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A false dichotomy with a side order of sanctimoniousness. But it’s not the format! This is why I left Twitter when it was still Twitter. I’m a glutton for punishment, clearly.
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The problem with the Twitter format is that binary reductionism is a feature, not a bug. Evidence in Europe shows that opening schools had zero impact on community COVID infection rates. So grandma would’ve died either with the draconian school closures or without them.
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Healthy kids didn’t die from COVID. If you want to get educated I highly recommend listening to this podcast: www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025...
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The US had an outlier policy w/ COVID. EU nations opened their schools months earlier with no masking. The mental health and academic standing of our kids suffered horrendously & we still had the highest mortality rate in the world. 100% policy failure.
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Reductive binary thinking and tribalism are much more of a threat to us than COVID ever was. The vaccine helped protect elderly/infirm AND didn’t “stop the spread.” Extended school closures did MUCH more harm to kids than COVID ever did.
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I think the COVID vaccine was great for certain groups, specifically people w/ comorbidities (a significant % of the population) and elderly. But it was rushed through via emergency use authorization and Vinay Prasad is right — now it’s time to do double blind-studies using true placebos.
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The person who blocked me was upset because I shared a research report showing that for males under 40, the risk of getting myocarditis from the COVID shot was greater the risk of them getting myocarditis from COVID. There is nothing scientific about binary thinking re: vaccines or anything else.
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I don’t follow you. We know that the COVID shot does not prevent spread of infection. Meantime, the risk of myocarditis from the vaccine surpasses the risk of myocarditis from COVID for males under 40. www.heart.org/en/news/2022...
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Same thing with basic reading comprehension.
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Clearly there is confirmation bias going on. A lot of it.
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Not for young males.
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Based on the fact that few if any healthy young males (with zero comorbidities) died of COVID, it is indefensible to use emergency use authorization to justify giving the vaccine to young healthy males given their safety profile.
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Myocarditis is a serious adverse event that disproportionately affects men under 40, with highest risk among men aged 12–24 who receive a second dose of a COVID‐19 mRNA vaccine … An important safety signal may have been ignored or minimised by failure to stratify appropriately.”
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Biden definitely had an aggressive form of prostate cancer less than a year ago, when, at 81 and in obvious mental decline, he insisted running for reelection was an excellent idea.
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Less than a year ago, Biden still thought running for president at 81 was a terrific idea. It’s almost certain that he had aggressive prostate cancer at the time. His decisions directly led to Trump 2, and that’s always going to be the first line in his biography.
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The science shows that for young males with no comorbidities, the COVID vaccine almost certainly does more harm than good. Claiming otherwise is politics, not science.
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I think it’s important to test drugs against pure placebos, not adjuvants, and acknowledge that we are swimming in a sea of toxic chemicals produced by commercial entities that are in all likelihood negatively affecting our health.
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The rate of profound autism - people unable to speak, needing around the clock care - more than doubled from 2000 to 2016 according to the CDC.
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What’s preferable? Heart attack? Stroke? Sepsis? You might as well say no one deserves to die. That’s not how it works.
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I’m not a tribalist when it comes to politics and political parties. Yes, I’m a registered lifelong Democrat, but I’ve come to believe that binary black and white thinking and tribalism are the existential threats of our time.
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You seem to have misread my post because I have never linked vaccines to autism. I have posted the fact that the rate of autism has increased dramatically over the past 50 years and it’s completely reasonable to ask why this is. Do you disagree?
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Theories about the origins of life are based neither on evidence nor reproducible results, but speculation. I think some vaccines have great value and others don’t. I am not faith-based about vaccines.
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Your faith in science is no more or less rational than any other faith.
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Life definitely isn’t fair. But I’m still in awe of the majesty of creation. Humans are just a tiny blip in the scheme of things.
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Many said he was too old to run, and now we have the proof. Hopefully future generations will learn from his mistake.
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I hear what you’re saying and respect your view, but I wouldn’t trade places with Trump for all the riches in the world. He’s living in a hell of his own creation.
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Why is it healthy or productive to maintain that white men in the fifties were uniformly, intrinsically evil?
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That may be true, but I don’t see why it’s either cruel or unfair for an 82-year-old man to get cancer. People get old and die. It’s the natural order of things.
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Your heart has been beating every second of every minute of every day since months before you were born. Once you can explain how that’s possible, I’ll take your word on there being no higher intelligence.
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The man is 82 years old! What is so surprising or unfair about a very old man getting cancer?
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Apparently 82-year-olds often get sick and die because they’ve already outlived the average human. Who could have possibly predicted this?
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It happened way before Trump.
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I didn’t “fall” for anything. I’m an independent thinker who is interested in the truth. As long as seeking the truth is something Democrats continue to be repelled by, we will keep losing.
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I’m a lifelong Democrat who despises Fauci for his failed, myopic, profit-driven, pharma-centric approach to national healthcare. Once Democrats stop getting in bed with guys like Fauci, maybe we’ll start winning elections again for a change.
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Remember when Democrats were the ones who fought against our regulatory agencies being captured by the industries they are tasked with regulating? Now Democrats are cheerleading it while wondering why we lose over and over again.
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For those of us old enough to remember, Fauci was terrible during the AIDS crisis. He sees public health strictly through the lens of collusion between Big Pharma and government.
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The preponderance of evidence strongly suggests COVID came from a lab. Email records released via FIA show that Fauci conspired to push the wet market theory and stifle speculation of a lab leak. There is nothing partisan about seeking the truth.
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Fauci did not create the COVID virus, but our intelligence agencies believe it is manmade, and we know that Fauci funded gain of function research on bat viruses that was conducted in Wuhan. And then lied about it. Other than that, he’s great.
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And yet Americans spend 2X more on healthcare than any other nation w/ health outcomes trailing many developing nations. Not a record to boast about.
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Ironically, Anthony Fauci architected a conspiracy to conceal an investigation into the origins of COVID due to a lab leak and by extension his role in funding banned gain of function research. Not a partisan position, merely facts.
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Since when is it controversial to ask what has caused the rate of severe autism to dramatically increase over the past 50 years? There has a no need to virtue signal here.
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How much of the known universe do you reckon science has managed to explain? What we don’t know dwarfs what we do know by orders of magnitude. To believe otherwise is a sort of faith-based religion.
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You don’t need to be “religious” to believe in a higher intelligence that is far beyond our ability to understand it. We know for a fact that the known universe itself is such a thing. Having faith in science’s ability to explain the unexplainable is like asking an ant to program a computer.