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Geriatric long term care doc. Made an anonymous account to rant on. Yes, I am very immature sometimes. No, I don’t care. https://t.co/TjT0yl5Auz
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Joined June 2022
Warning, don’t follow or interact w/ @Justin_SupportX . He appears to be a scammer. Evidence in the thread below
@doc_gero It’s a scam. I got the same thing this morning. Don’t click on any links. And enable 2-factor authentication.
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Internet Archive has not been archiving since 10/8. Google Cache has stopped caching. The Alexa service - the one that used to rank web traffic (not the Amazon virtual assistant) is gone. The ability of censors to memory-hole the internet is growing.
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It appears that Trump is flipping latino voters, & flipping them *hard*. As a lifelong WASP I would love it if it could be explained to me by someone more in touch w/ American latino / hispanic culture: WHY? . Why is he resonating so well with them?
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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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@ClaraJeffery You're "migrating to Threads" so slowly you're leaving a visible slime trail in your oozing wake, you elitist, bigoted snob
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I continue to be astonished at Kamala Harris. The more she speaks the more I realize that she has the IQ of a Crayola. I can’t figure out how she functioned as an SF district attorney. 1/
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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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@stormrobinson This ad campaign was almost perfectly designed to elicit a generally dead feeling inside me, intermixed with hints of disdain & mild disgust.
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@MarkSZaidEsq “Affinity groups” is such Orwellian f**king doublespeak. These were exclusionary race and sex segregated groups allowed to meet on official time & on the government dime. Aside from the obvious illegality from a plain-language civil rights law perspective, the idea that these
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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. 1/.
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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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@BKCHarvard @ma_franks @zittrain I dream of the day purveyors of pseudointellectual bullshittery like you are driven from the public square in tar & feathers. totalitarian f**kwads.
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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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I come from a family of highly educated people - parents, siblings with advanced degrees. I’m a city boy. Have mixed with the professional & managerial class my whole life. But right now the kinship I feel with the blue collar, working class, the “garbage,” the “deplorables,”.
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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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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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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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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. 3/3.
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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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@anymanfitness C’mon. Since 1971:. - Cost of a Car: from $4K to $48K (12x). - Cost of a House: from $25K to $357K (14x). - Ivy League College Cost: from $3K/year to $87K/year (29x). - Healthcare Cost per Person: Increased from $400 to $15,000 (37x). source:.
The median family income in the US has gone from 10K in 1971 to 55K today, a gain of 5.5x . however,. The median cost of a car has gone from 4K to 48K, an increase of 12x. The median cost of a house has gone from 25K to 357K, an increase of 14x. The median cost of an ivy league.
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@robbysoave People don’t like people who are pro-assassination. Home Depot doesn’t like to be associated with pro-assassination people. Sounds like useful information was organically shared.
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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. 1/.
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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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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.”. 1/
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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,. 1/.
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“Unrealized capital gains” is such a ridiculous idea because it’s an entirely fictional concept. If you’re holding an asset that’s worth something, but haven’t sold it, there is no “gain.”. This is basically a proposal to set a precedent in the public’s mind that really,.
Here we go. The unthinkable is being proposed. Unrealized capital gains tax.
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@politicalmath Why wouldn’t polling go the same way as the rest of the censorship industry?. Why wouldn’t we expect many / most polls to become as unreliable as the news is from sources like @APNews, @CNN, @MSNBC, etc., & for the same reasons?. @MikeBenzCyber @shellenberger @thackerpd.
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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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I absolutely despise soulless grifters like @erictopol. 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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@StopAntisemites Wexner Art Center, as in Leslie Wexner?. Yeah once Wexner learns about her she’s gone.
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I haven’t even listened to the football guy’s speech (Harrison Butker), but my understanding is he was voicing some pretty bland, quaint ideas about sex roles that I likely disagree with, but don’t care much about. The fact there are petitions going around to fire the guy from
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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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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. 1/
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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. 2/.
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@michelletandler Most people who say that have no idea that Trump specifically requested national guard presence & had his requests ignored & countermanded by the likes of Pelosi & Mark Milley.
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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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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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👇People don’t understand dementia. Like this idea that ‘you can just tell’ if someone has dementia. The fact is dementia sufferers can look lucid & with it in the morning, but crash at night & seem like crazy people. They can function at lunchtime with old friends, but when.
An incredible change in just one day.
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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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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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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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👇@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,. 2/.
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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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Why has the story of @DrAllyLouks resonated with so many people?. It’s because one look at her & her research & we all understand what we’re looking at - she’s a “Head Girl.”. Several years ago, Ms. Louks decided she wanted to be called “professor,” read books for a living, & so
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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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