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insert whatever credentials you think are important here - Writer at @outkick, author of ‘Unmasked’ and ‘Illusion of Control’
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Nov 22, 2021 9 tweets 4 min read
Hilariously, @snopes attached to “fact check” a tweet of mine about Vermont’s increase in cases.

Unsurprisingly, they got it nearly entirely wrong.

So I thought this required a thread “fact checking” them

snopes.com/fact-check/ver… The basis for their rating of “False” appears to be based on the percentages, with them claiming the increase was “only” 6,200%

On July 5th, the 7-day average of new cases per million in Vermont was 3. On November 8th, it was 505. That is 16,733%

I rate this “fact check:” FALSE
Jul 15, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Less than a month after the end of their latest lockdown, Victoria is back in another one after 10 new cases

This is their third lockdown in 7.5 months after eliminating the virus

How many lockdowns do we think they’ll reach eventually before eliminating it again? 20? 275? The year is 2074. Dan Andrews is 102 years old. It’s been 54 years since a single international tourist visited Melbourne. He starts his press conference: “We’re so close. We’re so close to eliminating this virus. If we just do this snap lockdown for 5 more days, we can do it”
Jun 4, 2021 5 tweets 1 min read
Whenever someone tries to tell you science isn’t political — this is the only response you need…The scientific community expressly ignored and became antagonistic to investigating a possible lab leak because a politician they hated suggested it might have happened. The scientific community, including those in the literal government, did not want to engage with the idea because they were so politically motivated. The only reason the lab leak possibility has become acceptable is because people outside of the community did their work for them
May 26, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Back on March 19th, self-esteemed expert @DrEricDing tweeted that he was 99% certain that another surge was on the way in April or May due to the “more contagious” B.1.1.7 variant.

Cases are down -56% since

It would be funnier if so many people didn’t take him seriously I am not making this up, this is exactly what he said
May 9, 2021 6 tweets 3 min read
Over two weeks ago, huge crowds in London protested endless lockdowns & government restrictions. Unsurprisingly, a number of doctors went absolutely ballistic, saying that they were risking creating a third wave in the UK

And yet, cases are down. They were wrong. As always. This blue check ICU doctor said she was “#tootiredforthisshit” which is an excellent summation of how I feel every single day listening to the unending ignorant condescension of people like this, who are so wrapped up in ideological virtue that they’re unwilling to accept reality
Apr 8, 2021 11 tweets 3 min read
Two weeks ago, Arizona, to overwhelming local criticism, removed all county level mask mandates and rolled back nearly all restrictions on businesses. Nevada and California didn’t, and yet their numbers are the exact same.

How many more times does this need to keep happening? In response to seeing packed bars in Old Town Scottsdale, near Phoenix, the Arizona Democratic Party tagged Governor Doug Ducey, as he would obviously be responsible for the immediate surge in cases
Apr 2, 2021 10 tweets 3 min read
It’s now 2 months since @CDCgov mandated masks be worn over the nose & mouth at all times on public transit...and cases are rising again

I really thought this would be the time…masks would finally end Covid due to federal leadership clearing the way for science

Whoops! To be fair to @CDCgov, an incomprehensibly dumb organization, and to the masks, there are a few exceptions to the mask law that our gracious moronic overlords of pseudoscience have allowed us. Let’s examine them, shall we?
Mar 26, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Four US states are 3+ weeks removed from lifting their statewide or county level mask mandates.

Not one has seen an increase in Covid hospitalizations since.

Given what we’ve been told by experts about the importance of masks & mandates, would you think that should be possible? I myself am extremely confused, since I’ve heard it said by many, many experts and politicians that masks are the most important public health tool, that mask mandates are effective, that they’re a “game-changing scientific breakthrough”, that they’re like a vaccine, etc.
Mar 24, 2021 11 tweets 4 min read
No one, I repeat, NO ONE, does a better job of spreading unnecessary panic than Austria’s own @DrEricDing

He’s made it his personal mission to spread variant panic around B.1.1.7 in Florida over the past month+, only to be proven, unsurprisingly, wrong again.

⚠️ Thread time! ⚠️VERY WORRIED
Mar 24, 2021 14 tweets 4 min read
The blue check meltdown over Texas removing its mask mandate was so extensive, I literally couldn’t fit all of the insanity into one thread

So this is Thread #2, The Celebrity Edition!

Do we think any of them know that cases are down -29%?

Lol that was rhetorical, come on now Gotta start it off on a high note with @BradleyWhitford coming in hot with more “GOP is a death cult” loveliness
Mar 24, 2021 25 tweets 11 min read
It’s time. It’s time for Texas.

It’s now officially 2 weeks since blue check media, experts & politicians absolutely lost their minds about Texas removing their mask mandate.

Unsurprisingly, cases are down -29% in the two weeks since.

They were wrong. Again. As always. This thread is going to be obscenely long, and there’s a second one coming, but trust me, it could be so, SO much longer. The amount of devastating idiocy, deranged hyperbole, gaslighting and incompetence we’re all about to experience together is just…beyond description.

Enjoy!
Mar 21, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
Israel’s another fun example of the comprehensive failure of masks

Back in June, experts from Cambridge said “routine face mask use” from only 50% of the public could flatten “future waves”

In EVERY SINGLE SCENARIO, 50% compliance worked to flatten the curve

Whoops An Oxford professor praised their conclusions and said masks “are likely to be an effective population measure”.

It is a masterpiece of expert failure…their unbelievable ignorance, incompetence, groupthink, and an inability to acknowledge their own mistakes.
Mar 6, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
So ignoring that the CDC’s latest “study” is a trainwreck, their assertion is that mask mandates are associated with a 0.5% increase in the rate of decrease in Covid cases

Have we checked with Redfield if that still qualifies as better protection than a vaccine? Seriously though, masks were sold as the single most important intervention, the single most important public health tool, and the best they could do is torture the criteria to a 0.5% increase in the rate of decrease?
Mar 5, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
On 11/22, Fauci went on CBS (shocking) and said mitigation measures “can blunt curves” into the colder season. What measures? Mask wearing, closing bars & capacity limits, of course.

LA County had already done all of that and went even further.

It did not blunt the curve ImageImage You’d think at some point, he’d have to make something remotely approaching an accurate statement, but he just never does and he’s never called out for how demonstrably wrong he is.
Mar 5, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
Of all of the misinformation the devastatingly incompetent @CDCgov has posted, this might be the worst. Unsurprisingly reprehensible behavior.

Beyond everything else, they associated statewide mandates with County level data, which makes zero sense.

cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7… For example, in California, counties like Los Angeles had mask mandates starting in early April. But in this horrific “study” they wouldn’t start their “reference” period until the middle of June, with the statewide mandate.

It’s just flat out dishonest.
Mar 4, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
I want to remind everyone that The Science™ that masks save lives is crystal clear.

Just ignore that we went from this headline: “Czech Republic has lifesaving Covid-19 lesson…: Wear a facemask” to them having the highest death rate of any major country

They just work, ok? So this…this is lying to you. Imagine how much worse it would have been without masks, they might still be the country with the worst death rate in the world.
Mar 3, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
I want to apologize. I’ve been saying masks don’t work, but I was informed by a number of blue checks today that they work.

Got it? They just do, ok? It doesn’t matter if cases skyrocket w/mask usage. That just means they were working, but in mysterious ways.

So my apologies. It literally does not matter what the data shows, because they work. You know it, I know it. They just work. Someone from the CDC decided they work a year ago based on nothing, and now they just work. They don’t have to prove it with data, or actually useful studies. They work.
Feb 27, 2021 4 tweets 2 min read
When the Governor of Nevada mandated masks, he said that “infection disease scientists & experts advise that masks indisputably protect individuals against airborne transmission of respiratory diseases".

5+ months later Nevada had the highest hospitalization rate in the country His experts also said “universal masking at 80% adoption flattens the curve significantly more than maintaining a strict lockdown”

Here’s compliance in Nevada from October-February w/the 80% target

For most of December, Nevada had the highest hospitalization rate in the country
Feb 27, 2021 5 tweets 2 min read
There are four counties in four states that share similar climates in the desert Southwest. Clark, NV, San Bernardino, CA, Mohave, AZ, Washington, UT.

They all had different mask requirements at different times with different compliance

Didn’t really seem to matter, did it? San Bernardino mandated masks very early on, reinforced with a statewide mask mandate in June, strict business closures, curfews, etc. They’ve done the worst, naturally.

Mohave has had individual cities mandate masks and then removed the mandate. Didn’t matter.
Feb 27, 2021 4 tweets 1 min read
Hey guys remember when the CDC recommended masks as source control to stop Covid, they completely and utterly failed, and instead of admitting it, the CDC said they provide protection for the wearer too and then after they failed some more, said two masks are better? Remember what a big joke that all was for society that we had to deal with a devastatingly incompetent organization whose pseudoscientific misinformation caused even more incompetent local health officials to mandate masks for kids playing football?
Feb 23, 2021 7 tweets 2 min read
It’s important to point out, that among many other things, Fauci has repeatedly lied about his stance on masks

He claimed he said masks didn’t work on 3/8 to protect supply for healthcare workers, but also said to “skip” them weeks earlier while saying Covid risk was “minuscule” If the risk was “minuscule”, why would he say to skip masks to protect supply for healthcare workers? They’d also not have to worry about Covid, considering the “minuscule” risk.

The real answer is that Fauci, accurately, knew that there was no evidence masks work