A diabolical narrative has emerged “we overreacted, we panicked and did things to try to stop covid that really hurt society dearly, from this we should learn to never do those public health measures we did ever again, shame on public health for recommending masks” (A It’s an important gap filler for covid denial-delusion syndrome, because of what hides, if we look at deaths now and long covid now, “oh my god how badly did we screw this up”, we trace through covid impacts to today and realize the impetus to cure covid is omnipresent (B

Here’s the problem, the 30,000 of us who know how bad covid is and can contemplate destruction at scale under this level of contagiousness, puts us in the .01% of society, and the Big Boys aren’t gonna let us lead the way, the covid-edge on this platform is niche-niche (1 The algorithm wall set to keep the “covid wise 30k” at bay and on the fringe, attack every strategy we’d use, attack every piece of data and signal we uncover, paint safety as martial law, paint selectivity as Alcatraz, and paint advocates as germaphobic lunatics (2

A pandemic is like a vertical asymptote, a limiting force, The Slippery Slope Nuke, the covid pandemic, is the slipperiest of slopes, there is no such thing as “covid centrism or covid moderate”, this has always been a ruse position (1 There is no “homeostasis”-phase, endemic phase, because SARS-2s slope is vertical, the widely underestimated contagiousness score, R0, flexes 12-21, 5-7 on any given Sunday, sub 5 is minimization (2

Hospitals in West Virginia are in surge protocols, Children’s Hospital and ED are both slammed, people seeking care might wait a day, not 3 hours (1 The Register Herald is asking patients to “lessen the load” by not going to the ED or urgent care unless or until it gets really bad, catastrophic and obvious acute injury is being prioritized (2

My secret to getting better hepa at my medical appointments: put one in a suitcase and wheel it in. Get in wait room push it to the corner, when called, strut it into the exam room like a new purse, nobody cares, you get that one minute alone, plug it in, done (1 “What’s that” the nurse asks, “a hepa filter”, “…we have one” she points to an objectively insufficiently small unit on a desk, I lightly shrugged, we all know hepa is good and you can’t have too much hepa, and it’s done, out of the way, so we move on (2

There’s nothing in the textbooks for this phase of the pandemic, we were supposed to contain the threat. If this was a movie, we’re in the doomsdays foreshadow ending where the global map goes red and the credits roll, the movie where the virus wins [1] The movies taught us to fear panic, fear civil unrest. But this was overblown. The scenes missing from the movie—the real social monster to fear—is the *indifference*, the “living with covid”, the shifting of excess mortality to standard mortality [2]

When the vaccines were shown to not stop transmission, vaccine-only said they still stop transmission pretty good (1) When covid deaths in the vaccinated, aka breakthroughs, were their own epidemic, even reached beyond 50% of deaths, vaccine-only said they still stop serious injury and death (2)

"Quarantine" is from the Italian word "quaranta giorni," meaning "forty days." Ships arriving in Venice from areas affected by the plague anchored in isolation for a period of 40 days before passengers and goods were allowed into the city. This is the 14th century (A) The Greek physician Hippocrates, the guy we get the oath from, considered the father of medicine, wrote about the importance of separating the sick from the healthy. The city-state of Athens had laws that mandated the isolation of individuals with contagious diseases (B)

Science dies in a pandemic. Pure-science is discovery, a moving forward. Our response to viruses acting as sunlight on social inequality is expert-cladded gridlock. A clash of ideology, in a fight to maintain the darkness of pre-pandemic status quo. The Urgency of Normal Has anyone shifted positions, in the slightest. Vaccine-first-and-only still doing pandemic of the unvaccinated. Anti-maskers still doing masks don’t work. Anti-lockdowners still slandering isolation and quarantine. Anti-vaxers still blaming shots for the virus’s harms. Gridlock

I’m not a mind-reader, but I like guessing. What it might feel like when I ask them to practice additional safety before we get together so neither of us spreads the novel SARS-CoV-2 to each other? A list: Guess 1: they feel attacked. I must be implying that what they are doing now, choices, conduct, are inadequate. I must be implying a better than thou mentality, it’s like a put down

USA Common law says, in the event of an emergency, or serious bodily harm to another, a bystander has "no duty to rescue" the victim from the harm, subject to some key exceptions and a handful of state's legislation. @POTUS and @VP should be well aware from the law school days (1 One critical exception, which applies to @POTUS is, a rescue cannot be abandoned after an affirmative action is made to perform the rescue. Joe's declaration to "End the Covid Public Health Emergency on May 11th", flies afoul of his duty, public policy, and morality (2

There is a magnificent tragedy to @CDCDirector’s “Community Levels Map”, it’s the “faulty fire alarm effect” we have to correct it. We can’t use political signaling and pretend it’s a public health tool, the green map facilitates it’s own failure by design. Who are the authors Mistake 1) who decided to raise the ceiling for community spread assessment from 100/ to 200/per 100,000 people, essentially doubling the amount of spread allowable. The smoke alarm is desensitized. The morality and judgment behind this, for another day

The bidirectionality of masking shows why we all need to agree to society-wide social contracts. Outward capture: any mask performs a “source control” function, “keep your germs to yourself” like keeping you’re hands to yourself, or keeping your voice down in a movie or church Inward filtration: A well fitted, high filtration mask will offer a degree of “personal protection”, prevention of pathogen *entering the body. We have a shared responsibly, source control and personal protection, the “out and in”, are complementary, putting less burden on PPE

Arizona is a bad place to need medical care. “Patient boarding” is when sick people are stuck in emergency departments without care. In AZ, when ER docs show up to work, they will meet patients who have been stuck-sick for 15, 20 hours, sometimes days, it’s worse than last year CDCs mapping deception sits idle as things get really bad and then turns orange to alert people the hospital system is in collapse. We are also seeing a mental health crisis component. AZ is in covid healthcare disaster free fall

Covid-vaccine countermeasures began administration Dec. 14 2020, roughly 330,000 lives already lost to the disease. @washingtonpost claimed the injectable products would “end the war”. Or is vaccine-only reliance prolong it… In the under 24 months to follow another 770,000 have succumbed to covid disease, bringing USA to 1.1 million, not including unreported or delayed deaths unattributed to covid, or coded over to pneumonia @Worldometers cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr…

I’ve got some dots to connect and I don’t think anyone is going to like it, but I feel compelled to lay out a hypothesis, we can all hope is not true

Dot 1: today, top USA scientist confirms what many don’t want to talk about—covid vaccines are causing adverse events Dot 2: specifically, one particular covid-vaccine-countermeasure adverse event can be described as “vaccine-related long-haul disease”, which has been found to present very similarly to Long Covid, potentially following similar pathogenesis

This is how we shake loose from stalker-covid, alternating “shielding and testing” with “gathering”, sort of a best of both worlds Public Health Engineering. In the closed-state, the electricity-like SARS-2 recedes, and will be visualized, the open-state will be made safer 1/ This is an evolution on the “hard lockdown” which seeks to root out all the covid all at once. The wavelengths can be adjusted and optimized for both effectiveness and socialization. Schools for example could go two weeks in person, two weeks remote 2/

Picture a classroom, 24 desks full, a teacher at the head. The windows open 3 inches, but it’s cold out, so they stay closed. The classroom door is open to the hallway, where the kids were just at their lockers, taking “mask breaks” (1) These 24 children, who have no say in pandemic policy, and 1 teacher (also with no sway) will be sitting in this room for 45 minutes. Children are up to 70% asymptomatic spreaders, so we can’t know whose infected, our testing isn’t sophisticated enough yet to help (2)

A) Our goals have to align with the strengths and weaknesses of each type of mitigation. This isn’t about constant mitigation all the time. This is about the right mitigation at the right time. We can form safe zones, where we can drop defenses and enjoy life in *safety B) we need to pause as much as possible and do a national 14-day supported hold. Test. Hopefully we even have room to quarantine the infected. Then we resume a more deliberate, “zero-fake safe”, way to resume our business and pleasure #zerofakesafe