2024
COVID: The Children's Pandemic

January of 2024 was the deadliest January in the last decade and a half for school-aged children Image
Paradoxically, February of 2021 was the least deadly February of the last decade and a half for school-aged children

This is the difference between trying to control viral transmission (February 2021)

And not trying at all (January 2024)

It's measured in children's lives Image
Here's another way of looking at substantially the same data. These are deaths from disease in school-aged children per month

The black wavy line is the expected number of deaths.

Any deaths above that line are excess (bad), any below are negative excess (good) Image
Read 5 tweets
Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Oct 4, 2024
Two things on this graph

First (blue) are the number of deaths from disease in those aged 18-44 that are in >excess< of what is to be expected

Based on the 2012-2019 deaths from disease in this age group

Second (red) are deaths from COVID as reported on death certificates Image
Whenever the blue area is above the red area it represents deaths from disease above what is expected that are not officially COVID deaths

The question then is: what caused these deaths, if not COVID?

Let's look at the same thing, this time for 5-17yos (school children) Image
Note something interesting in that graph. Early on the blue area is BELOW the red area. What does that mean?

It means that from approximately September of 2020 to March of 2021 the number of children who died from disease (ANY disease) was LOWER than expected Image
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Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Jun 14, 2024
I wrote about this earlier -- this is a video of a wing during the Boeing 777 test program and its failing at 154% of the "design limit load"

154% sounds impressive and it is in a way but perhaps not in the way you might think...

@sameo416 @moetkacik @MCCCANM
Aircraft structures are designed to meet (or exceed) three different kinds of loads, or stresses, imposed on them:

Design Load: The load the structure is expected to endure in everyday use

Design Limit Load: The load the structure must bear without any type of permanent damage
Ultimate Load: The load the structure must bear without failure (it can be rendered unrepairable if subject to this load)

Think of it this way:

Design load: You, sitting in your chair

Design limit load: You with your 100 pound German shepherd sitting on your lap, in your chair
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Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Jun 10, 2024
A friend asked in in a private chat:

"@greg_travis what is the USA covid body count ATM, and how many of those have occurred since January 20th, 2021?"

Since it took me some time to put together my response:, I'm going to amortize my time by sharing it here
As of last week there had been a total of 1,192,436 deaths where COVID was listed as having contributed to the death on the death certificate

Of those 702,498 (60%) have occurred since February 1st, 2021
Note that these are simply death certificate counts which notoriously undercount specific causes of death (death certificates are biased towards general causes, not specific) & significantly underestimate the actual number of people who have died from SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Gregory Travis. @gregorytravis.com on Bsky Profile picture
Apr 26, 2024
This is a sniper on the rooftop of the Indiana University Memorial Union in Bloomington, Indiana today

I live approximately 10 miles from this spot now. I graduated from IU in 1988

Let me tell you a little bit about this place Image
This is the central campus of Indiana University.

The red arrow points to the sniper's location atop the memorial union.

The memorial union (known as IMU) is the largest university college union in the United States. It is also famous for legionnaire's disease
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IU is a place of superlatives. From the IMU to Bobby Knight to Ballentine Hall

Ballentine Hall is the largest classroom building in the US

It was built with the royalties that IU received from Proctor and Gamble when IU researchers "discovered" fluoride Image
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