We need a new model for news media on the right.
Conservative news organizations arose because the mainstream media, funded by billionaires through various means, exists only to propagate a narrative.
Right-leaning news media did a pretty good job overall until Trump got
If your primary source of national news has not told you that 80 FBI agents worked with Twitter to censor information they didn't want you to have, it's not a news source.
It's a propaganda outfit devoted to burying a story worse than Watergate.
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@GovRonDeSantis
says at press conference that he will take executive action this week to prohibit vaccine passports and will encourage the legislature to also take action.
Tony Dungy at DeSantis press conf: "I asked [Abe Brown], how do those young boys (19, 20, 21) get [in prison]? And he told me it's not socio-economic, it's not racial, it's not education, it's none of that. 95% of these boys did not grow up with their dad."
Defeating vaccine mandates will require some industry to REALLY inconvenience the elite class - and airlines are the perfect industry. I know this will also hurt a lot of uninvolved people, and all I can say is that if more people had resisted masks, we wouldn't be here.
Today I sent a pulse oximeter to work with a 23-year-old man who works in an open kitchen over a grill.
Before shift: 99% O2
3.5 hours of wearing a mask: 93% O2
7 hours of wearing a mask (feeling dizzy): 88% O2
How does this support the assertion that masks are completely safe?
YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ZERO RISK OF CATCHING A VIRUS
Decide on how much risk you're willing to accept, and engage in the activities you choose to engage in. But you don't get to make those decisions for others.
You don't get to remake society to suit your preferences.
1/ Early in the AIDS crisis, Fauci took control over finding treatments. By 1988, no treatments had been approved, and sick people were going to community clinics and paying cash for treatments that insurance didn't cover because they weren't "approved." Sound familiar?
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@GovRonDeSantis
says restaurants won't be closed down in Florida because they're not a significant driver of transmission. Servers, bartenders, and restaurant owners are speaking about what it has meant to them to be fully open.
Our article on asymptomatic spread is getting so much traffic that it's making our site unusable. We're working on that, but in the meantime, you can find it here:
"Face masks release microplastics, which are directly inhaled during use or transported through the environment ... they can translocate to multiple organs upon intake, potentially causing detrimental and cytotoxic effects."
Q to
@RonDeSantis
: What are the first three things you’ll do when elected as President of the United States?
DeSantis:
#1
: The border will be shut down. We will declare a national emergency on Day One, shut it down, build a border wall, and hold Mexico and the cartels
Nope. All of these pundits in big cities pretend that schools haven't been open in Florida since August. Here's how you open schools: Open the schools.
Fox News ticker says no conclusive proof that surviving COVID makes you immune.
Wouldn't that also apply to a vaccine?
If we require conclusive proof of immunity, everyone will be assumed to be contagious forever.
We're going to have to take back our lives.
People arrested at the
@UF
protest this evening (this thread will be updated as they're booked into the jail):
1. Keely Nicole Gliwa, 23
Charges: Failure to obey a police officer, resisting an officer without violence, wearing a hood or mask on public property
If the predicted red wave produces a strong Republican majority in Congress, one of their first acts should be to repeal the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.
No excuses, Republicans. Liability is the only mechanism that can produce safe vaccines.
COVID is endemic (everywhere) and highly contagious.
It's not your fault if you get it.
It's not your fault if someone gets it from you.
We need to shift from blaming victims to talking about how to devote our resources to protecting the vulnerable.
The reason they are rolling back mandates now is that they're afraid they will lose their emergency powers.
We can't let them walk away with their power intact.
All emergency powers must be strictly time-limited with ratification by an elected body required to extend them.
Trump 2024 supporters need to realize that Trump was the one person who could have stopped all this. He could have listened to Ioannidis or Atlas, could have sent Fauci back to NIAID.
@GovRonDeSantis
looked at the studies and data HIMSELF. Time for Trump to enjoy retirement.
I know you think that Team Reason (anti-lockdown, anti-masks, pro-school) are the people with the extreme positions, but you only think that because you've been manipulated by the media. Our positions are found in every pre-March 2020 public health document in existence.
Yes, we're in full-fledged lunacy now. The more we learn about vaccinated people getting and spreading COVID, the more we're told the answer is to get more people vaccinated. And that somehow masks, which have never helped, will help now.
Be strong. It's all falling apart.
We are so blessed in Florida to have a governor who reads and understands the studies and the data and who understands both the traditional principles of public health and the principles of American liberty - and who doesn't get pushed around by the media.
My mom told me that being female didn't stop me from doing whatever interested me.
I told my daughters that girls can wear anything they want and do any activities that interest them.
Kids don't need to change genders; they need to be taught they are not limited by their gender
I'm seeing several proposals to require double masks or N-95 masks.
Remember that we've been told since April that "we know masks work." All debate has been shut down with that statement. The fact is that WE KNOW NO SUCH THING, and these proposals prove it. Masks aren't working.
Stop whining about mask/vax mandates and do something. Don't just hope that someone will save you.
Quit your job, find a new school, move, file a lawsuit.
This is no longer the America we once knew, and what happens next is up to you.
Currently in a rural Florida restaurant that's packed with girls' softball players (from South Carolina) in town for a tournament. No masks. It feels so normal.
God bless
@GovRonDeSantis
County: “We don’t have authority over the school board.”
School board: “We follow the county’s mandate to avoid confusion.”
Experts: "We don't make policy - we just provide information."
Policy makers: “We're just following the advice of the experts”
It's all circular.
The idea that unvaccinated people are a threat to vaccinated people is ridiculous.
If public health officials don't push back HARD against this, it can only be because they want a comprehensive ID system or they want to divide us (or both).
Am I missing something?
How to get an endless pandemic:
1. Use a test that detects fragments of the virus and then designate every positive test as a "case."
2. Test at a massive scale, including people who are asymptomatic.
1/4
We are in a dangerous moment when licensed medical professionals who were formerly well-respected but currently don't fall in line with the groupthink are told they have no right to treat their patients with protocols developed from their own study, experience, and collaboration
Twitter and other elites should start listening to what scientists say instead of banning them. If they're wrong, present your arguments. But this coronation of "one truth" needs to stop so we can all examine the risks and benefits of COVID policies.
This OSHA rule is the result of 20 months of bowing to the rule of public health bureaucrats.
YOU have enabled this by meekly wearing a mask to buy groceries or even walk outside.
YOU must now stand with those who will be hurt by this and do whatever is necessary.
The study, conducted by the UF Department of Biostatistics, found that the secondary attack rate for asymptomatic index cases was not statistically different from zero
Idea from a follower: "All parents of public school students should go ahead and send in their letter of intent to homeschool. Note in the letter that they will send the children back to school when the board votes to permanently and irrevocably ban mask mandates."
When they tell you to wear two masks, remember that the Director of the CDC told us a surgical mask is better than a vaccine. The same people told us we could "defeat" COVID if we just wore masks. Those were all lies, and the same people are lying now about wearing two masks.
The biggest lie right now (although it's always hard to identify the biggest) is that if we all just work together, we can end COVID.
We can't, and we won't.
COVID will join all the other coronaviruses that are endemic. Shouldn't we be talking more about treatment?
A little over 3 weeks later, Florida is fine. In fact, hospitalizations yesterday hit a record low since the July peak before bouncing back up just a bit today (normal for Monday).
Case positivity rates have held steady.
Once again, Fauci's predictions of doom were wrong.
It's been 3 weeks since
@GovRonDeSantis
moved Florida to Phase 3, abolishing occupancy restrictions at restaurants and bars and making individual penalties unenforceable. Many people predicted doom, so let's see how things are going.
1. Hospitalizations - hmm, no problem there
It's amazing that the CDC is JUST NOW acknowledging that a PCR positive test with a cycle threshold over 28 probably doesn't indicate an active infection.
How many lives have been disrupted over a positive test with a Ct over 28? Add contacts of positive tests, and it's a LOT.
CDC set CT threshold for examining post vax “breakthrough“ infections at 28.
They set the threshold for counting a case prior to vaccines at 36-40.
makes vaccine benefits look better and pre vax pandemic look worse
ie. Biden good, Orange man bad
The more I talk to people who are knowledgeable about PCR tests, the more I think that the best first step is to stop mass testing.
"Cases" should be determined by doctors who test symptomatic people and combine the test with a clinical assessment.
If you're arguing that states without mask mandates are doing ok because people are making responsible decisions...
You're arguing that mandates aren't necessary.
Welcome to the club.
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@GovRonDeSantis
: "These kids do not need to be wearing these masks, ok? I'm sorry, they don't. We need to be able to let them be kids and let them act normally, and that's what should be the case in the fall, throughout the school year."
The campaign against Ivermectin is a sign that it probably works. They wouldn't need to put this much energy into discrediting a therapeutic that didn't work. This is all about getting everybody vaccinated.
- Vaccines work by tricking the immune system to make antibodies without having to get the disease
- COVID shot trains body to react to the spike; recovered people's bodies react to all parts of the virus
So any study claiming vax immunity is superior has methodological issues.
Just saw an obese woman wearing a mask in a restaurant where nobody else (not even staff) was masked. Her shirt said "Public health is social justice."
Everything wrong with the current public health establishment in one picture.
"The daily coronavirus reports have become the equivalent of Soviet harvest reports. They mean absolutely nothing and are the pet obsession of a bureaucracy that not only has no understanding of the problem, but its grip on power has made it the problem."
Chair of the Alachua County School Board Leanetta McNealy, who is "for masking" and voted for a K-8 mask mandate with no parental opt-out on October 5, is currently unmasked in a large indoor gathering. (She's at the front of the photo, with the bag at her feet.)
The reason the FDA is considering a completely unnecessary COVID vaccine for children 5-11 is that they've backed themselves into a corner with masks. If they let unvaccinated children stop wearing masks, they're essentially admitting that masks were never needed on kids.
It turns out that you can make rapid changes to society just by making people terrified of an invisible threat. The constant reinforcement of the fear is leading to actual mental illness in large numbers of people, and I don't know what it will take to reverse that.
Stop complying with "temporary" restrictions and mandates. Many of the current mandates have no exit ramp, and some, like vaccine passports, are priming us for a surveillance state.
Stop complying before it's too late.
We must return to proper roles:
- Doctors treat illness
- Public health experts propose policies
- Lawmakers debate and pass laws
- Executives may declare states of emergency, but any laws declared by the exec should only last until lawmakers can meet to ratify or overturn.
It is becoming increasingly clear that people in America will be subjected to mask and vax mandates until there is a law or constitutional amendment that makes it illegal to require people to cover their faces and take unwanted medical treatments.
We are far from done.
In a strongly-worded memo noting that face coverings are a "personal decision" and that "the data shows us that districts' face covering policies do not impact the spread of the virus," FL Education Commissioner Corcoran today asked districts to make masks voluntary for 2021-22
Pay attention to which people are telling you that vaccinated people can get COVID and ALSO that if you don't get vaccinated, any spread of COVID is your fault.
Then never listen to anything those people say, ever again.
Discernment is needed now, more than ever.
There is no relationship whatsoever between the number of reported deaths on a specific date and the number of actual deaths on that date. The number of actual deaths has been steadily declining since early August.
Nothing alarming is going on in Florida.
You know how elderly people sometimes become inflexible? How they get fixated on one thing and nothing you say changes their mind? But they think their decision-making is just fine?
That's Fauci.
I've been warning for over a year that lockdowns and masks were baby steps to condition us for ever-increasing tyranny.
"Oh, no, it's just temporary. I'm just being considerate to others."
I'll warn you now that it can get much worse.
Even if you have gotten the shot, you should be standing with people at your company who are faced with losing their jobs. Tell your employer that you will quit if anyone is fired. This only stops when everyone stands together.
If Florida doesn't stand against the panic, blue states will go back to lockdown when they get hit. This surge is real, all regions will be affected, and none of the proposed mandates will affect it at all.
You can't stop a virus, but you can lose your country. Stand firm.
Whatever Biden announces today, it's time for Republican governors to band together and have a unified front against all mandates.
It's time to reap the fruits of federalism.
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@GovRonDeSantis
started his day with an 8 AM briefing and will end it with an 11 PM press conference.
In between, he's had 3 other press conferences, 3 media interviews, and 22 official meetings/calls, including one with
@POTUS
.
Show me a harder-working governor.
Mass psychosis in urban Blue America:
Fully vaccinated people standing outside, masked, waiting hours for a test to tell them if they’re infected with a virus that isn’t causing any symptoms.
It’s gonna take *years* to undo the mental health damage in these cities.
If you pay attention, you'll find that governors are praised when the virus subsides, and citizens are blamed when cases start rising again.
Sometimes citizens get praised when it subsides, so then "fatigue" is blamed when the virus comes back.
It's all just narrative.
I'm not taking anyone seriously who says, "Oh, they wouldn't do that."
Could you have imagined in March that you would need a mask to go into any business?
Could you have imagined businesses would still be closed/limited by government?
They'll do anything we let them.
Tucker Carlson: "Masks are purely a sign of political obedience, like Kim Il-sung pins in Pyongyang. We wear them because we have to ... It's our job to restore the society we were born in."
Children forced to wear masks outside "is a form of child abuse." 🔥🔥🔥🔥
It's always easiest to resist tyranny at the early stages, but it's almost impossible to get people to stand against soft tyranny. Now it's going to be a lot harder - but stopping mandates here will prevent something even worse.
'A spokesperson for Governor DeSantis told CBS12 News that the Governor will not lockdown and hurt families who can not afford to shelter-in-place for six weeks.
“Especially not for a virus that has a 99.8% survival rate,” the spokesperson said. '
Our local "expert" told us today that young people in our community need to get vaccinated because they have to protect the seniors who aren't vaccinated - although the seniors have been eligible since January.
Why are others responsible for seniors who chose not to get the vax?
If you live in Florida, you should immediately stop spending money at any business that requires you to wear a mask.
And speak up on Word of Mouth pages to promote businesses that stop masking their employees.
You can hold 2 thoughts at once:
1. Florida's surge is real - and it will happen everywhere else.
2. Restrictions on citizens can't make it better and could make it worse.
We don't have to ignore facts to stand against the "do something" crowd.
Have you noticed the new narrative that seems to be everywhere?
"The reason you have to wear a mask again is that those OTHER people refused to get vaccinated."
The media is deliberately dividing us. Nothing new, of course, but very blatant right now.
In spite of our unsuccessful attempts to avoid COVID, there is still only one way to get to the other side: we must go through it. And the best way has always been to allow low-risk people to build herd immunity. Everything back to normal with accommodations for immunocompromised
Last night I watched teachers telling our school board that LGBTQ youth will be harmed if K-3 students are not taught about sexual preference and gender identity.
Every day, I am more convinced that we cannot coexist.
It's amazing that extensions of child mask mandates by governors are being framed as ending them.
Remember, every single child in public school in Florida has had the option of a bare face since November 18 - through ALL of Omicron.
End child mask mandates immediately.
This Omicron hysteria makes me even more grateful to live in Florida. Blue counties will wail and moan about being powerless to "protect" people, but they won't be able to put any mandates in place. 🔥
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@GovRonDeSantis
says at a press conference that if the federal government mandates masks in schools, "We're not going to do that" in Florida. Says special legislative session will be called if needed.
As public health failures go, the failure to be crystal clear about the age stratification of COVID risk is only surpassed by the elevation of cloth masks to life-saving medical devices.
(You can argue about which was worse, but both led to unnecessary fear and divisiveness)
It's interesting that I'm out here calling for national civil disobedience because I have always been a rule-follower. I have always hated being scolded or getting in trouble. But I also believe the truth is important, and the truth is that masks don't work.
#ForgetYourMask
Change my mind: Every single thing they've done from day one - see list below and feel free to add to it - was for the purpose of driving vaccine adoption.
1/
@GovRonDeSantis
introduced FL's new Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo:“We’re done with fear. That’s something that’s been unfortunately a centerpiece of health policy in the United States ever since the beginning of the pandemic, and it’s over here.”
Typical: on-air talent without masks while the "help" is masked.
Can somebody explain the science here? Or are important people not potentially dangerous to others?