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Independent Writer & Consultant, Former Ruckus Panelist on KCPT, Former U.S. Senate Candidate, Former Academic/Educator, PhD

Overland Park, KS, US
Joined November 2009
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In my new article in @AreoMagazine I discuss why the CDC’s guidance changes for masks & testing were wrong. Vaccines are important but we can’t put all our eggs in one basket. Additional approaches will be vital to defeat #COVID19 & the #DeltaVariant areomagazine.com/2021/06/30/…
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Whatever 🙄 Manipulative brainwashing to scare people back to in office work You better waste a bunch of time commuting & diminish your quality of life or else As if people’s posture & computer usage is any better in the office than it is working at home Don’t buy this 🐴💩
Swollen eyes, a hunchback and claw-like hands: What remote-workers will look like by 2100 trib.al/GbUcp6P
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As I’ve said repeatedly, 💉efficacy is abysmal versus XBB CDC data presented today (6/15) shows NEGATIVE efficacy for HOSPITALIZATION for both primary series & boosted >90 days Boosted <90 days show 29% relative efficacy which is only 5% actual risk reduction (41% vs 36%)
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And by the time the 💉formula is ready, we'll have moved past the current variants included in the update & they won't be effective... again Honestly, NPIs are the only infection protection path until they have a formula that provides broad sterilizing immunity for any variant
COVID vaccine should be updated to target now-dominant XBB strain, FDA committee says
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I do not understand good-mouthing this & saying it’s a step in the right direction 🙄 It’s repeating something that failed abysmally due to the pace of mutations Prior update was already a mismatch upon release Insanity: repeating a failure & expecting a different result 🤦🏼‍♀️
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Lead the FA with viruses effort & become patient zero for a worldwide pandemic ⬇️
"[A]ccording to new reports this week three separate Chinese government officials have all named scientist Ben Hu, who was in charge of gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as the first human to be infected with the new disease." dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n…
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🤔💭 Imagine someone gives you $1 million but you are required to bet all of it on who will be the two major party Presidential nominees If you win, you get the million plus your gains from the wager How would you bet your million❓
27%Biden versus Trump
27%Biden versus other R
27%Trump versus other D
18%Other R versus other D
11 votes • Final results
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Prime example: Efforts to push 💉uptake were not honest April 2021 story touted only a 0.008% breakthrough rate (link in reply) When I noted this was inaccurate per research noting vaxxed in trials had persistent virus in swabs, I was attacked & told I was doing a “bad thing”😡
Mark Zuckerberg says it was challenging to censor COVID misinformation because the scientific establishment was frequently wrong, which ultimately undermined public trust: "Just take some of the stuff around COVID earlier in the pandemic where there were real health implications, but there hadn't been time to fully vet a bunch of the scientific assumptions. Unfortunately, I think a lot of the kind of establishment on that kind of waffled on a bunch of facts and asked for a bunch of things to be censored that, in retrospect, ended up being more debatable or true. That stuff is really tough, right? It really undermines trust."
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Article published online Dec 2020 in a head & neck surgery journal noted vaxxed in trials had persistent virus in swabs & could be infected & spread ⬇️ but the public was not told pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3332… Story claiming only 0.008% breakthrough rate: wsj.com/articles/cdc-identif…
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High virus levels still very pervasive in wastewater ⬇️ For majority of sites, 80-100% of samples are positive (red dots) Note: Open/white circles labeled “non-detect” mean they didn’t do a reading or report
SARS-CoV-2 is being detected in wastewater...pretty much everywhere. This shows % of samples with detectable SARS-CoV-2 in the last 15 days. There are some areas with low detection though, you can zoom in on your area if you're curious. covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tra…
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🚨 Shared this preprint months ago - now it’s peer reviewed (Link in reply) Among 51,017 Cleveland Clinic workers 🔸Vax efficacy vs XBB 4% 🔸Those with more doses had MORE infections 😵‍💫 XBB is nearly all of what’s circulating now, so cannot rely on 💉for infection protection
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Please wake up ⏰ & stop clinging to false talking point that vax is “best” prevention ❌ You CANNOT rely on 💉to avoid infection NPIs are only path for significant infection protection❗️ ✅Limit exposures ✅N95 or better respirators ✅Clean air academic.oup.com/ofid/articl…
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🙈 Putting on a blindfold so you don’t see a problem does nothing to actually solve the problem
Study: Stopping universal admission testing was linked to significant increases in hospital-onset SARS-CoV-2 infections. Hospital infections remain common with high mortality rates. Hospitals should not stop universal admission testing. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam…
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I’m so over the… ❌Stupidity ❌Incompetence ❌Lies ❌Deception ❌Manipulation ❌Exploitation It’s EVERYWHERE❗️ Everything is a 💩 show Happy Friday 😞
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🤦🏼‍♀️ Height of stupidity! If people are unmasked, they’re exhaling more aerosol than one would through a respirator exhalation valve Now that masks aren’t required, they need not parse if someone has a valve Dear Airlines: Unmasked mouths are an enormous exhalation valve❗️
✈️@Delta flight attendant said if my @envomaskusa has a on-way valve, it’s not permitted on the flight. Meanwhile, only my husband and I #MaakUp on the flight! 🤨This N95+ elastomeric has no exhalation valve it’s closed outside and inside. Frontliners use this. I told her.
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😵‍💫 Study listed on WHO research database⬇️ Abstract was formerly also posted but now has been removed 😡 & only citation remains Study indicates that mRNA 💉can cause T cells to mistake myelin along nerves for spike protein leading to MS when the T cells attack the myelin 1/
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This is very troubling & people should have access to this information in order to make informed decisions going forward Why have they hidden / removed the abstract? I went to the journal itself & found it but most people don’t have this kind of time 2/
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Amount that’s been given to Ukraine would pay all retirees benefits for approx 1.5 of 12 months 🤔 Maybe the billions we give out in this fashion should be scrutinized before considering breaking the social contract with those who paid into the system their entire working lives
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy announces he is assembling “a commission” to look at potential cuts in entitlement programs: “The president walled off all the others. The majority driver of the budget is mandatory spending. It’s Medicare, Social Security, interest on the debt.”
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At least Ukraine aid has a humanitarian intent What should be cut immediately is SUBSIDIES to multibillion dollar corporations posting record profits❗️ Stop giving taxpayer money to these corporations rather than contemplating screwing over seniors❗️😡 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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🤔 The fact that official case numbers were so much lower than during original Omicron in spite of highest wastewater levels indicates one or both⬇️ 🔸Inadequate amount of testing to detect cases 🔸Test sensitivity problem with newest variants that produces high false negative %
Bigger size of recent wave in India detected on waste water surveillance by @TIGS_India This is even bigger than the original Omicron wave of January 2022 Shows that the no. of reported cases is much smaller than the no. of infections in the community (due to low testing rate)
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Today let’s remember CDC’s early actions to obscure & distort Covid data On May 1, 2021 after sanctioned de-masking of vaxxed, they stopped tracking 💉breakthrough infections unless they led to hospitalization or death They created an army of Covid spreaders a la Typhoid Mary
Replying to @IncognitoMeems
Also, they are only counting vaccine breakthrough cases if people are hospitalized or die (see below). So this along with not testing most vaccinated, has created a system to make it appear almost all cases are in the unvaccinated.
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CDC recommendations for vaccinated from this period in 2021 were: 🔸Continue to publicly circulate even if you’ve had a certain exposure 🔸Exclude the vaccinated from regular Covid screenings This was reprehensible & meant to hide the true number of vaxxed who were infected
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Now the story behind yesterday’s poll 📊 Quote in the poll was shared with a link to a study as the entire Tweet I, along with 92% of you who responded, thought the verbiage implied a worse or different outcome for unvaxxed However, upon reading the study, I discovered… 1/
📊Does this quote… “non-vaccinated individuals recovered from a mild to moderate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection show significant alterations of the cerebral white matter” Create impression that effect was more/different from vaxxed?
92%Yes
8%No
24 votes • Final results
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The entire study sample was unvaccinated❗️ There was no data for the vaccinated Of course, researchers can select any subject group they choose. But I felt this quote with no context could lead people to assume vaccinated would not experience ill effects So I replied… 2/
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It’s interesting that so many who claim to believe in freedom want to be a dictator & tell others what they have to do 🤔
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📊Does this quote… “non-vaccinated individuals recovered from a mild to moderate severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus type 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection show significant alterations of the cerebral white matter” Create impression that effect was more/different from vaxxed?
92%Yes
8%No
24 votes • Final results
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There’s a whole story behind this question which I’ll share tomorrow But first I want to see the poll results to get a sense of whether the majority agree with how it struck me or concur with my 💩👨 detractor
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