I know we live in the time of nothing matters, but I'm still a little gob struck that we have excess mortality charts that look like this & in the before times we would have moved heaven & earth to figure out & stop what is going on, but now because we know what is going on, we are just in full on eugenics mode where we pretend everything is normal. On top of that even the demographics that are deeply impacted have been mollified into some zombie state.

Anyway just an ape flailing into the ether.

There are quite a few studies that show that sars-cov-2 could not sustain an outbreak in outdoor environments. Not that transmission can't happen, but that it doesn't happen at a level capable of sustaining outbreaks. Some good ones out of China from pretty early in the pandemic. Communities that still live primarily outdoors have consistent lower levels of transmission (like some pacific island communities). I'm always amazed that we seem incapable of learning from clear ground breaking science. By this point, we should be cleaning indoor air

So I've been reading more about Surkov's techniques & it's amazing how much it has been normalized in the west. I don't think this is 100% his idea's but he perfected many of them. I'm going to try to make a small thread about it for those that are interested:

https://twitter.com/DcrInYYC/status/1927758396331077854

Not all of these ideas are totally his, some predate him, but they have been worked on and refined. Some of the scholars I've read talking about this call it “political technology” & there are a few books about it. The main thing that blows me a way is how much of this is so

I've been reading about Vladislav Surkov. A name I bet almost no one in the west has heard of, but you should. He is the mastermind behind Putin's ability to retain power. Not only that, his techniques are now a fundamental part of the western world. The thing that really strikes me about his techniques is the absolute genius behind them. I'm going to say that society is actually out classed by them. Unequipped to deal with it. Truly evil genius that uses the very corruption in our societies to sustain corruption.

So I'm going to tell a little story. It's disturbing, so if you don't want to hear it stop reading now. One of the people that I know that died from COVID refused to get vaccinated, because he was certain that he knew the situation better than the people

https://twitter.com/CTVNews/status/1924965913037598943

that were telling him to get vaccinated (including myself). There's a lot of reasons for this, not the least of which was that he employed a doctor in his business who was a vaccine skeptic. About a year after he died, I had the opportunity to speak with someone who

I've been reading about Identity-Protective Cognition. If you want an explanation for why everything is so weird now, look no further. Want to know why it's all the rage to spread disease or only partake in certain ways of resisting it? Want to know why people that should be taking action on climate change are instead doubling down on fossil fuel promotion? Want to know why there has been a rise in people like Rogan & others? Look no further. This paragraph sums it up pretty well.

As we see pictures of some of the most villainous & traitorous people in our society gather in Mar a Lago, I want to post a thing I've been working on to help me understand a portion of what is happening in the world today. Step-by-Step Explanation of Wealth and Power Retention with Impact on Population and Democracy

1)Tax Cuts for the Wealthy and Corporations
-What Happens: Policies reduce taxes for the rich and corporations, leaving the government underfunded.

So here's what I keep in my grab & go bag. First I have a separate bag for each person & one for my dog. So assume what I'm listing here is for one person. 1) Water
- I keep about 2L of water in each bag (3 would be better)
- I keep at least 1L of that water in a stainless steel bottle that can be used to heat water.
- I keep 1 metal cup in that can also be used to heat water.
- I keep 2 instant electrolyte drinks mixes

I'm going to make a short, but incomplete thread that I've been mentally compiling for a while now that may help other people to classify who you are dealing with in today's post truth world. 1) architects/grifters

These are the individuals or entities that intentionally create false information.

Who are they: Governments, intelligence agencies, corporations, or powerful organizations with an agenda (e.g., sowing confusion, destabilizing societies, gaining power).

I like to make models to help me understand things. I've been doing this with COVID since early in the pandemic. I made a simulation that would run X number of people through simulated infections with a 5% per infection risk of developing LC & then within that a 40% mild, 40% medium & 20% severe rating of LC. I've broken it down into 5 person groups because I'm guessing that's how many people most would know IRL well enough to share their health issues with them. It helps me to understand why this is such a hidden prevalent problem.

It's so hard to have conversations with people that have never thought about anything in their lives. One of the common responses to suggesting that we begin the transition off fossil fuels in earnest is "okay stop using it!!". They say this because they know that it's very difficult, if not impossible to totally remove yourself from consuming fossil fuels currently. The problem is they don't actually put any thought into why that is. It's certainly not a technical problem. We have a wealth of technical solutions to draw upon. So what is going on

Holy cow. This whole study is worth reading, average age of 18 & obviously super fit ....

https://twitter.com/EricTopol/status/1849496209485930884

Also another confirmation of roughly 50% asymptomatic cases.

"A total of 307 participants had an asymptomatic infection,"

If your entire field is about the study & prevention of disease & then when the largest one in your life comes along you choose to embrace the disease ... I really don't know what to say. When you use all the things your have learned to create nonsensical arguments to promote the spread of disease ... Have you just been training to be a propagandist for disease?

We had/have a choice to either normalize disease or normalize mitigations. We chose to normalize disease. I think this was/is primarily due to the illogical nature of mitigations that were used during much of the early stages of the pandemic. This is 100% a result of religious like adherence to the dogma of droplet spread. The logical damaged caused by that original mistake still reverberates to this day. We still can choose logical interventions that are not overly draconian or disruptive, but we will never do that as long as that original mistake is

My youngest, who has been incredibly responsible & who has shown amazing citizenship during this pandemic is likely not going to mask in school this year. He has faced ridicule not only from his peers, but also from STAFF at his school. He has done more than any adult in our circle to do the right thing. Not only to protect himself, but also to be a good citizen.

He is broken. He has been deliberately broken & shamed by ADULTS. It is cowardly for RESPONSIBLE ADULTS to not support children.

Okay let me just help people's brains out a little bit:

1) "common cold" viruses.

- Rhinovirus, Human coronavirus (HCoV-229E, HCoV-OC43, HCoV-NL63, HCoV-HKU1), Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Human parainfluenza viruses (HPIV-1, HPIV-2, HPIV-3, HPIV-4), Adenovirus, Enterovirus, Human metapneumovirus (hMPV).

2) "flu" viruses - Influenza A H1N1, Influenza A H2N2, Influenza A H3N2, Influenza A H5N1, Influenza A H7N9, Influenza B Victoria, Influenza B Yamagata.

It's pretty interesting how the same patterns keep presenting themselves with covid:

1) Invoke magical thinking to justify promotion of disease spread. (Hybrid immunity, long covid is a psychological problem, children are magical beings, etc) 2) As evidence mounts that magic isn't real, attack the source, produce methodologically flawed doubt pieces, in other words gaslight.

3) As gaslighting fails, claim that it's impossible to do anything different & collectively ignore those that have succumbed to the above.

One of the things that has shocked me during this pandemic is how it often seems like the real fight we are having is that diseases should not be resisted. That resisting disease somehow interferes with some "natural" process. This argument in various forms some subtle, some not so much has been presented by everyone from conspiracy theorists to actual scientists and doctors. In the end it actually has won, we now embrace this disease. 🤯

It has completely upended my view of the world. Like all really bizarre things it makes you start to

Just want to highlight some things from the public health agency of Canada about long COVID.

May of this year. Who can develop long COVID? Everyone.

Okay I don't think math actually matters or risk matters or anything really matters besides feels at this point, but I've seen a few people trying to figure out how to gauge what a 3.5% per infection risk of covid looks like. Here's the way I do it. Rare disease is are often classified as having a 1 in 2000 lifetime risk. Let's say you are 30 and looking at a lifetime of infections with SARS2. Let's say you're going to get it on average 1.5 times a year & you will live to be 70. That's 60 infections over your remaining lifetime.

Since "panic" seems to be such a large concern of people that don't want to actually talk about the reality of non-stop sars2 infections, I've been reading a lot about panic & basically it's 🐂💩. Panic has been well studied for many events from terrorism, to war, to fires, etc The overwhelming findings are that people don't actually panic. There seems to be almost no evidence to support people panicking in the face of large events. Quite the opposite, people tend to work together in meaningful solutions.