Attorney, author of Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World https://t.co/cPemrqCK9w
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On March 13, 2020, Trump began announcing initial lockdown measures.
Early COVID data from China had suggested that ventilators would need to be used widely in the treatment of COVID patients, and this led to a major rush by politicians and hospitals to procure tens of thousands of ventilators. A small sample of the headlines from that period. 2/ 
Jan 2020 – Shortly after Xi Jinping announces the strictest lockdown in history in Wuhan, China, videos begin going viral all over the world supposedly showing Wuhan residents spontaneously collapsing and falling to their deaths from the new virus. 2/
After three years of speculation, an authoritative gold-standard Cochrane review including results from 78 peer-reviewed RCTs confirmed that across populations, masks, regardless of type, made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/
Going back to the initial weeks of 2020, prior to the western world’s first lockdown in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21, it’s remarkable how normal things were. The Atlantic, for example, published a great piece titled You’re Likely to theatlantic.com/health/archive…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 
Having been relatively quiet for the past three years, Pueyo has returned with a new viral thread purporting to debunk the recent Cochrane review concluding that mask mandates made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/
In a show of capitulation, NYT deputized their top conservative columnist, Bret Stephens, to pen an article on the recent Cochrane review showing masks made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. Stephens’ article is blistering. 2/
In Snake Oil, I detail the evidence that the CCP used multiple modes of influence including propaganda and science fraud to instigate lockdowns across the world. But what about Italy? 2/
Rather, the prevailing narrative on the mainstream left is that any upside from the response to COVID is due to state-ordered closures and mandates, while any downside was inevitable due to the virus independent of any state-ordered closures which never happened. Got it? Good. 2/ 
Rather, McCullough’s narrative was always about sowing COVID panic to sell “early treatment” drugs. For example, there was no risk of “hospital over-runs” in Nov 2020, contrary to McCullough’s Senate testimony. 2/
Officials in many jurisdictions proposed making the unvaccinated pay more for healthcare. 2/ 
After World War I, Germany experienced a level of lawlessness and insecurity unprecedented in modern Europe. This chaos made viable a number of radical parties who promised to do away with democratic governance in exchange for old-fashioned stability and national identity. 2/
Though it may not be politically feasible, ideally an inquiry into the response to COVID would take the form of an international tribunal. Below are just some of the many disturbing questions to which any leader who claims to represent the public ought to demand answers. 2/
First, Twitter doesn’t always do nuance well, but I want to make absolutely clear that what Russia’s doing in Ukraine is abhorrent and evil. Every Ukrainian who’s chosen to fight for freedom and defend their homeland is a hero, full stop. 2/ 
2/ Ventilators, supposedly meant to save patients near death, actually killed them.