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Walensky: “When the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective, the vaccine, so many of us wanted it to be helpful, so many of us wanted to say, ‘Ok this is our ticket out.’” Ok… But then you got millions fired and excluded from society for not taking it. https://t.co/Xcl7bUUrOi
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THREAD – The Ultimate COVID Video Library A semi-chronological, open-access library of the most important and viral video clips from throughout the response to COVID. This thread has no end, so videos after the first hundred or so may be added ad hoc. Be sure to bookmark! 1/ https://t.co/TV0DNBUiFQ
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Jan 2020 – Shortly after Xi Jinping announces the strictest lockdown in history in Wuhan, China, videos begin going viral all over the world supposedly showing Wuhan residents spontaneously collapsing and falling to their deaths from the new virus. 2/ https://t.co/Wrg21sEnrn
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Feb 2020 – In some of the most powerful propaganda of the entire COVID saga, viral videos purport to show CCP officials welding Wuhan residents into their homes to prevent them from going outside during lockdown. 3/ https://t.co/hX52Xh5bzs
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Feb 2020 – A viral video shows Chinese police with the word SWAT written on their uniforms in English catching a man with a butterfly net for removing his mask during Wuhan’s lockdown. 4/ https://t.co/nQs0ebEvJy
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Jan 2020 – WHO Director Tedros Adhanom heaps praise on Xi Jinping and China for the lockdown of Wuhan. However, the lockdown, being only days old, hadn’t produced any results, so Tedros was actually praising human rights abuses with nothing to show fro them. 5/ https://t.co/tuhjwk6FNs
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Feb 2020 – In the WHO’s official press conference on Wuhan’s COVID response, Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, waxes rhapsodic about the Wuhan lockdown: “What China has demonstrated is, you have to do this.” 6/ https://t.co/cGAr9Nul8h
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Feb 2020 – Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, explains how Wuhan’s COVID lockdown supposedly flattened the curve. “This is extremely important for China, but it’s extremely important for the rest of the world.” 7/ https://t.co/K9ytBH0Jws
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March 2020 – Shortly after advising the entire world to copy China’s lockdown policy, Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, refuses to acknowledge Taiwan’s existence. 8/ https://t.co/qQkFCeRtJq
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March 2020 – An anchor for CGTN, China’s largest state TV outlet, explains the “new norm” of “lockdown.” “We traded a little of our freedom for the greater good… This is exactly what Europe and America should know.” 9/ https://t.co/DsOMeLCVq2
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March 2020 – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces a lockdown of all of Italy—the first lockdown of an entire country in the history of the western world. 10/ https://t.co/excrbRhqhG
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March 2020 – Footage of empty streets across Italy as the entire country is placed under lockdown. 11/ https://t.co/FweU14HihR
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March 2020 – Military police in Italy use automated drones to enforce the lockdown and monitor compliance with COVID restrictions. 12/ https://t.co/aSlZNXdFOY
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March 2020 – A video goes ultra-viral all over the world showing Italians in lockdown with “a message to themselves from 10 days prior” urging viewers to be more afraid of the new coronavirus. 13/ https://t.co/DU8wFo3kng
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March 2020 – Tomás Pueyo, an influencer whose ultra-viral articles convinced many officials to adopt COVID lockdown policies, goes on tour advising leaders all over the world to adopt strict lockdowns. Here, Pueyo debates UK SAGE leader John Edmunds. 14/ https://t.co/vKsvZe5kWR
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March 2020 – Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, and Donald Trump smile and laugh as they announce “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” arguably the most destructive policy ever implemented in US history at the domestic level. 15/ https://t.co/UehUNnPyus
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March 2020 – Cars line up for miles at food banks as COVID lockdowns begin in the United States. 16/ https://t.co/tVMAOKRCZQ
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March 2020 – People line up around the block in freezing temperatures outside grocery stores as COVID lockdowns begin in the United States. 17/ https://t.co/A9fRbKdaaY
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March 2020 – Footage of empty streets across New York City during lockdown. 18/ https://t.co/TkIdU4v4j3
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April 2020 – Stranded workers thrown out of their factory jobs march in exodus to villages thousands of miles away during lockdown in India. 19/ https://t.co/eGo2G3vBPj
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April 2020 – People line up for miles to receive food rations during lockdown in South Africa. 20/ https://t.co/1ybKTuWsJ3
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April 2020 – Under the banner of #Masks4All, a video goes viral all over the world touting the false claim that cloth masks had stopped the spread of COVID in the Czech Republic. This false claim played a major role in mask mandates all over the world. 21/ https://t.co/l72ifv0QGF
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April 2020 – The city of Los Angeles orders a skate park to be filled with sand so youth won’t try to go outside and skate during lockdown. 22/ https://t.co/3CQCApykGc
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April 2020 – Police detain a mother in Idaho for taking her kids to play at the playground during lockdown. 23/ https://t.co/tCi4lgtMVU
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Spring 2020 – ‘The COVID Religion’: A compilation of some of the most insane scenes of petty authoritarianism, theater, and mass psychosis during peak COVID hysteria. 24/ https://t.co/1Ym7lumvEu
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April 2020 – Chinese state media shares a video of a 7-year-old girl reciting a script on the importance of obeying COVID lockdown orders. “I am only 7 years old. I understand it, but why do some adults not get it?” 25/ https://t.co/izARFKhiiS
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May 2020 – Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet and lead advisor to the UK, said the world should thank China for lockdown: “Not only the right thing to do, but it also showed other countries how they should respond… I think we have a great deal to thank China for.” 26/
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Spring 2020 – During peak COVID lockdown, high-production-value TikTok videos of nurses performing choreographed dance routines across the world began going viral. They appear to have been produced at significant cost, but the reason remains a mystery. 27/ https://t.co/IX8YzyH0im
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April 2020 – In a viral video, Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower about COVID ventilator protocols that “will lead to a tremendous amount of harm.” Indeed, a study later revealed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over age 65 placed on ventilators. 28/ https://t.co/MiU0thnOqf
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July 2020 – Jeremy Hunt, powerful UK establishment politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer, praises China’s draconian “Zero Covid” and quarantine measures and advocates for the UK to emulate them. 29/ https://t.co/fFZXG6R9vs
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July 2020 – In a brief limited hangout, FBI Director Christopher Wray discloses that the CCP specifically approached local politicians across the United States to endorse its pandemic response. “Yes, this is happening at both the federal and state levels.” 30/
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Aug 2020 – Deborah Birx: “I wish when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy…people weren’t allowed out of their houses, and they couldn’t come out but once every two weeks to buy groceries…had to have a certificate that said they were allowed.” 31/ https://t.co/QASLEUeoRB
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May 2020 – Stephanie Warriner, a patient at a hospital in Toronto, is forcibly restrained by hospital staff for not properly wearing her mask. Her body is then wheeled away, having died from “restraint asphyxia following struggle and exertion.” 32/ https://t.co/gVsHU83Qjv
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May 2020 – An Ohio woman is arrested and tazed for refusing to wear a mask at a football game. 33/ https://t.co/xVFDe3gx0s
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April 2020 – Deborah Birx tells the press that in the US, “if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death” regardless of any other health issues or comorbidities. 34/ https://t.co/iPg9LVniaQ
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Jul 2020 – Anthony Fauci says if a COVID PCR test only yields a positive using a CT value of 35 or more, it should not be considered a real positive. Despite this, labs across the US used a CT of 37 for years based on the original WHO guidance, inflating COVID cases ten-fold. 35/ https://t.co/pvIb8G6Ort
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1993 – American biochemist Kary Mullis, who received the Nobel Prize for his invention of PCR technology, states plainly that PCR should never be used for the purpose of diagnosing illness. Mullis passed away in August 2019, just months before the first reports of COVID. 36/ https://t.co/srtxoMCeJl
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1996 – Kary Mullis, winner of the Nobel Prize for inventing PCR, blasts Anthony Fauci for his abuse of PCR for diagnosing illness. “Fauci does not mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lying directly into the camera.” 37/ https://t.co/G1FlUvDBLd
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Aug 2020 – Bill Gates expresses exasperation with the US response to COVID, which he blames on western “freedom”; China, by contrast, he says, “did a very good job of suppressing the virus,” thanks to the “authoritarian” approach and “individual rights that were violated.” 38/ https://t.co/o8TZVRatm2
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2020 – A compilation of live interviews in which Anthony Fauci literally advises to “shut down the country” to control COVID. Fauci would later defend his record on COVID by arguing “I didn’t shut down anything.” 39/ https://t.co/lGsE5PP80g
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Jun 2020 – A giant, 20-foot statue of a nurse in a biblical pose is unveiled in Latvia “in honor of COVID-19 healthcare workers around the world.” 40/ https://t.co/Lz1HPETepj
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Jul 2020 – Throughout the response to COVID, governments used propaganda and censorship to support the illiberal measures being taken. Here, NZ PM Jacinda Ardern reassures viewers her government “will continue to be your single source of truth.” 41/ https://t.co/2siexDEHz8
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Apr 2020 – Around the world, media outlets often falsely associated opponents of COVID lockdowns with Donald Trump. Contrary to this portrayal, Trump worked hard behind to scenes to stop governors from ending lockdowns. “We’re not gonna let them open.” 42/ https://t.co/NgSgl30Imb
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Sep 2020 – When Scott Atlas joins the White House coronavirus task force, he begins unwinding the insanity that’s characterized the official response to COVID. Here, Atlas explains T cells and why immunity to COVID is far more widespread than realized. 43/ https://t.co/cnq2hIuQko
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Oct 2020 – Having joined the White House coronavirus task force, Scott Atlas explains the disaster of lockdowns. “People have been killed…when I say killed, look at the data…46% of the most common types of cancers were not diagnosed during lockdown.” 44/ https://t.co/NvAUJmlTBx
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2020 to 2021 – A compilation of footage of teachers’ union leader Randi Weingarten calling for COVID school closures. Weingarten was one of the most influential voices behind school closures, though she would later claim she boldly opposed them. 45/ https://t.co/UcWjfmqpno
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March 2021 – CDC Director Rochelle Walensky claims “vaccinated people do not carry the virus.” This false claim would convince many people to receive the virus and become a major impetus for vaccine mandates and stigmatization of the unvaccinated. 46/ https://t.co/5jAjxRgPrJ
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May 2021 – Anthony Fauci falsely claims that the vaccinated become a “dead end” for the virus. 47/ https://t.co/zX2WrRpNKs
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2020 to 2021 – A compilation of virtually every top official and media personality during the response to COVID insisting, falsely, that the vaccines prevent infection and transmission. 48/ https://t.co/6PmlPAHoFY
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2020 to 2021 – Fauci and other top officials repeatedly advised masks were effective against COVID. But this contradicted Fauci’s prior statements that masking was merely psychological and sometimes harmful. Ultimately, masks did not stop the spread. 49/ https://t.co/wcdLZlCsTN
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Dec 2018 – Laurie Garrett, a vocal advocate of masks and strict mandates throughout the response to COVID, tells a panel that masks simply cause alarm. “But did the mask really help them? Did the mask keep the virus out? Almost certainly not.” 50/ https://t.co/Go5yGe8xmW
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Dec 2021 –Horrifically, young children were often subjected to some of the most severe restrictions, despite their being at virtually zero risk from COVID. Here, kindergarteners in Oregon are forced to eat lunch outside in 40 degree weather. 51/ https://t.co/WKppD3bKgO
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Sep 2021 – Often, throughout the response to COVID, leading officials would put on masks simply for their photo ops. Here, NY Governor Kathy Hochul, NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle mask up for the cameras. 52/ https://t.co/gjKNv5k3GN
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Apr 2022 – Joe Biden walks across the White House lawn in a mask for the cameras, only to take it off as he goes inside. 53/ https://t.co/Ykg93qCucI
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2020 to 2022 – A compilation of top officials and commentators specifically advocating masking children for COVID on the basis that “kids are resilient,” though kids were always at virtually zero risk and masks never actually slowed the spread. 54/ https://t.co/e04IU2vwrI
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Jun 2021 – Florida Gov Ron DeSantis became the first major leader to call out the CCP’s role in lockdowns: “China was very much invested in promoting lockdown…public health guidance was never in a pandemic to just lock down…that was really fueled by the Chinese experience.” 55/ https://t.co/k5ilrIfsMP
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Jul 2021 – DeSantis: “I think it’s very important that we say unequivocally: no to lockdowns, no to school closures, no to restrictions, and no mandates…Americans should be free to choose how they govern their affairs.” 56/ https://t.co/IGO1ytam7T
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2020 to 2022 – A compilation of the coordinated propaganda lines from major officials and commentators throughout the response to COVID, such as “No one is safe until everyone is safe” and “Don’t do your own research.” 57/ https://t.co/YtFYHtwn3q
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Nov 2021 – Michael Gunner, Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territories, announces that “positive cases and close contacts” will be transferred to quarantine camps via army truck. 58/ https://t.co/xQp5MtwEwt
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Jul 2021 – Sydney, Australia announces a snap lockdown due to one COVID death. “A small list of essential stores can remain open…that’s 900,000 residents who can’t leave their area, even for work.” 59/ https://t.co/lJSkZT23yN
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Aug 2021 – Jacinda Ardern tells New Zealanders not to talk to their neighbors as she announces a “snap lockdown.” “Do not congregate. Don’t talk to your neighbors. Please, keep to your bubbles.” 60/ https://t.co/ugB0gIIWjZ
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Nov 2021 – Police set up checkpoints after several wards escaped from quarantine camps in Australia’s Northern Territory. Every escapee who was caught tested negative for COVID. 61/ https://t.co/X04pm46Ghu
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Dec 2021 – Hayley Hodgson recounts how police came to her home in Australia after a friend tested COVID positive and took her to a quarantine camp, where she was forced to stay 14 days despite testing negative three times. 62/ https://t.co/WKnxXf8fJP
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Aug 2021 – Bill Gates calls for “all countries” to be “more like Australia.” Parts of Australia were then at 200 days in lockdown with COVID cases at all-time highs. Gates goes on: “flu and common cold…we can build tools that, over time, can get rid of those as well.” 63/ https://t.co/2CfANiKnOX
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Nov 2021 – Michael Gunner, Chief Minister of Australia’s Northern Territory: “If you are anti-mandate, you are absolutely anti-vaxx… If you support, champion…give comfort to, support anybody who argues against the vaccine, you are an anti-vaxxer.” 64/ https://t.co/KpHFpYFCp6
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Oct 2021 – Hawaii introduces a $150,000 ‘robot dog’ to scan people for COVID in public spaces. 65/ https://t.co/JwwbvBlLkq
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Jun 2021 – Anthony Fauci refers to himself as “science” incarnate: “A lot of what you’re seeing as attacks on me, quite frankly, are attacks on science.” 66/ https://t.co/F9Hbe66zVP
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Jul 2021 – UK SAGE advisor Susan Michie, a behavioral scientist with no background in epidemiology, seethes when asked whether her 40-year membership in the British Communist Party might inform her draconian policy preferences: “I’ve come on your program as a scientist…” 67/ https://t.co/tuQoKSepi0
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Nov 2021 – In Senate hearing, CDC Director Walensky can’t say why CDC has done no field studies of natural immunity. “If we don’t know natural immunity confers protection…it’s because we’ve decided not to look…why have we not done the research?” 68/ https://t.co/MsODAr3tGX
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Sep 2021 – Orlando Magic star Jonathan Isaac explains his reluctance to get a COVID vaccine, given his understanding of natural immunity and his having had COVID before. 69/ https://t.co/sy04nyBKdw
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Oct 2021 – Sen. Rand Paul: “You presume, somehow, to tell over 100 million Americans who survived COVID that we have no right to determine our own medical care?…an arrogance coupled with an authoritarianism that is unseemly and un-American.” 70/ https://t.co/KPyHnYNmFc
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Mar 2021 – Frequent CNN contributor Leana Wen advocates keeping COVID restrictions in place so that reopening can be used as a “carrot” to promote vaccine uptake. 71/ https://t.co/9PPMBXdFgH
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Jun 2021 – Heads of state exchange elbow bumps and stand in socially-distanced rows in a display of pandemic theater at the 2021 G7 conference. 72/ https://t.co/lZi1a7J7GS
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Jul 2021 – Journalist Gerhard Wisnewski refers to governments’ COVID policies a series of “completely nonsensical and contradictory measures.” “There is a method behind this madness. It is actually a method of torture…and interestingly enough, they were developed in China.” 73/ https://t.co/zHfGuNlS7T
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Oct 2021 – Spain’s Health Minister declares that masks are here to stay, even if only for normal seasonal flu: “Las máscaras llegaron para quedarse, al menos mientras tengamos influenze.” “Masks are here to stay, at least as long we have influenza.” 74/ https://t.co/OmXM5Tucpb
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Dec 2021 – Rand Paul on the response to COVID: “I don’t think it’s been about science for a long time. It’s really been about conditioning the American individual to submit to government. And it never ends. The goalposts will continue to change.” 75/ https://t.co/Rjlz0ObUsE
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Jan 2022 – During oral arguments, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor falsely claims there are “over 100,000 children” hospitalized with COVID, roughly 30 times the real number. 76/ https://t.co/24759Gk9a6
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Jun 2021 – European Parliament releases this video explaining its new digital vaccine pass system for travel within the European Union. 77/ https://t.co/m2hTh4FWcS
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Nov 2021 – CDC Director Walensky tells the Senate the CDC hasn’t conducted any field studies as to whether natural immunity confers protection from COVID. “If we don’t know natural immunity confers protection…it’s because we’ve decided not to look.” 78/ https://t.co/MsODAr3tGX
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Sep 2021 – Bill Maher recalls a survey in NYT unintentionally revealing that most Democrats believed COVID’s infection fatality rate was dozens or hundreds of times higher than it really was. 79/ https://t.co/nc5HFb6o1t
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Nov 2021 – In 2021, protests against COVID mandates began to break out all over the world. Here, tens of thousands take to the streets in some of the largest protests in the history of Vienna, Austria. 80/ https://t.co/FFriWCIfmG
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Jan 2022 – Over 100,000 gather to protest lockdowns, vaccine passes and COVID mandates in Brussels, Belgium. 81/ https://t.co/8P5jE8mRoZ
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Sep 2021 – Tens of thousands spent months protesting against the COVID pass regime in cities all across France. This is Paris. 82/ https://t.co/SDXzIoFBKF
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Jan 2022 – Thousands protest against COVID mandates at the Freedom Rally in London. 83/ https://t.co/NcE36lDWqs
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Oct 2021 – Massive protest against COVID mandates in Tel Aviv, Israel. 84/ https://t.co/10Ppi8ATMy
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Sep 2021 – Italians symbolically burn green passes in protest of Italy’s COVID vaccine “green pass” system. 85/ https://t.co/HMeyaeZW8w
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Feb 2022 – In Turin, Italy, citizens boycotted Italy’s vaccine pass system by hosting outdoor feasts attended by thousands. 86/ https://t.co/lXIEycYsNd
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Jan 2022 – In Naples, Italy, the mayor cited COVID to ban fireworks during New Year’s Eve. This was the response from citizens. 87/ https://t.co/duu7JktgMS
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During the last GOP debate, this entire discussion on liability for COVID vaccine injuries and the Trump administration’s fast-tracking development of these mRNA vaccines through “Operation Warp Speed” was blacked out, allegedly due to “technical issues.” https://t.co/vUlhXi3Ltz
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JFK: “The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society… We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.” https://t.co/K1Qv0Ivj5w
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See how Elon Musk frames the ventilator discussion so as to exculpate the CCP: The heroic Chinese warning their hapless American friends not to intubate as many COVID patients as they did!
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But in fact, the record is very clear that that guidance to place patients on ventilators early and for extended periods, which proved so deadly in the early days of COVID, came directly from China. https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-great-covid-ventilator-death
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We’ve seen this dynamic since COVID began, in which major financial and political players—even ones who oppose lockdowns—twist and restrain the discussion so as to protect the CCP and their investments in China, leading in part to the totalitarian mess we experienced for years.
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Chief COVID lockdown architect Neil Ferguson denies ever calling for a lockdown: “The reality is a lot more complex…what I tried to do…which was stepping outside the scientific advisory role to try and focus people’s minds on what was going to happen and the consequences.” https://t.co/oxg8oWrNkM
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Reporter who wrote in NYT that 900,000 children had been hospitalized with COVID when the real number was 63,000—and that 4,000 had died from MISC-C when the real number was 68—tells Harvard governments should be more active in policing “misinformation.”
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In this video from 2021, a Burmese influencer livestreams her dance exercise routine while masking for COVID as a coup unfolds on the street behind her, with the military deposing the country’s ruling party to impose a junta.
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Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky tells Congress COVID vaccines “initially” stopped infection and transmission, so what she said in 2021 wasn’t a lie. Somehow, even after losing her job, she still manages to embarrass her whole profession. https://t.co/UnUNfQtmLO
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This from last year seems like a more accurate recollection of her thought process. Receipts. “When the CNN feed came that it was 95% effective, the vaccine, so many of us wanted it to be helpful, so many of us wanted to say, ‘Ok this is our ticket out.’” https://t.co/CXASyXdpIA
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Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators for COVID in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way. https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-great-covid-ventilator-death
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“Lockdown benefits ‘a drop in the bucket compared to the costs,’ landmark study finds…the findings showed that lockdowns had been ‘a global policy failure of gigantic proportions…the biggest policy mistake in modern times.’” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/06/04/first-lockdown-prevented-1700-deaths-landmark-study-finds/
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THREAD – The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way. 1/
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Early COVID data from China had suggested that ventilators would need to be used widely in the treatment of COVID patients, and this led to a major rush by politicians and hospitals to procure tens of thousands of ventilators. A small sample of the headlines from that period. 2/
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However, it soon became clear that ventilators were being vastly overused. Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower, sounding the alarm in a widely-shared video. 3/
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In interviews with major media outlets, several practitioners later disclosed that patients had often been put on ventilators not for their own benefit, but in order to protect hospital staff and stop the virus from spreading. 4/
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As Dr. Rich McCormick told the House COVID Select Subcommittee, “we were intubating people that probably shouldn’t have been intubated.” 5/
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As Meredith Case, an internal medicine resident at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital, put it in a series of since-deleted threads, hospitals were “early intubating” patients for “many days if not weeks” “to avoid aerosolizing procedures to protect staff.” 6/
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This practice of prolonged intubation was apparently consistent with guidance from China. As Zeynep Tufekci had put it, “Chinese scientists” advised “many COVID-19 patients need to stay on mechanical ventilators as long as four weeks.” 7/
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Some hospitals in New York began engaging in “split-ventilation”—putting patients on ventilators two-at-a-time. “Split-ventilation” made intubation even more dangerous than it already was. 8/
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Even Anthony Fauci eventually admitted that having “very very readily put people on mechanical ventilation” may have “caused more harm than good.” 9/
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The New Yorker featured a harrowing account of one early victim’s final moments before he was put on a ventilator and died—even though he didn’t even “feel sick” at the time he was intubated. 10/
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A study in JAMA later revealed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over age 65 put on mechanical ventilators. Patients over age 65 were more than 26 times as likely to survive if they were NOT placed on mechanical ventilators. 11/
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Overall, mortality among COVID patients in New York area hospitals fell by over two-thirds between spring 2020 and summer 2020. 12/
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Yet astonishingly, despite all this evidence, the establishment is arguing that *no patients* were killed by ventilators in spring 2020. An astonishing argument, even by the abysmal standards of the COVID era. 13/
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The data bears out that ventilator use was sharply curtailed after spring 2020. Overall, CDC data shows that about 10,000 patients died with COVID in NYC hospitals after being put on ventilators in spring 2020. 14/ https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-great-covid-ventilator-death
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As I’ve previously written, the percentage increase in excess deaths in the greater New York area in spring 2020 vastly outstrips the percentage increase even in other cities with similar climate and social and economic demographics. 15/ https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/an-estimated-30000-americans-were
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Further, as @ewoodhouse7 has documented in meticulous detail, New York City experienced an unnaturally sharp, breathtaking mortality event just after its lockdown began, unlike anywhere where else or at any other time. 16/ (Source: CDC Wonder mortality, 2018–last month).
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
A side-by-side comparison of inpatient hospital mortality from 2018 to present in NYC vs America’s other largest metro areas illustrates this unnatural, sharp spike in mortality in NYC in spring 2020. 17/ (Source: CDC Wonder mortality, 2018–last month).
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Moreover, the spike in mortality among young people is inconsistent with COVID’s heavily-stratified IFR by age. This is the most widely-cited data on COVID’s IFR by age. Thus, the unnatural spike in mortality in NYC in spring 2020 cannot be attributed to COVID. 18/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
The establishment has responded with studies claiming “early intubation” actually reduced time on ventilators, but this is a straw-man. The real issue is whether patients were put on ventilators unnecessarily, or kept on them too long. 19/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Even more strangely, most attorneys with whom I’ve discussed the ventilator issue agree that there’s actually little litigation risk for the medical establishment given the perceived global emergency and the information coming from China at the time. 20/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
This, too, leads me to believe that the real number of patients killed by ventilators must be frighteningly high; even absent any real litigation risk, the embarrassment alone is leading to this broad cover-up. 21/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Given all the clumsy, self-contradictory arguments about ventilator deaths coming from the medical establishment, you’ve probably gathered that these are not sophisticated crooks. Rather, these are ordinary people who can’t seem to face what really happened. 22/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
As I detailed in Snake Oil, it’s the hallmark of any great dictator to be able to bring out the evil even in ordinary people. And some men are uncannily good at what they do. 23/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Nonetheless, the situation is morally inexcusable. We need to know how these patients died, not only so we know what really happened during the initial response to COVID in spring 2020, but also because it’s the least we can do to honor the deceased. /end https://www.michaelpsenger.com/p/the-great-covid-ventilator-death
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
THREAD – The Ultimate COVID Video Library A semi-chronological, open-access library of the most important and viral video clips from throughout the response to COVID. This thread has no end, so videos after the first hundred or so may be added ad hoc. Be sure to bookmark! 1/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Jan 2020 – Shortly after Xi Jinping announces the strictest lockdown in history in Wuhan, China, videos begin going viral all over the world supposedly showing Wuhan residents spontaneously collapsing and falling to their deaths from the new virus. 2/ https://t.co/Wrg21sEnrn
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Feb 2020 – In some of the most powerful propaganda of the entire COVID saga, viral videos purport to show CCP officials welding Wuhan residents into their homes to prevent them from going outside during lockdown. 3/ https://t.co/hX52Xh5bzs
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Feb 2020 – A viral video shows Chinese police with the word SWAT written on their uniforms in English catching a man with a butterfly net for removing his mask during Wuhan’s lockdown. 4/ https://t.co/nQs0ebEvJy
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Jan 2020 – WHO Director Tedros Adhanom heaps praise on Xi Jinping and China for the lockdown of Wuhan. However, the lockdown, being only days old, hadn’t produced any results, so Tedros was actually praising human rights abuses with nothing to show fro them. 5/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Feb 2020 – In the WHO’s official press conference on Wuhan’s COVID response, Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, waxes rhapsodic about the Wuhan lockdown: “What China has demonstrated is, you have to do this.” 6/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Feb 2020 – Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, explains how Wuhan’s COVID lockdown supposedly flattened the curve. “This is extremely important for China, but it’s extremely important for the rest of the world.” 7/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Shortly after advising the entire world to copy China’s lockdown policy, Bruce Aylward, head of the WHO-China Joint Mission, refuses to acknowledge Taiwan’s existence. 8/ https://t.co/qQkFCeRtJq
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – An anchor for CGTN, China’s largest state TV outlet, explains the “new norm” of “lockdown.” “We traded a little of our freedom for the greater good… This is exactly what Europe and America should know.” 9/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announces a lockdown of all of Italy—the first lockdown of an entire country in the history of the western world. 10/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Footage of empty streets across Italy as the entire country is placed under lockdown. 11/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Military police in Italy use automated drones to enforce the lockdown and monitor compliance with COVID restrictions. 12/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – A video goes ultra-viral all over the world showing Italians in lockdown with “a message to themselves from 10 days prior” urging viewers to be more afraid of the new coronavirus. 13/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Tomás Pueyo, an influencer whose ultra-viral articles convinced many officials to adopt COVID lockdown policies, goes on tour advising leaders all over the world to adopt strict lockdowns. Here, Pueyo debates UK SAGE leader John Edmunds. 14/ https://t.co/vKsvZe5kWR
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Anthony Fauci, Deborah Birx, and Donald Trump smile and laugh as they announce “15 Days to Slow the Spread,” arguably the most destructive policy ever implemented in US history at the domestic level. 15/ https://t.co/UehUNnPyus
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Cars line up for miles at food banks as COVID lockdowns begin in the United States. 16/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – People line up around the block in freezing temperatures outside grocery stores as COVID lockdowns begin in the United States. 17/ https://t.co/A9fRbKdaaY
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
March 2020 – Footage of empty streets across New York City during lockdown. 18/ https://t.co/TkIdU4v4j3
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – Stranded workers thrown out of their factory jobs march in exodus to villages thousands of miles away during lockdown in India. 19/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – People line up for miles to receive food rations during lockdown in South Africa. 20/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – Under the banner of #Masks4All, a video goes viral all over the world touting the false claim that cloth masks had stopped the spread of COVID in the Czech Republic. This false claim played a major role in mask mandates all over the world. 21/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – The city of Los Angeles orders a skate park to be filled with sand so youth won’t try to go outside and skate during lockdown. 22/ https://t.co/3CQCApykGc
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – Police detain a mother in Idaho for taking her kids to play at the playground during lockdown. 23/ https://t.co/tCi4lgtMVU
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Spring 2020 – ‘The COVID Religion’: A compilation of some of the most insane scenes of petty authoritarianism, theater, and mass psychosis during peak COVID hysteria. 24/ https://t.co/1Ym7lumvEu
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – Chinese state media shares a video of a 7-year-old girl reciting a script on the importance of obeying COVID lockdown orders. “I am only 7 years old. I understand it, but why do some adults not get it?” 25/ https://t.co/izARFKhiiS
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
May 2020 – Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet and lead advisor to the UK, said the world should thank China for lockdown: “Not only the right thing to do, but it also showed other countries how they should respond… I think we have a great deal to thank China for.” 26/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Spring 2020 – During peak COVID lockdown, high-production-value TikTok videos of nurses performing choreographed dance routines across the world began going viral. They appear to have been produced at significant cost, but the reason remains a mystery. 27/ https://t.co/IX8YzyH0im
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – In a viral video, Dr. Cameron Kyle-Sidell acted as an early whistleblower about COVID ventilator protocols that “will lead to a tremendous amount of harm.” Indeed, a study later revealed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over age 65 placed on ventilators. 28/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
July 2020 – Jeremy Hunt, powerful UK establishment politician and current Chancellor of the Exchequer, praises China’s draconian “Zero Covid” and quarantine measures and advocates for the UK to emulate them. 29/ https://t.co/fFZXG6R9vs
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
July 2020 – In a brief limited hangout, FBI Director Christopher Wray discloses that the CCP specifically approached local politicians across the United States to endorse its pandemic response. “Yes, this is happening at both the federal and state levels.” 30/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Aug 2020 – Deborah Birx: “I wish when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy…people weren’t allowed out of their houses, and they couldn’t come out but once every two weeks to buy groceries…had to have a certificate that said they were allowed.” 31/ https://t.co/QASLEUeoRB
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
May 2020 – Stephanie Warriner, a patient at a hospital in Toronto, is forcibly restrained by hospital staff for not properly wearing her mask. Her body is then wheeled away, having died from “restraint asphyxia following struggle and exertion.” 32/ https://t.co/gVsHU83Qjv
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
May 2020 – An Ohio woman is arrested and tazed for refusing to wear a mask at a football game. 33/ https://t.co/xVFDe3gx0s
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
April 2020 – Deborah Birx tells the press that in the US, “if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death” regardless of any other health issues or comorbidities. 34/ https://t.co/iPg9LVniaQ
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Jul 2020 – Anthony Fauci says if a COVID PCR test only yields a positive using a CT value of 35 or more, it should not be considered a real positive. Despite this, labs across the US used a CT of 37 for years based on the original WHO guidance, inflating COVID cases ten-fold. 35/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
1993 – American biochemist Kary Mullis, who received the Nobel Prize for his invention of PCR technology, states plainly that PCR should never be used for the purpose of diagnosing illness. Mullis passed away in August 2019, just months before the first reports of COVID. 36/
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
1996 – Kary Mullis, winner of the Nobel Prize for inventing PCR, blasts Anthony Fauci for his abuse of PCR for diagnosing illness. “Fauci does not mind going on television in front of the people who pay his salary and lying directly into the camera.” 37/ https://t.co/G1FlUvDBLd
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Deborah Birx, Aug 2020: “I wish when we went into lockdown, we looked like Italy…people weren’t allowed out of their houses, and they couldn’t come out but once every 2 weeks to buy groceries…they had to have a certificate that said they were allowed.” https://t.co/QASLEUeoRB
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
The damage that lockdowns would cause was far too well known, far too uneven, and far too catastrophic to assume their chief instigators must have had good intentions. https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/no-lockdown-instigators-do-not-deserve
@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger
Doctor testifies that a woman who went into early labor was denied treatment at a hospital and had to wait in the ambulance because she hadn’t been vaccinated for COVID. She was forced to deliver her baby onboard the ambulance, attended by a paramedic. https://t.co/HyqKEsVUF6
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
THREAD - HOW ZEYNEP TUFEKCI AND JEREMY HOWARD MASKED AMERICA Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard played a decisive role shifting CDC guidance and ushering in mask mandates across America. Zeynep’s role in the COVID story goes far deeper than most realize. 1/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-zeynep-tufekci-and-jeremy-howard https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-zeynep-tufekci-and-jeremy-howard
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
After three years of speculation, an authoritative gold-standard Cochrane review including results from 78 peer-reviewed RCTs confirmed that across populations, masks, regardless of type, made “little to no difference” in preventing COVID or flu. 2/ https://www.city-journal.org/new-cochrane-study-on-masks-and-covid
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
The Cochrane review seemed to settle the matter. Mask opponents had their trump card. But alas, the pro-mask establishment responded with a trump card of their own: an NYT op-ed by Zeynep Tufekci: “Here’s Why the Science Is Clear That Masks Work” 3/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
This new trump card was a disaster for mask opponents—the proverbial queen of spades—and it quickly went viral among mask devotees, newly reassured in the righteousness of their talismans, drowning out news of the Cochrane review itself. 4/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Yet Zeynep’s op-ed brought new attention to a lingering question: Where exactly did all these mask mandates come from? Why did the US CDC suddenly reverse its longstanding guidance and begin recommending masks for the first time in modern history in April 2020? 5/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep’s first article on COVID appeared Feb 27, 2020, in which she stressed the importance of getting ready for major disruptions during COVID in order to “flatten the curve.” At the time, her advice on masks followed the public health establishment. 6/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/preparing-for-coronavirus-to-strike-the-u-s/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Over the next few days, Zeynep’s views on masking apparently changed dramatically, and this about-face would have a profound impact on all Americans. As NYT wrote, her writing in the next few days was the “tipping point” changing CDC’s masking guidance. 7/ https://nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/23/business/media/how-zeynep-tufekci-keeps-getting-the-big-things-right.html
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Around this time, Zeynep began working with Howard, who founded the American branch of #Masks4All. Howard is a WEF AI expert and something of a Sinophile who repeatedly advocated for the use of information and expertise from China during COVID. 8/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
It’s not entirely clear how they began working together. Zeynep and Howard’s first public interaction regarding COVID was when Howard cited Zeynep as a contributor to his viral March 9, 2020 article encouraging shutdowns on China’s example. 9/ https://fast.ai/posts/2020-03-09-coronavirus.html https://www.fast.ai/posts/2020-03-09-coronavirus.html
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Howard says he’d been inspired by a viral video posted on March 14, 2020, by Petr Ludwig, a founder of the original #Masks4All movement in the Czech Republic, in which Ludwig encouraged everyone to wear homemade masks. 10/ https://youtube.com/watch?v=K5xy2n941jM… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5xy2n941jM
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
The internationalization of #Masks4All was based on the story that universal adoption of homemade masks in the Czech Republic had “slowed the spread” of COVID cases, preventing them from “growing exponentially” as they had in the rest of the world. 11/ https://youtu.be/HhNo_IOPOtU
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
This story was always false, if not a lie. Today, the Czech Republic is among the 10 worst countries in the world in terms of its recorded number of “COVID deaths.” Yet this falsehood was the impetus for #Masks4All and soon a basis for mask mandates across the world. 12/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
With the assistance of the WEF Young Global Leaders, Howard published “Simple DIY masks could help flatten the curve. We should all wear them in public.” in WaPo, gushing about the Czech Republic’s mask mandate and citing Chinese CDC Director George Gao. 13/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
We see Gao’s emphasis on “droplets” reflected throughout Howard and Zeynep’s work. For example, the “sources” section of the official #Masks4All website prominently features another quote on droplets from Gao: 14/ https://masks4all.org/sources
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Howard then went on a media blitz. As Howard tells it, his GMA interview, in which he was joined by Fauci, was monumental in that it was the first time Fauci had ever come to advise mask use by the American public. GMA also repeated Gao’s quote on masks preventing “droplets”. 15/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Howard then discussed masking with Senator Pat Toomey, who briefed the CDC and President Trump. The next day, Trump announced that universal masking might be needed. 16/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Howard then began making inroads at the CDC, which was still reluctant to reverse its longstanding guidance on masks because “the science wasn’t strong enough.” So Howard “tried to ratchet up the public pressure.” 17/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep and Howard submitted their preprint, an “interdisciplinary narrative review of the literature on the role of face masks in reducing COVID-19 transmission,” soon the most-viewed paper of all time on http://preprints.org. It begins: 18/ https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118 http://preprints.org. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
In their paper, Zeynep and Howard argued that “everyone, adults and children, should wear masks,” citing as a major benefit masks’ potential to “shape new societal behaviors” as “a visible signal and reminder of the pandemic.” 19/ https://pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014564118
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
The CDC officially reversed its mask guidance on April 3, 2020, and Zeynep and Howard’s preprint was a factor. Zeynep and Howard then turned their focus toward getting states to mandate masks. 20/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
USA Today published Zeynep and Howard’s op-ed, titled “Over 100 health leaders to governors: Require masks to help contain the coronavirus,” in which they wrote it was necessary to have “80% of the population wearing masks to stop the spread.” 21/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/05/14/require-masks-stop-coronavirus-spread-over-100-health-leaders-column/5182076002/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Over the next three years, mask use exceeded 80% of the population in countless states and countries, but in no instance did it “stop the spread” of COVID. 22/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Howard had no relevant credentials in the field, but he was forceful. When virologist Angela Rasmussen questioned his analysis, Howard went so far as to email her boss to demand a “public retraction” of her critique. 23/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep and Howard were invited to present their masking preprint and advise the WHO. When WHO officials expressed concern that people wearing masks might start behaving recklessly, Zeynep advised them, “No, listen, I’m a sociologist, I know that’s not true.” 24/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
In Zeynep’s work, we see this repeated insistence that masks have no “plausible” downsides. Zeynep claimed the WHO “went out of their way to inflate a harms list,” and decried doctors focused on “alleged ‘harms’” which she believed to be “ridiculous.” 25/ https://kelleyk.substack.com/p/where-us-mask-rhetoric-went-wrong
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Though it’s always been well known that COVID poses virtually no risk to schoolchildren, Zeynep repeatedly advocated child masking, urging school mask mandates on the false basis “even the vaccinated may pose a danger to unvaccinated children.” 26/ https://nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/24/opinion/coronavius-vaccine-masks.html
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep’s indifference to harms during the response to COVID wasn’t limited to masking. Though the policy had no precedent in the modern western world until Xi’s lockdown of Wuhan and wasn’t part of any pandemic plan, Zeynep argued the US “should be in full lockdown.” 27/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Later, Zeynep wrote about "3 Ways the Pandemic Has Made the World Better," citing “mRNA vaccines,” new “digital infrastructure,” and the fact we’d “unleashed the true spirit of peer review and open science” as reasons to be thankful for COVID. 28/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/03/three-ways-pandemic-has-bettered-world/618320/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Like Matt Pottinger, Zeynep pushed for more COVID interventions in part based on information from China, though she simultaneously fashions herself as something of a China hawk and supports the “lab leak theory” of COVID’s origins. 29/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/matt-pottinger-the-intelligence-agent
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Despite knowing that “no scientist in China can operate truly freely,” when it came to arguing in favor of more COVID interventions, Zeynep repeatedly advocated the use of information from Chinese scientists, apparently without questioning any of it. 30/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Eg, Zeynep advocated for increased ventilator use in early March 2020 based on information from Chinese scientists, noting in a widely-shared tweet that “Chinese scientists” had advised “many COVID-19 patients need to stay on mechanical ventilators as long as four weeks.” 31/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Indeed, in journal articles, “Chinese expert consensus” had advised ventilators as the “first choice” for COVID. This advice was slurped up by the WHO and spat out all over the world in the WHO’s initial guidance on ventilators for COVID patients. 32/ https://who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinical-management-of-novel-cov.pdf https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/clinical-management-of-novel-cov.pdf
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
This guidance proved extremely deadly. JAMA later revealed a 97.2% mortality rate among those over 65 put on ventilators in accordance with initial WHO guidance. Overall, mortality among COVID patients in NY hospitals fell over 2/3 after spring 2020. 33/ https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2765184
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
The initial ventilator guidance from Chinese scientists led to countless thousands of deaths. Yet despite having specifically disseminated this guidance—while knowing “no scientist in China can operate truly freely”—Zeynep never apologized or acknowledged the error. 34/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Finally, Zeynep’s op-ed on the recent Cochrane review. The title is a lie, given it specifically calls for scientists to “continue to collect data on mask wearing.” 35/ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/10/opinion/masks-work-cochrane-study.html
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep relies on a selection of clinical studies, none of which are RCTs; this same level of evidence would show that any number of silly things work against COVID, from ginseng to magnesium to melatonin to fish oil. 36/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Zeynep cites a trial from Bangladesh which found an 11% reduction in COVID cases when villagers were given masks, without disclosing a re-analysis that found no benefit and attributed that finding to bias. 37/ https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13063-022-06704-z
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Glaringly, Zeynep apparently didn’t disclose her advocacy or conflicting narrative review concluding “everyone, adults and children,” should wear masks when she elicited Cochrane’s EIC’s clarification of the wording of the review’s conclusion. 38/ https://disinformationchronicle.substack.com/p/unmasking-the-new-york-times-zeynep
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Regarding Zeynep and Howard’s masking of America, there are only two possibilities—neither good. The first is it was essentially scripted theater—a pretext for actions that a network of elites was planning to take anyway, unbeknownst to the public. 39/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-zeynep-tufekci-and-jeremy-howard
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
The second possibility is that it really was this easy for ambitious activists with no relevant expertise to convince institutional leaders to reverse longstanding public health guidance—who then spent years closing their ears to all contrary evidence. 40/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Either way, Zeynep pushed falsehoods and harmful policies based on info from China. She and Howard played a decisive role in the mask mandates that so intimately affected every American, for dubious reasons like “shaping new societal norms.” /end https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/how-zeynep-tufekci-and-jeremy-howard
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
THREAD: Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for COVID to Ring In the ‘New Normal’ Balaji’s ‘prophecies’ may be the best evidence yet that there was a plan to recreate China’s COVID response globally, down to the particular details of how the world would transform. 1/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Going back to the initial weeks of 2020, prior to the western world’s first lockdown in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21, it’s remarkable how normal things were. The Atlantic, for example, published a great piece titled You’re Likely to https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/02/covid-vaccine/607000/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
There was Xi’s lockdown in Wuhan, but most commentators opined on how brutal and illiberal it was. One thing virtually no one in the world was doing prior to the lockdown of Lombardy was hoping the rest of the world would adopt China’s lockdown policy. 3/ https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/02/chinas-reaction-to-the-coronavirus-outbreak-violates-human-rights
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Among the few people in the world who looked positively on the prospect of global adoption of China’s lockdowns, one stands out: Balaji Srinivasan, a tech mogul who couldn’t tweet enough about all the details of the “new normal” the world would soon see 4/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Balaji first began tweeting about the new virus on Jan 30, 2020. This is the same day an anonymous stock tip was posted saying the WHO was already privately planning to recreate China’s response across the world, first by locking down Italian cities. 5/ https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/241674007/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Balaji’s first tweets on the subject came in the form of a detailed and widely-shared thread about all the changes the world would soon see if this turned out to be “the pandemic that public health people have been warning about for years.” 6/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Like the anonymous stock tip, an unbelievable number of Balaji’s seemingly-wild “predictions” turned out to be near-perfect prognoses. With the entire world following China’s containment model, remote work did soon take over the world. 7/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Though they’d been ruled out by existing public health literature across the western world, everyone did soon begin wearing face masks following a sharp, unscientific reversal by the public health establishment in April 2020. 8/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
And, governments across the world did sharply reduce the approval time for vaccine development. 9/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Days later, Balaji posted another thread in which he observed the Wuhan lockdown would precipitate a flip into digital life, moving “away from handshakes, restaurants, and public gatherings.” 10/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Balaji “predicted” it would take a year for a vaccine to arrive, and in the meantime, the rest of the world would follow Wuhan’s COVID response into this new form of “remote life.” 11/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Balaji’s language about moving away from “handshakes” mirrored that which would soon come from leading public health officials including Anthony Fauci, who two months later suggested that Americans should never shake hands again due to COVID. 12/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
This idea that COVID would soon lead the world into a “new normal” is one that Balaji repeated several times. 13/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Like his messaging about moving away from “handshakes,” Balaji’s exact term, the “new normal,” would soon be used by leading pro-lockdown officials all over the world—such as vocal “Zero Covid” advocate Walter Ricciardi, liaison between WHO and Italy. 14/ https://sciencemediahub.eu/2020/03/27/how-to-achieve-the-nuova-normalita/amp/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
Balaji was especially excited about all the CCP propaganda on new tech being deployed during China’s lockdowns, owing to their “wartime levels of medical innovation.” 15/
@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger
After the WHO issued its February 2020 report endorsing the global adoption of China’s lockdowns, NYT reporter Donald McNeil wrote an article admiring how “China is a place where a leader can ask himself, ‘What would Mao do?’ and just do it.” 16/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/28/sunday-review/coronavirus-quarantine.html
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At the time, many commentators found the idea of copying China’s lockdown policy so ridiculous that they thought McNeil’s article had to be satire. 17/
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But Balaji cited McNeil’s article positively in a thread about how Saint Louis had supposedly saved many lives by canceling parades during the Spanish flu, a kind of propaganda story shared widely as part of the initial justification for lockdowns. 18/
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Balaji later cited one of McNeil’s interviews for the proposition that “we should know *exactly* what the Chinese did, and determine which of those features are compatible with our ethics and which are not, and then execute.” 19/
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Balaji expressed great admiration for Bill Gates, an influential advocate for the global adoption of China’s lockdown policies, and on multiple occasions proposed the idea of making Bill Gates America’s “virus czar.” 20/
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Gates later complained “freedom” was hindering the western COVID response; China, by contrast, “did a very good job of suppressing the virus,” he said, thanks to the “authoritarian” approach and the “individual rights that were violated.” 21/
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On many occasions, Balaji stressed that leaders needed to be more afraid of the coronavirus, quoting WHO Director Tedros Adhanom: “All countries must use the window of opportunity created by the containment strategy to prepare for the virus’s possible arrival.” 22/
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When a tech reporter wrote an article poking fun at Balaji’s tweets, he wrote a detailed thread in retort, purporting to show why panic about COVID was justified—while also taking the opportunity to plug “tech the Chinese are using to fight virus.” 23/
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To recap, Balaji, a high-profile investor, began tweeting on January 30, 2020—three weeks before the modern western world’s first-ever lockdown in Lombardy, Italy—and the same day an anonymous stock tip was posted saying: 24/ https://archive.4plebs.org/pol/thread/241674007/
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Balaji had supposedly predicted COVID would be a global pandemic; the world would adopt China’s lockdown policy; everyone would soon wear a mask; life would go remote; it would take a year for a vaccine to arrive; and by that time the world would shift into a “new normal.” 25/
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Frankly, I don’t buy it. Balaji’s supposed fear of the coronavirus seems belied by the excitement he so frequently expressed about all the new tech being unveiled in Wuhan, as well as his utter loss of interest in COVID after spring 2020. 26/
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Imo, it’s far more likely Balaji is exactly the kind of “high profile investor” described in the stock tip, who’d caught wind of the seismic plans being hatched by the WHO and their collaborators to recreate China’s COVID response across the world. 27/
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Astonishingly, Balaji even referred to lockdown in the US as a “bottom-up” policy—utterly belied by the fact he was one of only a few people in the world who’d expressed anything close to a desire to emulate China’s lockdowns prior to Lombardy. 28/
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Unlike Tomás Pueyo, it’s unlikely that Balaji’s Twitter prophecies had a major effect on policy—though he did spread a bit of panic to bring these outcomes about. 29/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/tomas-pueyo-returns-the-mba-who-shut
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Rather, Balaji’s Twitter ‘prophecies’ may be the best evidence yet that there was a plan to recreate China’s COVID response globally, down to the particular terms and details of how the world would transform. /end https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/balaji-srinivasan-the-man-who-couldnt
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THREAD – Nuremberg 2: What a Real Inquiry into the Response to COVID Would Look Like Given the magnitude of the harm that’s been done, the public deserves to know exactly who knew and did what, when, and why in the days leading up to the lockdowns of spring 2020 and beyond. 1/
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Though it may not be politically feasible, ideally an inquiry into the response to COVID would take the form of an international tribunal. Below are just some of the many disturbing questions to which any leader who claims to represent the public ought to demand answers. 2/
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1. Why did the CDC suddenly adopt “measures to increase social distance” as official policy in 2004, contrary to all the epidemiological guidance it had developed throughout the 20th century? 3/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-real-story-of-the-birth-of-social
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2. Who was behind the campaign to export the concept of “lockdown” to Liberia and Sierra Leone in 2014? 4/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/bombshell-template-to-export-lockdowns
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3. Some intelligence reports have indicated that members of the western national security community were aware a new virus had emerged in China by fall 2019. What was being said about the virus at that time? 5/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-earliest-events-of-the-covid
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4. If some national security officials had been worrying about a new virus in China since fall 2019, how could they have possibly believed China’s two-month lockdown of Wuhan eliminated the virus several months later? 6/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/lockdown-is-a-national-security-catastrophe
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5. By January 2020, tips began to emerge that the World Health Organization was planning to recreate China’s lockdowns across the world, starting in Italy. When and on what basis did the World Health Organization make this decision? 7/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-dragnet-in-lombardy-italy-patient
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6. Lockdowns had been ruled out by the pandemic plans of the WHO and every developed nation. Why weren’t these pandemic plans followed? 8/ https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/masked-ball-cowardice
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7. Why were health security officials talking about “curfews of indefinite duration” by February 24, 2020? 9/ https://multipolar-magazin.de/artikel/how-the-lockdown-came-to-germany
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8. Why does the WHO’s February 2020 report rely on flagrant logical fallacies in its promulgation of China’s lockdown measures as global policy? 10/ https://www.aier.org/article/whats-behind-the-whos-lockdown-mixed-messaging/
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9. Why was the current Director of National Intelligence sitting next to China’s CDC director at the Event 201 simulation of a coronavirus pandemic in October 2019, just weeks before a real coronavirus pandemic emerged? 11/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-prophetic-monkeypox-simulation
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10. Former White House COVID Coordinator Deborah Birx has made conflicting statements about how she got her job. The former Deputy National Security Advisor offered her a job in the White House as far back as Nov 2019. How was Birx chosen for this? 12/ https://brownstone.org/articles/how-did-deborah-birx-get-the-job/
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11. Who was behind the terror campaign of fake videos showing Wuhan residents spontaneously dying and convulsing in the streets in January and February 2020? 13/ https://www.revolver.news/2021/02/how-phony-coronavirus-fear-videos-were-used-as-psychological-weapons-to-bring-america-to-her-knees/
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12. Why is there no record of the hero doctor Li Wenliang before he appeared in Chinese state media at the end of January 2020? On what basis did western media outlets adopt this story as true? 14/ https://redstate.com/michael_thau/2021/01/12/308650-n308650
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13. High-level national security officials have stated that Covid came from a lab in Wuhan. At the same time, high-level scientific officials have stated it is “molecularly impossible” for Covid to have come from there. Why the disconnect? 15/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/drastic-founder-renounces-lab-leak
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14. Why has overwhelming peer-reviewed evidence that COVID was already spreading globally by fall 2019 been so widely downplayed by federal officials and major media outlets? 16/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/leading-virologists-wrongfully-assumed
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15. Reports have revealed that military leaders saw COVID as a unique opportunity to test propaganda techniques on the public. Who advised western leaders to use military-grade propaganda on their own people? 17/ https://nationalpost.com/news/national/defence-watch/military-leaders-saw-pandemic-as-unique-opportunity-to-test-propaganda-techniques-on-canadians-forces-report-says/wcm/22733c97-39f0-4ba4-8a26-478af5e215f3
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16. Some officials in the UK later expressed contrition about the fear campaigns that the UK Government used on its own people to convince them to support Covid mandates. How was the decision to use these fear campaigns made? 18/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/05/14/scientists-admit-totalitarian-use-fear-control-behaviour-covid/
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17. Who was behind the massive bot and astroturf campaigns to popularize lockdowns among western citizens and officials in March 2020? 19/ https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
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18. How many deaths were caused by the WHO’s initial guidance on mechanical ventilators, which cited Chinese journal articles advising ventilators as the “first choice” for those hospitalized with Covid? 20/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/an-estimated-30000-americans-were
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19. The initial guidance from the WHO advised using mechanical ventilators not necessarily for the patient’s benefit, but to control the spread of the virus. Why was the WHO advising doctors to violate the Hippocratic Oath? 21/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/hospitals-retreat-from-early-covid-treatment-and-return-to-basics-11608491436
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20. Why were numerous, credible predictions of famine, human rights disasters, and economic collapse as a result of lockdowns ignored at the time they were implemented? 22/ https://brownstone.org/articles/governments-were-given-credible-warnings-about-lockdown-harms-but-didnt-listen/
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21. Why was natural immunity to COVID so long downplayed? 23/ https://brownstone.org/articles/the-psychological-cruelty-of-denying-natural-immunity/
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22. Why were initial seroprevalence studies demonstrating COVID’s ubiquity downplayed? 24/ https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1
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23. Why were beaches and other outdoor spaces closed? 25/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/lockdowns-the-great-gaslighting
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24. Why was the public kept in the dark about low early estimates of COVID’s infection fatality rate? 26/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/
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25. What was the source of the guidance to move patients who were still sick into nursing homes? 27/ https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-requesting-data-governors-states-issued-covid-19-orders-may-have-resulted
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26. Remdesivir and midazolam were initially widely used, but didn’t lead to positive health outcomes. How was the decision made to use these over other treatment protocols? 28/ https://www.science.org/content/article/very-very-bad-look-remdesivir-first-fda-approved-covid-19-drug
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27. Leading officials have made conflicting statements as to whether the goal of lockdowns was to eliminate the virus, slow the spread, or buy time for vaccines. What was the actual goal they had in mind at the time they implemented these policies? 29/ https://thedispatch.com/article/our-failed-covid-response/
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28. Why did key public health officials make statements about using the response to COVID to advance non-health-related policy goals? 30/ https://dailysceptic.org/2022/08/05/neil-ferguson-china-and-a-fanatical-socialist-health-minister-the-untold-story-of-how-lockdowns-came-to-italy-and-the-west/
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29. How was the decision made to suppress and censor scientific opinions that dissented from lockdowns? 31/ https://www.wsj.com/articles/fauci-collins-emails-great-barrington-declaration-covid-pandemic-lockdown-11640129116
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30. Why were so many federal officials so intimately involved in the censorship of dissenting COVID opinions on social media? 32/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/faucis-red-guards-lawsuit-reveals
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31. Why were social media executives given Top Secret US Security Clearances for purposes of censoring content, and what was the vetting process, if any, for these clearances? 33/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/fbi-agent-elvis-chan-gave-twitter
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32. Why were federal officials working so closely with Twitter to censor legal speech by American citizens while an AI expert with deep ties to the military of America’s chief adversary was on Twitter’s Board of Directors? 34/ https://www.jenniferzengblog.com/home/2020/5/25/twitters-new-director-has-ccp-ties-deeper-than-you-know-fei-fei-li
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33. Why did elite western newspapers, media networks, and public health leaders so diligently repeat the absurd line that China had eliminated Covid by shutting down one city for two months? 35/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/chinese-protest-the-same-lockdowns
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34. Why did elite western publications begin explicitly urging the public to adopt a response to COVID that was more like China’s? 36/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-gall-of-lockdowners-supporting
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35. Why were mechanical drones initially deployed by various states and countries to monitor lockdown compliance? 37/ https://www.nationalreview.com/news/chinese-company-suspected-of-spying-on-u-s-citizens-donates-police-drones-to-22-states/
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36. Why did masks shift from being not advised to being mandatory? 38/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51729647
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37. The New York Times confirmed that at the standard cycle threshold level used for PCR testing, 85 to 90% of Covid cases were false positives. How did this practice become standard? 39/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html
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38. Why were widely-known and publicized problems with PCR testing and comorbidities ignored for purposes of counting COVID deaths? 40/ https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/deceptive-construction-why-we-must-question-covid-19-mortality-statistics
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39. Why did key public health officials so quickly shift from saying vaccines would prevent Covid to saying proof of vaccination should be mandatory to partake in everyday activities? 41/
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40. Why has there been so little public discussion of China’s influence on the global response to COVID, despite the FBI Director’s disclosure that Chinese officials were “aggressively urging support for China’s handling of the COVID-19 crisis?” 42/
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41. Why were governments across the western world so deferential to Neil Ferguson and Imperial College during the response to COVID, despite Imperial having the closest relationship with China of any western university? 43/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/168497/chinese-president-sees-uk-china-academic-partnerships/
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42. Why has the editor-in-chief of the Lancet been so publicly deferential to China? 44/ https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1187265.shtml
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43/ Why did Bill Gates express such admiration for China’s response to Covid? 45/
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44/ How did a 40-year member of the British Communist Party with no background in epidemiology become a leading advisor to the UK Government on COVID, and why was she recently promoted to lead the WHO’s nudge unit? 46/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/uk-sages-susan-michie-promoted-to
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45. Why did economists at leading universities assume that a short, sharp lockdown would “eliminate the resurgence risk” when the policy had no precedent? 47/ https://www.igmchicago.org/surveys/policy-for-the-covid-19-crisis/
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46. Why did politicians and public health officials demonstrate so little concern for following their own COVID rules? 48/
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47. If COVID was actually deadly enough to kill millions and justify an indefinite state of emergency, why has so little effort been expended to hold China accountable for its initial coverup of that virus? 49/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/the-china-situation-isnt-as-bad-as
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Though many in positions of power would prefer we forgot, the strict lockdowns that consumed the world in 2020 are extremely well documented. Until we have real answers as to how exactly they happened, and why, we won’t be living in a real democracy. /end https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/nuremberg-ii-what-a-real-inquiry