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you like to pretend that you don't like bad cats, but deep down, you know you do. prolonged exposure likely to give you toxoplasmosis.
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Jan 4 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
these self-reporting studies are not actual data, they're associative correlation mining.

it's an association of "i think i have some ill-defined generalized feelings of being unwell" with "i was obsessed with covid and kept testing until i found trace virus and/or assumed i had it."

here's my null hypothesis: this is just measuring generalized anxiety.

it selected for anxious people and the kinds of folks that used to claim "fibromyalgia" or "chronic fatigue syndrome" and gave them a new target upon which to fixate.

these are the same people who will swear in self reporting that they have had lots of covid.

is there any data in this "study" that can invalidate or outperform that explanation?

i'll wager there is not. the strongest predictor of "long covid" has always been "anxiety or stress disorders."

it outperformed "having actually had covid" by a wide margin.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…
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Sep 12, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
a frequent emotive mask argument seems to be circular fallacy.

"masks don't work!"

"oh yeah, well here's something bad they could have prevented if they did work!"

it's a nasty embedding using appeal to emotion as a slight of hand to pass off presumed efficacy. then you gin up something utterly facile and baseless like "your mask protects me" to render compliance "a duty" and "not about you" so you can demand adherence and mask toddlers in the name of a grandma who never asked for your help.

this recruits all the anxious and fearful. Image
Aug 27, 2023 • 18 tweets • 6 min read
this new royal society study is pure garbage.

it's just "papering the file" for some forthcoming pseudoscientific outrage.

the evidence that masks and lockdowns failed is overwhelming. this study is a collection of datacrime, cherry picking, and lies. this data has been hilariously obvious right from the beginning. not only did all the pandemic guidelines say none of this would work, but the data bore it out immediately and conclusively.

no curves were bent. lockdowns made zero difference, zero.

Jul 23, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
there is a word for people who see the same thing in every ink-bolt.

that word is not "journalist."

(it's not "leader" either...) Image the fact of the matter is simple:

so long as you allow government to grab additional power in "an emergency" it will invent an endless cavalcade of crises and hobgoblins to justify the taking and retention of such power.

there are no exceptions. Image
Jul 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
i agree with this assessment.

it took me a while to realize it and in early 2020, i found this to be implausible because if you were going to make a bioweapon, covid would be a lousy base.

then i saw daszak's DARPA grant application and realized what probably happened. 🙀 as to why it was covered up, that seems easy: lots of powerful people funded it.

when you have the NIH and DoD funding viral hotwiring in china so they can color outside the lines and they fail to supervise it, it goes way too far, and then escapes, of course they cover it up. Image
Jun 11, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
of course it is.

control of money is vital to the conception of the modern nation state.

if commerce, savings, and investment become opaque to government it would represent the greatest transfer of power away from the center and to "we the people" since the conception of rights it would undermine everything they use to sustain control.

they could not regulate commerce, lending, banking, or investment.

they would not be able to see what you are paid or what you pay others.

and you cannot tax what you cannot see. Image
May 6, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
the level of ignorance in leo's post is astonishing.

this claim of "physical barrier" is baseless and anyone can see it.

masks do not work as protection or source control.

they show no societal impact to mitigate spread of respiratory diseases. Image this was known and knowable. it's been studied for decades and the evidence is widespread and sound.

it does not work on flu, and flu would be easier to mitigate than covid which more aerosol. Image
Apr 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
this is how the botnet/activist armies are crushing accounts

they block w/ 100k bots/add you to block lists.
follow then unfollow
mass report and mute.

and you're silenced.

@elonmusk easy fix: only allow blue check mutes/blocks/reports to count.

ban blocklists if you keep letting bot and list votes count, you're allowing small numbers of people to determine site wide reputation and reach by rigging votes.

it's just going to be an ugly arms race to the bottom.
Mar 16, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
well, you can say this, at least she's being honest about "i'm only willing to engage with those who wish to speak about nonsense and will vilify with silly epithets those who call me out."

last refuge of the pseudoscientist. the points she made were that "applying political pressure can make editors speak falsehoods that contradict their own scientists."

not much of a mantra for someone accusing others of "losing the scientific argument"
Mar 15, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
but sWeDen LOckED dOwN!!

no. sweden was pretty normal in 2020.

this is the google mobility data from phones.

the real lie is that norway, finland, denmark locked down either. mostly, they didn't

here's sweden and denmark. can you even tell the difference without labels? overall winner scandanavia had drop ~20% for maybe 4 weeks then normal mobility vs ~75% in spain and 55% in UK and long periods of suppression

lockdowns did not work to stop covid.

at all.

and they are assoc with higher all cause deaths.
Mar 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
buy an EV, wind up regulated by the PUC.

cannot charge at peak times.

now you're going to need to include "car to grid" capability as backup power for ruinous generation policies. Image as ever, the decision makers are reality deniers and have no idea what they key salients mean.

leaving aside that this is near impossible to manage, it also adds costs: $1000's per hookup and huge modifications to the grid.

this will make EV's even less affordable. Image
Feb 18, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
this bizarre modern fixation upon the idea that all difficulties are pathologies and that no one ever had a hard time or found adolescence confusing/disorienting and that everyone needs to be medicated has become a full blown mental illness of its own.

#MakeNormalNormalAgain people do not need more pharmaceutical intervention or piles of predatory struggle session therapy/re-education regimens.

they just need fellowship, human contact, networks of friends and colleagues with whom they can express themselves and find commonality.
Feb 16, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
the US has about 1,000 train derailments a year, roughly 3 per day.

this is worth keeping in mind as we try to separate this new "oh my gawd, train sabotage!" furor that's building as stories spread.

is rate actually up?

or is it just reporting that changed? the internet seems to really struggle with the idea of "base rate" likely because you can make nearly anything look like some crazy clustering or wild trend by just starting to report on it all the time

whatever you get focused on suddenly looks like a crisis
Feb 14, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
this is pure lexical and semantic fiction.

"woke" is not some crypto-racist dog-whistle

it refers v specifically to folks who use post-modernist/marxist word games to "intersectionally other" people to demand power & deference and prevent criticism

like, say, you. it's funny how desperate wokesters are not to be called by their real names

perhaps that's because their whole movement is childish "punch no punchbacks" fraud and can survive neither interrogatory nor even handed application

it's just squalling for unassailable privilege Image
Feb 3, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
the h1n1 scare was a scandal around a weak virus and a vaccine that had to be pulled off the market for harming people

indeed, we do need to learn from the past, stop doing this, and abandon mRNA and adenovirus as failed vaccine modalities

let's stop falling for fear porn. swine flu, h1n1, zika, dengue, ebola, monkeypox, there are an infinite number of hobgoblins waiting to audition to be the "new scary thing" and drive budgets.

and we keep winding up in the same mess because crisis sells papers and pharma alike.

h5n1 is just the latest model.
Feb 3, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
"no longer" appears to be serious misframing here.

these vaccines were never sterilizing. they did nothing to stop spread.

they never offered positive risk reward for young, healthy students on an absolute basis.

so what is the case they were EVER a good idea for universities? given low base risk, iffy efficacy, and high AE's,
vaxx did not, on a net basis, protect most (maybe any) students.

note that these negative outcomes are cumulative and need to be added as you must take d1 to get to d2 etc.
Feb 2, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
ready for a shock?

this is from the @nytimes from 1976 as they excoriate the ford administration for bungling the rushed to market swine flu vaccine that was ultimately pulled from use for being unsafe.

my how things change...

nytimes.com/1976/12/21/arc… goodness, this sounds scary.

i hope nothing like this ever happens again...
Feb 2, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
platforms are over.

the attention economy was a dead end.

the reputation economy is coming.

it's not about being loud or inflammatory, it's about having people trust and care about what you have to say.

"old media" is not ready for what this means...

dailyfetched.com/cnns-chris-wal… media appear hell bent on being purveyors of their own endlessly entitled biases as their "lived experience," agenda, and phantasmagoric "identities" trump concepts like "truth" and "facts"

"objectivity" has become a pejorative.

this idea has no future.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/…
Feb 1, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
it was obvious.

1. rushed vaccines have a terrible track record.

2. mRNA is a dangerous modality never before used in humans at scale

3. the trial design was clearly bogus as it excluded the 14 days post jab to play bayesian games around s/t risk enhancement 4. presenting results as RRR not absolute reduction was not appop for vaccine that would be given to healthy people

5. the AE rate for placebo was clearly WAY too high

6. AE's for vaccine in trials were deemed "non-related" at a shocking rate and led to huge cohort drop out.
Feb 1, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
ok, back in the realm of the unlocked.

clearly, locking account made me instantly pop up in timelines from which i had been absent/show up in "for you" whereas before i was invisible there

there really is some sort of severe algo suppression on accounts.

do you still see this? visibility exploded

24 hours of "open" tweet and 70 r/t's got 10.9k views.

20 hours of "locked" with 1 r/t (that must have been a cut and paste and still would have been invisible to anyone not following me) got 41.5k

night and day.
Jan 29, 2023 • 9 tweets • 4 min read
the modern green movement is mostly a luddite evangelical sect seeking to atone for some imagined fall from paradise through self-mortification and faux asceticism

they use performative deprivation and obedience to cement belief in place through a process of cognitive dissonance Image they fail to address the real issues (like ag paying for water rights or using nuclear power)

the point of these petty intrusions is not to change anything. they are rounding errors.

the point is to be intrusive, to be annoying.

the point is to compel your participation Image