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Mar 23, 2022

Must read the 108-page FOIA of #BayArea #California County Health Officer's SLACK from Feb-Apr 2020. They disclose no epidemiological justification for #COVID #Lockdowns, they make things up, they resent the BOS & Gov, they Q. testing, and they rarely consider any consequences.

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David McCune, MD, MPH

@davidemccune

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@VPrasadMDMPH

Hospital masking is worse than useless. Being compelled to enact a charade is a kind of moral injury. It weights you down, like another rock in an already-full backpack. And the last thing most healthcare providers need in the Age of Burnout is one more rock.

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EsmeVee (big dragon energy)

@esme_saysno

Anyone who still thinks the mandates were helpful needs to read every single one of these comments

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Michael P Senger

@MichaelPSenger

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Which aspect of the response to COVID affected you most at a personal level?

Shibetoshi Nakamoto

@BillyM2k

when you create a culture that is afraid to say how they really feel, they might comply in the short run, but in the long run you will only create resentment and fuel the counter culture of the next generations

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WokE Space Conquistad0r

@space_woke

CDC says getting your throat blessed is safe and effective.

Victoria Fox

@drvictoriafox

I think it would be really helpful if the

@LACountyBOS

clarified their position on COVID mandates in LA and what they expect to happen after the emergency declarations end at the state and federal level.

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.

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zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

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Not an article I wanted to write. The deadly H5N1 bird flu is spreading widely, including to mammals. For the first time, it's now likely spreading mammal-to-mammal, among minks which are exceptionally well-suited conduits to humans. We must act now. nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opi

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It's time for a new generation of leadership in public health. This time with a better appreciation of the scientific method and less prone to panic and authoritarian excess. This generation failed its key test and cannot be trusted with the public's health.

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Sometimes I realize my life is pretty good. And I am grateful to have an advanced education.

I know I do not own a swimsuit. I figured that out in the ocean, while swimming in a tank top and some sort of unidentifiable bottoms. The French girls all had cute bikinis. Some with stripes. I am not French though. So eventually I just resorted to skinny dipping.

Unsure if I have ever washed my pajamas. Unsure if I own pajamas. Unsure if I do own pajamas, am I wearing them as pajamas? Do my kid's 7th grade boxer shorts and a Bon Jovi tank top from Goodwill "count" as pajamas? Or even as "clothes"? I am so confused. 🤔🧐

How many times can you wear pajamas, jeans and other clothes without washing them? Experts weigh in...

In the event that you are actually so dim-witted that you actually**do not know** when to change your own clothes, the ones you wear on your body, CNN has "experts" right on hand to help you figure out this complex, pressing question. Thank God.

cnn.com

Here's how many times you can wear different types of clothing without washing, say experts in dermatology and microbiology.

definitely thought of your academic interests when reading this.

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At any rate, fascinating article and really weird political twist to see some (too many) Progressive Democrats sometimes openly support egregious and exploitational, basically forced labor in their #ZeroCovid zealotry and praise.

The article simply says "migrant workers." But China has a history of borrowing (can we call it that with a straight face?) labor from displaced persons in Myanmar, Tibet, the Uyghurs, and other indigenous people in the region, sometimes within China and sometimes the stateless.

I wonder, out loud, speculatively and extrapolating from the article, if China employed Uyghurs or the Rohingya, or other surrounding persecuted minorities, for the dabai positions, ever? It is possible. And yet Americans and Canadians were told "China is doing so much good!"

One of the most fascinating reads into an unexpected bit of collateral damage from #ZeroCovid -- and it's Western Democratic "Progressive" proponents, who were supporting what in many cases amounted to little more than actual forced labor. I shudder at the lunacy, the bad-ness.

‘No one remembers us’: China’s pandemic workers reel from sudden end of zero-Covid

An extraordinary glance at how #China exploited and trapped migrant workers to serve as dabai, the white-suits who enforced #ZeroCovid #lockdowns. Beijing's hiring repercussions continue for these unskilled migrants, hated by govt & public alike.

ft.com

Migrant labourers who formed backbone of antivirus effort stranded after Beijing scrapped restrictions

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Lockdown = no income, no home, health declined, mental health declined, didn’t see my family or friends for years, changed my life for the worse, not sure I will get to have kids now, I’d like to be who I was before lockdown & for my life to be what it was.

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Your lack of support is due to your Scientific and social failures, draconian takes, behavioral manipulations, lies and attacks on other Scientists acting/speaking in good faith. May you all lapse into whatever obscure, unfunded footnote of pandemic history -- where you belong.

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Independent SAGE

@IndependentSage

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Frederik Schaltz-Buchholzer

@FSBuchholzer

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One of the sickest pandemic horrors to witness was the American Associaton of Pediatrics strongly recommending masks from 2 years of age (aap.org/en/news-room/n), in contrast to WHO, UNICEF and other intl orgs recommending only from 5 years of age, at times of high transmission.

aap.org

American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Recommendations for Opening Schools in Fall 2021

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Health care colleague tells me she could not be with spouse in waiting room during a procedure, and afterward, while still under effect of sedation, doctor spoke to him, but he can't remember what was said. Why? COVID policy... in 2023 This is how stupid we are.

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Vinay Prasad MD MPH

@VPrasadMDMPH

Everyday in the hospital is a reminder that mandatory masking in hospitals is the dumbest policy 1 sero prevalence marches to 100% regardless 2 zero randomized trials justify this stupidity 3 patients and doctors want to see faces 4 We keep caving to the irrational 🧵

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Further context for someone asking, "aren't you attacking him?" -- not at all! I appreciate the question though because perhaps I wasn't clear enough in this post? At any rate:

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Replying to @TheLeftLostMe

The post he made, tagging me, which I respond to here. This is explained in the thread/comments. He told me to fuck off, called me a neocon, a conservative Trojan horse, a bunch of inflammatory/false things, and enjoined others to agree. He removed it about 1.5 years later.

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One of the weirdest things about the last 3 years for me is how many people, up to this day, absolutely do not want to hear hopeful or optimistic news.