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Geriatric long term care doc. Made an anonymous account to rant on. “Sh**posting on the internet since the 90s!”
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My wife’s 97 year old grandmother has gotten rather good at texting, but we were wondering why she started signing my wife & great-grands texts with 💩 emojis.
When we asked her, she was mortified & said she thought they were “Hershey’s Kisses.” Oh Granny ❤️
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😕I’ve been trying to stay away from Twitter for a few days (maybe after this tweet I’ll do it).
3+ yrs ago today I was just some guy, a dad & a husband, toiling away in a nursing home tucked away in a corner of some blue state.
I wasn’t political - like, at all. In fact - I
Three years ago today.
The day everything changed.
Look how excited Fauci and Birx were about permanently altering the lives of millions of people.
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Went to a musical last night w/ the fam. Watched a young family that sat next to us - a young mom & a dad with two tween girls.
I noticed as they tromped in with their surgical masks, into the packed theater, but then took them off & kept them off, despite being surrounded by a
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⁉️😯So apparently the "Qanon Shaman" - the guy I have labelled a "domestic terrorist" previously - was apparently peacefully led around the US Capitol building by Capitol Police on January 6th.
I'm sort of having trouble processing what all this means.
WATCH: Fox News’ Tucker Carlson shows new footage from Jan. 6 showing ‘QAnon Shaman’ being led around the Capitol by police
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From a clinician friend of mine:
“I work in mental health. I’m tired of getting yelled at by parents when I tell them their kid isn’t autistic, doesn’t have adhd, and isn’t bipolar, they were just locked away for two years and this is the consequence. A pill ain’t gonna fix it.”
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I really don’t like living through historical periods like this.
Culturally I have far more in common with coastal progressives (these are the people I’ve worked with & gone to school with my whole life). I’m an agnostic / atheist. Socially I’m generally extremely liberal
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I sit on a lot of hospital & system committees these days, & even co-chair one of them.
As a white, straight, middle aged male I play my cards very close to my chest & typically play the role of quiet, tireless workhorse, and, when it’s called for, facilitator &
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I think the ppl on Twitter today trying to retroactively justify their hatred of the unvaxxed & their wishes to bar them from receiving medical care, grocery stores, jobs, leaving their homes, etc. - they need to grapple with the fact they were traveling down the Nazi road.
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I’m still having trouble recovering from seeing this photo that
@DrJBhattacharya
shared earlier today. Apparently this was being done - tying rubber gloves filled with hot water to peoples hands - as late as 2021 in the USA, as dying people were denied family / visitors in their
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@StopAntisemites
@Punchcut
It’s one thing to be a holocaust denier.
@Punchcut
has a holocaust *enthusiast* on their senior management payroll 😵💫
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Keep your eye out on this. Apparently national nursing union reps are working with the White House & there may soon be permanent rules mandating “universal masking” at all healthcare facilities in the USA.
Yes. Permanently.
via
@healthcaredive
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@IJasonAlexander
@StephenKing
You just got gifted an 8$ per month verification service which you just basically complained you were too cheap to buy for yourself.
That’s sad, dude
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The Democrat Party has convinced itself that it’s political opponents are literally “fascists.” For very large numbers of them now - this is not hyperbole. This is not figurative language.
They literally believe this.
This means they believe conservatives are just waiting for
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Almost into our 4th year of this. They’ve now widened their sphere of propaganda & fear from C19 to all manner of seasonal viruses (colds, flu, etc). No data needed.
Realize the world they are offering is one where you stop living, in exchange for the fantasy of not dying.
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Remember “Dr. Robert Honeyman,” a pro-lockdown, LGBT MD w/ pronouns, Ukraine flag, etc interacted & w/ & amplified other pro-lockdown & pro-mandate accounts?
He didn’t exist. DK who created him. He’s not the only fake pro-lockdown doc on Twitter either
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Ppl are now self-diagnosing themselves as “immunocompromised” (b/c they are diabetic, or obese, or asthmatic, etc.) & then using that self-diagnosis as a rhetorical bludgeon to get people to don the medical burkha.
This is not a way to run a sane, free, compassionate society
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For the moderate amongst us who believed “15 Days to Slow the Spread” & mask mandates until vax were available was a reasonable PH compromise- the last 2.5+ years has been a searing, catastrophic demonstration of the old adage “give an inch & they’ll take a mile.”
NEVER. AGAIN.
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I had never heard of
@carolmswain
before a week or so ago (apparently she’s one of several scholars whom Claudine Gay has plagiarized).
I skimmed her CVs & life story, & after doing so, I became instantly, deeply ashamed of myself & my wasted potential.
Yes, she’s one of those
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The reason why masks are coming back everywhere is simple: No one in power has been held accountable for the sh*tty pseudoscience, fearmongering, & corruption of the last 3+ years.
The entire edifice is still in place. All the people. All the censorship. Everything
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So, this happened.
Almost 5 million views. Basically 3.5 times as much engagement as I've ever had on a single tweet. Completely unexpectedly too.
Between that and the emotional post I did a few hours before (retweeting
@DrJBhattacharya
's pic of the pitiful person dying with a
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Copeland appears to be employed by the US Army only.
So who is paying him for the time he spends holding Twitter Spaces & shouting down “anti-vaxxers”)? Why the fake company? Who is he really working for?
Remember - never assume anyone online is who they say they are.
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As a kid, I was told if an adult ever encouraged you to keep a secret from your parents - 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 if it was related to sex, this meant DANGER.
Now, it’s being normalized to do this - institutionalized, even.
This is a signpost, if not an alarm bell.
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@jeffreyatucker
Sometimes I watch people in public wearing masks… they pull them down frequently as they’re speaking (in order to make themselves heard), wear them on their chins, below their noses…I don’t think most of these people even can articulate much reason at all for why they do this
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.I work in the long term care industry & have for nearly two decades now.
The nursing staffing shortage is worse than I’ve ever seen it - & it’s not b/c of catching C19 or any such nonsense.
Nurses are quitting LTC b/c LTC work is deeply morally injurious work now.
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People may have noticed an “Ian Copeland (PhD)” (
@IanCopeland5
) rampaging around Twitter for the past few weeks, engaging in Spaces typified by shouting down “Antivaxers” & playing himself off as a highly credentialed expert fighting “disinformation.”
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Apparently two things can be true, simultaneously:
1) COVID lockdown never happened
2) COVID lockdown was extremely effective and saved tons of lives
This is pretty amazing. Don’t ask me how this works
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@RBReich
Here’s “woke” and CRT in the screenshot below, courtesy of
@realchrisrufo
Cancel culture is totalitarianism lite - you have WrongThink? You get fired, deplatformed, banned, unbanked.
Socialism? “an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by
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I’m a firm believer that the truth is typically found somewhere in between two extremes:
This is how I think about COVID.
After about 3-4 weeks in early 2020, it became obvious it wasn’t even close to the second coming of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic,
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My nursing home residents have virtually no agency, no control.
I can go home and act normal with my family. I can avoid stores and places that are batshit about Coronaphobic rules.
My residents do not have these options. That’s what’s the worst about all of this.
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At the nursing home I work at we basically prohibited our residents from going outside for nearly all of 2021, and then only to tiny patches of fenced-in, outdoor patio areas after that.
Prior to this, if a resident was cognitively intact or accompanied by family or friends,
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@StopAntisemites
Wexner Art Center, as in Leslie Wexner?
Yeah once Wexner learns about her she’s gone
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I absolutely despise soulless grifters like
@erictopol
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My nursing home is filled w/ ppl 80+ years old, over 70% have dementia & 2/3 have meaningful hearing loss. They are at the ends of their lives.
Basically haven’t seen the faces of the caregivers or family for three years
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@montreal_girl
@backtolife_2023
The end result will be mass mega-farms beholden to corporate ESG & essentially controlled & managed by Davos / WEF corporate types.
It’s a recipe for eventual mass famines, imho - and I don’t think I’m exaggerating
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@mssociety
A complete non-apology. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
This is a historic betrayal of the backbone of your organization. Unless you re-issue an unqualified apology, you will never recover from this, guaranteed
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I find it amusing whenever I read about Africa’s response to COVID.
From what I understand - low death rates, low vax rates, they largely have ignored COVID & if you ask them they’ll shrug & say it’s a disease of privileged white people.
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The Daily Beagle did some digging & found out Dr. Copeland has published exactly one paper in his career, doesn’t appear to be affiliated with any active research programs, & the company he claims to work for (a “C2 Genomics”) appears to be fake.
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Egaz Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist famous for innovating & popularizing the practice of prefrontal lobotomy - severing or destroying parts of the frontal lobes - as treatment for severe mental illness such as schizophrenia.
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This CA law makes it illegal for businesses to physically stop shoplifters & burglars from robbing them, & will be the final nail in the coffin for CA small business.
This will complete the metamorphosis of the “Freedom State” (as
@GavinNewsom
likes to call it) into a full
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🤡If these horror-clowns at
@AmerAcadPeds
stopped treating the public with such absolute f***ing contempt, perhaps this oh-so-mysterious cratering of trust in their advice might not be such an issue?
What the f*** is wrong with you people?
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I know it’s obvious at this point to most of you, but in terms of governing philosophy, “if it saves one life” actually resulted in the most monumentally net destructive & insane public health policy imaginable.
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My nursing home & others is filled w/ 80-90+ yo adults w/ dementia & hearing loss who are at the ends of their lives.
Still can’t believe that people convinced themselves dooming them to being surrounded by faceless, muffled aliens like this was somehow humane.
And there’s
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I’m supporting
@GovRonDeSantis
b/c I saw how quickly he turned against the nonsensical, cruel mask mandates & lockdownism which have been so destructive to my nursing home & others.
If he was elected president he would make it a priority to make sure no elder is ever again
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Who is Sam Harris & why did anyone listen to him in the first place? I seriously have no idea, but he sounds like a fucking idiot
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🫤Or, you could just *not* test every time you have mild URI symptoms, stay home until you feel better, and then go on with your life. Crazy thought, I know.
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IMHO - every single medically credentialed person who has advocated for legally mandated public masking since (let’s be generous) January 2021 is a complete & unmitigated fraud.
Full stop.
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One of the worst images I'll never get out of my head is during the height of the panic of late 2020, watching my nurses repeatedly replace a mask on the face of one particular, severely demented resident of ours, on hospice care.
Seated in her recliner chair in the hallway,
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@rweingarten
is onto the 4th (or 5th?) pinned tweet over last 36 hours attempting to fraudulently rewrite history as if she was some sort of open schools advocate, rather than the chief architect of school shutdowns.
@CommunityNotes
has been relentlessly fact-checking her
Covid scared the nation, but we tried to do everything we could to reopen schools safely. It would have helped if Trump/DeVos helped instead of hectored. Now we must do everything we can to help kids learn & overcome the effects of the pandemic.
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👇Simple.
Americans are averse to being shamed, & flat-out terrified of being labeled as “racist” (or homophobic, transphobic, bigoted in some other way, etc).
@nytimes
& orgs like them function as enforcers of accepted ruling class narratives, & use charges of “racism,”
The NYTimes reporter who covers the coronavirus pandemic wrote that the lab leak theory was racist.
Can somebody please explain this?
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… the fact things didn’t progress further was because sane people stopped you.
Politicians sure didn’t- if you had been successful at pushing things further, they would have joined right in with you.
Scary shit, I know. I’d suggest a long period of looking in the mirror,
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@cboyack
Only recently (last 5 yrs give or take) was Gadsen flag declared a “hate” symbol IIRC.
Smearing it as a symbol of racism is a socially acceptable way of squelching it.
I suspect this was an early project of “anti-disinformation” intelligence group propaganda type outfits
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For the overwhelming majority of these students the vax is all harm, no benefit.
But yes, coercion works. Call Nobel - earthshattering discovery sir.
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The “you wouldn’t want surgeons going maskless would you?” trope is making rounds amongst the knuckle-dragging maskaholic crowd again.
This is a good review article (written in 2015) because it provides a “time capsule” of sorts into what was universally understood about the use
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Confession time:
I feel like a gullible f**king fool for ever engaging in the retarded act of disinfecting my groceries like I did in 2020.
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🙄Sigh
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@RushBabe49
This is crowd madness. There's no other way to put it. You read about this stuff in history books - but we got to witness it first hand, we got to experience it.
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@IanCopeland5
@MattWalshBlog
I have a question: on your LinkedIn, as well as here, you refer to yourself as “Ian Copeland, PhD.”
Yet on your LinkedIn page, you list yourself as a PhD Candidate.
So… do you actually have a PhD degree, & have you ever actually published anything? Like… a dissertation?
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@MarioNawfal
This isn’t hard.
1) The ADL heavily supports the DNC & receives government funding
2)
@elonmusk
threatened the DNC because he fired the previous, leftist moderation team & reinstated accounts of conservatives. This threatens the DNC politically
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@The_OtherET
@CDCgov
CDC guidelines determine state & local medical mandates, because there’s this thing called legal liability & insurability.
@CDCgov
is being super, forked-tongue disingenuous pretending that’s not a thing “oh we just give advice.” Completely washing their hands of responsibility
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… and stop looking to Twitter for justification of what you did / were doing. You won’t find it, it doesn’t exist.
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👇Just want to spell this out.
@zeynep
wrote a
@nytimes
opinion piece & mounted a Twitter pressure campaign in 2020 that was explicitly credited w/
@CDCgov
reversing its previous masking guidance & ending up recommending masking kids two years old and up (toddlers, yes).
She
@zeynep
@MonicaGandhi9
@MmeBlackBalloon
@nytimes
@CDCgov
The latest article says she doesn't agree with masking 2 year olds but her original NYT oped that apparently had influence with CDC explicitly called out young people as asymptomatic spreaders and said everyone should be masking.
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Honestly it sounds like this aspect of “trans acceptance” is basically akin to rape
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Gonna take a few years but guaranteed, public will look back @ the history of the times we've lived through; forcing masks on kids, arrows painted on supermarket floors, kids playing instruments in masks through holes cut in them, etc. & go "shit what the fuck were they thinking"
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This starts to go from just silly, to absurd, to disturbing & dangerous. What are we doing?
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At this point I would be much prouder if my kids achieved successful careers as tradespeople or small businessmen rather than following the footsteps of their Dad.
Academia, including (if not particularly) academic medicine is so captured & intellectually bankrupt it’s awful
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@ZeekArkham
Oddly, Leon W. Russell, the chairman of the NAACP, lives in Tampa, Florida, & Karen B. Towns, a co-chair of the NAACP and a member of the board, enjoys vacationing in Clearwater, Florida.
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👇The banality of evil, personified.
Meet Jo Boaler of the Stanford School of Education, who has made herself famous (using data fatally rife w/ academic dishonesty, citational errors, & gross misstatements of fact) for justifying why rigorous math education is racist, &
She's a Stanford professor of math education who's arguably most responsible for the new California Math Framework — a set of curriculum recommendations that advocate against teaching algebra to most of the state's gifted middle-schoolers in the name of equity.
But she's sent
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My nursing home is populated by people where hearing loss & dementia is rampant - and this clown wants to prance about pretending he’s the good guy for advocating the continued forced charade of emotional / psychological torture on our residents:
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Me? Again, for the millionth time - I don’t honestly care what adults do to their bodies, particularly if it’s with their own money & resources, be it drugs / alcohol, body piercing, or other forms of alteration or mutilation.
But these are *children* we’re talking about.
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For “equity,” SF put all kids in the same lower-division math under logic it would bridge achievement gap for black & latino kids.
It didn’t. Children of wealthy parents simply spent thousands of dollars on private “workarounds.” Poor kids got zilch.
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I tried to explain it last night in an unedited post, about what has deeply bothered me (and continues to) about the whole community masking thing, & how tightly people hang onto it despite the lack of evidence behind it.
I realize only now, in middle age, that for all the USA's
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