Incredible @RMConservative interview with Holocaust survivor Vera Sharav from ahrp.org for those who claim we can't compare COVID response to 1930s Nazi Germany build up to Holocaust. Starts at 16:22, 43-min long. (1/5)
megaphone.link/BMDC1861527196 "There are lots of parallels... medical establishment provided the pseudo-scientific rational for laws that were enacted to segregate Jews, to expropriate their businesses, to strip them of their assets... & their rights & dignity as human beings" (2/5)

Great 7+min rant by @SteveDeaceShow (starts at 20:27)
"We were told things were true with certainty that they're now admitting were not... We were told to just ignore real-time data & follow their unsubstantiated claims of certainty instead..." (1/5)
megaphone.link/BMDC2340285661 "We the People, we were treated with an aura of suspicion. Meanwhile we were asked to give the ruling class unconditional benefit of the doubt... That is not a social compact. That's tyranny."

3 lessons from the last year+ of COVID tyranny: (2/5)

1-year anniversary of my first COVID column. It still applies today, but I was way too optimistic about the average American's desire for liberty & too naïve about the level of pure evil in state & local elected offices across the country.

alachuachronicle.com/listen-to-the-… "It’s obvious that our elected politicians and unelected bureaucrats see themselves as our betters. In their minds, they are the noble herders of the mindless masses who are too stupid to make their own decisions."

https://twitter.com/jhaskinscabrera/status/1374163768092004354?s=20

"Progressives" push "equity" think they're forward-thinking, but they're just repeating arguments from 1950s-70s that were debunked by Milton Friedman in Free to Choose (1979), Chpt 5 (Created Equal). Read it now or watch 2min summary at @FreeToChooseNet
freetochoosenetwork.org/ftcu2/video.ph… "A very different meaning of equality has emerged in the United States in recent decades--equality of outcome. Everyone should have the same level of living or of income, should finish the race at the same time. Equality of outcome is in clear conflict with liberty."

"Defining Our Terms" 1/15 @SteveDeaceShow podcast is a must listen:
"Progressivism is a religion based upon the affirmation of human desire... I desire for my desires to be validated... my desires must be affirmed. You cannot argue with that."

megaphone.link/BMDC7488520393 "Where do our rights come from & then who are we responsible to if we abuse those rights or try to take those rights away from others? Well, our rights come from God, not from government... That adds a little more gravity to the situation than... I'm responsible to the majority."

My mom died yesterday from a massive cerebral hemorrhage. She would've turned 70 on Wed. In 2018, she had 3 of them & had to learn to walk again TWICE. Her persistence & resilience were amazing to her doctors, but her loss of executive function required long-term care so... (1/7) she moved into an assisted living facility. It was supposed to be a happy time: cruise-ship living with restaurant-style dining, daily happy hour, and live music. Then COVID. Since March, her ALF became an expensive prison & she was basically in solitary confinement. (2/7)

No test is perfect and the complete faith in PCR tests should make everyone concerned. A +test basically steals 2 weeks of someone's life (+ close contacts). What if they're not really sick? I estimate 245K (27%) of FL COVID "cases" are false+. 1/5 Even with highly accurate tests, low prevalence can result in >30% false+. That's why the PCR fact sheet says "only using respiratory specimens collected from individuals suspected of COVID-19 by their healthcare provider." PCR is not a screening tool. 2/5
fda.gov/media/136229/d…

CDC Provisional Deaths by Age updated thru 10/3... still roughly 80% of deaths from 20% of population. Let's have fun with graphs... (1/6)

data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Provision… Distributions of population and COVID deaths. COVID is bad, but imagine flipping that COVID distribution horizontally to be more like 1918 Spanish Flu (50% deaths aged 20-40)... that's society-altering tragedy. US life expectancy dropped by 12 years! (2/6)

What Fauci wrote in Feb (before making COVID political):
1. COVID is related to SARS (2002 & 2012)
1a. SARS has CFR 9-10%
1b. COVID has CFR 1.4-2%
2. COVID "case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia" (not just +PCR test) (1/4)
nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105… 3. Higher "mortality among the elderly and among those with coexisting conditions"
4. "No cases in children younger than 15"
5. "Children less likely to become infected... or symptoms were so mild that their infection escaped detection" (2/4)
nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.105…

Why did the CDC change guidance on who to test? Read the Cohen-Kessel paper on false positive rate (FPR). They reviewed real-world data on RT-PCR tests for RNA viruses since 2004 & estimated 2.3% FPR. (1/6)

bioinvasions.org/wp-content/upl… That means the specificity is 97.7%, not the fanciful 100% reported by labs (Table S1). Using 99% sensitivity & 97.7% specificity, then using the daily %+ tests to estimate the COVID-19 prevalence of the test population, it's possible to estimate... (2/6)

As @SteveDeaceShow says, "Assume you're being lied to." Here's a summary of Florida District 8 medical examiner reports on COVID-19 deaths from @AlachuaCounty: 39 reports, all but 5 list COVID-19 pneumonia or infection as primary cause of death, but... (1/8) 80% (31 of 39) have 4 or more co-morbidities; only 2 list <3 (81 & 82 y/o with dementia); most common: hypertension (31), heart/circulatory disease (30), diabetes (24), kidney disease (15); 17 in long term care facilities; median age was 78; 90% (35 of 39) were 65 or older (2/8)

Wear a mask because
(1) COVID erased years of science & replaced it with "SCIENCE!" (insert @SteveDeaceShow voice)
(2) It shows you care & is cheaper than sending a card to everyone
(3) It's easier to comply with tyrannical government than to fight for liberty
(1/13) 1975: "The wearing of a surgical face mask had no effect upon the overall operating room environmental contamination" (2/13)
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1157412/