Covid antibodies found in stored blood from Sept/Nov 2019 in European blood banks. The implications are enormous.
1. Long before the official start date, it was too late to stop the disease from spreading across the earth. We have wasted 2 years on lockdowns for nothing.
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2. The pre-prints finding the virus in Nov/Dec 2019 in the Wuhan markets (reported breathlessly by the NYT) do not point to the true origin events of the virus.
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3. The early seroprevalence studies that found a prevalence of 3%+ in large US metro centers are not so surprising in light of a Sept/Nov 2019 European start date.
Why have the studies @contrarian4data linked not received more attention from the press and scientific communities?
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@contrarian4data Update: Some commenters are questioning the specificity of antibody tests in general as a basis for dismissing the French and Italian papers. But the false-postiive rates of antibody tests differ across tests and are generally low. I don't see a specific critique of these tests.
@contrarian4data I'm open to being convinced that the tests used are not fit for purpose, but it will take more than just links to papers that show that some antibody tests have a high false positive rate.
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In a large Danish cohort study, getting covid correlates with a lower incidence of new diagnoses of dementia or any psychiatric disease in 12 months after infection compared to a control group who never had a positive test. neurology.org/doi/10.1212/WN…
The result is very likely a spurious correlation. But the study is so large and with a control group, that it indicts many smaller studies -- often without control groups -- that purport to find covid causes psychiatric conditions or dementia. Those are also probably spurious correlations.
The study does, very reasonably, find that being hospitalized with severe covid correlates positively with poor psychiatric outcomes months later.
All in all, a very interesting study. If there is a casual relationship between covid infection and subsequent psychiatric conditions, it is complicated and difficult to establish using even well done epi cohort study methods.
Since 2020, the @cpso_ca has been persecuting Dr. @dockaurG for tweeting that
--lockdowns don't work
--waiting for a vax to lift lockdowns is harmful,
--contact tracing covid was futile.
All true statements.
Today, Dr. Gill got her day in court. A thread. 1/5
The @cpso_ca argued: 1. The CPSO can -- in effect -- ignore the free speech rights of doctors because of the precautionary principle. 2. Doctors who contradict public health should be subject to discipline. 3. It doesn't matter if the doctor writes factually accurate things.
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Dr. @dockaurG's lawyer pointed out that 1. Dr. Gill's tweets were not factually incorrect. 2. Even if that were not the case, she still has free speech rights. 3. That independent doctors serve as a necessary check on public health overreach.
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There is an important new report out on the lessons we should learn from the covid era by @kerpen, @ScottAtlas_IT, @steve_hanke, and @caseybmulligan. A thread follows:
Lesson #1: Leaders should calm fears, not stoke them.
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Lesson #2: Lockdowns do not work to substantially reduce deaths or stop viral circulation
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Lesson #3: Lockdowns and Social Isolation Had Negative Consequences that Far Outweighed Benefits
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My friend Andrew Lowenthal (@NAffects) once worked at the Harvard Berkman-Klein Center. He now works to expose the inner workings of the censorship industrial complex of which the Berkman Center is a part. The essay he wrote last April is eye-opening. 1/5 brownstone.org/articles/the-c…
Over the years, Andrew watched with dismay as a legitimate scholarly enterprise with a deep commitment to free speech turned against its prior stance in favor of propaganda. 2/5
The censorship complex is vast and incredibly well-funded, encompassing powerful civilian NGOs, media organizations, and defense contractors. 3/5
.@moderna_tx bankrolled the Orwellian "Public Goods Project" aimed at defaming mRNA vax critics. @lhfang reports that the company targeted me for tweeting a preprint by @US_FDA affiliated scientists that showed elevated seizure and myocarditis levels in kids after vax. 1/5
Moderna tagged my tweet for attack because they were afraid that accurately reporting the existence of preprint reporting these signals of vax side effects would make parents hesitant to give the Moderna vax to their kids. 2/5
My tweet now has two tendentious community notes, no doubt written by Modern-funded goons.
It's a badge of honor to be targeted by a dishonest pharmaceutical company that aims to hide accurate reports of the side effects of its products from the public view.
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In Feb '21, former Stanford med school dean Phil Pizzo irresponsibly attacked Dr. @ScottAtlas_IT for advising Pres. Trump in summer '20 against lockdowns & school closures.
His attack in JAMA, that physicians should not "threaten the nation's health" is deeply ironic. 1/5
First and most obviously, lockdowns failed to protect people from dying. Since Jan '20 Sweden has the lowest cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths in Europe. California was worse than Florida.
It was the lockdowners who threatened the nation's health. 2/5
Second, in Nov. '20, Dean Pizzo organized a campaign to excommunicate Dr. Atlas, culminating in a faculty senate vote to condemn him.
By chilling academic freedom, it made it near impossible for dissidents to speak, harming the nation's health. 3/5 news.stanford.edu/2020/11/20/fac…