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In 2020, scientists who specialise in the 1918 flu pandemic warned clearly and explicitly: "Covid is setting us up for one hundred years of problems." Our leaders were warned what mass covid infection would do. They ignored those warnings🧵
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A California man caught covid at work. He infected his wife who ended up in ICU. So he sued his bosses. The largest lobbying group in the US got involved. The court ruled against the man because a victory would mean “dire financial consequences for employers.” Is it clear yet?🧵
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If you're interested in the Kate Middleton story, the Spanish press are reporting her operation wasn't planned, she was in a coma, intubated and at one point doctors feared she would die. The Spanish press are saying there is a blackout in the UK media on it..
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Four years ago today a doctor in Wuhan reported a mystery pneumonia, whose origin was an unknown virus. Today, transmission of that virus is as high as it has ever been since that point. Millions of people a day. This is total, utter and astounding failure
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Israel has destroyed an entire city. Made it uninhabitable. 90% reduced to rubble. Universities, residential tower blocks, hospitals. Everything. One million people homeless. It's a truly historic crime. How anyone in their right mind can think this is justifiable for any reason
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This news broke two hours ago. An hour later Elihayu was suspended from government meetings. Which means only one thing: they have discussed nuking Gaza
BREAKING: Israeli Minister of Heritage Amihai Eliyahu says that dropping an atomic weapon on Gaza is 'one of the possible options'
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Netanyahu defending Hitler and blaming the Holocaust on a Muslim is a level I should have known existed but naively did not
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The quicker we forget the pandemic the quicker we forget how easy it was for governments to ban evictions, forbid creditors from chasing debtors, find the homeless homes, provide a universal basic income and more. All the things we are told are impossible
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There is a media blackout on the fact that covid killed Paul Alexander, the man in the iron lung. This is deliberate
@NateB_Panic
It was. So upsetting. He was a brilliant, brilliant man.
None of these articles mentioned that COVID killed Paul. Not one.
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If you can look at this chart of life expectancy falling on every continent on Earth and still convince yourself covid was overblown, that's your brain on coping mechanism mode
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3.5 years later not only isn't there a test for a disease 1 in 10 people will get, there isn't even a way to easily and reliably test if you are infected with the virus that might give you the disease. And there's no treatment. And we went back to normal under these conditions
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In September 2021, well into the covid vaccine era, when asked when the pandemic would be under control, Anthony Fauci said 'you've got be under 10,000 infections a day to feel comfortable.' Next week infections in the US will peak at 2 million per day
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Of all the covid research that has never made it into the mass media, the stuff about how a covid infection, even a mild one, ages a person biologically might be the most stunning
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Heart-breaking, terrifying anger-inducing. A virus that can wipe the brain of a teenager has been normalised as a cold. It's hard to know what to say anymore. The research said this was coming.🧵
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Last month Cuba approved a new interferon-based nasal spray as a preventative (prophylaxis) against covid. It was developed by the country's center for genetic engineering and biotechnology. Where are capitalism's nasal spray covid treatments?
After 4 years of studying, the single biggest factor determining the outcome of Covid and long COVID is
INTERFERON
and the body’s ability to make it.
Ignore it at your own risk.
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All the media that ran with 'long covid doesn't exist' stories will never cover this. This fact is more than enough to tell you what game they are playing
In long COVID patients with brain fog (brain scan at right), dye injected into the bloodstream tends to leak into the brain (see colored speckles) more so than in people without brain fog (left).
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This case reveals what many of us suspected but haven't seen confirmed in so many words: the public health imperative of controlling a pandemic by making employers liable for some of that control is, and always must be, secondary to capitalist profit
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Fucking hell. Four years later and we're still doing this? THE VERY FIRST PERSON TO DIE OF COVID DIED WEEKS LATER AFTER 'RECOVERING'. HER HEART EXPLODED. IT WAS COVERED EVERYWHERE AS COVID BECAUSE THAT'S HOW COVID WORKS
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If I hadn’t spent the last 15 years working in media and public relations, I too would interpret the media silence around covid and new covid research/science as a sign that there is nothing to worry about. But I have. So here are some things you should know🧵
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Shafiqah died yesterday.
She wanted everyone to know one thing very clearly - long covid killed her.
I'm going to say, again, that when long COVID effects kill me - sooner than later - I need y'all to recognize and say LOUDLY what it was.
Long COVID is keeping my blood pressure at 230/128, in spite of taking an elaborate cocktail of meds.
Long COVID is shredding my kidneys.
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Scientists: Covid is a disease of the blood vessels. The spike protein travels around the body entering all organs including the brain, able to do irreparable and fatal harm. Unlike common cold coronaviruses or flu, the spike protein persists in your body, doing harm.
Media: 🤫
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"The Department of Homeland Security has confirmed that foreign students could face deportation for Palestine protests." Again: everything that was going to happen in Trump's America is happening in Biden's America
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Biden promised 'not one more foot of wall' then used executive power to waive 26 federal laws to build more wall
Border walls are devastating for wildlife, period.
Walls in Arizona slice through two national monuments, numerous wilderness areas, three fragile wildlife refuges, and a UNESCO biosphere reserve.
The borderlands are not a barren wasteland. Pass that message on...
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A leaked email reveals a real estate billionaire and the owner of CNN are planning a $50m media campaign to bolster support for Israel's war on Gaza. "Public opinion will surely shift at scenes of Palestinian suffering....we must get ahead of the narrative."
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This is unbelievable. The maternal mortality rate for millennials aged 25 to 34 is 230% higher than it was for Gen Xers and 300% higher than it was for baby boomers of the same age
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An extreme heat event currently ripping through Mexico has been described as "hands down the worst in the country's history." Children have been killed, athletes at the country's national games hospitalised and wild birds have died en masse as temperatures approach 50C (122F) 🧵
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The manipulation of public opinion on covid has been intense & successful. Most ppl I know believe 3-6 of these. They're all lies 🧵
1. Lockdowns weakened immune systems
2. Like a cold/flu
3. Kids don't spread it
4. It's seasonal
5. Masks don't work
6. No one dies of covid now
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The Democratic party continually demands that people turn out and vote to fight an extreme right they themselves are never willing to fight. This is becoming obvious to people
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Apparently dairy farms in Texas have been refusing access to avian flu H5N1 researchers because it 'might damage their business.' Capitalism can't stop pandemics. Oh, and the researchers think that it's probably airborne
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The biggest dip in suicide rates in modern US history was when the US government took the boot of capital off people's necks for a few months
See that chart? That's the US suicide rate--and it's on a steep, steep rise.
Suicides in the U.S. are more common now than at any time since World War II. The growing despair of American life. Stressors are hitting from every angle, and we're only beginning to understand it. 1/6
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Breaking: infectious disease expert says fear "genuinely warranted" as new research says covid may cause prion disease, a rapidly degenerative, always fatal brain disease. The most common prion disease in humans is Creutzfeldt-Jakob, or 'mad cow,' disease 🧵
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Yesterday parts of the US south experienced wetbulb temperatures up to 94F (34.5C). At these temperatures, no amount of shade or hydration can save you. Without AC, you die. And this is just the beginning.
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You can't understand why a pandemic is allowed to happen without understanding why ethnic cleansing is allowed to happen without understanding how climate breakdown is allowed to happen. There are no single issues.
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The California Supreme Court ruled against Kuciemba on the basis that a victory, while, in the court's words, "morally" the right thing to do, would create "dire financial consequences for employers" and cause a "dramatic expansion of liability" to stop the spread of covid.
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In 2020, Robert Kuciemba, a woodworker in San Francisco was infected by a co-worker after his Nevada-based Victory Woodworks transferred a number of sick workers to the San Francisco site for a few months
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First, the court agreed that there is no doubt the company ignored the San Francisco health ordinance. In other words, they accepted the company had broken the law but still...
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Second, the US Chamber of Commerce, the largest business lobbying organisation got involved and helped the company with its defence. This is a tiny company in a niche industry. Their involvement tells us a lot about the importance of the principle they knew was at stake.
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Breaking news: Researchers have documented a progressive hardening of the arteries in young adults who outwardly showed no symptoms of covid after recovering from mild covid. The worrying findings suggest a covid infection starts a degenerative disease process🧵
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We just found out the highly profiled billionaire who wants to live forever has long covid. Covid wrecked Bryan Johnson's lungs
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Victory Woodworks knew some employees might be sick but they transferred them anyway and ignored a San Francisco ordinance in place at the time to quarantine suspected covid cases
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Covid has overtaken tuberculosis as the leading cause of infectious disease death. Do you remember people calling tuberculosis mild? TB outbreaks on hospital wards and in schools being ignored? Parents casually shrugging off a dose of TB in their child? We're told..
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Developing story from the Netherlands. A group of government officials and diplomats has submitted evidence to The Hague that Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte asked the country's legal affairs ministry: "What can we say to make it look like Israel is not committing war crimes?"
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There has been a shocking rise in cancer among young people all over the world. This is a hugely significant but under-reported story that will shape our future🧵
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Covid caused the biggest worldwide drop in life expectancy in modern history. When people say we overreacted to covid, I'd like to know where they wanted these lines to end up
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One of the world's foremost coronavirus experts says covid is so serious it has set the world back decades. Jeremy Nicholson says "all the efforts made in preventative medicine over the last 30 to 40 years have been negated by covid-19.”
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Pfizer's group president, on an earnings call in 2022, said Pfizer 'thinks a lot about generating demand for paxlovid' and 'the removal of mask mandates means covid infections will increase and that's the role paxlovid can play'
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If there's no lasting immunity to covid and no upper limit on infections and the CDC's central estimate is a 70% risk of long covid after 5 infections won't most people that don't die get long covid? Isn't this the brutal logic on the current path? What am I missing?
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Climate scientists just said the failure to tackle global warming is because democracy is rigged by capitalists. You didn't hear about it🧵
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Breaking news: A leading cardiologist and covid scientist in the UK says the average age of referrals to her clinic has gone from 55-80 years-old before the pandemic to 16-40 years-old now. This astonishing shift seems worthy of media attention
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Third, the defence of the company is very telling. “There is simply no limit to how wide the net will be cast: the wife who claims her husband caught COVID-19 from the supermarket checker, the husband who claims his wife caught it while visiting an elder care home." Well, exactly
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That virus has killed about 25 million people in four years, and disabled millions more. It is now the leading cause of infectious disease death, in adults and children. It is the biggest mass death event in US history
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Kuciemba was subsequently infected and he then infected his wife, who ended up in ICU on a ventilator. There's a few stunning details to this case:
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If children build up their immune systems by being exposed to viruses we're going to need a new explanation for all of human history up until the late 19th century
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Unreal. Large parts of the city of Catania in Sicily (300k people) have now gone 48 hours without water or electricity because the cables laid under the roads have melted in 46C heat. Meanwhile Sicily's capital Palermo is encircled by wildfires
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With zero efforts being made to restrict transmission, it's safe to say bird flu will be in cows in every state within months, if not weeks. That saturation will see the virus encountering many thousands of humans daily, providing a menu of mutation opportunities
H5N1 bird flu has been found at another dairy farm in Texas, raising the U.S. total to 16
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Breaking: a new study says a covid infection can stop new neurons forming in the brain, a key neurological process that enables the brain to renew itself. The stalling of this process leads to a "quickening of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease." 🧵
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Remote working reduces carbon emissions and viral transmission. The push to get everyone back in offices shows that the capitalist system is incompatible with climate or pandemic control
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The US department of agriculture refused to upload avian-cow flu sequence data on the global standard database, scrubbing metadata, including locations where cows tested positive, to protect dairy industry. Pandemics are inevitable under capitalism
Update:
Seems the
@USDA
@USDA_APHIS
chose not to share sequence data with the global
@GISAID
system where a vast majority of all global scientists have shared their data on influenza viruses since 2008.
In addition, they chose not to include critical metadata on timing and…
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If the second biggest wave of the pandemic can happen 4 years after the start of the pandemic in a situation basically of peak vaccination, nothing is really off the table when thinking about covid futures
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In September Cuba reported every Cuban on average had more than 4 covid vaccines. Cuba's last reported covid death was August 2022. Cuba vaccinates every child over 2. Cuba's vaccine (developed by its state scientists) is more durable than Pfizer or Moderna. Stunning.
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Bieber cancelling his tour due to long covid complications, Harry Styles recently cancelling shows due to covid and now Springsteen cancelling shows just 3 weeks into their world tour, 2023 will be the year touring musicians show us there is no return to normal with endemic covid
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By the end of Biden's term, close to one million Americans will have died of covid since he came to power. It's surreal that he keeps taking credit for ending covid. He ended it by ignoring it
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Every week dozens of new research papers reveal the ways in which covid harms the brain, lung, heart, kidney, thyroid, liver, blood vessel, nervous system. And every week the mass media ignores it. Scientists are doing their job. Journalists are not doing theirs.
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Nothing quite sums up the hegemonic project of covid normalisation, and the total disregard for the lives of the vulnerable necessary to that project, like the last polio survivor living in an iron lung being killed by covid
So sad to hear that Paul Alexander passed yesterday at age 78 from Covid-19. Paul contracted polio in 1952, when he was just six years old. He ended up in an iron lung and while he could live outside it for extended periods of time he never really left it.
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A triple vaccinated billionaire who had a mild course of covid in late 2022 saw his lungs age 19 years in 3 days and, 18 months later, despite numerous therapies unavailable to ordinary people, has recovered less than half his pre-covid lung function. We are being killed
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CDC changing covid isolation guidelines because 'most people' have immunity. This will be a surprise to the near 10,000 people who died of covid in January and the tens of thousands more that will die in the coming months. Nothing more than eugenics for capitalism
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If it's true Ed Sheeran has had covid at least seven times in two years, as he says, I'll go out on a limb and predict we'll be hearing some sad news about Ed's 'health struggles' in the near future. A vaccinated bat would struggle with that level of exposure
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Breaking news: Infectious disease scientist urges colleagues to speak out after excess deaths fail to return to pre-pandemic levels and instead hit highs not seen outside of war time 🧵
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Billionaire Sam Zell just died after "a brief illness." Pretty sure know what that's code for. Just a month ago at a conference he was cheered for saying this. Probably should have tried remote working.
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A very problematic study for immunity debt grifters. Babies born during lockdown had healthier microbiomes because they WEREN'T exposed to pathogens, meaning they required fewer antibiotics (17% compared to 80% for normal times babies) and subsequently developed fewer allergies
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Neuroscientists are out here telling us that SarsCov2 is worse for the brain than viruses we're rightly scared of like Zika and HIV and this information is running into a brick wall at the institutional medical, media and political level
COVID-19 will never be like the Flu. Never.
At least not for the brain.
I would love to be wrong; please prove me wrong with evidence and real science!
It is quite simple.
#SARSCoV2
can access the brain using several different mechanisms that Influenza cannot.
A: Viral…
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The human body literally has a limit on the amount of infections in can handle. The sick-recover-sick-recover pattern does not endure forever.
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Media when a new covid variant shows up: we chill
Media when 2 ground-breaking studies show conclusively covid can persist in human bone marrow, the gut & brain for years, alter the immune response and may lead to lifelong disease as often as 1 in every 10 infections: we ignore
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Ticketmaster is now putting this covid liability disclaimer on every ticket
.
@coopSpeak
- What have we said for almost two years?
Insurance/actuaries KNOW (and have known for quite some time):
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On April 2020 the autopsy report of the first person to die from covid in the US said she "suffered a massive heart attack caused by the coronavirus, with the virus found in her heart, trachea, lungs, intestines." The systemic nature of covid has been known from the start
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It is routinely downplayed by a media and political class for whom thousands of deaths a day are the price of business-as-usual. A class that won't even call for protection measures for the most vulnerable in hospitals, despite it being almost fully preventable in those places
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Olympic cycling gold medallist and world champion Filippo Ganna has had to stop cycling. He got covid at the Giro d'Italia a month ago and now has long covid. He's a 26 year-old elite athlete with every medical intervention possible available to him
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Because covid has destroyed people's immune systems but no one knows it because they've been lied to directly and by omission, you're welcome, the end
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Breaking: Uruguay is closing schools and colleges to avoid the possible collapse of paediatric emergency care as authorities say "many children are in ICU" with respiratory illnessess
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We went from 90% effective, to everyone's going to get it, to everyone's going to get it repeatedly, forever. And now 25 million are dead. This is quite obviously the most consequential global health policy failure in modern history.
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Remember when The New York Times put the first half million covid deaths on the front page to own Trump but the millionth death just trickled past unnoticed because those half mill happened under Biden
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Lockdowns have become the latest capitalist scapegoat de jour because capitalism is failing on its own terms
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Last week in the UK more than 600 people died of covid. Last week climate scientists warned that we're on the verge of ecological catastrophe. Nothing much happened in response. Why? Social constructions of reality are clashing with brute facts. A 🧵
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The absurdity of herd immunity, the mocking of masks, the labelling of covid as a cold or flu, once only far-right mantras, have been entirely absorbed by a liberal political, media and corporate class who saw the adoptions of these ideas as the route back to recreational liberty
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It turns out the British government gave more than 2.3 million vulnerable and older people a covid vaccine that isn’t matched to the currently dominant covid strains. And they did it to use up old stock and save money🧵
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All the ways we've been lied to about covid (there are more than this). We're being led to believe a world changing event is no big deal 🧵
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We keep seeing headlines like this and it's ridiculous. Our environment is saturated in synthetic chemicals. We have plastic in our blood. Plastic in our brains. Fossil fuel pollution fills the air and the seas. It is more than alarming. But it is not baffling
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Multiple studies now confirm covid as a disease of the blood vessels that attacks the vascular system of the human body on a cellular level. Will mass media journalists correct the misconception that covid is a mild respiratory illness like a cold?
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The belief in late 2020 was that covid was going to become a vaccine-preventable disease. When that didn't happen, public health authorities just pretended that covid had become a vaccine-preventable disease
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From tomorrow, every school in South Sudan (population 11 million) is closing indefinitely because record heat will push temperatures over 45C (113F) across large parts of the country. There is of course no AC. The climate crisis is such a terrible injustice for the global south
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The US state of Georgia is known as the "peach state" for its large production of the fruit. But this year few people will eat a peach from Georgia. Up to 95% of the state's crop has been killed by the warmest winter on record
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The epidemiologist in charge of covid at the global level keeps pleading with governments not to dismantle covid surveillance infrastructure. She says they must keep tracking, testing, maintain mask policies, improve air quality, communicate to citizens.
The media ignore it all.
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More than 95% of all stories you read in the mass media start as a press release. I don't know if this is a dirty little secret of the media industry or widely known by people, but it's how it goes. Which is like this:
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Summer: the rise in covid cases during summer travel is expected
Autumn: the rise in covid cases as kids return to school is expected
Winter: the rise in covid cases as the weather gets cold is expected
Spring: the rise in covid cases as the seasons change is expected
Forever
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For the first time in modern human history the goal of public health has changed from warning about and preventing the spread of a deadly new endemic virus to downplaying and encouraging the spread of a virus. It's hard to express how profoundly dangerous this shift is
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This is big. Scientists have identified the cells in the brainstem that sense immune cues from the body and act as "master regulators" of the body’s inflammatory response. "The discovery is akin to a black-swan event. It's a whole layer of biology we haven’t even anticipated”
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No, you didn't dream that a virus being encouraged to spread freely around the world is a vascular disease that leads to 30% more heart attacks among people aged 25-44 than normal and comes with a 40% risk of a new autoimmune condition. You just live in capitalism
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1,000 people including many children being incinerated in a country's worst natural disaster in decades would have led the news for months not long ago. There is something very strange and ominous about how mass death is now so casually accepted by the legacy media
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Governments have stopped testing hospital patients with symptoms of the world's leading cause of infectious disease death and the media have stopped writing about it and most people no longer even think about it. It sounds unbelievable. But it's true 🧵
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