Jay Bhattacharya
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Professor Stanford School of Medicine. MD, PhD. Health policy: infectious diseases, covid, health economics. Scientific freedom.
Stanford, CA, USA
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Mortality from
#COVID19
differs more than a thousand-fold between the old and young. Focused protection is the compassionate approach that balances COVID risks and collateral damage to public health.
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Still trying to process my emotions on learning that
@twitter
blacklisted me. The thought that will keep me up tonight: censorship of scientific discussion permitted policies like school closures & a generation of children were hurt.
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Now that it is clear to everyone with eyes to see that Fauci organized a cover up to squash the lab leak hypothesis, here's a reminder that he tried to fool the public on the science of lockdown and covid mitigation too.
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Reminder: In April 2021, nurses filled gloves with hot water to hold the hands of dying patients, isolated from family because of hospital protocols.
Every government should adopt human rights legislation to guarantee patients the right to family visits.
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I spent the afternoon yesterday at Twitter HQ at the invitation of
@elonmusk
to find out more about the trend "blacklist" that twitter placed on me & more. A short thread on what I found out follows.
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If you live life as if there are no respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll live your life.
If you live your life to avoid all respiratory viruses, you'll sometimes get sick, and you'll have let your life pass unlived.
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Remember when the FDA tweeted to tell people to stop taking ivermectin because "you are not a horse"?
The FDA implausibly told a federal district court that those tweets did not contain medical advice.
The court just told the FDA to stop practicing medicine.
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It will take some time to find out more about what led Twitter 1.0 to act so imperiously, but I am grateful to
@elonmusk
, who has promised access to help find out. I will report the results on Twitter 2.0, where transparency and free speech rule.
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It's amazing to watch public health professionals who pushed vaccine mandates and discrimination befuddled by the the fact that people no longer trust them, and now question other vaccines. It is public health malpractice, by people not very good at their job.
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Why is it that regular people understood the science about vax protection against infection and transmission better than the man who represents The Science(tm) itself?
The sheer joy of watching Fauci get educated about his own failed vaccine by DC residents.
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I'm curious about what role the government played in Twitter's suppression of covid policy discussion. We will see with time, I suppose.
Thank you
@bariweiss
and
@elonmusk
. Sunshine is the best disinfectant.
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The Biden administration's casual violation of the First Amendment should shock every journalist, even those not fond of
@elonmusk
. What is the limiting principle? This inquisition could extend to any journalist.
Perfectly normal for federal investigative body to demand the names of reporters interacting w/ a company. The entire world would be panicking if the President was a Republican, but this is a Democratic administration, so the NY Times will ignore this
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I remember how proud I was when I became a naturalized American citizen. I'm still proud to be an American, and I don't care that
@Stanford
disapproves of my using the term.
WSJ editorial: Call yourself an “American”? Please don’t. It’s on Stanford’s new index of forbidden words.
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There was no "evolution of the science". Many scientists worldwide knew that the vax does not stop transmission by spring/summer 2021. The 2020 clinical trials did not check for transmission-blocking.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tells Congress that vaccinated individuals can, in fact, spread COVID, contrary to her earlier statements, attributing this change to “an evolution of science.”
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Censorship is the refuge of powerful people who have lost the argument.
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Almost impossible to overstate how wrong so many news corporations were on the science of covid:
- lab leak as conspiracy
- efficacy of lockdown
- harmlessness of school closures
- recovered immunity
- toddler masking
- vax mandates
A perfect record of anti- science failure.
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It's not just that Fauci and company got the facts about immunity after covid recovery wrong. They used the vast power of the government to censor and marginalize those who got the facts right.
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So now I know what it feels like to be the subject of a propaganda attack by my own government. Discussion and engagement would have been a better path.
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Not long from now, maybe 5 or 10 years, when covid is widely seen as a bad cold thanks to widespread population immunity, people are going to look back and wonder at the panicked overreaction. They will say, why didn't they just protect the vulnerable and get on with life?
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There is no ethical or scientific reason to require neg. covid tests for unvaxxed people to participate in normal life when it is not required of vaxxed people. The vax doesn't stop disease spread. One day soon, people will be ashamed of their support of irrational discrimination
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I have been an American citizen since I was 19 years old. Never did I imagine that an American government would conspire to violate my free speech rights.
But that is what the Biden Administration did, as the 5th Circult just confirmed.
I am thankful for the US Constitution.
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I'm still having trouble processing a sitting Supreme Court justice who said in earnest "How are human beings different from a machine?"
Even from here on the fringe, I can sense the minds of a thousand philosophers and theologians exploding.
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Covid antibodies found in stored blood from Sept/Nov 2019 in European blood banks. The implications are enormous.
1. Long before the official start date, it was too late to stop the disease from spreading across the earth. We have wasted 2 years on lockdowns for nothing.
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It always seemed probabilistically unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 was not circulating in multiple major international travel hubs by December.
French IgG study:
Italian IgM study:
Illusions of control.
Delusions of potency.
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I haven't been on Joe Rogan's show, but I've listened to a few, and he is no racist. He uses words I wouldn't use, but so does Dr. Fauci. And latter's words are far more dangerous.
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This piece is a bit more personal and was very hard for me to write. It is on how Stanford University, my home, failed to live up to its ideals during the pandemic.
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Instead of investigative reporting and objective news on the covid origins debate,
#scicomm
journalists played the part of narrative enforcers for Tony Fauci and others. Top journals like Science, Nature, and Lancet did the same. Their editors failed.
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There is no moral condemnation in contracting covid. There is no moral virtue in avoiding covid. It's a virus, not a sin.
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Twitter 1.0 placed me on the blacklist on the first day I joined in August 2021. I think it was my pinned tweet linking to the
@gbdeclaration
that triggered the blacklist based on unspecified complaints Twitter received.
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The US Supreme Court just guaranteed staff shortages in American hospitals for the foreseeable future. The vax does not halt transmission, so no marginal benefit to patients regarding covid risk either.
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Twitter 1.0 rejected requests for verification by me and
@MartinKulldorff
. Each time the reasoning (never conveyed to us) was that we were not notable enough. They should have asked Francis Collins -- he would have vouched for our standing as "fringe epidemiologists."
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It's time for companies to start hiring back the people they fired because of the unlawful OSHA vaccine mandates rejected by the Supreme Court. Customers should start asking companies if they have done this.
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Just about a year ago, PM Justin Trudeau invoked the Emergencies Act, violating basic civil rights of Canadian citizens. Not long from now, only a matter of years, Trudeau will be remembered in Canada as a tyrant, the truckers as heroes.
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No scientist is in sole possession of the scientific truth. The truth emerges out of free discussion, experiment, and open minds. Why should the public -- which funds science -- not be allowed to witness the process?
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Just wondering. Did the fact checkers ever correct Tony Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, or Rachel Maddow for saying that the covid vax prevents you from getting and spreading covid? If not, why not? It was one of the biggest lies of the covid era.
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In retrospect, maybe it wasn't so smart to hand the keys of public health over to mad-scientist virologists, hypochondriacal epidemiologists, and megalomaniacal science bureaucrats.
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Vaccine passports and vaccine mandates are publicly sanctioned irrational discrimination, and a blot on the moral standing of The Science (tm) and its practitioners.
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If corporate media all follow NPR off Twitter, that will confirm to all who have eyes to see that none of the corporate media operate with "editorial independence", and in fact, coordinate narratives whether those narratives line up with the truth or not.
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The Senate should need to ratify WHO international pandemic agreements before the US adopts. They have the force of a treaty. The constitution requires Senate approval and the American people deserve a voice through our elected representatives.
Today, Democrats defeated my amendment to require Senate ratification for any pandemic agreement with the World Health Organization.
Now we know Democrats are willing to relinquish U.S. sovereignty to a global entity. How sad.
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Institutionalized hypochondria is bad health policy.
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Unfortunately for the global poor, the vulnerable, and the working class, the pandemic ends when the laptop class decides it ends, and not a moment sooner.
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It is not surprising that die-hard lockdowners are claiming that we never really had a lockdown, now that it is clear to everyone the catastrophic failure of the dystopian pandemic plan they forced on the world.
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In medical school, students are taught that a good doctor treats the patient, not a lab result. During the pandemic, public health rearranged society to control a single metric -- covid cases -- based on a lab test. This was bad medicine on a society-wide scale.
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First, the lockdowns damaged the working class. Second, the inflation that the lockdowns caused will damage the working class. Third, the recession caused by the lockdowns will damage the working class. Anyone else sensing a pattern here?
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Freeland and Trudeau froze the bank accounts of protestors, threw pastors in jail for holding church, and violated the basic civil rights of unvaccinated Canadians. Now, her police gin up excuses to arrest journalists they don't like. This Canadian government is a disgrace.
BREAKING: Rebel News reporter David Menzies (
@TheMenzoid
) was brutally arrested by police after he tried to ask Chrystia Freeland questions.
Visit Rebel News for more on this story:
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If you give me a list of words I can't say, I'm going to go out of my way to say them. If you give me list of ideas I'm forbidden to think, I'm gong to go out of my way to consider them.
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There was never any scientific basis for the idea that vaccinated people do not "carry the virus." This false idea was the fundamental premise behind the discriminatory vaccine mandate/passport scheme that has violated the civil rights of countless people worldwide.
1 YEAR AGO TODAY
Biden's CDC Director: "Vaccinated people do not carry the virus”
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A reminder to those who need it that informed consent was a really good idea, and I'm sorry that medicine and public health have abandoned it.
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Tuning a PCR test so that dead viral particles register as positive for the virus, and then force quarantining someone on the basis of that result is anti-science.
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Dec. 2020. UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock: "When do we deploy the new variant?"
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My dad won the visa lottery a bit after this picture and immigrated to the US in 1971. My mom, who grew up in a Calcutta slum, followed with my little brother and me in tow a year later. I am grateful to the US for providing such opportunities to immigrants like me. Happy 4th!
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Let us reject the idea that prudence requires that we treat each other as biohazards. We the people were made to breathe together freely in the company of our friends, family, and loved ones. It is one of the main purposes of our lives.
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Lockdowns destroyed small business. The government printed or borrowed trillions to keep empty hospitals afloat and schools closed. The policies severely disrupted international supply chains. Inflation and negative gdp are the hangover from 2+ years of economic insanity.
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I'm in awe of
@jk_rowling
's stand for free speech. It is in the spirit of non violent resistance to an unjust Scottish law that restricts her freedom of speech. The west has entered a new dark age.
Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11
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Vaccine passports in the UK will fail to stop COVID spread or protect the vulnerable. They will succeed in fuelling social division, NHS over-crowding, and distrust in public health.
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Is it ok with the lockdowners if we bring back informed consent to medicine?
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In light of the Federal Court ruling that the Canadian government violated the basic civil rights of its citizens by invoking the Emergencies Act, Justin Trudeau should resign and there should be a new election.
It’s amazing how quickly the smile on her face has disappeared. The Feds now want to appeal the Federal Court ruling on The Emergencies Act. This vindictive Government will never admit they were wrong & they are blind to how this makes them look.
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Vaccine mandates have demolished public trust in vaccines and are anti-science.
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Adding covid jabs to the list of annual recommended vaccines will guarantee a collapse in the demand for flu vaccines.
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Stanford professors are not benevolent philosopher kings, with an unerring ability to distinguish socially harmful from helpful speech.
The government should not pay Stanford to participate in the censorship industrial complex, violating the free speech rights of Americans.
26. Perhaps the ultimate example of the absolute fusion of state, corporate, and civil society organizations is the Stanford Internet Observatory (SIO), whose “Election Integrity Partnership” is among the most voluminous “flaggers” in the
#TwitterFiles
:
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I'm confused by the "covid is not over" hashtag people. It's a highly infectious respiratory virus that will circulate forever as the other coronaviruses in common human circulation do. We have no technology to rid the world of covid.
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💠French Pres. Macron: 5 million fellow unvaccinated citizens are "non-citizens."
💠Canadian PM Trudeau: the unvaxxed are “misogynistic & racist” extremists
💠Pres. Biden: the epidemic is a pandemic of the unvaccinated
Does progressive leadership require demonizing the other?
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Dear college & university presidents,
If you mandate the new BA4/5 bivalent booster for students, you will be doing so on the basis of no clinical evidence that it stops disease transmission or protects against severe disease. Nor any human safety data whatsoever.
Yours,
Jay
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This clip is infuriating. It is an admission of public health malpractice by the
@CDCDirector
.
The main clinical endpoint of the vaccine trials was symptomatic infection at 3-4 months post vax, not infection or disease transmission:
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Walensky: “When the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective, the vaccine, so many of us wanted it to be helpful, so many of us wanted to say, ‘Ok this is our ticket out.’”
Ok… But then you got millions fired and excluded from society for not taking it.
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Bureaucrats who fund the careers of scientists should play no role whatsoever in setting pandemic policy. The conflict of interest created by this dual role has forced countless scientists to stay silent or risk losing their careers.
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Not all harms from covidian policy are reversible but some are:
1. Rehire those fired because of vax mandates with back pay
2. Vacate fines for business & churches that stayed open
3. Remove mask scofflaws from no fly lists
4. Investigate & prosecute fraud in govt covid spending
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The government distinguishing "essential" from "non-essential" was an authoritarian act that violated fundamental civil liberties. No one has the wisdom to make such a designation.
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Here's a link to the whole decision. Well-written and worth a read.
A big victory for Drs.
@MdBreathe
, Paul Marik, and Robert Apter.
A big loss for the
@US_FDA
, which overstepped its authority and competence during the pandemic.
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The lockdown apologists are astonishing. They have been arguing for a while now that the western lockdowns failed because they were not harsh enough. The ongoing Shanghai fiasco has revealed the cruelty at the heart of their ideology. What is their criticism of China?
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Twitter 1.0 refused my request to verify me, despite the fact that I had many impersonators trying to scam followers, because it found me not to be notable. It also blacklisted me, likely at the behest of government censors. Twitter 2.0 is more transparent and better.
1) As someone who was (briefly) in charge of the Twitter Media team - the group tasked with getting high profile people onto Twitter, and verification - AND as one of the few ever to voluntarily give up the blue check, I want to try to articulate how risky this policy change is.
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In October 2021, based on the fact that there were vaccinated people becoming infected, I tweeted that the vax does not stop disease transmission. FT journalist
@jburnmurdoch
falsely accused me of "misinformation". Care to revise your thoughts, John?
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The purpose of modern censorship is not to prevent people from hearing an idea. It is to delegitimize the idea in the mind of the public, and excommunicate the heretic who dared express it from polite society and the public square.
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Amazing that unvaccinated foreign visitors still cannot enter the US. Since there is no scientific or public health justification, what might the reason be? My primary hypothesis is xenophobia. Any better ideas?
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"AB2098 will become law on January 1, 2023, effectively denying all physicians in the state of California the right to publicly share their medical opinions, under threat of suspension of their license to practice medicine."
--
@Brad_Neaton
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Best. Headline. Ever.
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Mathematicians please help. Here are two statements:
1. If mask mandates work then randomized studies will demonstrate substantial benefit in disease prevention
2. Randomized studies failed to show substantial benefit
What can we conclude if these two statements are true?
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It's bad that
@YouTube
is censoring an American presidential candidate.
But what if, as seems likely, it is acting at the behest of the Biden censorship industrial complex?
There's a name for a country ruled by a government that censors and suppresses political opponents...
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Ignoring legitimate vaccine injury is anti-science.
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Throughout the pandemic, the 'expert' class has successfully pushed the idea that in order to avoid future lockdowns, we must lock down. How well has that worked out?
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The risk to healthy children of severe disease from covid infection is small. It is unethical for public health to obscure this fact, to scare parents, with an aim of manipulating their decisions. Informed consent requires telling the truth.
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California permits $32 billion in pandemic-era unemployment insurance fraud. Now it defaults on $18.6 billion "borrowed" from the feds to pay for it, with employers picking up the tab.
California is a failed state.
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At this point in the epidemic, the main purpose of contact tracing is to keep kids out of school, make sure hospitals & businesses are short-staffed, and impose lockdown by stealth.
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"How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!"
--Mark Twain
(My god, he would have been so great on twitter).
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Now that nearly 70% of the world population has received a covid vaccine dose and a larger fraction has recovered from covid infection, covid vaccine demand has collapsed. Public health authoritarianism in pursuit of this achievement threatens to collapse the demand for non-covid…
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Stunning FOIA revelation! Three quick items:
1.
@CDCgov
director Walensky knew about vax "breakthrough" infections in January 2021. So did Tony Fauci.
2. They continued to push vax mandates anyway.
3. CDC is abusing its FOIA redaction privilege. This is not a classified email.
Turns out this was a big fat lie. Walensky was privately discussing breakthrough infections right at the start of the "vaccine" rollout in January 2021.
(notice also that Covid origin fraudsters Collins and Fauci were entangled in this and then lied about it)
h/t
@ZackStieber
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Ireland ends vaccine based discrimination!
VACCINE PASSES TO BE ENDED IN IRELAND
“It is imperative, as a matter of justice & common sense, that vaccine passports for international travel be dismantled right away & that the principle of informed consent be restored in all institutional settings."
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The Fauci/Collins playbook to create a false impression of scientific consensus on COVID policy (used on lab-leak, lockdowns & early treatment):
1. Call scientists who disagree "fringe"
2. Deploy big tech misinformation hordes to suppress opposing thoughts
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Every time someone dismantles a useless plexiglass barrier, an angel gets its wings.
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This article by Angus Dagleish is an absolute barn burner:
Suppression of debate has "cost... at least a trillion pounds, given the disastrous legacy of lockdown on education, mental health and misdiagnosis leading to early deaths from cardiac and cancer."
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A reminder that by March 2021 the UN estimated that lockdowns had killed 228,000 children in South Asia due to starvation and halted routine immunization. The idea that lockdown were the moral thing to do was a monstrous idea from its inception.
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Today is a good day for
@Twitter
to release all its correspondence with US government public health agencies and bureaucrats directing Twitter's policies on covid posts. It's time to expose the government's covid censorship regime!
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The biggest lie of the pandemic: it's those horrible other people's fault for not complying harder or sacrificing more.
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The Biden administration is the most authoritarian American administration of my adult lifetime, and it isn't close. Nixon wishes he could have gone after his enemies list, censored and persecuted them, the way Biden has.
Last year, after Elon Musk acquired Twitter, President Biden gave federal agencies the green light to go after him.
And they have.
Today, the FCC adds itself to the growing list of federal agencies engaging in the regulatory harassment of Elon Musk.
I dissent.
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A reminder that it wasn't just on the lab leak hypothesis that Fauci fooled America. It was also on lockdowns, school closures, toddler masking, vax transmission efficacy, mandates, and much else.
--My
@Newsweek
column with
@MartinKulldorff
from Nov. 2021
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11 months ago during the delta wave in the US south, the Biden admin cut off supplies of monoclonal ABs -- a life-saving early treatment -- to states controlled by its political enemies. I have no idea why this isn't a first-order political scandal.
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Why does the US still restrict unvaccinated foreign visitors from entering? It is a cruel policy that keeps families apart for no discernible public health purpose.
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