For the past two weeks he has been coming to my door everyday for food and water.
I jokingly named him Karl, The One-Eyed, Emperor Slayer.
Because having one eye is kind of hardcore.
Here are some photos I took over these past few weeks.
Now unfortunately…
Unfortunately, I came home late last night and found that Karl’s bad eye had begun to ooze.
It wasn’t just a bad eye.
It was infected.
I didn’t want him to die so I took him to the emergency clinic.
To save Karl, the eye had to be removed…
May 29, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
New paper using data from 29 countries calculated COVID death rate:
0-19 years old 0.0003%
20-29 0.002%
30-39 0.011%
40-49 0.035%
50-59 0.123%
60-69 0.506%
0-69 0.063-0.082%.
94% of the global population is 0-69.
In other words, Covid policy sacrificed the young to the old.
. @gbdeclaration was right and its critics were wrong.
Pandemic policy was a lesson in mass hysteria. We now understand how the great unspeakable atrocities of ages past have occurred.
They occurred in the name of the good, riding on an intense, blinding zealotry.
May 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
New paper in @jclinicalinvest suggests that a large number of COVID deaths may have been caused by mechanical ventilators and other hospital complications, not COVID itself.
This would explain the exceptionally high COVID mortality in e.g. Italy and NYC.
jci.org/articles/view/…
... where ventilator use was much higher before clinicians sounded the alarm and scaled back their use.
May 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Qatar study:
Death rate from COVID19 vaccine was estimated by this study to be as high as 1-in-100,000.
CDC study:
Death rate from COVID in unvaccinated 12-17-yos during late Omicron was 0.01-in-100,000 weekly, or 0.52-in-100,000 yearly.
Vaccine-associated deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) in the United States, 1990-2023
Vaccine-associated deaths reported to VAERS, 1990-2023
with COVID-19 vaccine doses administered overlaid
May 3, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Harsh pandemic mandates increased social dysfunction and led to excess deaths.
This is why Sweden, whose pandemic measures were voluntary, has come out of the pandemic era with the lowest excess mortality in the world.
Sweden was right. Everyone else was wrong.
The tweet should say “among the lowest” for “age-adjusted % excess mortality” in 2020-2022.
(If I am going to be noted, use that, since that is the best measure.)
The graph plots OECD countries, not all countries in the world.
Apr 22, 2023 • 26 tweets • 10 min read
In last night's Spaces, it was claimed that there is no evidence that blood CO2 levels rise in response to masking.
I claimed that there is, and that these rises have been documented in CO2 studies to cause symptoms.
The onus of strong studies is on those who claim (w/o evidence) that masks have no harms. Hundreds of weak studies show harm. Where is strong study demonstrating safety? Until one exists, given these studies, onus is on those promoting mask intervention, not those against… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
That is a big thing that people saying “but u don’t have strong study Kevin herp derp”.
I don’t have to. The default is non-intervention.
People who advocate intervention must strongly show safety.
Onus is NOT on those against intervention to strongly show harm.
Apr 17, 2023 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
In one survey of 343 nurses, 140 wearing surgical masks and 203 N95s, nearly all reported adverse effects at shift's end, with 71.4% reporting headaches.
This shows that masks cause harm, and mask mandates caused net harm.
Short thread explaining👇
Many of these are caused by excess inhaled CO2, which builds up in the dead space of masks. This for example causes dilation of the blood vessels, causing headaches through a similar mechanism as that causing headaches during caffeine withdrawal.
A review published by @CellCellPress shows mask-wearing may contribute to stillbirths, irreversible cognitive deficits in children, testicular dysfunction, and much more.
This suggests the ethical principle "first, do no harm" was violated by mask mandates.
Thread.🧵
Before beginning, I want to point out that during the pandemic, I dismissed others' concerns about the topic and insisted on masking. I masked my children in public and I regret doing so. Anti-maskers made me angry. I was wrong. I am sorry.
Now, the thread:
Apr 4, 2023 • 25 tweets • 6 min read
New data: 1/3 of life expectancy lost in America during COVID was from lockdowns (blue circle), not COVID
Some researchers believe COVID deaths were overcounted 3-10x
This suggests that lockdowns caused a far greater loss of life expectancy than COVID itself
I explain👇🧵
Before I begin, references from above:
A new op-ed on masks in the @nytimes written by @zeynep, a computer programmer and sociologist, appeared earlier today.
In this thread, I examine and dissect, piece by piece, this op-ed, which is not good.
🧵
We'll start with the title.
"Here's why the science is clear that masks work"
Science is clear.
Right.
Let's bear this title in mind. As we shall see, this claim is actually directly contradicted by the text of the article itself.
In other words, it is a lie.
Mar 5, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Epidemiological & titer studies have been enough for @US_FDA approve perpetual COVID boosters, including in pregnant women and children.
Why wasn’t evidence of the same exact quality enough for @US_FDA to approve perpetual Ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, and vitamin D for COVID?
RCTs have not shown that perpetual boosting works. The Pfizer booster RCT showed that boosters reduced symptomatic illness while the two-dose series provided 100% durable protection against severe disease, supported by many other studies btw.
Jan 25, 2023 • 40 tweets • 13 min read
An article by @zacharybrennan at @endpts released new emails by Marion Gruber, a top official who resigned from the FDA, where she cited concerns with the accelerated approval of the vaccine for children.
Where is the evidence on myocarditis and the vaccine today?
A thread.
First, misinformation about vaccines is being pushed by all sides.
From the public health community, our leaders, and the media, the benefits of the COVID vaccine have been constantly exaggerated.
For example, see these false claims from people who, at the time, knew better.
Jan 8, 2023 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Paper published two months ago shows that at 3-6 months after myocarditis due to the COVID-19 vaccine in children and young adults, heart abnormalities remain in more than 50%.
The long-term consequences of these abnormalities are currently unknown.
thelancet.com/journals/lanch…
There is a similar rate of cardiac abnormalities found in MIS-C, the autoimmune syndrome that causes a myocarditis-like disorder in children who had COVID a few months prior, as documented in this Italian study. mdpi.com/2079-7737/11/1…
Jan 4, 2023 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I had 2 Moderna vaccinations and a booster and was hospitalized for acute pericarditis last year. I was afraid for my life.
The medical community minimized vaccine myopericarditis in young men early on. This we now know was a serious, avoidable mistake.
This mistake undermines trust in public health, even for me. I now trust its messaging much less.
The vaccines were a godsend for older people.
But the messaging for young adults continues to lack nuance and undermines trust in public health authorities and harms young people.
Jan 3, 2023 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
People have been asking me about how to take psyllium husk.
Here is a thread about that.
First, an introduction.