@boriquagato - el gato malo
the h1n1 scare was a scandal around a weak virus and a vaccine that had to be pulled off the market for harming people indeed, we do need to learn from the past, stop doing this, and abandon mRNA and adenovirus as failed vaccine modalities let's stop falling for fear porn.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
swine flu, h1n1, zika, dengue, ebola, monkeypox, there are an infinite number of hobgoblins waiting to audition to be the "new scary thing" and drive budgets. and we keep winding up in the same mess because crisis sells papers and pharma alike. h5n1 is just the latest model.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and calling this a 56% CFR is absurd when you're talking about 2 cases since 2015. these are obviously people with some congenital vulnerability or extreme immune issues. you cannot conclude anything meaningful about genpop from that. seems a badly misleading story inclusion.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and seriously, what is it with you germaphobes and always wanting to kill the minks? what did they ever do to you?
@boriquagato - el gato malo
all this "we need to be ready now to make a zillion doses of implausible vaxx using bad methods" is just pharma profiteering and now they want it in the food. but they pay big for ads. pay the piper, call the tune. and people wonder why no one trusts these outlets anymore...
@boriquagato - el gato malo
but at least it's not like that sort of rush job plan has ever caused problems before. oh, wait... https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/tthis-chicken-vaccine-makes-virus-dangerous
@boriquagato - el gato malo
sourced from people with conflict of interest, sensational, and attention grabbing to lure readers and feather nests for sponsors. at a certain point, it just gets sad. https://t.co/nFkG6jTfSJ
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the track record of this "perpetual pandemic preparedness planning" is a debacle of health failure, regulatory and state capture, and tidy earnings for the companies that stoke the fear. but you can only go to this well so many times. then the well runs dry. https://t.co/VRvM6ggFSk
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the way to break the panic porn cycle is to stop falling for the "prepare for the new scary thing" con. this plan doesn't work and never has. it won't be better or smarter next time. it's going to be the same grift from the same grifters. and the answer is simple: https://t.co/Kn5kSb4M4l
@boriquagato - el gato malo
buy an EV, wind up regulated by the PUC. cannot charge at peak times. now you're going to need to include "car to grid" capability as backup power for ruinous generation policies. https://t.co/Locse73FcC
@boriquagato - el gato malo
as ever, the decision makers are reality deniers and have no idea what they key salients mean. leaving aside that this is near impossible to manage, it also adds costs: $1000's per hookup and huge modifications to the grid. this will make EV's even less affordable. https://t.co/uSWMakY1fF
@boriquagato - el gato malo
it will also make them shorter lives and less reliable. you only get so many charge/discharge cycles on a battery. using it as grid backup will shorten the driving life of a car, perhaps quite a lot. then what? the owner is out quite a lot of cash.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this whole plan is absurd. it's just a doubling down of convoluted physics denial to try to prop up the failing (and flailing) green energy grift that is killing california as it foregrounds the infeasible and denies the effective it's not going to work any better this time... https://t.co/hIS1QhnVZm
@boriquagato - el gato malo
but sWeDen LOckED dOwN!! no. sweden was pretty normal in 2020. this is the google mobility data from phones. the real lie is that norway, finland, denmark locked down either. mostly, they didn't here's sweden and denmark. can you even tell the difference without labels? https://t.co/r9VnIC7iAJ
@boriquagato - el gato malo
overall winner scandanavia had drop ~20% for maybe 4 weeks then normal mobility vs ~75% in spain and 55% in UK and long periods of suppression lockdowns did not work to stop covid. at all. and they are assoc with higher all cause deaths. https://t.co/kXHNXVICll
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the clearest case here emerges from the total failure of lockdowns to bend covid curves. if they stopped spread, they'd affect the case and death count. but they don't. the curves are perfect gompertz with zero effect from drops in mobility (5/20) https://t.co/EUzzVNL3ts
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this was known and knowable. https://t.co/sFdUYqxO80
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the whole lockdown response was panic driven farce and accomplished max harm for zero gain. it bought nothing. and the honest public health folks have long admitted it. i wonder is the rest ever will? (lol. j/k. of course they won't...) https://t.co/M2ocAFqbNJ
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the level of ignorance in leo's post is astonishing. this claim of "physical barrier" is baseless and anyone can see it. masks do not work as protection or source control. they show no societal impact to mitigate spread of respiratory diseases. https://t.co/TUkLmLDsHm
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this was known and knowable. it's been studied for decades and the evidence is widespread and sound. it does not work on flu, and flu would be easier to mitigate than covid which more aerosol. https://t.co/vE5m6SbKga
@boriquagato - el gato malo
you've made these claims about the kansas study, but they are false. it was a fraudulent study using cherry picked data and timing. the full timeframe tells a different story. https://t.co/4IoFl2pMZ0
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and masks are well known not to work as source control. https://t.co/diSIouT8kA
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and as emily oster's data showed us clearly, they had no effect in schools. https://t.co/FdPsCToi0Z
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and no, N95 does not fix this. they do not outperform other mask types. https://t.co/qOfv82Vr84
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the fact is that community masking to stop a respiratory virus is not science. it's superstition. there is no compelling data for efficacy and reams showing a lack thereof. arrogant argument by assertion will not change that.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and making claims like "my contrived lab test shows X" so ignore the actual clinical, trial, and community data of masks in actual use is just a desperate plea to use inferior analysis made out of inability to provide good data.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
i agree with this assessment. it took me a while to realize it and in early 2020, i found this to be implausible because if you were going to make a bioweapon, covid would be a lousy base. then i saw daszak's DARPA grant application and realized what probably happened. 🙀
@boriquagato - el gato malo
as to why it was covered up, that seems easy: lots of powerful people funded it. when you have the NIH and DoD funding viral hotwiring in china so they can color outside the lines and they fail to supervise it, it goes way too far, and then escapes, of course they cover it up. https://t.co/CCZb5qt6Sp
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the obvious tell was how many of the people involved in the research wound up on the panels to investigate the outbreak/source. it was pure "fox commission empaneled to study henhouse murders." the pangolins never stood a chance... https://t.co/8mS6lLooay
@boriquagato - el gato malo
getting to the bottom of this and rooting out the people and practices than enable, abetted, and sought to hide this is an important undertaking. fail to do so, and this is going to happen again. let's not come up short. https://t.co/3iGaFpS26Y
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the modern green movement is mostly a luddite evangelical sect seeking to atone for some imagined fall from paradise through self-mortification and faux asceticism they use performative deprivation and obedience to cement belief in place through a process of cognitive dissonance https://t.co/MF70yOndlX
@boriquagato - el gato malo
they fail to address the real issues (like ag paying for water rights or using nuclear power) the point of these petty intrusions is not to change anything. they are rounding errors. the point is to be intrusive, to be annoying. the point is to compel your participation https://t.co/hHnCWoDiVo
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the act of participation serves as indoctrination your mind seeks cognitive harmony and when it asks "why did i do this annoying thing?" it must have an answer. and the answer it gins up is "because this is important!" because the only other answer is "i'm a dope." https://t.co/RUOHEdYc33
@boriquagato - el gato malo
social pressure is used to initiate this and ongoing performance used to cement it in place your kids come home from school braying about plastic straws @ restaurants & legislators ban them this has 0 measurable effect on the world but huge effect on society: it instills belief https://t.co/0dH2ArC0lk
@boriquagato - el gato malo
we can argue if this is planned or an emergent property of people being people, but the outcome is the same: the bigger issues like "hey let's use less packaging" are left unaddressed because they do not trigger this effect. so the whole movement winds up backwards https://t.co/2ESC97yuUc
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the denizens of the people's republic of california are told to shower quickly, let lawns die, & snitch on their neighbors for the antisocial crime of car washing meanwhile, a zillion gallons of water given away for near nothing to let famers grow alfalfa and cotton in a desert. https://t.co/4jbrnVX6qH
@boriquagato - el gato malo
modern greens push visible but useless and unserious goals they champion energy sources that do not work & resist those that do because the point is not to thrive: the point is to weave endless hair-shirts to intensify alliance to the secular religion of watermelondom https://t.co/mr9njYVU2n
@boriquagato - el gato malo
realizing this is half the battle they do not want to fix anything or to see humans flourish they want to see societies fail and are experiencing deprivation as validation this is why they are mostly so miserable as people decline their invitation to join them it's a trap https://t.co/1os9VGcs4Q
@boriquagato - el gato malo
i am not anti-ecology. i like open spaces and clean air and water. there are many real environmental issues in the world. but this nonsense is sucking all the air out of the room and leaving them unaddressed. it's not the solution. it's barrier to finding one. https://t.co/pyeXOxQhMh
@boriquagato - el gato malo
another look at UK all cause deaths by vaccination status, this time using their own ASMR data. once you consider the effect of a full series of covid vaxx, no age group sees benefit and many see serious harm. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/another-look-at-uk-all-cause-mortality
@boriquagato - el gato malo
to look at this, one might presume that certain age bands see boosted +21 days look better than unvaxxed (50-79 males, 50-89 females) but this is a meaningfully incomplete picture
@boriquagato - el gato malo
because if there is one thing we know for sure, it's that all booster > 21 days ago folks were once boosted for < 21 days. and the data from that period shows it to be a time of severely elevated risk. (many age groups were non-evaluable because of the ONS data reporting std)
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and when we add that risk in on a blended fashion to get the full effect of the booster course, the benefit disappears and then some.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
when we add in the need to have at one time been double dosed as well, we start to see greatly elevated risk ratios.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
methodology and data sources are linked in the substack. i'd be grateful if you'd read it before asking questions. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/another-look-at-uk-all-cause-mortality
@boriquagato - el gato malo
i found what i believe to be the best set of raw, age stratified all cause deaths data by vaccination status it shows that "ever vaxxed" was associated w/ 50-60% overall increase in all cause deaths in the UK by may 2022 this is a deeply worrying result https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/uk-age-stratified-all-cause-death
@boriquagato - el gato malo
higher all cause mortality was seen in all age groups and this relative risk rate was still rising in may when this series appears to have been discontinued. https://t.co/Yuzb2ncCH2
@boriquagato - el gato malo
based on this same data, VE vs covid death was rapidly declining (likely due to vaccine driven evolution to escape variants) but remained positive in may https://t.co/Ft38L23LPF
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this divergence from all cause deaths implies that either "covid deaths" are being miscounted/misattributed or that covid mortality benefit is being swamped by other forms of mortality. https://t.co/DyehOrjHH6
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because someone is sure to not read the piece and bring this up: https://t.co/k5kO1tyzqP
@boriquagato - el gato malo
continued promotion despite this negative mortality result & refusal to release raw data that clearly exists & is vital for real cost/benefit assessment leads to a pointy question: just who is “public health” protecting here? because it certainly does not seem like “the public” https://t.co/pBtbVNv04m
@boriquagato - el gato malo
i know people are going to want to jump in with ideas and criticisms and opinions and that's what twitter is for. all i ask is: please do actually read the substack first. it may answer/address your point.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
global health policy in 2020 has centered around NPI's (non-pharmaceutical interventions) like distancing, masks, school closures these have been sold as a way to stop infection as though this were science. this was never true and that fact was known and knowable. let's look.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
above is the plot of social restriction and NPI vs total death per million. there is 0 R2. this means that the variables play no role in explaining one another. we can see this same relationship between NPI and all cause deaths. this is devastating to the case for NPI.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
clearly, correlation is not proof of causality, but a total lack of correlation IS proof that there was no material causality. barring massive and implausible coincidence, it's essentially impossible to cause something and not correlate to it, especially 51 times.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this would seem to pose some very serious questions for those claiming that lockdowns work, those basing policy upon them, and those claiming this is the side of science. there is no science here nor any data. this is the febrile imaginings of discredited modelers.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this has been clear and obvious from all over the world since the beginning and had been proven so clearly by may that it's hard to imagine anyone who is actually conversant with the data still believing in these responses. everyone got the same R curve
@boriquagato - el gato malo
lockdowns were a panic response. they came LONG after disease growth curves had rolled over and had no effect overall. it's clear when you plot google mobility data vs disease curves. (this is from may)
@boriquagato - el gato malo
r2 was ~0. this was all proven by may and strongly argued by april. this data is literally overwhelming. there is just no evidence that lockdowns work.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
but got R curves that were all but indistinguishable. this issue crops up everywhere. mitigation has zero effect.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
similarly, there is no evidence that opening again had any effect either.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and this was all known. every set of longstanding pandemic guidelines contra-indicated lockdowns.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
it's 50 year old pseudoscience and the clarity with which NPI was dismissed by everyone until this year when we suddenly abandoned 100 years of science and started making stuff up and moralizing about it as though it were canon is stunning.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the same is true of masks. just last year the WHO surveyed this and found that community masking does not work. nothing has changed.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the "studies" trotted out this year are so awful as to beggar belief. they are either nonsensical lab bench presumption devoid of clinical or social outcome, or they are contrived cherry picks lacking controls. the CDC used this one. it's risible.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and you can see piles of data from the swiss policy research institute here: https://swprs.org/face-masks-evidence/
@boriquagato - el gato malo
there is no sound evidence that community masking has any effect. the evidence they work as "source control" is entirely speculative and made up. the fact that they increase, not decrease post op infection in surgical theaters is pretty damning.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and now that it's becoming clear that asymptotic spread is vanishingly rare, we can really put the final nail in the NPI coffin. this is the vector these interventions mean to head off. but it was never a serious source of infection.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
the simple fact is this: nothing we have done has made any meaningful difference covid is seasonal and regional. when your season comes, it comes NPI is not why california and peru and eastern europe did not get hit in the spring it was just regional
@boriquagato - el gato malo
then your season comes and everyone moves together. we've been mistaking baby oil for suncreeen in places where it was still night time. then, noon came and it was revealed for what it really was.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this means that all this moralizing about "you just want grandma to die" and the censorship of evidence counter to this "big lie" that lockdowns work has been at best a disastrous mistake and at worst, a cynical ploy to wreak havoc and cover past errors.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
politicians are now doubling and trebling down on lockdowns and masks because to do otherwise is to admit that they bought us $10 trillion of sugar water as medicine and wrecked our lives and livelihoods for no sound reason. they will never do that.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this is why they have shifted the debate to morality and censorship: to mask the fact that the science and the data calls them liars. repeat "i'm on the side of science" enough and scare people endlessly and you can generate social belief. but it's pure propaganda.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
these mitigations do not work to stop covid or to reduce overall deaths. this is the most expensive peace time policy debacle in human history and they all want to do it again. say no. stand up. this is not medicine, it's poison. this does not save lives, it wrecks them.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
it's easy to sell false hope to scared people. there are whole industries that prey on the desperation of parents with sick kids. but sometimes, there is just not much you can do however much you want control and want to "do something". this is one of those times.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and we need to accept that. many times, the best way to "do something" is to do nothing. "something" in this case has been a absolute disaster. we panicked into unprecedented global self-harm. it's time to stop. this is just making it worse stay brave. stay free. stay safe.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
apparently, the link i used for the asymptomatic spread study is down (crashed from so much traffic). this is the article it cites.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
also: this is the methodology for policy stringency. we can obviously debate weighting and values, but i checked it against the google mobility data i have used and it lined up quite well. the output looks reasonable to me. https://wallethub.com/edu/states-coronavirus-restrictions/73818
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this new royal society study is pure garbage. it's just "papering the file" for some forthcoming pseudoscientific outrage. the evidence that masks and lockdowns failed is overwhelming. this study is a collection of datacrime, cherry picking, and lies.
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this data has been hilariously obvious right from the beginning. not only did all the pandemic guidelines say none of this would work, but the data bore it out immediately and conclusively. no curves were bent. lockdowns made zero difference, zero. https://t.co/EUzzVNLBj0
@boriquagato - el gato malo
it's obvious in every real, data driven comparison huge differences in lockdown https://t.co/drxx2R9GrA
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had ZERO effect on disease curves. https://t.co/s98jTRiZsS
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this new royal society bunk festival is just pure garbage. the data is junk and the conclusions are worse. it's a compendium of badly done science trying to substitute volume for rigor. this was all glaringly obvious 2 years ago. https://t.co/YVyNTtkYSp
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and there is nothing ambiguous about it. https://t.co/lR5ZF6RgXa
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and they full on KNEW it was not going to work even when they were doing it. https://t.co/1uuL4F7Hp2
@boriquagato - el gato malo
an aerosol virion the size of covid takes 2-4 weeks to fall 5 feet to the ground in still air. contact tracing is useless. you're walking around in weeks worth of virus everywhere you go. it's a fake tool pushed by fools or those who just want to track you. https://t.co/14dmD0cWqJ
@boriquagato - el gato malo
masks don't work, were known not to work, and the endless ethical inversion of "your mask protects me" was entirely fake and baseless. it was psyop, not science. masks do not even stop infections in surgical theaters. but sure, it works on your toddler... https://t.co/PW6NRCHwKu
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and amusingly, the royal society itself sure seemed like they used to know this. i wonder what changed "the science™" https://t.co/PrBLSxE7xk
@boriquagato - el gato malo
surely it could not be something as prosaic as "the money™" or "the power™" these are people of principle, right? (meme from 2020. wonderfully evergreen) https://t.co/gREOBjp3Kj
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and no, "you just need an n95" is not a thing either. https://t.co/2rjMo0hWdt
@boriquagato - el gato malo
these people have been caught lying so many times that there is simply no basis for even listening to, much less believing them. it's all been lies and manipulation and datacrime to push fake fixes upon an unsuspecting public. https://t.co/lAtETo6njd
@boriquagato - el gato malo
and obviously, two can play at "fake correlations" https://t.co/xtB8qlVBpy
@boriquagato - el gato malo
but this is a silly game. the real game is far more insidious: all these "experts" love crisis and fear mongering because that is what makes the money roll in. the song and dance of fear and fake mitigation is a money printer. https://t.co/ln1HjufCw8
@boriquagato - el gato malo
it's starting again because they want their gravy train back and the statists who seek control find it a convenient pretext. this is a nasty confluence that does not have your interests at heart. there is no "out" or "done." you cannot comply your way to freedom. https://t.co/44cvxuc0pO
@boriquagato - el gato malo
this is not intended to stop. it's intended to habituate you and mire you in endless sunk cost fallacy by feeding you to the most hopelessly anxious and agoraphobic 10% of the population and the erection of a sort of "neurocracy" of rule by the worst calibrated. it's a trap. https://t.co/iWS5PrSfWe
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it will not stop until we make it stop. and it's time we did. https://t.co/JFEqkB04na
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how odd then that in the places that did so most aggressively, people died in absolute droves from it while in the places that did not do it, ICU survival rates were 4X higher. i'm sure one can point to a few cases where it was needed, but mostly, it caused iatrogenic death. https://t.co/n0qD2LcbMT
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this was already obvious in april of 2020 and should have been so beforehand. outside of a few high risk cases, "vent early, vent hard" was an ill advised strategy that killed people wholesale. and medicine knew better. https://t.co/UVU9cmKsF7
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much of this was not even about protecting patients. it was about protecting doctors by keeping patients from spreading virus. amazing the revisionist history here.