mathlover.bsky.social
Teacher with Primary Immune Deficiency who is the only one masking in a huge high school.
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Emily oster and others, including some Biden supporters were paid by brownstone to push anti mitigation, covid minimizing messaging.
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Noticing the lack of vaccine-specific expertise.
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So, do you still not recommend people try to avoid getting it in the first place via using N95s and respirators? Seems like we would want to encourage people to avoid infection.
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Here again are alternative and credible sources for vaccine information and guidance until sanity returns in US Public Health :
WHO - www.who.int/teams/immuni...
Canada - www.canada.ca/en/public-he...
ECDC - www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/immunisat...
U.K - www.gov.uk/government/p...
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Thank you!
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During Trump’s first administration he deported lots of innocent non-criminals. How anyone missed that is perhaps based on getting only news biased in one direction.
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Trum, the GOP, and right leaning media have made the claim that Democrats allow criminals (murderers, rap ists, etc) free rein in our country. People like him believed it. How many criminals did he and other maga think there really were? It’s absurd.
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Sickening
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The counties in the middle east that expelled over 800000 middle eastern and Arab Jews after the creation of Israel haven’t paid reparations or offered a right of return.
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I’m guessing Japan is not the only country on that list where minorities aren’t treated the same way as majority.
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I lived in Japan. Ethnic Koreans who have been generations faced discrimination and didn’t have full equal rights. They had to carry an id card everywhere they went. My Korean-Japanese friend’s father was arrested for protesting and his whole family sent to Korea even though they don’t speak Korean
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Not differentiating Jewish people from Israelis is anti semetic
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Really neat! Thank you for the great explanation.
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How is calling for then release of the hostages pro Israel? Explain that part. Also what would you do if your relative was still among the hostages?
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So by your logic Jews in America are fair game? Seriously?
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Obviously both. Many studies show that schools, for example, and Brigham and women’s hospital in Boston and etc had much lower spread with mask mandates and vice versa.
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Can you say more about that? Sounds very interesting. What type of methodology would be needed and why can a study of differences find equivalence? Very cool stuff.
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There is a bigger connection between if a person feels peer pressure or not. People who didn’t believe masks worked still masked in our school when it was mandated. People who believed in masks dropped them when most everyone else did and told me they wish the mandate came back so they could mask
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Judging if masks worked based on poorly rolled out and poorly conducted mask mandates is absurd.
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Yes, we find even the poor quality low effectiveness cloth and surgical masks along with the 6 feet lie and poorly informed public thanks to a very lacking message from public health cut Covid spread significantly. If we had all been in kn95 or n95 would have been much more effective
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And ironically the lockdown (porous as it was), mask mandates, covid vaccines, etc were all from the Trump administration but somehow republicans blame democrats (who got rid of trump’s covid mitigations) for them.
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The debate about whether mask mandates work was astroturfed by people paid by Brownstone and other organizations representing the interests of the ultra wealthy and later also by the Biden administration who followed the advice in the Impact Research memo. It isn’t scientific.
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He attacked Americans who were calling for the release of hostages. Most who participate in these protests oppose Netanyahu and want peace. It wasn’t anti Israel. He attacked Jewish people in the USA and tried to kill them. That by definition is anti semetic
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Also, when you express no sympathy for the victims of the attack and your first response is blaming them it isnt obvious that you think the attack was wrong
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Big assumptions. Those who protest for getting hostages returned tend to also be opposed to Netanyahu and want peace.
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10 feet apart, long conversation.
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Everyone masked in my school and in stores etc around here until the mandate stopped and everyone stopped instantly. Mandates obviously worked
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Which is absurd. Fit testing tells us if there is a good seal but not fit testing won’t make a good seal bad. Something like 85 percent of people get a good seal with 3m aura n95 masks.
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Cloth and surgical masks have gaps and so are not very effective but both do cut down transmission over having no masks.
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It was the Impact Research memo to Biden that urged him to drop masks, declare victory over COVID and basically act like it’s 2019 or he would risk midterms and the election biden ended up losing despite following Impact Research’s advice.
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My father recently got Covid from his neighbor while outdoors. Maybe you should decide for yourself and let others decide for themselves.
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I'd also encourage you to learn a bit more about eugenics, because in no ways is it solely about "euthanizing disabled people". @juliadoubleday.bsky.social has covered the intersection of eugenics and Covid very well on her substack. Here's another good piece www.disabledginger.com/p/we-are-wit...
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They reportedly killed off elderly people in nursing homes with high doses of morphine. Once they were mostly all dead then of course the fatality rate would decrease relative to that. But their fatality rate is higher than neighbors
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Most people did what they were told, at my work at first, everyone masked all the time. Then the principal actively encouraged people to unmask any time they were 6 ft apart. And people were surprised and then all took of their masks when seated 6 ft apart. They were led to poor compliance
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It mostly comes down to what people are told. The 6 ft thing was a real blow to compliance as it have a false sense of security that you could remove your mask when 6 ft apart indoors. Also, people didn’t know what was a sufficient mask or how to check mask fit etc.
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This is excellent. Thank you for sharing it.
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I remember it happening and being dumbfounded that such a thing happened and that no one seemed to see it the way I did. I was a teenager and knew it was an illegal, violent, racist act that was unnecessary and impacted not only those wrongly targeted
but their neighbors, too.
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And when people talk about everyone having the same opportunities, how long ago slavery ended, they ignore all of this as well as the many ways racism impacts where people live, education, job opportunities, generational wealth etc. no care about making those equal by the anti DEI racists
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Pick one
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I see that and think, there is a smart person!
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PS, your profile picture is how I felt for a long time earlier in the pandemic toward society. It’s pretty fitting.
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Shameful.
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I have found I’m a lot tougher than I thought and have much thicker skin. Also I like my own company and have enjoyed getting to know myself more, do more thinks I like such as reading and etc. at first I had this claustrophobic feeling of being cut off from society. I wish you all the best
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Those who made a big deal about Covid at the start when they felt in danger and who stopped masking asap and made comments to those who need to continue to be cautious also did it for me. It wasn’t about empathy or community care but selfishness.
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Thank you. I’m not fighting. I gave up on my humans and on humanity. Seeing society decide to take part in the social murder of millions world wide did it for me. People refusing to mask around high risk people, in medical facilities did it for me.
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What works? I can’t even get doctors to mask around me. Sick people go to doctors and medical centers without masks and put high risk people at higher risk. People don’t mind causing high risk harm. That’s clear.
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Try having a compromised immune system or a loved one who is at high risk and being the only people masking. Much harder than feeling dread at memories.