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Tired of people pretending this isn't one of the most ridiculous mass hysteria events in history. #UrgencyOfNormal Still waiting for my Koch cheque.
Aug 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
I am immediately skeptical when Ellie Murray of all people is putting out a "kids should be masked" preprint.

And bingo, there's the smoking gun.

A reminder that the overwhelming majority of "mask mandates are good" studies never pass even basic levels of scrutiny. This, like many preprints in its class, fall into the "cherrypicked data sources in service of the agenda" class of mask mandate studies.

They know what they are doing. They know this will get shared by everyone before peer review shuts it down.
Aug 10, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
What I'm impressed most about with Fauci/Hotez is that they had the absolute titanium stones to not only maintain a presence online in light of their involvement, but ACTIVELY CAMPAIGN IN PUBLIC to suppress the investigations into their gain of function pet projects. Like, this is the most "hide in plain sight" strategy ever conceived.

Did they genuinely think the truth was going to remain uncovered forever? Did they think they would be long dead before that happened?
Aug 9, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
Congrats, Democrats. You get 48 hours of smugness. That is, until the news drops that this raid ultimately had no merit.

Hope it's worth it. Hope it's worth the fact that federal agencies are being weaponized by the federal government to attack potential political opponents?

If there is any chance Biden himself had a hand in this... well, Trump got impeached for far far worse.
Jul 23, 2022 19 tweets 3 min read
A dystopian (but in my opinion, disturbingly plausible) vision of the path Canada could go down, seeing as Trudeau simultaneously wants to make Canada a leading "fighter" against the climate emergency, and now relishes punishing Canadians for trying to live normal lives.

🧵 1/19 First we must set the stage. Trudeau, by means of force and a bought media, has conditioned Canadians to:

A. Despise fellow Canadians for not engaging with govt plans.
B. Accept a surveillance state through ArriveCan.
C. Believe that any govt overreach is acceptable. 2/19
May 27, 2022 9 tweets 2 min read
"long COVID" is actually two things:

1. Long term post viral COVID symptoms, which are possible from any disease and typically rare.

2. The nebulous "Long COVID" as defined by the usual suspects, which is mostly psychosomatic, similar to Munchausen syndrome. Genuine long term symptoms attributable to a COVID infection are real, but ultimately rare. They make up a tiny fraction of "long COVID" instances.

The remainder are, well, you've definitely seen it. People claiming "long hauler" status to shill for arbitrary NPIs on Twitter.
Feb 27, 2022 15 tweets 3 min read
Sometimes I think that the people saying "the science on masks is unequivocal" to push mandates don't even realize just how bad the science actually is. Either that or they don't care and are addicted to masks for other reasons beyond actual mitigation. 1/ Here's the rub. The overwhelming majority of studies that "prove" masks "work" (setting aside the ambiguity of that term) can be put into two camps: the "spray Lysol on mannequins" group, and the "cherry-picked regional study" group. 2/
Jan 14, 2022 30 tweets 5 min read
Let's have a discussion about "community compacts". There has been a lot of confusion as to why students at prestigious schools have been very silent about the ridiculous and arbitrary COVID policies they are subjected to.
This might shed some light on that. Buckle up. 🧵 1/25 This comes from a cursory search of Ivy league schools. I was able to find similar "community compacts" for 5 of the 8 Ivies. It is overwhelmingly likely that such measures exist at pretty much every other high-status university. All of the compacts are shared at the end. 2/25