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Don Wolt
@tlowdon
bourbon, politics, good history books, etc. #RationalGround
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Apr 5, 2024 • 23 tweets • 12 min read
Despite repeated & often hysterical public health warnings, COVID never overwhelmed our healthcare system. It's a claim now made in retrospect to justify the draconian response, but still a myth. The truth is we had ample hospital capacity available throughout the COVID era. 🧵 Image Any hospital space constraints were localized and/or brief & almost always seasonally normal (e.g., see the headlines below from the 2009, 2013 & 2018 flu seasons). They were also undoubtedly exacerbated by onerous staff COVID quarantine policies implemented in 2020.

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Mar 31, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Note that updated WHO COVID vaxx guidance (3.28.23), which urges "prioritization of protecting populations at the greatest risk of death & severe disease," finally recognizes the wisdom expressed in the @gbdeclaration's "focused protection of those at highest risk" (10.4.20). The GBD authors - @MartinKulldorff, @SunetraGupta & @DrJBhattacharya - were notoriously referred to as "fringe epidemiologists" by NIH Director Francis Collins in an email to Fauci, in which he called for a "quick & devastating published takedown" for their apparent heresy.
Mar 21, 2023 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
There's a drug that might help avoid severe outcomes if you get infected with a certain virus. But the disease isn't that bad for most people and, especially if you've been infected before - and nearly everyone has - the odds of getting very sick are very low. Also, the drug won't prevent infection & many studies have shown its protection against bad outcomes is brief & not very strong for strains that are currently circulating. It's caused adverse reactions in some populations & full safety testing isn't yet complete, by the way.
Feb 4, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
🔹The CDC & WHO shared studies showing masks don't protect.
🔸Those were for the flu. COVID's different.
🔹But no real-world obs data shows masks mitigate C19 spread.
🔸Ah, but you need RCTs to prove it.
🔹OK, here are 3 COVID RCTs plus a Cochrane review.
🔸That's not enough! 🔸If masks don't work, then why do surgeons wear them?
🔹Surgeons wear them to block splatter and to prevent bacterial wound infection - CoV2 is a virus, by the way - and studies show they don't work well even for that.
Nov 21, 2022 • 10 tweets • 5 min read
I'm the one @jburnmurdoch accuses of "tweeting information that was known at the time to be based on flawed data," apparently because I shared UKHSA reports which showed both boosted & unvaxxed getting infected & spreading, which clearly invalidated vaxx mandates. Here's the string of weekly tweets referred to by Burn-Murdoch. He believed the methodology that UKHSA used to calculate population infection rates artificially lowered those for unvaxxed cohorts & made those of the vaxxed cohorts look worse by comparison.
Aug 30, 2022 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
UK GOVT: Oh, by the way, "sufficient reassurance of safe use of the vaccine in pregnant women cannot be provided at the present time" ...and, also...um... "women who are breastfeeding should also not be vaccinated." Sorry if we forgot to mention that earlier. "Look, we're not saying it's NOT safe. OK? We just can't totally, like, guarantee that it IS safe. Ya know? So, apologies for all the mandates 'n stuff. We're pretty sure most of you are probably gonna be fine."
Jun 2, 2022 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
Because hospitalizations "with" C19 have "doubled," Alameda Cnty (Oakland) CA Supervisor @KeithCarson mandates masks in indoor public settings, despite the fact that (a) masking has never mitigated spread anywhere & (b) available ICU capacity is ample & unchanged at 41%. This is nothing more than safety theater & a vain attempt on the part of officials to appear to be "doing something." It's hard to believe that citizens still accept this nonsense.
May 19, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Christine Grady, Fauci's wife & NIH Chief of Bioethics, co-authored a March 2022 paper encouraging companies to pressure employees to get vaxxed & embarrass those who decline. Incredibly, she still operates under the mistaken belief that vaccination prevents transmission. Grady & team base their advocacy of pressuring workers on the claim that "vaccines provide strong protection against COVID-19," when it is well known that this is not the case.
May 11, 2022 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
Harvard Public Health Prof, Bill Hanage, claims it's foolish to think NPIs can control covid. Welcome to Team Reason, Doc. What took you so long? When many of us were being criticized, shunned, or banned for pointing out that NPIs were ineffective & often harmful, Hanage was singing their praises. He said that lockdowns reduce transmission & "save lives" and that reopening too soon wasn't "based in science." ImageImageImage
Mar 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
Our press corps is full of dogs that didn't bark. Here's a short list of major COVID stories largely ignored or underplayed by the media & most experts:
1⃣Hospitals weren't overwhelmed. Occupancy was below average in many places.
2⃣COVID deaths were significantly overcounted. 3⃣Mortality risks were greatly exaggerated & rarely age stratified.
4⃣Masks & mask mandates didn't mitigate spread anywhere.
5⃣Fauci's an aging bureaucrat trying to protect his domain, not a scientist.
6⃣"Positives" were grossly inflated by absurdly sensitive test protocols.