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1. #Coronavirus thread - Forget partisan politics, research and follow truth. If you dont follow truth you will end up making wrong conclusions MULTIPLE NATIONS SUGGEST CORONAVIRUS ORIGINATED IN AMERICA — IS THIS POSSIBLE?https://thelastamericanvagabond.com/biowarfare/multiple-nations-suggest-coronavirus-originated-america-this-possible/ #coronavirus #CoronavirusOutbreak

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2. Coronavirus and Climate Change – https://www.corbettreport.com/coronavirus-and-climate-change-propagandawatch/ #PropagandaWatch #climatechange #coronavirus

Coronavirus and Climate Change - #PropagandaWatch - The Corbett Report It's silent. Invisible. It's spreading everywhere. It's going to kill us all. We have to take extraordinary measures to combat it. Coronavirus? No, silly! CO2. But it's not me making the comparison. Find out what the climate schemers and technocrat dreamers have in mind for humanity, and how it's reflected in the post-virus world in this week's edition of #PropagandaWatch. corbettreport.com

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3. This may be worth checking out #coronavirus

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4. Well worth a view, to show how they planned the #mockingbird publicity - Viral Marketing https://youtube.com/watch?v=-727K585amo&feature=emb_logo #coronavirus

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5. How the Movie “Contagion” Laid the Blueprint for the Coronavirus Outbreak https://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/how-the-movie-contagion-laid-the-blueprint-for-the-coronavirus-outbreak/ #coronavirus

How the Movie “Contagion” Laid the Blueprint for the Coronavirus Outbreak In the midst of the coronavirus panic, the 2011 movie "Contagion" became one of the most-watched movies online. Here's a look at the main themes of the movie and how they are becoming a reality in 2020. vigilantcitizen.com

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6. ten years ago, Bill Ryan predicted this - Start at 20 mins. Watch "The Anglo-Saxon Mission, explained by Bill Ryan : a Project Avalon video" on YouTube https://youtu.be/rw4z-rSwNjY #coronavirus #BillRyan #Avalon

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7. An important educational video to learn the fundamentals of immune resilience & health. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dFczfwW99kU #DrShiva #coronavirus

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8. Also follow Jane Burgermeister, medical journalist who exposed #baxter #WHO in 2009 Swine and later Birdflu #JaneBurgermeister CoronaVirus as Trojan Horse for Vaccination Medical Martial Law https://youtube.com/watch?v=gWUq7uwhgdk #coronavirus #covid19

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9. Perhaps the scenario will work out like this #coronavirus #trump #DeepState

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10. Bill gates, false flags and #coronavirus https://fightingmonarch.com/2020/03/14/bill-gates-false-flags-the-coronavirus/ #coronavirus #billgates #experiments #BillGates

BILL GATES, FALSE FLAGS, & THE CORONAVIRUS The Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a false flag attack staged by the New World Order. The New World Order, the Illuminati, and their dogs in the intelligence community love false flags, as they evoke the fear-relief response employed by interrogators in the Reid Technique, creating real problems so they can drive us to false solutions. The… fightingmonarch.com

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11. Another indepdendent mind worth consideration is caitlin https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/nine-thoughts-on-covid-19-and-whats-coming-65f8ed26b1df #coronavirus

Nine Thoughts On COVID-19 And What’s Coming This gig is kinda weird at the moment. I write about what’s going on in the world for a living, and there’s certainly plenty going on in the world to be written about. But also there’s this acute… caityjohnstone.medium.com

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12. Lock Step: Panic, Pandemic, and Police State https://medium.com/@helen.buyniski/lock-step-panic-pandemic-and-police-state-173efac4e098 #coronavirus

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13. Its worth a look at this article from a month ago COVID19 Files – Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus https://greatgameindia.com/covid19-files-scientific-investigation-on-mysterious-origin-of-coronavirus/ #coronavirus

COVID19 Files - Scientific Investigation On Mysterious Origin Of Coronavirus - GreatGameIndia COVID19 Files - A scientific investigation on mysterious origin of Coronavirus exploring the source of outbreak from official reports and scientific studies greatgameindia.com

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14. Hegelian Dialectic or Problem, Reaction, Solution - Problem - released virus , Reaction - mass panic caused by mockingbird media coverage, Solution - Unsafe vaccine possibly with id chip in #Coronavirus

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15. The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger is “Agenda ID2020” https://lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/the-coronavirus-covid-19-pandemic-the-real-danger-is-agenda-id2020/ #ID2020 #AgendaID2020 #coronavirus

The Coronavirus COVID-19 Pandemic: The Real Danger Is ‘Agenda ID2020’ - LewRockwell It seems, the more there is written about the causes of the Coronavirus – the more the written analyses are overshadowed by a propaganda and fear-mongering hype. Questions for the truth and arguments for where to look for the origins and how the virus may have spread and how to combat it, are lost in the noise of wanton chaos. But isn’t that what the “Black Men” behind this intended pandemic want – chaos, panic, hopelessness, leading to human vulnerability – a people becoming easy prey for manipulation? Today WHO declared the coronavirus COVID-19 a “pandemic” – when there is not … Continue reading → lewrockwell.com

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16. Dr Vernon Coleman explains the hidden agenda behind the coronavirus hysteria https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=33&v=vZ8sQQvqvrE&feature=emb_logo #coronavirus

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17. Website of #VernonColeman vernoncoleman.com/main.htm #coronavirus

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18. Study the #DiamondPrincess cases adds to knowledge and truth - Diamond Princess Mysteries https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/03/16/diamond-princess-mysteries/ #coronavirus #coronapanic

Diamond Princess Mysteries • Watts Up With That? Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach OK, here are my questions. We had a perfect petri-dish coronavirus disease (COVID-19) experiment with the cruise ship "Diamond Princess". That's the cruise ship that ended up in quarantine for a number of weeks after a number of people tested positive for the coronavirus. I got to wondering what the wattsupwiththat.com

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19. This thread is worth a read. But this highlighted post of course shows one reason why cannot trust the #CDC #coronavirus

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20. Names and origins of some diseases #coronavirus

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21. Lock Step: Panic, Pandemic, and Police State https://medium.com/@helen.buyniski/lock-step-panic-pandemic-and-police-state-173efac4e098 #CORONAVIRUS

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22. #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

@arktinentuuli - Marialvw

Russian Researchers Fully Decode COVID-19 Genome The material was taken from a COVID-19 patient TASS https://tass.com/science/1132425

Russian researchers fully decode COVID-19 genome The material was taken from a COVID-19 patient tass.com

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23. Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin as a treatment of COVID-19: https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Hydroxychloroquine_final_DOI_IJAA.pdf #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus #chloroquine #Hydroxychloroquine

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24. This man talks sense #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

@Thomas_Binder - Dr. Thomas Binder, MD

!The cure is much worse than the disease! We can end the #SARSCoV2 pandemic by ending senseless testing! We must handle the cold virus #SARSCoV2 as all other cold viruses, incl. #Influenza: Treat symptomatically & test only when we need specific virostatic therapy if available.

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25. 99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-18/99-of-those-who-died-from-virus-had-other-illness-italy-says #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

99% of Those Who Died From Virus Had Other Illness, Italy Says More than 99% of Italy’s coronavirus fatalities were people who suffered from previous medical conditions, according to a study by the country’s national health authority. bloomberg.com

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26. Data a fews days old for coronavirus but you see her point? #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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27. Study: Coronavirus may have been around Seattle for weeks https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-03-coronavirus-seattle-weeks.html Seattle Virus? #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

Study: Coronavirus may have been around Seattle for weeks The coronavirus may have been circulating for weeks undetected in Washington state, a preliminary finding that could mean hundreds of undiagnosed cases in the state that's also home to the nation's first confirmed infection and now the first death, researchers said Sunday after analyzing genetic samples of the pathogens. medicalxpress.com

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28. Mockingbird media make many panic. here is how #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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29. Sherry is a useful resource #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

@BusyDrT - Dr Sherri Tenpenny

Visualizing the History of Pandemics -Not attesting to accuracy but having all the known #Plagues listed together in one resource is helpful! Any other resources you guys are aware of? #Pandemics #Covid19 #AIDS #Sars #Flu #BlackPlague #Smallpox ..... https://www.visualcapitalist.com/history-of-pandemics-deadliest/

Visualizing the History of Pandemics Over time, infectious diseases have been humanity's constant companion. We've visualized the history of pandemics, from the Antonine Plague to COVID-19 visualcapitalist.com

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30. Spanish flu first found in US and then carried to Europe by soldiers #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus #spanishflu

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31. #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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32. UK Coronavirus bill https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-bill-what-it-will-do/what-the-coronavirus-bill-will-do#contents-of-the-bill #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

[Withdrawn] [Withdrawn] What the Coronavirus Bill will do gov.uk

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33. Trevors thread worth a read for Wasington state where most US data is #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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34. The Truth Behind The Coronavirus Pandemic: COVID-19 Lockdown & The Economic Crash https://www.activistpost.com/2020/03/david-icke-the-truth-behind-the-coronavirus-pandemic-covid-19-lockdown-the-economic-crash.html #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus #icke

David Icke - The Truth Behind The Coronavirus Pandemic: COVID-19 Lockdown & The Economic Crash - Activist Post David joins London Real today to talk about the coronavirus pandemic, the worldwide COVID-19 lockdown and the looming global economic crash. activistpost.com

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35. LISTEN: CBC Radio cuts off expert when he questions Covid19 narrative https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/17/listen-cbc-radio-cuts-off-expert-when-he-questions-covid19-narrative/ #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

LISTEN: CBC Radio cuts off expert when he questions Covid19 narrative A phone interview with a respected physician appears to have been cut short by CBC Radio when the Doctor went off-script Dr Joel Kettner phoned into the March 15th episode of CBC’s Cross Coun… off-guardian.org

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36. George Carlin on viruses #GeorgeCarlin #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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37. #CoronaVirusUpdate #coronavirus

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38. from Ireland - ...wont be long, til shaggings gone... #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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39. The Great Pandemic: What's Really Going On? https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=om0afwpTwjA #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #DavidWilcock

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40. Was Lieber the source for #Coronavirus? Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/harvard-university-professor-and-two-chinese-nationals-charged-three-separate-china-related #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

Harvard University Professor and Two Chinese Nationals Charged in Three Separate China Related Cases The Department of Justice announced today that the Chair of Harvard University’s Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department and two Chinese nationals have been charged in connection with aiding the People’s Republic of China. justice.gov

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41. Asian targetted? Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.01.26.919985v1.full #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

Single-cell RNA expression profiling of ACE2, the putative receptor of Wuhan 2019-nCov bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution biorxiv.org

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42. This is the paper that made the Johnson, British PM change his mind on #Coronavirus response https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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43, #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

@MichaelCoudrey - Mike Coudrey

NEW DATA: A French study has demonstrated evidence that the combination of Hydroxychloroquine & Azithromycin are highly effective in treating Covid-19. The patients enrolled in the study showed complete viral eradication around the 5th day of treatment.

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44. #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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45. Coronavirus Exposed, Part 1: Communist Coverup, or Pandemic Bioweapon of Mass Destruction? #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate https://teletype.in/@adrianbond/Bg361tQU

Teletype A word is what you should start with. New publishing blog tool teletype.in

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46. UN Troops Featured in Military World Games in Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak https://www.activistpost.com/2020/02/un-troops-featured-in-world-military-games-in-wuhan-china-weeks-before-coronavirus-outbreak.html #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

UN Troops Featured in Military World Games in Wuhan China Weeks Before Coronavirus Outbreak - Activist Post Is it a coincidence that a UN-themed simulation of a global coronavirus outbreak took place the same day as the UN-themed opening ceremonies in Wuhan? activistpost.com

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47. Evidence over hysteria — COVID-19 https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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48. #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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49. Programming People's Perceptions: How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Manipulating Society https://www.davidicke.com/article/566271/programming-peoples-perceptions-coronavirus-pandemic-manipulating-society #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

Programming People’s Perceptions: How The Coronavirus Pandemic Is Manipulating Society https://youtu.be/MYoVxVaZKkU davidicke.com

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50. Corona virus COVID-19- hype and hysteria? Demystification of the nightmare! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBB9bA-gXL4&feature=youtu.be #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate

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51, #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

@NikolovScience - Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

Putting the Coronavirus "pandemic" in perspective: According to real-time data from WorldOmeter, some 15,500 people have died so far from COVID-19 worldwide. For comparison, the common influenza kills ANNUALLY between 294,000 and 518,000: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6815659/ Why the panic?

Global mortality associated with seasonal influenza epidemics: New burden estimates and predictors from the GLaMOR Project Until recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated the annual mortality burden of influenza to be 250 000 to 500 000 all-cause deaths globally; however, a 2017 study indicated a substantially higher mortality burden, at 290 000-650 000 ... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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52. David Wilcock on The Great Pandemic II: What's Really Going On? (NOW WITH SLIDES WORKING!) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=2I10P5tMLlI&feature=emb_logo #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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53. An Analysis of the Covid-19 Response: Weighing up the Threat From the Virus, and the Threat From the Reaction https://www.theblogmire.com/an-analysis-of-the-covid-19-response-weighing-up-the-threat-from-the-virus-and-the-threat-from-the-reaction/ #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

An Analysis of the Covid-19 Response: Weighing up the Threat From the Virus, and the Threat From the Reaction Would you consider the shutting down of an entire national economy for a disease such as the Black Death, which between 1347-1351 killed an estimated 60% of the population in the areas where it spr… theblogmire.com

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54. The Current Coronavirus Pandemic: It’s Likely Caused By More Than One Pathogen And There Is a Missing Antidote https://www.lewrockwell.com/2020/03/no_author/the-current-coronavirus-pandemic-its-likely-caused-by-more-than-one-pathogen-and-there-is-a-missing-antidote/ #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

The Current Coronavirus Pandemic Is Likely Caused By More Than One Pathogen, and There Is a Missing Antidote - LewRockwell The reality is, most of the cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection have been diagnosed without confirmation by laboratory testing.  And so, doctors end up finding what they are looking for – – COVID-19.  The singular mind-set of modern medicine continues to be practiced today.  COVID-19 fits a script that was created prior to this current epidemic.  That is because they want to develop a single-component vaccine and inoculate the entire planet at one time (the dream of a billionaire philanthropist).  So, better get sick to make his dream come true (NOT!).  Somehow, vaccine makers were reportedly making a COVID-19 coronavirus … Continue reading → lewrockwell.com

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55. EXCLUSIVE: Top Doctor EXPOSES EVERYTHING The Deep State Is Trying To Hide About CV | Dr. Shiva https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BiM1YYIPCo&feature=youtu.be #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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56. Why is this lockdown going on when UK Government has taken Covid19 off the high consequence infectious list ? https://web.archive.org/web/20200326082057/https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

High consequence infectious diseases (HCID) Guidance and information about high consequence infectious diseases and their management in England. web.archive.org

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57. Startling revelations around “flawed #Coronavirus testing” – sourced from a United States scientist. Here’s the entire transcript. https://wirralinittogether.blog/2020/03/29/david-icke-startling-revelations-around-fraudulent-coronavirus-testing-sourced-from-a-united-states-scientist-heres-the-entire-transcript/ #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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58. David Wilcock on The Great Pandemic III: New Briefings, Restitution and the Big Picture! https://hooktube.com/watch?v=tM3tCnLDPVw #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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59. The Frightening Implications for Liberty of the Shutdown - An explanation of the Use of Law to Deprive us of Freedom of Movement and Assembly https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2020/03/the-frightening-implications-for-liberty-of-the-shutdown-an-explanation-of-the-use-of-law-to-deprive.html #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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60. #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

@BigggDoggg777 - BigggDoggg™

Covid19 Is Purposely Overblown!

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61. Dangerous - Government is judge and jury on fake news- Coronavirus: Fake news crackdown by UK government https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52086284 #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

Coronavirus: Fake news crackdown by UK government A rapid response unit is working with social media firms to take down misleading or harmful content. bbc.com

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62. Episode 373 – Medical Martial Law 2020 https://www.corbettreport.com/mml2020/ #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

Episode 373 - Medical Martial Law 2020 - The Corbett Report https://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/episode373-lq.mp3As the lockdowns go into place and the military takes to the streets in country after country, the decades of preparation for medical martial law are finally paying off for the pandemic planners. Today on this emergency edition of The Corbett Report podcast, James lays out the steps that have led us to the brink of martial law and the steps that are being taken to implement it now. Please help to spread this important information and to raise awareness of the crisis that we are facing. corbettreport.com

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63. Even more evidence pointing to Coornavirus starting in US and being weaponised https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/daily-wrap-up/even-more-evidence-pointing-to-coronavirus-starting-us-being-weaponized/ #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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64. Viruses https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=638176716728974&id=100016099539778 #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

Log into Facebook | Facebook Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know. m.facebook.com

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65. More independent information worth knowing - The Anatomy of Covid 19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=_WAzHXtDXjg&feature=emb_logo #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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66. Virus or Exosome? https://youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=_WAzHXtDXjg&feature=emb_logo #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19 #exosomes #exosome

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67. 10 MORE Experts Criticising the Coronavirus Panic https://off-guardian.org/2020/03/28/10-more-experts-criticising-the-coronavirus-panic #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

10 MORE Experts Criticising the Coronavirus Panic Following on from our previous list, here are ten more expert voices, drowned out or disregarded by the mainstream narrative, offering their take on the coronavirus outbreak. * * * Dr. Sunetra Gupt… off-guardian.org

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68. #Corona: The Collapse of the System (Ernst Wolff) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LYjOEib9iI&feature=emb_logo #ErnstWolff #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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69. All roads lead to dark winter #WhitneyWebb https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/top-news/all-roads-lead-dark-winter/ #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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70. #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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71. The Coronavirus Act 2020: When Legislation Goes Viral (Part One) https://ukhumanrightsblog.com/2020/04/02/the-coronavirus-act-2020-when-legislation-goes-viral-part-one/ #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

The Coronavirus Act 2020: When Legislation Goes Viral (Part One) - UK Human Rights Blog In the first of two extended articles, Darragh Coffey analyses the emergency legislation passed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. ukhumanrightsblog.com

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72. 10 MORE Doctors and Scientists Criticize the Coronavirus Narrative https://needtoknow.news/2020/04/10-more-doctors-and-scientists-criticize-the-coronavirus-narrative/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-more-doctors-and-scientists-criticize-the-coronavirus-narrative #coronavirus #covid19 #coronavirus #CoronaVirusUpdate #COVIDー19 #COVID19

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73. David Icke's Explosive Interview With London Real - The Video Youtube Doesn't Want You To See https://www.davidicke.com/article/567418/david-icke-live-london-real-today-330pm-uk #icke #coronavirus #covid19

UPDATE: ‘The People’ are speaking and overcoming YouTube/Vimeo David Icke ‘virus’ video ban by sharing the link – now FOUR MILLION have watched it and counting. We shall overcome … AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT NO COPYRIGHT PROBLEMS Video deleted from YouTube and now also Vimeo! View the Bitchute version below. The Video the Internet is terrified of you seeing! The video may buffer before it starts because of the level of traffic, but stay with it and then it plays fine. Also available to watch on London Real TV by clicking here David Icke Bitchute - https://www.bitchute.com/channel/davidicke/ [trigger-banner] davidicke.com

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74. Info worth including in the mix https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EUw5cOwX0AEDrUo?format=jpg&name=4096x4096 # #coronavirus #covid19

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75. #coronavirus

@martingeddes - Martin Geddes

"Yet, it would seem that this lethal virus has been here since November. We spent the better part of 4 full months co-existing, running our businesses, and being touchy-feely without anyone being the wiser, and life went on – until it didn’t." https://www.coreysdigs.com/health-science/covid-19-inside-the-hospitals-why-the-lockdown/ @CoreysDigs

COVID-19: Inside The Hospitals & Why The Lockdown? - coreysdigs.com Confused about COVID-19, the hype and the lockdown quarantine? Here's what's really happening inside hospitals, with our military, and our borders. coreysdigs.com

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76. Coronavirus: YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52198946 #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

Coronavirus: YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview Videos will now be deleted if they falsely link coronavirus to 5G mobile networks. bbc.com

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77. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

@HenryMakow - Henry Makow

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted. The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends a veteran scholar of epidemiology. https://www.wnd.com/2020/04/epidemiologist-coronavirus-exterminated-lockdowns-lifted/

Epidemiologist: Coronavirus could be 'exterminated' if lockdowns lifted The unprecedented policy of mass quarantine to "flatten the curve" is only prolonging the coronavirus pandemic, contends epidemiologist Kurt Wittkowski wnd.com

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78. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

@OffGuardian0 - OffGuardian

Any media reporting the number of "daily #Covid19 deaths", without reporting that these figures include: 1. People who died of something else. 2. People who were never tested for #Coronavirus. Is inciting panic. Our job is to ask why. https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/05/covid19-death-figures-a-substantial-over-estimate/

Covid19 Death Figures “A Substantial Over-Estimate” Given the amount of fear and panic Italy’s comparatively alarming numbers caused around the world, you would think other nations would be eager to avoid these same mistakes. Surely all the ot… off-guardian.org

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79. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

@davidicke - David Icke

5G and oxygen - what the moronic media isn't telling you (along with everything else) ow.ly/bxw630qwezU

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80. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN1nl9GNpUU

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#coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

@va_shiva - Dr.SHIVA Ayyadurai, MIT PhD. Inventor of Email

Dr.SHIVA LIVE: CITiZEN SCIENCE vs. Scientific Establishment. The Path to Truth Freedom Health. https://www.pscp.tv/w/cVskijFQbUVxT2Fhcm9KS298MXlwSmRRbHFBcHZ4VyEb7TSsEQLiy4u-2jfLj1tSxCWgwtQr2Tm5tyItaXbW

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82. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

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83. #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

@NikolovScience - Ned Nikolov, Ph.D.

This is UNSETTLING: The #COVID19 model projections that the US Gov used to justify a lockdown more than 2 weeks ago are being significantly revised downward every 3 days! The attached slide compares the dramatic reduction of projected Hospital Resource Use over 3 model releases.

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84. US Guidance for Certifying Deaths Due to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19) https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf #coronavirus #covid19 #lockdown #coronahoax

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85. Its not about an illness, its about #TotalControl #CoronaVirus #CoronaHoax

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86. #Covid19 #coronavirus #coronahoax

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87. #5g #danger #controlgrid #totalcontrol #coronavirus

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88. How #FakeNews Is Using #COVID-19 To Ensure A #Globalist Takeover https://zenith.news/how-fakenews-is-using-covid-19-to-ensure-a-globalist-takeover/ #coronavirus #coronahoax #covid19

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89. Gilead Sciences – The Coronavirus Vaccine Manufacturer Accused Of Bioterrorism https://greatgameindia.com/gilead-sciences-the-coronavirus-vaccine-manufacturer-accused-of-bioterrorism/ #coronavirus #coronahoax #covid19 #Gilead #GileadSciences #Vaccine

Gilead Sciences - The Coronavirus Vaccine Manufacturer Accused Of Bioterrorism - GreatGameIndia Gilead Sciences - The Coronavirus vaccine manufacturer is accused of Bioterrorism including having Pentagon to bomb a competitors factory. greatgameindia.com

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90. Media fails to report truth – success in Ireland’s handling of Coronavirus. We’re looking at 500-1000 deaths, not 68,000; and c19,000 infections not 1.9 million – the projections were out by a factor of 100. https://villagemagazine.ie/shocking-media-failures-to-report-success-in-irelands-handling-of-coronavirus-the-icus-and-graveyards-will-not-be-swamped-and-were-looking-at-500-1000-deaths-not-68000-and-19/ #coronavirus #coronahoax #covid19

Media fails to report truth - success in Ireland’s handling of Coronavirus. The ICUs and graveyards will not be swamped. We’re looking at 500-1000 deaths, not 68,000; and c19,000 infections not 1.9 million – the projections were out by a factor of 100. By Michael Smith. - Village Magazine Those who predicted swamped ICUs, scandalous shortages of equipment and overflowing morgues in Ireland were utterly wrong. If you haven’t realised that, you’re not following.  The Irish Times, Irish Independent, RTE and other media in Ireland have failed  their democratic duty to keep the public aware of the significance of the evolving pattern of Coronavirus cases in […] villagemagazine.ie

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91. 5g, coronavirus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNNW9Xe7wKc&feature=youtu.be #coronavirus #coronahoax #covid19 #5g #coronavirus

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92. NHS in crisis due to #Coronavirus ? er no ... #coronavirus #coronahoax #covid19 #5g #coronavirus

@ClarkeMicah - Peter Hitchens

Fraser Nelson on the crisis: 'Of the 91,000 available beds in the NHS, 37,000 lay empty as of last weekend' . This is four times more empty beds than is normal for this time of year. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/04/16/truth-governments-exit-strategy-isnt-one/

The truth about the Government’s exit strategy is that there isn’t one We are marooned with no end in sight as ministers wait for the PM to return or for public opinion to shift telegraph.co.uk

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This will be my first and possibly last tweet (thread) as I am mostly here to learn. It is prompted by a recent study questioning lockdown efficacy that is getting a lot of attention. It appears people believe it to be the first of its kind, but I have been collecting similar

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studies since March 2020. Below are 30 published papers finding that lockdowns had little or no efficacy (despite unconscionable harms) along with a key quote or two from each:

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1.https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/eci.13484 “there is no evidence that more restrictive nonpharmaceutical interventions (“lockdowns”) contributed substantially to bending the curve of new cases in England, France, Germany, Iran, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, or the United States in early 2020”

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2.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v3 “Inferences on effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification. Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.”

Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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3.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext “government actions such as border closures, full lockdowns, and a high rate of COVID-19 testing were not associated with statistically significant reductions in the number of critical cases or overall mortality”

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4.https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Comment_on_Dehning_et_al_Science_15_May_2020_eabb9789_Inferring_change_points_in_the_spread_of_COVID-19_reveals_the_effectiveness_of_interventions_/12362645 “Official data from Germany’s RKI agency suggest strongly that the spread of the coronavirus in Germany receded autonomously, before any interventions become effective”

Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? advance.sagepub.com

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5.https://arxiv.org/pdf/2005.02090.pdf “the decline in infections in England...began before full lockdown…[S]uch a scenario would be consistent with...Sweden, which began its decline in fatal infections shortly after the UK, but did so on the basis of measures well short of full lockdown”

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6.https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/Illusory%20Effects%20of%20Non-pharmaceutical%20Interventions%20on%20COVID19%20in%20Europe.pdf “the UK lockdown was both superfluous (it did not prevent an otherwise explosive behavior of the spread of the coronavirus) and ineffective (it did not slow down the death growth rate visibly).”

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7.https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-end-of-exponential-growth-the-decline-in-the-spread-of-coronavirus/ “Given that the evidence reveals that the Corona disease declines even without a complete lockdown, it is recommendable to reverse the current policy and remove the lockdown”

The end of exponential growth: The decline in the spread of coronavirus A similar pattern – rapid increase in infections to a peak in the sixth week, and decline from the eighth week – is common everywhere, regardless of response policies timesofisrael.com

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8.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v2 “stay at home orders, closure of all non-essential businesses and requiring the wearing of facemasks or coverings in public was not associated with any independent additional impact”

Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions against COVID-19 in Europe: A quasi-experimental study medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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9.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1 “these strategies might not have saved any life in western Europe. We also show that neighboring countries applying less restrictive social distancing measures … experience a very similar time evolution of the epidemic.”

Full lockdown policies in Western Europe countries have no evident impacts on the COVID-19 epidemic medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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“since the full lockdown strategies are shown to have no impact on the epidemic’s slowdown, one should consider their potentially high inherent death toll as a net loss of human lives”

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10.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1 “the model does not support [the] estimate that lockdown reduced the case reproduction number R by 81% or that more than three million deaths were averted by non-pharmaceutical interventions.”

Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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11.https://www.nicholaslewis.org/did-lockdowns-really-save-3-million-covid-19-deaths-as-flaxman-et-al-claim/ “The case of Sweden, where the authors find the reduction in transmission to have been only moderately weaker than in other countries despite no lockdown having occurred, is prima facie evidence”

Did lockdowns really save 3 million COVID-19 deaths, as Flaxman et al. claim? A pdf copy of this article is available here. Key points about the recent Nature paper by Flaxman and other Imperial College modellers 1) The transition from rising to declining recorded COVID-19 deaths in the in 11 European countries that they studied imply that transmission of COVID-19 must have reduced substantially. The study was nicholaslewis.org

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12.https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m3588 “general social distancing was also projected to reduce the number of cases but increase the total number of deaths compared with social distancing of over 70 only” “Strategies that minimise deaths involve the infected fraction primarily being in the

Effect of school closures on mortality from coronavirus disease 2019: old and new predictions Objective To replicate and analyse the information available to UK policymakers when the lockdown decision was taken in March 2020 in the United Kingdom. Design Independent calculations using the CovidSim code, which implements Imperial College London’s individual based model, with data available in March 2020 applied to the coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) epidemic. Setting Simulations considering the spread of covid-19 in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Population About 70 million simulated people matched as closely as possible to actual UK demographics, geography, and social behaviours. Main outcome measures Replication of summary data on the covid-19 epidemic reported to the UK government Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and a detailed study of unpublished results, especially the effect of school closures. Results The CovidSim model would have produced a good forecast of the subsequent data if initialised with a reproduction number of about 3.5 for covid-19. The model predicted that school closures and isolation of younger people would increase the total number of deaths, albeit postponed to a second and subsequent waves. The findings of this study suggest that prompt interventions were shown to be highly effective at reducing peak demand for intensive care unit (ICU) beds but also prolong the epidemic, in some cases resulting in more deaths long term. This happens because covid-19 related mortality is highly skewed towards older age groups. In the absence of an effective vaccination programme, none of the proposed mitigation strategies in the UK would reduce the predicted total number of deaths below 200 000. Conclusions It was predicted in March 2020 that in response to covid-19 a broad lockdown, as opposed to a focus on shielding the most vulnerable members of society, would reduce immediate demand for ICU beds at the cost of more deaths long term. The optimal strategy for saving lives in a covid-19 epidemic is different from that anticipated for an influenza epidemic with a different mortality age profile. bmj.com

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low risk younger age groups—for example, focusing stricter social distancing measures on care homes where people are likely to die rather than schools where they are not.” “results presented in the report suggested that the addition of interventions restricting younger people

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might actually increase the total number of deaths from covid-19”

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13.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.30.20047860v3 “We show that [lockdown] is modestly superior in saving lives compared to [focused protection], but with tremendous costs to prevent one case of death. This might result in overwhelming economic effects that are expected to increase future death toll”

Modeling social distancing strategies to prevent SARS-CoV2 spread in Israel- A Cost-effectiveness analysis medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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14.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2652751/ “For pathogens that inflict greater morbidity at older ages, interventions that reduce but do not eliminate exposure can paradoxically increase the number of cases of severe disease by shifting the burden of infection toward older individuals”

Too Little of a Good Thing A Paradox of Moderate Infection Control Epidemic theory dictates that a reduction in the force of infection by a pathogen is associated with an increase in the average age at which individuals are exposed. For those pathogens that cause more severe disease among hosts of an older age, interventions ... ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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15.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803 “Current policy can be misdirected and can therefore have long and even short-term negative effects on human welfare and thus result in not actually minimizing death rates (incorporating externalities), especially in the long run.”

Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much the world’s economies in order to minimize death rates as well as the immediate negative effec papers.ssrn.com

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16.https://imgcdn.larepublica.co/cms/2020/05/21180548/JP-Morgan.pdf “For example, the data…shows a decrease in infection rates after countries eased...lockdowns with >99% statistical significance. Indeed...infection rates have declined after reopening even after allowing for an appropriate measurement lag.

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This means that the pandemic and COVID-19 likely have its own dynamics unrelated to often inconsistent lockdown measures that were being implemented.”

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17.https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768086 “restrictions imposed by the pandemic (eg, stay-at-home orders) could claim lives indirectly through delayed care for acute emergencies, exacerbations of chronic diseases, and psychological distress (eg, drug overdoses).” “In 14 states, more than 50%

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of excess deaths were attributed to underlying causes other than COVID-19; these included California (55% of excess deaths) and Texas (64% of excess deaths)"

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18.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.09.20210146v3 “We found that 180-day of mandatory isolations to healthy <60 (ie schools and workplaces closed) produces more final deaths if the vaccination date is later than (Madrid: Feb 23 2021; Catalonia: Dec 28 2020; Paris: Jan 14 2021; London: Jan 22 2021)”

SARS-CoV-2 waves in Europe: A 2-stratum SEIRS model solution medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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19.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588 “Comparing weekly mortality in 24 European countries, the findings in this paper suggest that more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended”

Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison I explore the association between the severity of lockdown policies in the first half of 2020 and mortality rates. Using two indices from the Blavatnik Centre’s papers.ssrn.com

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20.https://www.nber.org/papers/w27719 “Our findings … further raise doubt about the importance in NPI’s (lockdown policies in particular) in accounting for the evolution of COVID-19 transmission rates over time and across locations”

Four Stylized Facts about COVID-19 Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. nber.org

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21.https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3543 “[the] President...has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events…Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe-just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million”

Covid-19: How does Belarus have one of the lowest death rates in Europe? Plagued by political turmoil over “Europe’s last dictatorship” and with a president in denial of covid-19, how has Belarus ended up with one of the lowest death rates on the continent? Kata Karáth reports Belarus’s beleaguered government remains unfazed by covid-19. President Aleksander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has flatly denied the seriousness of the pandemic, refusing to impose a lockdown, close schools, or cancel mass events like the Belarusian football league or the Victory Day parade. Yet the country’s death rate is among the lowest in Europe—just over 700 in a population of 9.5 million with over 73 000 confirmed cases. The relatively low death rate is thought to be thanks to Belarus’s large hospital capacity which allowed the country to isolate people early on, says Andrei Vitushka, a healthcare policy expert at the Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies in Vilnius, Lithuania. With 11 hospital beds per 1000 people, Belarus outnumbers nations like Germany (8) or the UK (2.5).1 “It’s usually a … bmj.com

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22.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.01.20222315v1 “living with children 0-11 years was not associated with increased risks of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 related hospital or ICU admission but was associated with reduced risk of COVID-19 death (HR 0.75, 95%CI 0.62-0.92).”

Association between living with children and outcomes from COVID-19: an OpenSAFELY cohort study of 12 million adults in England medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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23.https://pandata.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Exploring-inter-country-variation.pdf “Consistent with observations that .. lockdown has not been observed to effect the rate...of the country reproduction rates significantly, our analysis suggests there is no basis for expecting lockdown stringency to be an explanatory variable”

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24.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.04.20168112v1#:~:text=The%20seroprevalence%20of%20COVID%2D19,care%20workers%20in%20Niger%20State. “This study shows that the virus is already here, and we must find ways of living with it such that it caused no or minimal human and socioeconomic losses in ... Nigeria as a whole…. going back to the lockdown should never again be entertained”

Seroprevalence of COVID-19 in Niger State medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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25.https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2029717 “recruits were under the constant supervision of Marine Corps instructors. Other settings in which young adults congregate are unlikely to reflect similar adherence to measures intended to reduce transmission."

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26.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.604339/full “The national criteria most associated with death rate are life expectancy and its slowdown, public health context (metabolic and non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden vs. infectious diseases prevalence), economy (growth national product, financial

Covid-19 Mortality: A Matter of Vulnerability Among Nations Facing Limited Margins of Adaptation Context The human development territories have been severely constrained under the Covid-19 pandemic. A common dynamics has been observed, but its propagation has not been homogeneous over each continent. We aimed at characterizing the non-viral parameters that were most associated with death rate. Methods We tested major indices from five domains (demography, public health, economy, politics, environment) and their potential associations with Covid-19 mortality during the first 8 months of 2020, through a Principal Component Analysis and a correlation matrix with a Pearson correlation test. Data of all countries, or states in federal countries, showing at least ten fatality cases, were retrieved from official public sites. For countries that have not yet finished the first epidemic phase, a prospective model has been computed to provide options of death rates evolution. Results Higher Covid death rates are observed in the [25/65°] latitude and in the [-35/-125°] longitude ranges. The national criteria most associated with death rate are life expectancy and its slowdown, public health context (metabolic and non-communicable diseases (NCD) burden vs infectious diseases prevalence), economy (growth national product, financial support), and environment (temperature, ultra-violet index). Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate. Conclusion Countries that already experienced a stagnation or regression of life expectancy, with high income and NCD rates, had the highest price to pay. This burden was not alleviated by more stringent public decisions. Inherent factors have predetermined the Covid-19 mortality: understanding them may improve prevention strategies by increasing population resilience through better physical fitness and immunity. frontiersin.org

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support), and environment (temperature, ultra-violet index). Stringency of the measures settled to fight pandemia, including lockdown, did not appear to be linked with death rate”

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27.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00779954.2020.1844786?journalCode=rnzp20 “Whether a county had a lockdown has no effect on Covid-19 deaths; a non-effect that persists over time. Cross-country studies also find lockdowns are superfluous and ineffective (Homberg 2020). This ineffectiveness may have several causes. "

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28.upmc-biosecurity.org/website/resour… “There are no historical observations...that support.. confinement by quarantine of groups of possibly infected people for extended periods...The negative consequences...are so extreme…this mitigation..should be eliminated from serious consideration”

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29.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.25.20248853v1 “we present data demonstrating that mortality due to covid-19... could have been largely predicted even before the pandemic hit Europe, simply by looking at longitudinal variability of all-cause mortality rates in the years preceding the...outbreak”

Longitudinal variability in mortality predicts Covid-19 deaths medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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30.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.12.28.20248936v1 “Our analysis shows that while infection levels decreased, they did so before lockdown was effective, and infection numbers also decreased in neighbour municipalities without mandates”

Lockdown Effects on Sars-CoV-2 Transmission – The evidence from Northern Jutland medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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There are of course anecdotal observations as well--e.g., Florida is doing better than California despite DisneyWorld having been open for months and California having no current plan to ever reopen anything, let alone Disneyland. I could do a similar thread on the harms of

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lockdowns (and school closures in particular) but that seems unnecessary as such harms have been well documented. If lockdowns were extremely effective, their desirability from a policy perspective would at least be a conversation worth having. However, these papers suggest they

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have limited effectiveness at best AND horrible side effects. @FatEmperor @kerpen @AlexBerenson @MonicaGandhi9 @ClayTravis @adamcarolla @markgeragos @NickHudsonCT @AJKayWriter @MartinKulldorff @J_GallagherAD3 @KevinKileyCA @pnjaban @justin_hart @RepMcClintock @MichaelYeadon3

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@yinonw @Alex_Washburne @ianmSC @EthicalSkeptic @MLevitt_NP2013 @aginnt @sdbaral @NahasNewman @VPrasadMDMPH @michaeljburry

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31. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84092-1 "After preprocessing the data, 87 regions around the world were included, yielding 3741 pairwise comparisons for linear regression analysis...we were not able to explain if COVID-19 mortality is reduced by staying at home in ~ 98% of the comparisons”

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Stay-at-home policy is a case of exception fallacy: an internet-based ecological study - Scientific Reports A recent mathematical model has suggested that staying at home did not play a dominant role in reducing COVID-19 transmission. The second wave of cases in Europe, in regions that were considered as COVID-19 controlled, may raise some concerns. Our objective was to assess the association between staying at home (%) and the reduction/increase in the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in several regions in the world. In this ecological study, data from www.google.com/covid19/mobility/ , ourworldindata.org and covid.saude.gov.br were combined. Countries with > 100 deaths and with a Healthcare Access and Quality Index of ≥ 67 were included. Data were preprocessed and analyzed using the difference between number of deaths/million between 2 regions and the difference between the percentage of staying at home. The analysis was performed using linear regression with special attention to residual analysis. After preprocessing the data, 87 regions around the world were included, yielding 3741 pairwise comparisons for linear regression analysis. Only 63 (1.6%) comparisons were significant. With our results, we were not able to explain if COVID-19 mortality is reduced by staying at home in ~ 98% of the comparisons after epidemiological weeks 9 to 34. nature.com

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32. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-3025-y "Sweden is worthy of particular attention, given...no lockdown took place.” “Notably, the estimated effectiveness of…[merely a]…public events ban in Sweden is comparable to that of lockdown in the 10 countries in which one was implemented”

The effect of interventions on COVID-19 - Nature nature.com

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33. ssbhalla.org/wp-content/upl… "For the first time in human history, lockdowns were used as a strategy to counter the virus. While conventional wisdom, to date, has been that lockdowns were successful…we find not one piece of evidence supporting this claim.”

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34. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764553 "on average, mandated behavioral changes accounts for only 9% (median: 0%) of the total effect on the growth of the pandemic stemming from behavioral changes. The remaining 91% (median: 100%) of the effect was due to voluntary behavioral changes”

A First Literature Review: Lockdowns Only Had a Small Effect on COVID-19 How important were the economic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic and how important was lockdown as compared to voluntary changes papers.ssrn.com

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35. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjopen/11/2/e042034.full.pdf "Potential determinants assessed were…the stringency index, as a measure of country-level response to COVID-19” Results? Shotgun blast (zero correlation):

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36. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.05.20146837v2 "The decline of infections...can be attributed to relatively small interventions & voluntary behavioral changes. Additional effects of later interventions cannot be detected [&]...liberalizations of measures did not induce a re-increase of infections"

Change points in the spread of COVID-19 question the effectiveness of nonpharmaceutical interventions in Germany medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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37. https://www.heritage.org/public-health/report/comparative-analysis-policy-approaches-covid-19-around-the-world "The evidence suggests that, among other important findings, broad lockdown orders that fail to focus primarily on the most vulnerable members of the population—particularly the elderly—have not produced superior outcomes to less restrictive policies”

A Comparative Analysis of Policy Approaches to COVID-19 Around the World, with Recommendations for U.S. Lawmakers The spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, became a serious concern worldwide in March 2020, when on March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated COVID-19 to be a pandemic. heritage.org

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38. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-01009-0 "measures can substitute for a full lockdown in terms of effectiveness, while reducing adverse impacts on society, the economy, [humanity]” “Less disruptive & costly NPIs can be as effective as more intrusive, drastic, ones (eg, a national lockdown).”

Ranking the effectiveness of worldwide COVID-19 government interventions - Nature Human Behaviour Assessing the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to mitigate the spread of SARS-CoV-2 is critical to inform future preparedness response plans. Here we quantify the impact of 6,068 hierarchically coded NPIs implemented in 79 territories on the effective reproduction number, Rt, of COVID-19. We propose a modelling approach that combines four computational techniques merging statistical, inference and artificial intelligence tools. We validate our findings with two external datasets recording 42,151 additional NPIs from 226 countries. Our results indicate that a suitable combination of NPIs is necessary to curb the spread of the virus. Less disruptive and costly NPIs can be as effective as more intrusive, drastic, ones (for example, a national lockdown). Using country-specific ‘what-if’ scenarios, we assess how the effectiveness of NPIs depends on the local context such as timing of their adoption, opening the way for forecasting the effectiveness of future interventions. Analysing over 50,000 government interventions in more than 200 countries, Haug et al. find that combinations of softer measures, such as risk communication or those increasing healthcare capacity, can be almost as effective as disruptive lockdowns. nature.com

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39. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.14.20175240v1.full.pdf "The peculiar aspect of the claim that lockdown accounts for 81% of the reduction in R is that Sweden did not implement any lockdown, but still see a similar decrease in R as the other countries”

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40. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.26.20140814v2.full.pdf "It is evident...that the growth of a COVID19 epidemic does not follow an exponential growth law even in the very first days, but instead its growth is slowing down exponentially with time...it is decelerating from the first day"

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41.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.21.20198796v1.full.pdf "Japan took the atypical step of not instituting a mandatory lockdown. During this time, businesses, restaurants, & transportation were kept open, & public life continued relatively unabated. Nevertheless, the second wave peaked and subsided on its own”

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42.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.02.21252734v1.full.pdf "We found no evidence that the shielding program [extreme lockdown] per se reduced COVID rates” “The effectiveness of shielding vulnerable individuals was limited by the inability to control transmission in hospital & from other adults in the household”

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43.https://c2cjournal.ca/2021/03/do-lockdowns-make-a-difference-in-a-pandemic/ "The stay-at-home orders...seem to have made no observable tangible impact on the daily cases & deaths. Further the most severe restrictions, such as prolonged lockdown...in California in Nov, did not prevent the subsequent spike in cases or fatalities"

Do Lockdowns Make a Difference in a Pandemic? | C2C Journal C2C Journal analyzes the effectives of four US states' pandemic policy that had two very different approaches to lockdowns. c2cjournal.ca

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44.https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(21)00036-0/fulltext "governments need to...apply available measures in a way that is much more targeted to different generational groups...; from March to June, 2020, 96% of additional deaths related to COVID-19 in Europe occurred in patients aged older than 70 years."

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45. https://www.jclinepi.com/article/S0895-4356(21)00087-1/fulltext "We demonstrate that effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification, assumptions and data employed to fit models." "The model proposing major benefits from lockdown in European countries had the worse fit to the data"

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46.https://www.pnas.org/content/118/15/e2019706118 "Shelter-in-place [SIP] orders had no detectable health benefits, [&] only modest effects on behavior" "We reanalyze 2 prior studies purporting...that SIP orders caused large reductions in disease prevalence & show that those results are not reliable."

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47. https://www.bmj.com/content/372/bmj.n608 "of those who reported having experienced symptoms of covid-19 in the past seven days...only 20.2%...said they had not left home since developing symptoms" "Non-adherence was associated with...lower socioeconomic grade...and working in a key sector"

Adherence to the test, trace, and isolate system in the UK: results from 37 nationally representative surveys Objective To investigate rates of adherence to the UK’s test, trace, and isolate system over the initial 11 months of the covid-19 pandemic. Design Series of cross sectional online surveys. Setting 37 nationally representative surveys in the UK, 2 March 2020 to 27 January 2021. Participants 74 699 responses from 45 957 people living in the UK, aged 16 years or older (37 survey waves, about 2000 participants in each wave). Main outcome measures Identification of the main symptoms of covid-19 (cough, high temperature or fever, and loss of sense of smell or taste), self-reported adherence to self-isolation if symptoms were present and intention to self-isolate if symptoms were to develop, requesting a test for covid-19 if symptoms were present and intention to request a test if symptoms were to develop, and intention to share details of close contacts. Results Only 51.5% of participants (95% confidence interval 51.0% to 51.9%, n=26 030/50  570) identified the main symptoms of covid-19; the corresponding values in the most recent wave of data collection (25-27 January 2021) were 50.8% (48.6% to 53.0%, n=1019/2007). Across all waves, duration adjusted adherence to full self-isolation was 42.5% (95% confidence interval 39.7% to 45.2%, n=515/1213); in the most recent wave of data collection (25-27 January 2021), it was 51.8% (40.8% to 62.8%, n=43/83). Across all waves, requesting a test for covid-19 was 18.0% (95% confidence interval 16.6% to 19.3%, n=552/3068), increasing to 22.2% (14.6% to 29.9%, n=26/117) from 25 to 27 January. Across all waves, intention to share details of close contacts was 79.1% (95% confidence interval 78.8% to 79.5%, n=36 145/45 680), increasing to 81.9% (80.1% to 83.6%, n=1547/1890) from 25 to 27 January. Non-adherence was associated with being male, younger age, having a dependent child in the household, lower socioeconomic status, greater financial hardship during the pandemic, and working in a key sector. Conclusions Levels of adherence to test, trace, and isolate are low, although some improvement has occurred over time. Practical support and financial reimbursement are likely to improve adherence. Targeting messaging and policies to men, younger age groups, and key workers might also be necessary. No additional data available. bmj.com

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48.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3784709"life loss due to lockdowns themselves has never been taken into consideration" "pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin & based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models"

COVID-19 Library. Filling the Gaps Objectives: The present coronavirus crisis shook the modern world as only the world wars have shaken it before. In this review we analyzed the lockdown-based cr papers.ssrn.com

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49.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.02.03.21251112v2.full.pdf "All regions have peak incidence prior to the first lockdown with total incidence for England in decline well before lockdown" "Furthermore all regions have R < 1 by either lockdown, with average R < 1 some days before either lockdown"

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50. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3706464 "social isolation at a given date showed a strong positive correlation to COVID-19 deaths 39 days later" "strong empirical evidence that..adoption of restrictive measures increasing social isolation have worsened the pandemic..instead of mitigating it"

Does Social Isolation Really Curb COVID-19 Deaths? Direct Evidence from Brazil that it Might do the Exact Opposite Objective: To evaluate the association between social isolation, defined as the percentage of individuals who stayed within 450 meters from their usual location papers.ssrn.com

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51. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3782395 "Lockdowns are associated with reduced mortality in ...modelling studies but NOT in studies based on empirical data" "deaths associated with economic harms or underfunding of other health issues may outweigh the deaths that lockdowns save"

COVID-19 Lockdown Policies: An Interdisciplinary Review Lockdown interventions employed in response to the COVID-19 pandemic have been evaluated via research at biomedical, economic, psychological, and ethical levels papers.ssrn.com

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52. sfu.ca/~allen/Lockdow… "most of the early [lockdown] cost/benefit studies arrived at conclusions that were refuted later by data" "cumulative deaths per million, & the pattern of daily deaths per million, is not negatively correlated with the stringency of lockdown"

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53. https://www.heritage.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/SR243.pdf "shelter-in-place orders did not help stave off achieving higher per capita mortality thresholds (20 deaths per mil) than they helped delay reaching lower levels" "[SIP] orders during this pandemic is tantamount to killing a fly with a sledgehammer"

The Heritage Foundation Since our founding in 1973, The Heritage Foundation has been working to advance the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom, traditional American values, and a strong national defense. heritage.org

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54. https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28737/w28737.pdf?utm_campaign=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&%3Butm_medium=PANTHEON_STRIPPED&%3Butm_source=PANTHEON_STRIPPED "evidence contradicts the public-health ideal in which households would be places of solitary confinement & zero transmission. Instead, the evidence suggests that households show the highest transmission rates & that households are high-risk settings"

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55. https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/118/15/e2019706118.full.pdf "The previously presented evidence on the effectiveness of SIP orders appears to be misleading, and there is currently no compelling evidence to suggest that SIP policies saved a large number of lives or significantly mitigated the spread of COVID-19"

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56. https://www.covid19.statistik.uni-muenchen.de/pdfs/codag_bericht_16.pdf [German translation]:"With the R-values, there is no direct connection w the taken measures - neither with the lockdown light on 2 November, the tightening on 16 December, or still w the 'Federal Emergency Brake' which was adopted at the end of April"

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57. https://europepmc.org/article/ppr/ppr312490#R2 "the early evening curfew led to more crowding in indoor spaces – which may facilitate the spread of disease. Interventions should be based on a thorough analysis of human behavior, that anticipates substitution of activities"

Covid-19: Early evening curfews are not effective and may backfire - Abstract - Europe PMCEurope PMC Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature. europepmc.org

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58. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3764553 "there is little doubt that the effect of the lockdowns in spring of 2020 was modest" "economic lockdown...will therefore most often be met by more risky behavior among citizens [&]...be followed by an increase in infections in other parts of society"

A First Literature Review: Lockdowns Only Had a Small Effect on COVID-19 How important were the economic lockdowns in the spring of 2020 in curbing the COVID-19 pandemic and how important was lockdown as compared to voluntary changes papers.ssrn.com

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59. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28930 "we fail to find that [shelter-in-place] SIP policies saved lives. To the contrary, we find a positive association between SIP policies and excess deaths. We find that following the implementation of SIP policies, excess mortality increases"

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Policy Responses on Excess Mortality Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. nber.org

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60. https://www.dovepress.com/whether-county-lockdown-could-deter-the-contagion-of-covid-19-in-the-u-peer-reviewed-fulltext-article-RMHP#cit0021 "We study 3073 Counties...to understand whether lockdown...is an effective approach [and]..reach a conclusion that a county lockdown...plays no important role in containing the spread...This result also echoes other research of invalidity of lockdown"

Efficacy of a lockdown decision for COVID-19 in the USA | RMHP Whether County Lockdown Could Deter the Contagion of COVID-19 in the USA- Read the full article online dovepress.com

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61. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3872861 "the costs of the lockdown are 25 times greater than the benefits, including the cost of an additional 4,536 statistical lives" "Furthermore, each of the individual costs taken on their own are greater than the total benefits of lockdown"

A Cost–Benefit Analysis of the COVID-19 Lockdown in Ireland Since March 12th 2020, the Irish people have endured over 400 days of lockdown restrictions. To this day, the government has failed to present the benefits vers papers.ssrn.com

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62. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.06.21260077v1 "Decreases in mobility were found to increase, rather than decrease case growth rates, consistent with arguments that within-household transmission–resulting from spending more time at residences due to mobility restrictions–may outweigh the benefits"

On the effectiveness of COVID-19 restrictions and lockdowns: Pan metron ariston medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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63. https://osf.io/s9z2p/ "if NPIs were consistently effective, measures should be anti-correlated with case numbers, i.e., the more stringent the NPIs, the greater the ensuing fall in cases. However...the stringency of NPIs is [instead] partially correlated to case numbers"

A TALE OF TWO SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS: CONFLICTING SCIENTIFIC OPINIONS ON WHAT “FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE” MEANS FOR SARS-COV-2 AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC During the COVID-19 pandemic, many governments have adopted responses revolving around the open-ended use of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), including “lockdowns”, “stay-at-home” orders, travel restrictions, mask-wearing, and regulated social distancing. Initially these were introduced with the stated goals of “flattening the curve” of hospital demand and/or the eradication of the virus from the country (i.e., “zero covid” policies). Over time, these goals have shifted to maintaining sufficient NPIs in place until such time as population-wide vaccination programmes have achieved an appropriate level of herd immunity to allow lifting of these measures without excessive hospital demand. Supporters of this approach have claimed to be “following the science”, insisting that criticism of any aspects of these measures is non-scientific or even “scientific misinformation”. This idea that only one set of scientifically valid opinions on COVID-19 exists has encouraged the media, social media and even scientific journals to suppress and/or dismiss any differing scientific opinions as “erroneous”, “discredited” or “debunked”, resulting in discouragement of open-minded scientific inquiry or discussion. Accordingly, in the current article we identify two distinct scientific paradigms to analysing COVID-19 adopted within the medical and scientific community. Paradigm 1 is primarily model-driven, while Paradigm 2 is primarily empirically-driven. Using these two paradigms we have analysed the epidemiological data for 30 northern hemisphere countries (with a total population of 882 million). Remarkably, we find using each paradigm leads to diametrically opposite conclusions on many policy-relevant issues. We discuss how these conflicting results might be reconciled and provide recommendations for scientists and policymakers. osf.io

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64. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00036846.2021.1955089 "at best, lockdown had no significant impact on net mortalities; and under our..[analysis]...is associated with a significant net increase in mortalities" "a substantial proportion of COVID-19 deaths may be largely invariant to blanket lockdowns"

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65. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577740/full "lockdowns may have more negative effects than positive effects. [eg] many measures taken in a lockdown aimed at protecting human life may compromise the immune system,& purpose in life, esp. of vulnerable groups...including the ones we aim to protect"

For the Greater Good? The Devastating Ripple Effects of the Covid-19 Crisis As the crisis around Covid-19 evolves, it becomes clear that there are numerous negative side-effects of the lockdown strategies implemented by many countries. Currently, more evidence becomes available that the lockdowns may have more negative effects than positive effects. For instance, many measures taken in a lockdown aimed at protecting human life may compromise the immune system, and purpose in life, especially of vulnerable groups. This leads to the paradoxical situation of compromising the immune system and physical and mental health of many people, including the ones we aim to protect. Also, it is expected that hundreds of millions of people will die from hunger and postponed medical treatments. Other side effects include financial insecurity of billions of people, physical and mental health problems, and increased inequalities. The economic and health repercussions of the crisis will be falling disproportionately on young workers, low-income families and women, and thus exacerbate existing inequalities. As the virus outbreak and media coverage spread fear and anxiety, superstition, cognitive dissonance reduction and conspiracy theories are ways to find meaning and reduce anxiety. These behavioral aspects may play a role in the continuance of lockdown decisions. Based on theories regarding agnotology (i.e. the ways ignorance or doubt about certain topics is created by means of withholding or presenting information in a certain way), social influence, superstition and stress and coping, I seek to explain the social and behavioral aspects of human behavior in times of crises. Both the Covid-19 crisis itself as well as the resulting economic and (mental) health crisis are global problems that may require global solutions. I present a model of drivers and outcomes of lockdown behaviors and offer suggestions and a tool to counteract the negative psychological effects by means of online life crafting therapeutic writing interventions. frontiersin.org

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66. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.14.21258886v1.full.pdf "The majority of the variation in COVID-19 rates between nations is explained by median age, obesity rate, and island status"

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67.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2021.715904/full "Many studies found that more restrictive lockdowns in diff. international locations were not associated w/any clear effect on 'flattening-the-curve'” "lockdowns cannot markedly reduce transmission as people continue to carry out...essential activities"

The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in High Income Countries Such as Canada: A Better Way Forward Without Lockdowns The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused tragic morbidity and mortality. In attempt to reduce this morbidity and mortality, most countries implemented population-wide lockdowns. Here we show that the lockdowns were based on several flawed assumptions, including “no one is protected until everyone is protected,” “lockdowns are highly effective to reduce transmission,” “lockdowns have a favorable cost-benefit balance,” and “lockdowns are the only effective option.” Focusing on the latter, we discuss that Emergency Management principles provide a better way forward to manage the public emergency of the pandemic. Specifically, there are three priorities including the following: first, protect those most at risk by separating them from the threat (mitigation); second, ensure critical infrastructure is ready for people who get sick (preparation and response); and third, shift the response from fear to confidence (recovery). We argue that, based on Emergency Management principles, the age-dependent risk from SARS-CoV-2, the minimal (at best) efficacy of lockdowns, and the terrible cost-benefit trade-offs of lockdowns, we need to reset the pandemic response. We can manage risk and save more lives from both COVID-19 and lockdowns, thus achieving far better outcomes in both the short- and long-term. frontiersin.org

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68. https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf "While this meta-analysis concludes that lockdowns have had little to no public health effects, they have imposed enormous economic & social costs where they have been adopted. In consequence, lockdown policies are ill-founded and should be rejected"

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1. Thread on Devi Sridhar. Devi Sridhar has become known to many for disinformation and lies about Covid... #DeviSridhar #covid #Devocchio #Sridocchio

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2. Dev Sridhar appeared on a childrens news programme BBC Newsround in Jun 2021 and said "Trials have shown the vaccine is 100% safe for children" #DeviSridhar #Liar

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3. In fact 86% of children had suffered an adverse reaction - "Shocking 86% of Children suffered an Adverse Reaction to the Pfizer Covid Vaccine in Clinical Trial" https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/05/30/shocking-86-of-children-suffered-an-adverse-reaction-to-the-pfizer-covid-vaccine-in-clinical-trial/ #covidv #covid #pfizer

Shocking 86% of Children suffered an Adverse Reaction to the Pfizer Covid Vaccine in Clinical Trial The FDA granted emergency use authorisation of the Pfizer mRNA Covid vaccine for use in children aged 12 and over in the USA back on the 10th May 2021. The EMA has recently followed suit, recommending the Pfizer jab should be administered to children aged 12 and over in EU countries. Because of this there… expose-news.com

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3. The BBC had no real option but to retract this, but as an organisation not known for telling the truth themselves, the BBC did not name Devi Sridhar just referred to her as a "contributor" and they did not give the truth, just removed the lie... #BBC #DeviSridhar #Lie

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4. This is an archive of the original BBC post https://web.archive.org/web/20210608065110/https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57389353 #DeviSridhar #Devi #Sridhar #Liar

Pfizer vaccine for children: Your questions answered - CBBC Newsround One of the coronavirus vaccinations, which has already been given to millions of adults in the UK, has now been approved for 12 to 15 year olds. But that doesn't necessarily mean the Pfizer jab will now be given to children. We put your questions to an expert. web.archive.org

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5. This is an archive of the amended BBC post https://web.archive.org/web/20211227075019/https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/57389353 #DeviSridhar #Devi #Sridhar #Liar

Pfizer vaccine for 12-15 year olds: Your questions answered - CBBC Newsround One of the coronavirus vaccinations, which has already been given to millions of adults in the UK, has now been approved for 12 to 15 year olds. But that doesn't necessarily mean the Pfizer jab will now be given to children. We put your questions to an expert. web.archive.org

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6. Of course this was far from the only misinformation in the post Devi Sridhar claimed that the vaccine had been approved, it hadnt, it had received emergency use authorisation, a very different thing. #DeviSridhar #Misinformation #Disinformation #Devi #vaccine

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7. Devi Sridhar claimed that injections were "safe and effective" and the "benefits far outweigh any risk". This was just untrue for anyone under 85 according to the Expose which did a great job on correcting her misinformation... https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/06/08/everything-devi-sridhar-forgot-to-tell-your-children-in-bbc-newsround-film-shown-across-schools-on-covid-19-vaccines/ #TheExpose #DeviSridhar

Everything Devi Sridhar “forgot” to tell YOUR children in BBC Newsround film shown across Schools on Covid-19 Vaccines The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine was given emergency use authorisation on Friday 4th June stating it was "safe and effective" for use in children over the age of 12. This is criminal considering the overall Covid-19 fatality rate according to official statistics is less than 0.2%, and none of these fatalities are children, instead their average… expose-news.com

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8. There were more misinformation examples so read the Expose about Devi Sridhar. AFAIK Devi has never yet apologised for this misinformation. https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/06/08/everything-devi-sridhar-forgot-to-tell-your-children-in-bbc-newsround-film-shown-across-schools-on-covid-19-vaccines/ #DeviSridhar #Liar #Misinformation

Everything Devi Sridhar “forgot” to tell YOUR children in BBC Newsround film shown across Schools on Covid-19 Vaccines The Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine was given emergency use authorisation on Friday 4th June stating it was "safe and effective" for use in children over the age of 12. This is criminal considering the overall Covid-19 fatality rate according to official statistics is less than 0.2%, and none of these fatalities are children, instead their average… expose-news.com

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9. UK Medical Freedom Alliance demanded Devi Sridhar made a public apology for her misleading claims https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/06/15/uk-medical-freedom-alliance-demand-devi-shridhar-to-make-public-apology-for-misleading-claims-about-covid-19-vaccine-safety-for-children/ #devisridhar #UKMFA

UK Medical Freedom Alliance Demand Devi Sridhar to Make Public Apology For Misleading Claims About Covid-19 Vaccine Safety for Children Source: CramzineProfessor Devi Sridhar was inbolved in a BBC Newsround film shown to schools across the UK where she answered questions about the safety of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for children. The UK Medical Freedom Alliance (UKMFA) have sent a letter of complaint to Professor Sridhar after she made claims on BBC Newsround - misleading… expose-news.com

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10. An article in the Concerned Citizen discussed Devi's lies... https://everydayconcerned.net/2021/06/15/uninformed-professor-devi-shridhar-blatantly-lies-to-children-on-bbc-newsround-dr-vernon-coleman-uk-medical-freedom-call-her-out-demand-public-retraction-apology/ #DeviSridhar

Uninformed Professor Devi Shridhar Blatantly Lies to Children on BBC Newsround, Dr. Vernon Coleman & UK Medical Freedom Call Her Out, Demand Public Retraction & Apology Report | Ramola D | June 15, 2021 Devi Shridhar, the much touted media spokesperson chairing "Global Public Health" at the University of Edinburgh and apparently keen to push experimental vaccines on the world including now on children, has publicly lied on a major news program reaching millions, BBC Newsround, where she answered questions and… everydayconcerned.net

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11. The Health and Recovery Team also corrected Devi Sridhar's false claims - BBC mislead with child vaccination video https://www.hartgroup.org/bbc-newsround-vaccine/ #bbc #devisridhar #HART

BBC mislead with child vaccination video In a week of very worrying developments, HART has been particularly appalled by a recent piece on BBC Newsround promoting the Pfizer vaccine for children. hartgroup.org

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12. Vernon Coleman gave his inimitable and honest take - Lies on the BBC will Result in Children Dying https://vernoncoleman.org/videos/lies-bbc-will-result-children-dying #DeviSridhar #BBC #v #Covid_19

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13. Conservative Woman called it "Professor’s ‘unforgivable’ wrong vaccine advice to BBC’s child viewers" https://web.archive.org/web/20210616232739/https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/professors-unforgivable-wrong-vaccine-advice-to-bbcs-child-viewers/ #DeviSridhar #BBC #Lies #Misinformation

Professor’s ‘unforgivable’ wrong vaccine advice to BBC’s child viewers | The Conservative Woman Professor’s ‘unforgivable’ wrong vaccine advice to BBC’s child viewers web.archive.org

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14. To see Devi Sridhar playing the victim, almost on the strike of midnight for the New Year, moaning about misinformation and claiming she has been lied about, is the height of hypocrisy and despicable... https://archive.md/yyqkf #devisridhar #lies #misinformation #COVID19

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15. A bit of background on Devi Sridhar - Devi was the youngest Rhodes Scholar - founded by Cecil Rhodes and when the globalists get paid to go to Oxford University. https://archive.md/zhxqU #DeviSridhar #RhodesScholar

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16. Sridhar serves on the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Health Industry. https://web.archive.org/web/20210621185524/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi_Sridhar #WEF #Globalists #DeviSridhar #WorldEconomicForum

Devi Sridhar - Wikipedia web.archive.org

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17. Devi worked with Chelsea Clinton and used principal agent theory to study the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and the GAVI alliance. She coauthored a book with the Illuminati High Priestess Chelsea Clinton... #chelseaclinton #devisridhar

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18. There is a timeline and more detail on Devi here... Devi Sridhar and Covid Narrative Warfare https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2021/06/23/devi-sridhar-and-covid-narrative-warfare/ #Devi #DeviSridhar #covid

Devi Sridhar and Covid Narrative Warfare Covid and "vaccination" lies from Devi Sridhar... cathyfox.wordpress.com

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19. She is undoubtedly a globalist puppet doing and saying what they want, irrespective of the truth. I will add more when she annoys me again, but for now @PingThread unroll Devi Sridhar misinformation thread

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20. If all adults were vaccinated who were offered it the pandemic would be over - another lie from Devi Sridhar... #DeviSridhar

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21. Devi Sridhar is kept on as Chair of Global Public Health by Edinburgh University despite the fact she is a serial liar... Who is in control? https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/14/if-all-adults-were-vaccinated-the-pandemic-would-be-over-says-devi-sridhar-yet-data-shows-the-large-majority-of-infections-and-deaths-are-in-the-vaccinated/ #devisridhar #liar #liarsridhar #EdinburghUniversity

"If All Adults Were Vaccinated The Pandemic Would be Over," Says Devi Sridhar – Yet Data Shows the Large Majority of Infections and Deaths Are in the Vaccinated – The Daily Sceptic Devi Sridhar has claimed the only reason the pandemic isn't over is the fact that some adults have not been vaccinated – despite Government data showing the large majority of infections and deaths are in the vaccinated. dailysceptic.org

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22. It appears as though Devi Sridhar has has a Damascene conversion... albeit still inventing false reasoning... Now that science has defanged Covid, it’s time to get on with our lives https://archive.md/S3QQj #devisridhar #zerocovid #covid #nomasks #nolockdown #nonhsmandate

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

23. She is still not to be trusted. This devious globalist will position herself wherever she needs to be to manipulate more people to the Great Reset - Devi Sridhar Concedes Defeat - https://archive.md/ORR5L #GreatReset #NWO #DeviSridhar #DeviouSridhar

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

24. Dev Sridhar, adviser to the Scottish government on COVID restrictions appears to have broken the rules on wearing masks in gyms, stymied by her own selfie obsession. #DeviSridhar #NoMask #covid

@citizenjournos_ - Citizen Journalists

In this now deleted Instagram picture, Devi has a major problem to contend with. Firstly, when she posted this masks in gyms (when not exercising) were required under Scottish law. CJs being CJs submitted an FOI to be sure. The day we got the response she removed this picture!

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25. Edinburgh International Book Festival, probably Aug 2021 as she was there then, https://www.edinburghfestivalcity.com/news/1259-a-look-back-at-august-2021 I think she was asked about Jacinda's "you can trust us as the only source of info" dictatorship... #devisridhar

A Look Back At August 2021 Here we take a look back at the planning, highlights and results of our festival programmes in August 2021 edinburghfestivalcity.com

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26. c. 2022 Feb 10 Devi "not a welcome surprise" lifting restrictions. Lauds vaccines , therapeutics, testing 🙄 also forgets about her own breaking rules 🙄 #devisridhar #COVID19 #COVID

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27. Devi Sridhar is yet another of the Klaus Schwab's dubious World Economic Forums Young Global Leaders #WEF #DeviSridhar #YGL #YoungGlobalLeader #KlausSchwab #WorldEconomicForum

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28. 2020 Jul she details some of her funding Wellcome Trust, NIHR, EU and DFID https://web.archive.org/web/20211024113041/https://www.thenational.scot/news/18561581.devi-sridhar-rejects-brian-wilsons-attack-integrity/ #DFID #Devi #DeviSridhar #EU #NIHR #WellcomeTrust

Public health expert rejects former minister's 'attack' on her integrity PUBLIC health expert Devi Sridhar has thanked ex-Labour minister Malcolm Chisholm for defending her after his former Scotland Office colleague… web.archive.org

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29. Devi was a supporter of "Independent SAGE" more accurately called Extremist SAGE. Here is an Elsevier 🙄 paper on the first year of Extremist SAGE by themselves... https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851022000069?dgcid=author #IndieSAGE #ExtremistSAGE #IndieSAGE

Open science communication: The first year of the UK's Independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the complex relationship between science and policy. Policymakers have had to make decisions at speed in co… sciencedirect.com

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30. I must update my article sometime, but this gives a timeline and some of Devi's dangerous lies to children. Yes Devi tells lie to children about the jab. https://cathyfox.wordpress.com/2022/01/01/devi-sridhar-lies-and-misinformation/ #vaccination #devisridhar #lies

Devi Sridhar – Lies and Misinformation Devi Sridhar complains about misinformation and lies when she is one of the worst perpetrators... cathyfox.wordpress.com

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31. Devi doing the rounds, this time ITV and she is wearing the same mind control leopardprint as Sky its probably same day. Usual WEF nonsense and lies as damage limitation and fear mongering... #devi #devisridhar #sridhar #omicron

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

32. Devi Sridhar WEF mouthpiece. World Economic Forum #WEF #WorldEconomicForum #KlausSchwab #DeviSridhar

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33. Devi Sridhar rewrites history in her favour in this interview. She was a zero covid zealot but you couldnt tell from this public relations effort https://youtu.be/0yK-4P1kCco #devidridhar

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34. 23 Jul 2020 Places that politicised their coronavirus response ‘have done abysmally’ – Prof Devi Sridhar 2m50s . Zero covid also mentioned for Scotland https://www.channel4.com/news/places-that-politicised-their-coronavirus-response-have-done-abysmally-prof-devi-sridhar #devisridhar #scotland #johnson

Places that politicised their coronavirus response ‘have done abysmally’ – Prof Devi Sridhar Devi Sridhar is a professor of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University. channel4.com

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35. Devi the proven liar at it again. Scaremongering about birdflu now - UK should be preparing for bird flu pandemic, scientist warns amid concern over virus mutations that could see it take off in humans https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12456679/UK-prepare-bird-flu-pandemic-mutations-humans.html #devisridhar

UK should be preparing for bird flu pandemic, scientist warns Professor Devi Sridhar, of Edinburgh University, said there are 'signals' of a pattern emerging in avian flu's mutations, which means it could take off among humans at 'some point'. dailymail.co.uk

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36. The liar Devi Sridhar is wearing her mind controlled catprint again, showing she is just a mind controlled puppet of the globalist cabal #devisridhar #mindcontrolled #puppet #globalist #propaganda

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39. Devi blocks other professors....

@wmh3thinker - wmh

@HatredMatrix @CathyCathyFox @devisridhar As you can see from this exchange, Devi not interested in debate with other profs either. Imagine blocking other professors during debate. 🤦‍♂️

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40. Devi apparently wrote a comment rewriting history as usual, was challenged as to why she wrote private DM's to BBC's health editor, and then deleted comment

@HatredMatrix - Hatred Matrix

@devisridhar Seeing as you're attempting to rewrite history & absolve yourself & colleagues of any responsibility for the harmful outcomes of advice to government, would you care to comment on why you were sending private DMs to the BBCs health editor berating them for allowing public debate?

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

41. Original Devi comment lost unless someone has a copy, but these were the DM's from above in reply.

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42. Apparently Devi's close collaborator, Prof. Igor Rudan took pride in facilitating Devi's move to the Univ. of Edinburgh and her employment. He then relocated to Croatia, and did similar work there to Devi here...

@nbakic - Nenad Bakic

To grasp the extensive and global interconnections amongst these individuals, consider Devi's at the time close collaborator, Professor Igor Rudan. He takes pride in facilitating Devi's move to the University of Edinburgh and her subsequent employment. As Devi achieved global fame, he relocated to Croatia, hoping to find his own fortuitous opportunity. Remarkably, he initially found success! He is equally proud of his use of media to advocate for stringent lockdowns in Croatia during the spring of 2020, which at the time were the strictest in the EU. You can witness his confession in an astonishing video that I'll share in my next tweet. He was unwise enough to disclose their manipulative tactics in using media to pressure governments into enforcing restrictive 'measures' - the same strategy employed by Devi. Rudan has led the pro-lockdown advocates in Croatia, a fact documented on Infodemija (linked bellow), a unique global website recording the actions of these individuals. However, we later succeeded in diminishing the influence of his group, and Croatia transitioned to the 'Swedish model' (The only country in the world to do so - I suppose it is a globally important case in what could have been done) much to their chagrin. In response, they initiated a vigorous media campaign, even attempting to overthrow the government. https://infodemija.org/kategorije/igor-rudan/ @michaelpsenger @DrJBhattacharya @unherd @elonmusk @GordanLauc ... the video in the next tweet is an ubelievable document on how the lockwodn cabal operated. 1/2

Igor Rudan - Infodemija - nezavisni fact-checking infodemija.org

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

43. Link on Igor Rudan https://infodemija.org/kategorije/igor-rudan/ and screenshot of book called Healthy Ideas that Igor wrote with Devi Sridhar... #devisridhar #igorrudan

Igor Rudan - Infodemija - nezavisni fact-checking infodemija.org

@nbakic - Nenad Bakic

@HatredMatrix @devisridhar p.s. THE closest collaborator:

@CathyCathyFox - foxblog

44. Igor Rudan gave a talk which reveals much about how he operated and how influential he was at the time of the outbreak. Parallels could be drawn. Video saved onto odysee https://odysee.com/@FoxesAmazingChannel:8/UI-COVID-19-Webinar-7_-Initial-Response-to-COVID-19_-How-did-Eastern-Europe-get-it-right_-1ZLF9CLYfyY:7 #igorrudan #covid #croatia

UI COVID-19 Webinar 7_ Initial Response to COVID-19 How did Eastern Europe get it right? Igor Rudan UI COVID-19 Webinar 7_ Initial Response to COVID-19 How did Eastern Europe get it right? Igor Rudan 7 May 2020 odysee.com

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45. Original video youtube on this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLF9CLYfyY and this tweet link #igorrudan #covid #croatia

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@nbakic - Nenad Bakic

@HatredMatrix @devisridhar 2/2 And the video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZLF9CLYfyY

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46. Archive fyi of Igor Rudan from 2023 Feb https://web.archive.org/web/20230216054204/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor_Rudan #igorrudan

Igor Rudan - Wikipedia web.archive.org

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@reseeit save thread

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@reSeeIt @threadreaderapp unroll

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Thread: Lockdowns The Year is 2020, a novel coronavirus is rapidly spreading throughout the world. It originated from China, who responded with draconian force. The people of Wuhan were in some cases quite literally locked in their homes, Please RT & Follow #covid #Lockdowns

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

images flashed across every news wire of men and women suddenly collapsing face first throughout the city. Immediately there was a death count chyron plastered at the bottom of every western news channel. The virus was coming. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7923981/amp/Coronavirus-Disturbing-videos-claim-people-collapsing-Wuhan.html

Coronavirus: Videos claim to show people collapsing in Wuhan Dozens of videos being circulated on social media purport to show people collapsing in the streets of the Chinese city of Wuhan, epicentre of the new coronavirus outbreak, as medics rush to treat them. dailymail.co.uk

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In the states we waited with bated breath trying to make sense of the propaganda deluge that was unleashed on the world. Every channel, every newspaper, every newsfeed, every radio station and all other forms of mass communication trumpeted everything the…

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Who, CDC and NIH spoon fed them. Faithfully reporting and slowly but surely building institutional and public consensus towards one goal. WORLDWIDE LOCKDOWN 🌎.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

How easily we forget what happened just 3 years ago. The entire world closed its doors, crippling the economy, except for the few ultra wealthy, destroying countless lives and causing irreparable damage into the future.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

We still do not know the long term systemic societal effects of what we have done. How did this happen? How could we allow it to happen? Something never before done on this scale in the history of mankind. In short. FEAR and lots of it.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Fear and the faith of our leaders that we were dumb enough to fall for it and their faith was largely rewarded. I hope to take you back just 3 years and recount what happened with evidence, in one place in the form of a thread so we stop forgetting, because we are forgetting…

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and if you think that Lockdowns have been taken off the totalitarian menu for the future I have news for you, they are trying to make it legally binding worldwide policy via the WHO. See IHR Amendments 2022: A great summary by @jamesroguski https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/c5c16e46-3009-4b19-aa93-3b711329f4e3

James Roguski Exposing MDM (Mis-Information, Dis-Information and Mal-Information). Click to read James Roguski, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers. jamesroguski.substack.com

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So why Lockdowns? On the surface it seems as if it would be logical to shelter in place, stopping the chain of transmission. Surely the idea was studied and game planned with extensive research and sober deliberation right? Well not exactly.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

It came from a high school science fair almost 17 years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/us/politics/social-distancing-coronavirus.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing (Published 2020) The idea has been around for centuries. But it took a high school science fair, George W. Bush, history lessons and some determined researchers to overcome skepticism and make it federal policy. nytimes.com

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“How that idea — born out of a request by President George W. Bush to ensure the nation was better prepared for the next contagious disease outbreak — became the heart of the national playbook for responding to a pandemic is one of the untold stories of the coronavirus crisis.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“People could not believe that the strategy would be effective or even feasible,” Dr. Mecher recalled. But within the Bush administration, they were encouraged to keep at it and follow the science. And ultimately, their arguments proved persuasive.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“It was about that time that Dr. Mecher heard from Robert J. Glass, a senior scientist at Sandia in New Mexico who specialized in building advanced models to explain how complex systems work — and what can cause catastrophic failures.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“Dr. Glass’s daughter Laura, then 14, had done a class project in which she built a model of social networks at her Albuquerque high school, and when Dr. Glass looked at it, he was intrigued.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

He then brought to idea to the Bush Administration who of course, loved it. There were dissenting voices at the time however. “One particularly vociferous critic was Dr. D.A. Henderson, who had been the leader of the international effort to eradicate smallpox and had been named

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

by Mr. Bush to help oversee the nation’s biodefense efforts after the 2001 terrorist attacks.” “The measures embraced by Drs. Mecher and Hatchett would “result in significant disruption of the social functioning of communities and result in possibly serious economic problems,”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Mr. Henderson continued: “The answer, he insisted, was to tough it out: Let the pandemic spread, treat people who get sick and work quickly to develop a vaccine to prevent it from coming back.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

This man deserves a medal for seeing it for what it was, a wildly reckless, asinine idea that could never work. However.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“The administration ultimately sided with the proponents of social distancing and shutdowns — though their victory was little noticed outside of public health circles. Their policy would become the basis for government planning and would be used extensively in simulations used…

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

to prepare for pandemics, and in a limited way in 2009 during an outbreak of the influenza called H1N1.” So, a high school student came up with idea and her Dad who worked for the government thought it could work and brought it to the Bush Administration, who made it policy.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Now that it has been utilized in society on a scale never before seen, did it work? Those of us who have been propagandized into submission will say, yes, of course it worked along with masking, social distancing, and the vaccines. It was a wild success! Yay science!

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

A quick google search of lockdowns will provide results praising them and “fact check” articles “debunking” conspiracy theories about how they were an utter disaster for society. Pro-tip, don’t use google if you want to learn the truth.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

The truth is our leaders based their decision in 2020 to lockdown on a report published by The Imperial College of London on March 16,2020 entitled: “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID-19 mortality and healthcare demand” https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-03-16-COVID19-Report-9.pdf

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Here’s what they predicted.. “an unmitigated epidemic, we would predict approximately 510,000 deaths in GB and 2.2 million in the US, not accounting for the potential negative effects of health systems being overwhelmed on mortality.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

So all it took was one report, constant propaganda and an existing policy that was ultimately created by a high school student to convince our leaders to lockdown the whole of society? Got it.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

What wasn’t told to the public was that our leaders in public health already knew that the risk of COVID was highly age-stratified and there was a 1000-fold differential risk of death between a child and an elderly person.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

On September 1, 2020, Donald Luskin of the Wall Street Journal wrote: “Six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the U.S. has now carried out two large-scale experiments in public health—first, in March and April, the lockdown of the economy to arrest the spread of the virus, and

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

second, since mid-April, the reopening of the economy. The results are in. Counterintuitive though it may be, statistical analysis shows that locking down the economy didn’t contain the disease’s spread and reopening it didn’t unleash a second wave of infections.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

And yet here we are. So many people still believe that all of the measures taken were the right move. I’d wager that so many in fact that if the media and governments put the full court press again, we would have an overwhelming majority go right along with it again.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

I hope in some small part that the information I’ve gathered will help as a beacon to point your friends and family towards to hopefully understand the lunacy of doing it again. They will try again and we need a critical mass of dissension when that time comes to stop it.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 1: September 2020 “The British Columbia Center for Disease Control actually did their job and issued a report entitled:“Impact of School Closures on Learning, Child and Family Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Their findings? “1.children comprise a small proportion of diagnosed COVID-19 cases, have less severe illness, and mortality is rare 2.children do not appear to be a major source of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in households or schools, a finding which has been consistent globally

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

3.there are important differences between how influenza and SARS-CoV-2 are transmitted. School closures may be less effective as a prevention measure for COVID-19 4. school closures can have severe and unintended consequences for children and youth

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

5. school closures contribute to greater family stress, especially for female caregivers, while families balance child care and home learning with employment demands

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

6.family violence may be on the rise during the COVID pandemic, while the closure of schools and childcare centres may create a gap in the safety net for children who are at risk of abuse and neglect.” bccdc.ca/Health-Info-Si…

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 2: July 2020 “A country level analysis measuring the impact of government actions, country preparedness and socioeconomic factors on COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(20)30208-X/fulltext

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Conclusion: “Analysis was conducted to assess the impact of timing and type of national health policy/actions undertaken towards COVID-19 mortality and related health outcomes…low levels of national preparedness, scale of testing and population characteristics were associated..

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

with increased national case load and overall mortality….in our analysis, full lockdowns and wide-spread COVID-19 testing were not associated with reductions in the number of critical cases or overall mortality. NOT ASSOCIATED IN REDUCTIONS IF CASES OR MORTALITY

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 3: This one is from Dr John Ioannidis http://et.al who is one of the most published Physician/Scientists in history. “Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.22.20160341v3.full-text

Effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19: A Tale of Three Models medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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Conclusion: “Inferences on effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification. Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.” NPI = Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 4: June 2020 Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprintComment_on_Dehning_et_al_Science_15_May_2020_eabb9789_Inferring_change_points_in_the_spread_of_COVID-19_reveals_the_effectiveness_of_interventions_/12362645

Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? Was Germany’s Corona Lockdown Necessary? advance.sagepub.com

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“Official data from Germany’s RKI agency suggest strongly that the spread of the corona virus in Germany receded autonomously, before any interventions become effective. Several reasons for such an autonomous decline have been suggested...

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One is that differences in host susceptibility and behavior can result in herd immunity at a relatively low prevalence level. Accounting for individual variation in susceptibility or exposure to the coronavirus yields a maximum of 17% to 20% of the population that needs to be..

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

infected to reach herd immunity, an estimate that is empirically supported by the cohort of the Diamond Princess cruise ship. Another reason is that seasonality may also play an important role in dissipation.” 🤔

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 5: September 2020 “Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.26.20202267v1

Trajectory of COVID-19 epidemic in Europe medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Conclusion: “We show that relaxing the assumption of homogeneity to allow for individual variation in susceptibility or connectivity gives a model that has better fit to the data and more accurate 14-day forward prediction of mortality...

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Allowing for heterogeneity reduces the estimate of “counterfactual” deaths that would have occurred if there had been no interventions from 3.2 million to 262,000, implying that most of the slowing and reversal of COVID-19 mortality is explained by the build-up of herd immunity.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 6: November 2020 “Lockdowns and Closures vs COVID – 19: COVID Wins” This is a 58 page exhaustively researched report, I especially like this one because the authors do not mince words.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Conclusion: “As we have stressed throughout, a direct test of lockdowns on cases is the most appropriate test. This direct test is a before after test i.e. a comparison of what happened post lockdown versus what would have happened….

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Only for 15 out of 147 economies the lockdown “worked” in making infections lower; for more than a hundred countries, post lockdown estimate of infections was more than three times higher than the counter factual. This is not evidence of success..

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

rather it is evidence of monumental failure of lockdown policy…“we also test, in some detail, the hypothesis that early lockdowns, and more stringent lockdowns, were effective in containing the virus.…

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

We find robust results for the opposite conclusion: later lockdowns performed better, and less stringent lockdowns achieved better outcomes.” “For the first time in human history, lockdowns were used as a strategy to counter the virus...

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

While conventional wisdom, to date, has been that lockdowns were successful (ranging from mild to spectacular) we find not one piece of evidence supporting this claim.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 6: August 2020 “Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588

Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison I explore the association between the severity of lockdown policies in the first half of 2020 and mortality rates. Using two indices from the Blavatnik Centre’s papers.ssrn.com

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Conclusion: “The lockdowns in most Western countries have thrown the world into the most severe recession since World War II and the most rapidly developing recession ever seen in mature market economies.

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

They have also caused an erosion of fundamental rights and the separation of powers in a large part of the world as both democratic and autocratic regimes have misused their emergency powers and ignored constitutional limits to policy-making (Bjørnskov and Voigt, 2020)…

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“It is therefore important to evaluate whether and to which extent the lockdowns have worked as officially intended: to suppress the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and prevent deaths associated with it. Comparing weekly mortality in 24 European countries,

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the findings in this paper suggest that more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 7: June 2020 “The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe” https://advance.sagepub.com/articles/preprint/Comment_on_Flaxman_et_al_2020_The_illusory_effects_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_COVID-19_in_Europe/12479987 Conclusion: “We show that their methods involve circular reasoning. The purported effects are pure artefacts, which contradict the data...

Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020): The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe Comment on Flaxman et al. (2020): The illusory effects of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 in Europe advance.sagepub.com

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Moreover, we demonstrate that the United Kingdom’s lockdown was both superfluous and ineffective.”

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Exhibit 8: July 2020 “Child malnutrition and COVID-19: the time to act is now” https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31648-2/fulltext#%20

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

“The COVID-19 pandemic is undermining nutrition across the world, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The worst consequences are borne by young children. Some of the strategies to respond to COVID-19—including physical distancing, school closures,

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

trade restrictions, and country lockdowns—are impacting food systems by disrupting the production, transportation, and sale of nutritious, fresh, and affordable foods, forcing millions of families to rely on nutrient-poor alternatives.”

@JoshWalkos - Champagne Joshi

Exhibit 9: May 2020 “Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3607803

Smart Thinking, Lockdown and COVID-19: Implications for Public Policy The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much the world’s economies in order to minimize death rates as well as the immediate negative effec papers.ssrn.com

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Conclusion: “The response to COVID-19 has been overwhelmingly to lockdown much the world’s economies in order to minimize death rates as well as the immediate negative effects of COVID-19. I argue that such policy is too often de-contextualized as it ignores policy externalities

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assumes death rate calculations are appropriately accurate and, and as well, assumes focusing on direct Covid-19 effects to maximize human welfare is appropriate.

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As a result of this approach current policy can be misdirected and with highly negative effects on human welfare. Moreover, such policies can inadvertently result in not minimizing death rates (incorporating externalities) at all, especially in the long run…

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such misdirected and sub-optimal policy is a product of policy makers using inappropriate mental models which are lacking in a number of key areas;

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the failure to take a more comprehensive macro perspective to address the virus, using bad heuristics or decision-making tools, relatedly not recognizing the differential effects of the virus, and adopting herding strategy (follow-the-leader) when developing policy.”

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Exhibit 9: January 2021 “What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020” https://www.aier.org/article/what-they-said-about-lockdowns-before-2020/

What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020 "Significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals. Learning the wrong lesson – assuming that mass quarantines are both good and effective – sets a dangerous precedent for future... aier.org

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Conclusion: “While expert consensus regarding the ineffectiveness of mass quarantine of previous years has recently been challenged,significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful

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Exhibit 10: March 2021 “Evaluating the effects of shelter-in-place policies during the COVID-19 pandemic” https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2019706118

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Conclusion: “Previous studies have claimed that shelter-in-place orders saved thousands of lives, but we reassess these analyses and show that they are not reliable...

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We find that shelter-in-place orders had no detectable health benefits, only modest effects on behavior, and small but adverse effects on the economy.”

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Exhibit 11: May 2020 “Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns” https://www.justfacts.com/news_covid-19_anxiety_lockdowns_life_destroyed_saved

Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns – Just Facts Meticulous research shows that anxiety from reactions to Covid-19—such as business shutdowns, stay-at-home orders, media exaggerations, and legitimate concerns about the virus—will extinguish at least 7 times more years of life than can possibly be saved by lockdowns. justfacts.com

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Conclusion: “The study has found that the “stay at home” lockdown order in the United States will “destroy at least seven times more years of human life” than it saves and that this number is “likely” to be more than 90 times greater…

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Research shows that at least 16.8% of adults in the United States have suffered “major mental harm from responses to Covid-19…Extrapolating these numbers out, the figures show that “anxiety from responses to Covid-19 has impacted

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42,873,663 adults and will rob them of an average of 1.3 years of life, thus destroying 55.7 million years of life.”

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Exhibit 12: April 2020 “COVID-19 containment policies through time may cost more lives at metapopulation level” https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.22.20075093v1

COVID-19 containment policies through time may cost more lives at metapopulation level medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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“Show that temporally restricted containment efforts, that have the potential to flatten epidemic curves, can result in wider disease spread and larger epidemic sizes in metapopulations.”

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Exhibit 13: March 2021 “A Statistical Analysis of COVID-19 and Government Protection Measures in the U.S.” https://www.heritage.org/public-health/report/statistical-analysis-covid-19-and-government-protection-measures-the-us

A Statistical Analysis of COVID-19 and Government Protection Measures in the U.S. Introduction COVID-19 has been a crisis unparalleled by any other public health catastrophe in modern times. heritage.org

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“Our analysis demonstrates that the time from a state’s first case to voluntary changes in residence mobility, which occurred before the imposition of shelter-in-place orders in 43 states, indeed quelled the time to reach the maximum growth in per capita cases.

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On the other hand, our analysis also indicates that these behavioral changes were not significantly effective in quelling mortality… our simulations find a negative effect of the time from a state’s first case to the imposition of shelter-in-place orders on the time to reach..

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the specified per capita mortality thresholds. Our analysis also finds a slightly smaller negative effect on the time from a state’s first case to the imposition of prohibitions on gatherings above 500 people…. shelter-in-place orders can also have negative unforeseen…

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health-related consequences, including the capacity to cause patients to avoid visits to doctors’ offices and emergency rooms. In addition, these policies can result in people, including those with chronic illnesses, skipping routine medical appointments,

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not seeking routine procedures to diagnose advanced cancer, not pursuing cancer screening colonoscopies, postponing non-emergency cardiac catheterizations, being unable to seek routine care if they experience chronic pain, and suffering mental health effects, among others…

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drug overdose deaths, alcohol consumption, and suicidal ideation have also been noted to have increased in 2020 compared to prior years.”

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So there you have it. 13 different reports or studies that unequivocally show that Lockdown Policy is a complete disaster for society and didn’t even do what they were supposed to do. In fact the exact opposite.

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I could keep going, there are hundreds of well sourced articles that walks through the evidence. When someone you know advocates or agrees with Lockdowns, show them this thread. If they are truly intellectually honest and want to know the truth they will change their position.

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If they refuse to look and take the time or dismiss certain points frivolously, you know they are still under mind control and fully in the cult. I hope this helps in any small way. I will be doing another thread on a lighting rod of a topic.

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1. TWITTER FILES: PART 7 The FBI & the Hunter Biden Laptop How the FBI & intelligence community discredited factual information about Hunter Biden’s foreign business dealings both after and *before* The New York Post revealed the contents of his laptop on October 14, 2020

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In Twitter Files #6, we saw the FBI relentlessly seek to exercise influence over Twitter, including over its content, its users, and its data.

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In Twitter Files #7, we present evidence pointing to an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community (IC), aimed at senior executives at news and social media companies, to discredit leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.

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The story begins in December 2019 when a Delaware computer store owner named John Paul (J.P.) Mac Isaac contacts the FBI about a laptop that Hunter Biden had left with him On Dec 9, 2019, the FBI issues a subpoena for, and takes, Hunter Biden's laptop. https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to e-mails obtained by The Post. nypost.com

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By Aug 2020, Mac Isaac still had not heard back from the FBI, even though he had discovered evidence of criminal activity. And so he emails Rudy Giuliani, who was under FBI surveillance at the time. In early Oct, Giuliani gives it to @nypost https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/

Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad Hunter Biden introduced his father, then-Vice President Joe Biden, to a top executive at a Ukrainian energy firm less than a year before the elder Biden pressured government officials in Ukraine into firing a prosecutor who was investigating the company, according to e-mails obtained by The Post. nypost.com

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Shortly before 7 pm ET on October 13, Hunter Biden’s lawyer, George Mesires, emails JP Mac Isaac. Hunter and Mesires had just learned from the New York Post that its story about the laptop would be published the next day.

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7. At 9:22 pm ET (6:22 PT), FBI Special Agent Elvis Chan sends 10 documents to Twitter’s then-Head of Site Integrity, Yoel Roth, through Teleporter, a one-way communications channel from the FBI to Twitter.

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8. The next day, October 14, 2020, The New York Post runs its explosive story revealing the business dealings of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter. Every single fact in it was accurate.

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9. And yet, within hours, Twitter and other social media companies censor the NY Post article, preventing it from spreading and, more importantly, undermining its credibility in the minds of many Americans. Why is that? What, exactly, happened?

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10. On Dec 2, @mtaibbi described the debate inside Twitter over its decision to censor a wholly accurate article. Since then, we have discovered new info that points to an organized effort by the intel community to influence Twitter & other platforms

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11. First, it's important to understand that Hunter Biden earned *tens of millions* of dollars in contracts with foreign businesses, including ones linked to China's government, for which Hunter offered no real work. Here's an overview by investigative journalist @peterschweizer

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12. And yet, during all of 2020, the FBI and other law enforcement agencies repeatedly primed Yoel Roth to dismiss reports of Hunter Biden’s laptop as a Russian “hack and leak” operation. This is from a sworn declaration by Roth given in December 2020. https://www.fec.gov/files/legal/murs/7827/7827_08.pdf

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13. They did the same to Facebook, according to CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “The FBI basically came to us [and] was like, ‘Hey... you should be on high alert. We thought that there was a lot of Russian propaganda in 2016 election. There's about to be some kind of dump similar to that.'"

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14. Were the FBI warnings of a Russian hack-and-leak operation relating to Hunter Biden based on *any* new intel? No, they weren't “Through our investigations, we did not see any similar competing intrusions to what had happened in 2016,” admitted FBI agent Elvis Chan in Nov.

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15. Indeed, Twitter executives *repeatedly* reported very little Russian activity. E.g., on Sept 24, 2020, Twitter told FBI it had removed 345 “largely inactive” accounts “linked to previous coordinated Russian hacking attempts.” They “had little reach & low follower accounts."

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16. In fact, Twitter debunked false claims by journalists of foreign influence on its platform "We haven’t seen any evidence to support that claim” by @oneunderscore__ @NBC News of foreign-controlled bots. “Our review thus far shows a small-scale domestic troll effort…”

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17. After FBI asks about a WaPo story on alleged foreign influence in a pro-Trump tweet, Twitter's Roth says, "The article makes a lot of insinuations... but we saw no evidence that that was the case here (and in fact, a lot of strong evidence pointing in the other direction).”

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18. It's not the first time that Twitter's Roth has pushed back against the FBI. In January 2020, Roth resisted FBI efforts to get Twitter to share data outside of the normal search warrant process.

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19. Pressure had been growing: “We have seen a sustained (If uncoordinated) effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more info & change our API policies. They are probing & pushing everywhere they can (including by whispering to congressional staff).”

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20. Time and again, FBI asks Twitter for evidence of foreign influence & Twitter responds that they aren’t finding anything worth reporting. “[W]e haven’t yet identified activity that we’d typically refer to you (or even flag as interesting in the foreign influence context).”

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21. Despite Twitter’s pushback, the FBI repeatedly requests information from Twitter that Twitter has already made clear it will not share outside of normal legal channels.

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22. Then, in July 2020, the FBI’s Elvis Chan arranges for temporary Top Secret security clearances for Twitter executives so that the FBI can share information about threats to the upcoming elections.

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23. On August 11, 2020, the FBI's Chan shares information with Twitter's Roth relating to the Russian hacking organization, APT28, through the FBI's secure, one-way communications channel, Teleporter.

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24. Recently, Yoel Roth told @karaswisher that he had been primed to think about the Russian hacking group APT28 before news of the Hunter Biden laptop came out. When it did, Roth said, "It set off every single one of my finely tuned APT28 hack-and-leap campaign alarm bells."

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25. In Aug, 2020, FBI’s Chan asks Twitter: does anyone there have top secret clearance? When someone mentions Jim Baker, Chan responds, "I don't know how I forgot him" — an odd claim, given Chan's job is to monitor Twitter, not to mention that they worked together at the FBI.

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26. Who is Jim Baker? He's former general counsel of the FBI (2014-18) & one of the most powerful men in the U.S. intel community. Baker has moved in and out of government for 30 years, serving stints at CNN, Bridgewater (a $140 billion asset management firm) and Brookings

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27. As general counsel of the FBI, Baker played a central role in making the case internally for an investigation of Donald Trump https://www.wsj.com/articles/fbi-took-michael-sussmanns-allegation-of-trump-russia-ties-seriously-former-official-testifies-11652985514

FBI Took Michael Sussmann’s Allegation of Trump-Russia Ties Seriously, Former Official Testifies Bureau’s ex-general counsel says lawyer’s avowed civic motive spurred interest in his ultimately unsupported evidence of ties between Russian bank and Trump’s company in 2016 wsj.com

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28. Baker wasn't the only senior FBI exec. involved in the Trump investigation to go to Twitter. Dawn Burton, the former dep. chief of staff to FBI head James Comey, who initiated the investigation of Trump, joined Twitter in 2019 as director of strategy.

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29. As of 2020, there were so many former FBI employees — "Bu alumni" — working at Twitter that they had created their own private Slack channel and a crib sheet to onboard new FBI arrivals.

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30. Efforts continued to influence Twitter's Yoel Roth. In Sept 2020, Roth participated in an Aspen Institute “tabletop exercise” on a potential "Hack-and-Dump" operation relating to Hunter Biden The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it

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31. The organizer was Vivian Schiller, the fmr CEO of NPR, fmr head of news at Twitter; fmr Gen. mgr of NY Times; fmr Chief Digital Officer of NBC News Attendees included Meta/FB's head of security policy and the top nat. sec. reporters for @nytimes @wapo and others

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32. By mid-Sept, 2020, Chan & Roth had set up an encrypted messaging network so employees from FBI & Twitter could communicate. They also agree to create a “virtual war room” for “all the [Internet] industry plus FBI and ODNI” [Office of the Director of National Intelligence].

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33. Then, on Sept 15, 2020 the FBI’s Laura Dehmlow, who heads up the Foreign Influence Task Force, and Elvis Chan, request to give a classified briefing for Jim Baker, without any other Twitter staff, such as Yoel Roth, present.

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34. On Oct 14, shortly after @NYPost publishes its Hunter Biden laptop story, Roth says, “it isn’t clearly violative of our Hacked Materials Policy, nor is it clearly in violation of anything else," but adds, “this feels a lot like a somewhat subtle leak operation.”

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35. In response to Roth, Baker repeatedly insists that the Hunter Biden materials were either faked, hacked, or both, and a violation of Twitter policy. Baker does so over email, and in a Google doc, on October 14 and 15.

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36. And yet it's inconceivable Baker believed the Hunter Biden emails were either fake or hacked. The @nypost had included a picture of the receipt signed by Hunter Biden, and an FBI subpoena showed that the agency had taken possession of the laptop in December 2019.

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37. As for the FBI, it likely would have taken a few *hours* for it to confirm that the laptop had belonged to Hunter Biden. Indeed, it only took a few days for journalist @peterschweizer to prove it.

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38. By 10 am, Twitter execs had bought into a wild hack-and-dump story “The suggestion from experts - which rings true - is there was a hack that happened separately, and they loaded the hacked materials on the laptop that magically appeared at a repair shop in Delaware”

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39. At 3:38 pm that same day, October 14, Baker arranges a phone conversation with Matthew J. Perry in the Office of the General Counsel of the FBI

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40. The influence operation persuaded Twitter execs that the Hunter Biden laptop did *not* come from a whistleblower. One linked to a Hill article, based on a WaPo article, from Oct 15, which falsely suggested that Giuliani’s leak of the laptop had something to do with Russia.

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41. There is evidence that FBI agents have warned elected officials of foreign influence with the primary goal of leaking the information to the news media. This is a political dirty trick used to create the perception of impropriety.

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42. In 2020, the FBI gave a briefing to Senator Grassley and Johnson, claiming evidence of “Russian interference” into their investigation of Hunter Biden. The briefing angered the Senators, who say it was done to discredit their investigation. https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/grassley_johnson_to_fbi_-_august_2020_briefing.pdf

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43. “The unnecessary FBI briefing provided the Democrats and liberal media the vehicle to spread their false narrative that our work advanced Russian disinformation.”

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44. Notably, then-FBI General Counsel Jim Baker was investigated *twice,* in 2017 and 2019, for leaking information to the news media. “You’re saying he’s under criminal investigation? That’s why you’re not letting him answer?” Meadows asked. “Yes” https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/15/fbi-general-counsel-criminal-investigation-1101774

Ex-FBI general counsel faced criminal leak probe The revelation’s timing suggests that Republicans are seeking to undercut Baker’s credibility following a bombshell report in the New York Times. politico.com

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45. In the end, the FBI's influence campaign aimed at executives at news media, Twitter, & other social media companies worked: they censored & discredited the Hunter Biden laptop story. By Dec. 2020, Baker and his colleagues even sent a note of thanks to the FBI for its work.

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46. The FBI’s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact that it was paying Twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. “I am happy to report we have collected $3,415,323 since October 2019!” reports an associate of Jim Baker in early 2021.

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47. And the pressure from the FBI on social media platforms continues In Aug 2022, Twitter execs prepared for a meeting with the FBI, whose goal was “to convince us to produce on more FBI EDRs" EDRs are an “emergency disclosure request,” a warrantless search.

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In response to the Twitter Files revelation of high-level FBI agents at Twitter, @Jim_Jordan said, “I have concerns about whether the government was running a misinformation operation on We the People.” https://nypost.com/2022/12/17/twitter-leadership-full-of-former-fbi-agents-linkedin-records-show/

Twitter’s top ranks riddled with ex-FBI employees Twitter's top ranks were riddled with ex-FBI agents and executives, stitching the company even closer to the federal agency now under fire for leaning on Twitter to meddle in the 2020 elections. nypost.com

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Anyone who reads the Twitter Files, regardless of their political orientation, should share those concerns. /END

@MichaelPSenger - Michael P Senger

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

The REAL Story of the Birth of ‘Social Distancing’ — the Western Term for Lockdown (封锁) That ‘social distancing’ arose from a school science project appears to be an elaborate cover story for the fact the concept was lifted directly from China’s lockdown measures during SARS in 2003. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Bombshell: Template to Export Lockdowns Existed by 2014 Bots supported Sierra Leone’s unprecedented lockdowns in 2014 and 2015 with millions of posts specifically using the word “lockdown.” michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

The Earliest Events of the COVID Coup Will Jones at the Daily Sceptic has written a peerless synopsis of the individuals, institutions, and events involved in the earliest days of the response to COVID—at least, that we know of so far. Our perspectives on these events differ in certain respects. At a high level, Jones tends to treat the Chinese government as an ordinary government, whereas I consider it best to think of the Chinese Communist Party, like other totalitarian regimes, as a michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Lockdown is a National Security Catastrophe or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Biosecurity State michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

The Dragnet in Lombardy, Italy: Patient Zero of Lockdowns The Manifesto of Health Minister Roberto Speranza michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Just a moment... tabletmag.com

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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

How the lockdown came to Germany On the role of privately funded networks in the run-up to the corona crisis multipolar-magazin.de

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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/

What’s Behind The WHO’s Lockdown Mixed-Messaging "Tedros aligned himself not with democracies and their fundamental principles but with an autocratic dictatorship, the same dictatorship that helped him assume power within the WHO. Together, using logical fallacies and pseudo-science, they betrayed international law governing human rights, the... aier.org

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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

The Prophetic Monkeypox Simulation First-ever global Monkeypox outbreak happens in exact week predicted in biosecurity simulation a year prior michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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/

How Did Deborah Birx Get the Job?  ⋆ Brownstone Institute The most revealing parts of the book are the claims about Birx herself that, upon close inspection, make little sense brownstone.org

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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/

How Phony Coronavirus “Fear Videos” Were Used as Psychological Weapons to Bring America to Her Knees - Revolver News Phony coronavirus fear videos imported from China are making us wonder whether this whole thing was one giant psy-op. revolver.news

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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

'Investigate China's Global Lockdown Fraud!' Demand Lawyers, Retired Brig. Gen. in Open Letter to FBI The timeline and activities are a tad suspicious. redstate.com

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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

DRASTIC Founder Renounces Lab Leak Theory of COVID’s Origins The testimony of DRASTIC founder J.J. Couey provides powerful firsthand insight into the perpetuation of the lab leak theory as a controlled opposition narrative. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Leading Virologists Wrongfully Assumed Covid Began in Wuhan in December 2019 in Major New Study Something rotten in the state of virology… michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Military leaders saw pandemic as unique opportunity to test propaganda on Canadians: report A plan devised by the Canadian Joint Operations Command relied on propaganda techniques similar to those employed during the Afghanistan war. nationalpost.com

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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/

Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists Members of Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Behaviour express regret about ‘unethical’ methods telegraph.co.uk

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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

Just a moment... tabletmag.com

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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

An Estimated 30,000 Americans Were Killed by Ventilators & Iatrogenesis in April 2020 Reexamining excess deaths during peak lockdown michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Hospitals Retreat From Early Covid Treatment and Return to Basics Changing practices, based on data and experience, appear to be improving outcomes for the sickest coronavirus patients wsj.com

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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/

Governments Were Given Credible Warnings about Lockdown Harms but Didn’t Listen ⋆ Brownstone Institute Instead of conducting and publishing rigorous cost-benefit analyses, governments and ministries of health turned into Covid-only bureaus brownstone.org

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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/

The Psychological Cruelty of Denying Natural immunity ⋆ Brownstone Institute Take away the knowledge of natural immunity, and thus the realization that there can be a better life on the other side of sickness, and you leave people with existential emptiness and a lasting sense of despair. No one can live that way. No one should have to.  brownstone.org

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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

COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences medrxiv.org

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23. Why were beaches and other outdoor spaces closed? 25/ https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p/lockdowns-the-great-gaslighting

Lockdowns: The Great Gaslighting The lockdowns of 2020 were very real. And few opposed them. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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/

A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data Countermeasures like social distancing may help stop the spread of Covid-19. But how can policymakers tell if they are doing more good than harm? Data! statnews.com

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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

Department of Justice Requesting Data From Governors of States that Issued COVID-19 Orders that May Have Resulted in Deaths of Elderly Nursing Home Residents Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing.  justice.gov

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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

The ‘very, very bad look' of remdesivir, the first FDA-approved COVID-19 drug The Food and Drug Administration held no advisory meeting on antiviral, and the European Union signed contract without knowing of failed trial science.org

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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/

Our Failed COVID Response If, God forbid, we face another pandemic, we cannot use our COVID strategy as the baseline. thedispatch.com

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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/

Neil Ferguson, China and a Fanatical Socialist Health Minister: The Untold Story of How Lockdowns Came to Italy and the West – The Daily Sceptic The free world's first lockdowns were imposed on towns in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21st 2020 by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. What influences lay behind his momentous decision? dailysceptic.org

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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

Opinion | How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration. wsj.com

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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

Fauci’s Red Guards: Lawsuit Reveals Vast Federal Censorship Army “This evidence suggests we are uncovering the most serious, coordinated, and large-scale violation of First Amendment free speech rights by the federal government’s executive branch in US history.” michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

FBI Agent Elvis Chan Gave Twitter Execs Top Secret Clearance in Advance of 2020 Election New internal documents from Twitter, revealed today as part of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” series, show FBI Agent Elvis Chan arranged for Top Secret security clearance—the highest level of US national security clearance—to be granted to Twitter executives for the purpose of facilitating the censorship of suspected misinformation in advance of the 2020 election. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Twitter's New Director has CCP Ties Deeper Than You Know: Fei-fei Li — Jennifer's World So, to put it simply, CCP’s police team and the team of the largest surveillance equipment manufacturer were given top prizes at the ImageNet’s competition, and ImageNet was founded by Li Fei-fei. jenniferzengblog.com

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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

Chinese Protest the Same Lockdowns that Elites Advocated Here If we’d taken health officials and media elites seriously, the entire free world would look like China does today. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

The Gall of Lockdowners Supporting China’s Anti-Lockdown Protests If the intent was to get western elites to simultaneously support totalitarianism in their own countries while pretending to oppose it in China, then Xi Jinping has certainly made his point. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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/

Chinese Company Suspected of Spying on U.S. Citizens Donates Police Drones to 22 States | National Review Police in Elizabeth, N.J., for example, are using the drones to surveil residents in places where patrol cars can't easily reach, such as spaces between buildings. nationalreview.com

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36. Why did masks shift from being not advised to being mandatory? 38/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-51729647

Coronavirus: Face mask ads banned for 'misleading' claims Adverts by two firms made false claims about preventing the spread of coronavirus, watchdog rules. bbc.com

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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

Your Coronavirus Test Is Positive. Maybe It Shouldn’t Be. (Published 2020) The usual diagnostic tests may simply be too sensitive and too slow to contain the spread of the virus. nytimes.com

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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

A Deceptive Construction - Why We Must Question The COVID 19 Mortality Statistics How many people have actually died of Covid-19, compared to the governent's claimed headline figure. ukcolumn.org

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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/

Chinese President sees UK-China academic partnerships at Imperial | Imperial News | Imperial College London XI JINPING'S STATE VISIT - President Xi Jinping of the People's Republic of China visited Imperial College London today (21 October). imperial.ac.uk

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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

China shows world the right way for pandemic response: The Lancet chief editor - Global Times globaltimes.cn

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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

UK SAGE’s Susan Michie Promoted to Lead WHO’s Nudge Unit Susan Michie, a 40-year member of the British Communist Party and a leading participant in the UK Government’s Scientific Pandemic Insights group on Behaviour (SPI-B) “nudge unit” to drive consent for Covid mandates, has been promoted to Chair of the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group for Behavioural Insights and Science for Health. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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/

Policy for the COVID-19 Crisis - Clark Center Forum This week’s IGM Economic Experts Panel statements: A) A comprehensive policy response to the coronavirus will involve tolerating a very large contraction in economic activity until the spread of infections has dropped significantly. B) Abandoning severe lockdowns at a time when the likelihood of a resurgence in infections remains high will lead to greater total […] kentclarkcenter.org

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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

The China Situation Isn’t As Bad As It Looks. It’s Far Worse. The International Criminal Conspiracy of “Change Through Trade” michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Nuremberg II: What a Real Inquiry into the Response to Covid Would Look Like Disturbing questions remain as to who did what, when, and why in the days leading up to the lockdowns of spring 2020 and beyond. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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/

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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/

You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus Most cases are not life-threatening, which is also what makes the virus a historic challenge to contain. theatlantic.com

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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

China's reaction to the coronavirus violates human rights | Frances Eve The WHO has praised country’s response, but heavy-handed approach could make things worse theguardian.com

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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And, governments across the world did sharply reduce the approval time for vaccine development. 9/

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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/

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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/

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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/

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This idea that COVID would soon lead the world into a “new normal” is one that Balaji repeated several times. 13/

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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/

How to Achieve the "Nuova Normalità"? - ESMH Interview with Walter Ricciardi, Advisor to the Italian government for Italy’s relationships with international health organisations. sciencemediahub.eu

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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/

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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

To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It (Published 2020) Quarantines and restrictive measures served a purpose in the old days. They can now, too. nytimes.com

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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

Tomás Pueyo Returns: The MBA Who Shut Down Europe on Masks and the Cochrane Review Depending on your level of familiarity with the story the global lockdowns of spring 2020, you may or may not have heard of Tomás Pueyo. Pueyo is an MBA and thinkfluencer who came to sudden fame for his March 10, 2020, article Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

Balaji Srinivasan: The Man Who Couldn’t Wait for COVID to Ring In the ‘New Normal’ 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. michaelpsenger.substack.com

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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

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

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

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

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

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

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

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

Jan 2022 – Over 100,000 gather to protest lockdowns, vaccine passes and COVID mandates in Brussels, Belgium. 81/ https://t.co/8P5jE8mRoZ

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

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

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

Oct 2021 – Massive protest against COVID mandates in Tel Aviv, Israel. 84/ https://t.co/10Ppi8ATMy

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

Sep 2021 – Italians symbolically burn green passes in protest of Italy’s COVID vaccine “green pass” system. 85/ https://t.co/HMeyaeZW8w

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

Feb 2022 – In Turin, Italy, citizens boycotted Italy’s vaccine pass system by hosting outdoor feasts attended by thousands. 86/ https://t.co/lXIEycYsNd

@michaelpsenger - Michael P Senger

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

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

💥BREAKING: Here’s a thread about things that happened or began in the year of our Lord 2015. (Figured it’ll be important to go ahead and have all these timelines connected for the near future.) *CENTER FOR TECH AND CIVIC LIFE was founded.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

Democracy Fund (lol) has been shilling out big bucks to the CTCL since it was founded back in 2015. Hey look, they were even kind enough to toss some cash in MIT’s direction in 2017 and 2020… for “elections”. MIT’s own Gary Gensler was appointed SEC Commissioner in April 2021.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

*AMBER MCREYNOLDS and DAVID BECKER doing “ELECTIONS CONFERENCES” together.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

They’ve been colluding since at least 2015. Amber McReynolds David Becker Douglas Becker Michael Crow I’m guessing “CINTANA ALLIANCE” is what Gabriel Zinny meant on Hunter Biden’s laptop.

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*BYTESPEED began its contract with KENTUCKY.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

Speaking of our worthless RNC UNIPARTY, here’s the contract BYTESPEED, LLC. has with the STATE OF KENTUCKY from back in 2015.😒

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

*BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY lists THERANOS and METABIOTA as 2 of “FIVE BIOTECH STARTUPS TO CHECK OUT in JULY 2015”

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

@SoCalRuss1982 💥Pretty neat to revisit this BIOSCIENCE TECHNOLOGY article from JULY 2015: “JULY 2015: FIVE BIOTECH STARTUPS TO CHECK OUT THIS MONTH” 💥💥💥THERANOS and METABIOTA💥💥💥 Gosh, it’s a small world! What are the chances?🤣

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

*BAILLIE GIFFORD, the LARGEST SHAREHOLDER of http://WIX.COM opens its HONG KONG subsidiary, “BAILLIE GIFFORD ASIA, LTD.”

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So where do the connections with CIA, MICHAEL CROW, IARPA and DARPA come into play?🤔 💥Let’s revisit the LARGEST SHAREHOLDER for http://WIX.COM — BAILLIE GIFFORD. 💥In 2015, BAILLIE GIFFORD opened a subsidiary in HONG KONG (BAILLIE GIFFORD ASIA LIMITED) that eventually founded the BAILLIE GIFFORD US GROWTH TRUST in 2018. After securing management of WITAN PACIFIC INVESTMENT TRUST, WITAN soon became known as the BAILLIE GIFFORD CHINA GROWTH TRUST (2020). 💥THEN, in MARCH 2022, BAILLIE GIFFORD made an investment to become the LARGEST SHAREHOLDER of GINKGO BIOWORKS.🤔 💥AND FINALLY, in OCTOBER 2022, GINKGO BIOWORKS partnered with the INTELLIGENCE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY (IARPA) to create software able to… wait for it… detect whether or not BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS HAD BEEN GENETICALLY ENGINEERED!!!😳 (🤯🤯🤯)

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*TARYN NAIDU, CEO of RIGHTSIDE GROUP, LTD. (tied to BAE Systems) announces RIGHTSIDE’S entrance into the CHINESE MARKETS through their DISTRIBUTION PARTNERSHIPS with ALIBABA DOMAIN SERVICES and HI CHINA.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 And now for the CHERRY ON TOP OF ALL THIS MADNESS… a GRAND MOTHERF**CKING RACKETEERING FINALE!!!!! NOT KIDDING. 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥 💥Remember our good pal, TARYN NAIDU, the CEO of RIGHTSIDE GROUP, LTD.? ✅Back in August of 2015, he hosted a rather important “state of the earnings” conference call with RIGHTSIDE “stakeholders” to give them a progress report and the outlook for earnings potential going forward. ✅The images below represent pertinent excerpts from the entire transcript of that call. If you take a gander at the FOURTH IMAGE, you’ll see one of the most important takes in American history: 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 “…in Q2, we entered the CHINESE MARKET through DISTRIBUTION PARTNERS HI CHINA AND ALIBABA’S DOMAIN SERVICES COMPANY…” 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 💥And why is THAT take so critically important to HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of AMERICANS, you ask? 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 Because THAT’S WHERE OUR ERIC DATA WAS BEING SENT IN BEIJING, CHINA, ON AND/OR BEFORE 11/08/2022!!!!! 🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨🧨 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 (You’re welcome.) On behalf of my brain and my poor phone, I’d just like to say to PERKINS COIE, to the CROWN and to MARICOPA: Get. Completely. Rekt.✌️ And to my American fam: LET’S. F***ING. GO!!!

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

*RENEE DIRESTA is closely involved with the UNITED NATIONS, the STATE DEPARTMENT and the OBAMA WHITEHOUSE.

@pepesgrandma - Bad Kitty, Censored By X🦁🤐

🔥 Part 10 - Bad Kitteh Exposé: The early history of New Knowledge that few know. Including: 🔹They advised both the Obama Whitehouse and State Dept. 🔹Their unusual and ALARMING data collection from the 2016 election while advisors. 🔹Ran a 2016 pre election, conservative monitoring, war room. 🔹Were the first, outside the IC, to claim Russian interference in the 2016 election. Starting in 2015, Renee Diresta & Jonathan Morgan of New Knowledge (aka Popily, Yonder, & Primer) were both involved with the United Nations, State Dept, & Obama WhiteHouse. The earliest official mention of Russia disinfo by them was in Oct 2015 by Renee Diresta to the Obama Whitehouse. After the 2016 election, Renee said, “now I’m going to pay more attention!” (to Russia) New Knowledges claim to fame is being the FIRST to identify 2016 Russian election interference. Renee & Jonathan Morgan met up at the Obama Whitehouse in Feb 2016. Although they first met earlier. 🔥After the 2016 election, their Data For Democracy harvested all of the United States voter information FROM THE SECRETARIES OF STATE! Thats a huge task too! What did they do with all this massive data? They worked for the Obama Whitehouse, was this even kosher to do?🔥 Renee Diresta & Jonathan Morgan also operated an 2016 election disinfo war room that concentrated on conservative fake news. Once again, let me remind you that they were advisors to the Obama Whitehouse. After the 2016 election, Jonathan Morgan was even invited to the Whitehouse to do a podcast with Obama’s Chief Science Officer. ♦️New Knowledge was founded in May 2015 in Austin, TX by Jonathon Morgan, a former adviser at the US Dept of State, NATO, & was a propaganda researcher at DARPA. ♦️Months later New Knowledge joined up with the Sustainable UN. (See linked video and thread.) ♦️Renee Diresta: “Late 2015, the problem of ISIS on Twitter had gotten to be incredibly large, & I connected with a data scientist named Jonathon Morgan.” “In late October 2015 & early 2016, gov acknowledge that social network manipulation was a real problem.” “Russia was part of the conversation in the WHITE HOUSE AND in the STATE DEPT advising I was doing in Oct 2015.” “Going back to Oct 2015, there was information sharing between the State Dept, the White House & companies like Facebook about thinking about the vulnerabilities of their system to foreign actors looking to spread misinfo or disinfo.” “Russia was brought up by other people in the gov who were concerned about the potential for manipulation.” “I did sit down with Twitter. Twitter was really much more concerned about harassment than disinfo & manipulation. “ (After the election - on Russia.) “I thought, now we're going to start to pay a lot more attention to this problem.” ♦️New Knowledge: “We were the first org outside the US intel community to identify Russia’s campaign to influence the 2016 presidential election.” ♦️The Obama admin, reached out to Renee Diresta in 2015 Renee Diresta claims she first met Jonathan Morgan at a White House tech meeting in Feb 2016. (Conflicts with PBS article date of late 2015.) Senate & House staff members, who knew of DiResta’s expertise through her public reports & her previous work ADVISING THE OBAMA ADMIN on disinfo campaigns, had reached out to her & others to help them prepare for the hearings. ♦️In 2016, they monitored thousands of Twitter accounts that suddenly started using bots, or automated accounts, to spread salacious stories about the Clinton family. They watched as multiple Facebook pages, appearing out of nowhere, organized to simultaneously create anti-immigrant events. When I put it all together & started mapping it out, I saw how big the scale of it was,” said Jonathan Albright, who met DiResta through Twitter. Albright published a widely read report that mapped, for the first time, connections between conservative sites putting out fake news. To be continued in the next post, many sources to follow.

@DecentFiJC - Jonathan

More 2015 stuff. *DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

The Proximal Origin of Ebola Part 1 Like Covid-19, there is mystery shrouding the origin of the 2013-16 Ebola outbreak in West Africa (Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia). Very different diseases but the outbreaks have much in common, including many of the same people involved.

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@samhusseini and @bioSRP recently revived interest in the possibility of a lab leak origin. Though they don't claim dispositive proof, they point out that evidence supporting a natural origin is fragile, and a plausible case for a lab leak can be made. https://x.com/BioSRP/status/1584914301214662656

@BioSRP - Bioscience Resource Project

Who framed Guinea? We joined with journalist @samhusseini to investigate the #Ebola2014 outbreak and its cover up. https://www.independentsciencenews.org/health/did-west-africas-ebola-outbreak-of-2014-have-a-lab-origin/

Did West Africa's Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? - Independent Science News | Food, Health and Agriculture Bioscience News Were virologists covering up the role of a US funded pathogen lab in Sierra Leone when they blamed the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak on a Guinean boy? independentsciencenews.org

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They weren't the first to suspect a lab leak. International law expert Francis Boyle (who had helped implement the Bioweapons Convention in the US) was at the time the leading proponent of a theory that a lab in Kenema, Sierra Leone, with ties to USAMRIID, was responsible.

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Naturally this idea was mocked and "debunked" by mainstream media (and more recently in a Bob Garry paper) as a "conspiracy theory". https://web.archive.org/web/20231113225114/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11216881/Ebola-is-man-made-and-other-crazy-conspiracy-theories.html

'Ebola is man-made', and other crazy conspiracy theories Is Obama behind the Ebola outbreak? Are planes poisoning us? Is Lady Gaga part of an evil Illuminati plot? The five conspiracy theories you won't believe people believe web.archive.org

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The official line- that a child of 18-months was the index case after contact with infected bats, is questionable. Early suspected cases weren't tested for Ebola, and symptoms are common to many diseases. Bats and animals tested later were all negative. https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/one-year-into-the-ebola-epidemic/origins-of-the-2014-ebola-epidemic

Origins of the Ebola epidemic who.int

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

It is now established fact that many early cases went undetected in Sierra Leone. Journalist @sherifink found cases had gone unreported as early as March. By the time testing began in June 2014, the virus had spread widely and was genetically diverse. https://x.com/CD57227/status/1721544552060715486

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The lab under suspicion is situated at Kenema General Hospital (KGH). The lab was run by the Viral Hemorrhagic Fever Consortium (VHFC) whose members include Harvard and Tulane, Scripps and UTMB. Some of the leadership will be familiar to those following Covid origins.

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At the time Kristian Andersen was at Harvard, where he did postdoc with Pardis Sabeti. Bob Garry is also a founding partner in Zalgen Labs, which is based near Fort Detrick and developed an Ebola therapeutic. Doug Simpson is former CEO of Corgenix, which developed an Ebola test.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Separate to VHFC but at the same KGH site is Metabiota. This adds an extra layer of intrigue. The VC firm in which Hunter Biden was partner - Rosemont Seneca - was a seed investor in Metabiota, and was actively promoting the company to potential clients and new investors.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Emails from the Hunter Biden laptop leak show some at Rosemont Seneca even saw Ebola as a marketing opportunity. Hunter Biden's value to RS was his then Vice-President father. They could market a unique advantage in finding "public policy opportunities" and "avoiding missteps".

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

China also sent a team to Sierra Leone basing themselves on the other side of the country. Though ostensibly there to provide medical support, many were research scientists. Some will also be familiar names - senior among them George Gao of China CDC, and Wuchun Cao of AMMS.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

On the ground in Sierra Leone the Chinese team was led by AMMS's Yigang Tong and Shandong Uni's Weifeng Shi. In Covid origins work they were responsible for pangolin coronaviruses and RmYN02 respectively. They have worked together often in the past, as have their teams.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Tong is closely associated with the discovery (or invention) of the pangolin coronaviruses, some of which have near identical RBD to SARS-CoV-2. In a paper he revealed they had them since 2017. At that time he was involved in a secret military project. https://x.com/breakfast_dogs/status/1744029206860980239?s=20

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Between 2016-2019 when AMMS isolated the pangolin coronavirus, Tong was working on a major secret research project with a USD 5 million budget.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Some have speculated that Andersen and Garry feared if SARS-CoV-2 were the result of a lab leak, it could lead to an investigation of their Sierra Leone activities. Perhaps Ron Fouchier alluded to this in an email following the Feb 1st teleconference? https://x.com/Rebecca21951651/status/1734197785182765421?s=20

@Rebecca21951651 - Rebecca

You have to read this and see the video to see how Fouchier threatened Kristian

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Chinese involvement may expand this. Perhaps blackmail was used - if you expose our lab leak, we'll expose yours? This might well explain their overnight conversion from a serious concern about artificial origin, to ridiculing it as a "conspiracy theory".

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

At the pre-pandemic preparedness "Event 201", George Gao, seated next to now ODNI Director Avril Haines, dropped a reference to rumors of a lab leak in Sierra Leone during a session on controlling "misinformation and disinformation". (From 1:00) https://x.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1635437727117352960?s=20

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

The day after the infamous Feb 1st teleconference there were other events that appear to be a coordinated Chinese influence operation to derail the case for an artificial origin. The Chinese had clearly been informed of the nature of discussions.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

On Feb 2nd Edward Holmes was contacted by former colleague Tommy Lam regarding the "discovery" of pangolin coronaviruses. Many of these had already been sequenced and uploaded, and a paper was published in October 2019. But western scientists hadn't given it any attention.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Neither Tommy Lam, nor the Guangdong scientists were the source of the pangolin samples and isolates. These came from AMMS, who had had them since 2017. PLA officers Yigang Tong and Wuchun Cao are credited on the final published paper, but oddly, not on the preceding pre-prints.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

In 2014 Lam had authored, with Holmes and HKU's Yi Guan (also known for work linking civets to SARS-1), a paper on a separate Ebola outbreak happening simultaneously in the DRC. They hinted that, but for its remote location, this outbreak may have looked like a lab leak.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Also on Feb 2, 2020, Fauci was contacted by Harvard Medical School about a proposed US$128 million donation from Evergrande. This was to fund a joint Sino-US group to study Covid origins (among other things), presumably to influence the direction investigations might take.

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

The donor's representative, who claimed to be CEO of Evergrande Health, insisted on direct discussion between Fauci and Zhong Nanshan. Zhong had been integral in the attempt to link the SARS-1 outbreak to civets (which many scientists now find dubious). https://x.com/AshleyRindsberg/status/1570357155357679616?s=20

@AshleyRindsberg - Ashley Rindsberg

One day after the teleconference, Harvard Medical School dean George Daley serendipitously reached out to Fauci. As I reported for @TheSpectator, Daley told Fauci he was writing on behalf of Chinese real estate giant, Evergrande (of all organizations). https://spectatorworld.com/topic/fauci-harvard-and-the-ccp/

The Harvard connection Daley and Fauci would have understood the distinction between working with a Chinese vaccine program and taking enormous sums from Evergrande thespectator.com

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

Was it significant that Harvard was the beneficiary, given they were a partner in VHFC? In any case the deal didn't proceed as planned. Only one payment of $12m was ever received. Journalist @AshleyRindsberg failed to track down the intermediary. https://x.com/AshleyRindsberg/status/1678694977596006402

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

The Chinese were clearly offering inducements for the Americans to push a natural origin, but did they also have leverage to threaten them - "kompromat"? Perhaps some scientific evidence they had acquired that might show an artificial origin of West African Ebola?

@breakfast_dogs - Dog's Breakfast

To be continued...

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

So why has bird flu gone back down to 64.6 an hour later?

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

Bird Flu scam #BirdFluIsHorseShit

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

Now down to 61.3 K Bird flu #BirdFluIsHorseShit

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

4. now up to 62.9k

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

5. Back down again to 60.1 k. X are definitely fiddling the bird flu numbers, presumably supressing and shadowbanning many truths...

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

6. X appear to be letting is oscillate between 60k and 66ish k. Its on the up just now 61.1k bird flu trending #birdflu

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

7. Whoops, they are not even letting bird flu numbers go past 61.1k, back down to 58k #birdflubingo #birdflu #xcensorship

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

8. So as they are fiddling the numbers trending about bird flu, i will post the lies from the media - Media caught LYING about bird flu death https://petersweden.substack.com/p/media-caught-lying-about-bird-flu #birdflu #mexico

Media caught LYING about bird flu death Mexico refutes claims that a 59 year old man died from bird flu. petersweden.substack.com

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

9. Bird flu Xofficial posts now 58.4 #birdflu #birdfluscam

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

10. These are the lies directly from WHO. Note that they took a mass of restrictive actions when the bird flu death lie was announced, I bet they have not rescinded those... archive in case they delete... https://web.archive.org/web/20240606012136/https://www.who.int/emergencies/disease-outbreak-news/item/2024-DON520 #birdflu #BirdFluScam #WHO

Human infection caused by avian Influenza A(H5N2)- Mexico On 23 May 2024, the Mexico International Health Regulations (IHR) National Focal Point (NFP) reported to PAHO/WHO a confirmed fatal case of human infection with avian influenza A(H5N2) virus detected in a resident of the State of Mexico who was hospitalized in Mexico City. This is the first laboratory-confirmed human case of infection with an influenza A(H5N2) virus reported globally and the first avian H5 virus infection in a person reported in Mexico. Although the source of exposure to the virus in this case is currently unknown, A(H5N2) viruses have been reported in poultry in Mexico. According to the IHR (2005), a human infection caused by a novel influenza A virus subtype is an event that has the potential for high public health impact and must be notified to the WHO. Based on available information, WHO assesses the current risk to the general population posed by this virus as low. web.archive.org

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

11. Official X bird flu being allowed to go to 58.6k #birdflu #birdfluscam These posts will be heavily throttled but at the very least I am acting as a witness. https://t.co/Ekku6IdoZb

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

12. Back up from its 58k low, to 59k on the official X bird flu trends, which are obviously "adjusted" #birdflu #birdfluscam #birdflucensorship https://t.co/vKPusKPLPJ

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

13. Bird flu figures still trending up for now 59.2k. What will they allow it to get to this time? #BirdfluBingo #birdflu #xensorship https://t.co/H9wndOEpoD

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

14. Will X let bird flu trend to 60k again? Currently 59.6k #birdflubingo #xensorship #birdflu https://t.co/UWI0XcrAO2

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

15. At the minute bird flu has been taken out of the top 30 so i cannot see it #xensorship #birdflu

@foxblog3 - thefoxblog

@threadreaderapp unroll

@Artemisfornow - Bernie

ELECTION - This is a Bot farm, individual phones, all with social media accounts and run by organisations to influence elections. The BBC has now admitted its ’disinformation’ department runs its own bot farm, funded by you! not to influence you … just to protect you 🤡 https://t.co/aZFf80tKVg

@TheFigen_ - Figen

Bot farm, this is how fake news and fake followers are spread. https://t.co/fqmAR6o4ll

@ScottAtlas_IT - The Independent with Scott Atlas

Atlas: “Remember—lockdowns weren’t caused by the virus. Human beings decided to do lockdowns—they own the results. Their lockdowns were implemented. Their policies killed and destroyed millions. That’s fact. That’s the data.” https://t.co/cPtCLCyGdX

@TonySeruga - Tony Seruga

We just blocked over 5,000 botfarm accounts. Interesting they all pivoted from their passion for Ukraine to Canada at the exact same moment. Most originated from Chinese Communist Party PLA efforts using Canadian, US and UK IP addresses. https://t.co/d9M9ThbwbE

@DefiantLs - Defiant L’s

Bots… https://t.co/2JOLFNuShX

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

🧵A new generation of AI bots have arrived on X ...and they're much smarter than they used to be In this short thread I'll go over some of the characteristics of these new AI bots So we know what to look for when they infiltrate our side...

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

First, I'm just looking at one case study here. There are undoubtedly other bots similar to these that exist that haven't been exposed yet However, these case studies can show us both capabilities and characteristics of the new generations of bots as well as how they're used

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

So what happened? Recently, AI company @AnthropicAI uncovered over 100 distinct social media personas that were using their Large Language Model (AI), named Claude, to interact with real-life X and Facebook users to push certain political narratives

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

Now, I say "personas" instead of "accounts" because these personas had social media accounts across different social media platforms (primarily Facebook and X) These weren't isolated accounts on X or Facebook, these were entire across-platform personas meant to replicate a human

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

What are the characteristics of the bots? 1. The bots not only maintained the political viewpoint assigned to them but even made sure that any content drafted by their personas aligned with the political views and writing style of their persona (Actual bot pictured below)

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

2. The bots not only interacted with other users but maintained the political beliefs, persona, and native language for that specific persona in their interactions Just contrast the persona differences between the "American" bot here to the "Polish" bot from the previous slide https://t.co/4l6Q24kIWf

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

3. The bots were even able to create prompts for AI image generation tools AND THEN EVALUATE the resulting AI-generated image to see if the image aligned with their assigned persona These are not your average X porno bot with one picture ...these are something very different

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

Another interesting point and something else to look our for is that the bots were programmed to respond to allegations of being bots with humor or sarcasm This means that to the average user they'd generally be pretty effective at deflecting any accusations of being inorganic

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

What agenda were these bots pushing? The assigned political causes for the personas of the bots were kind of all over the place: From energy initiatives in the EU to business in the UAE to Albanian and Kenyan politics, there were multiple political causes the bots were pushing

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

Do we know who was behind the bots? We don't know who was behind the bots but based on the disparate themes the bots supported it seems to me it may well have been a private actor instead of a state one This video by The Guardian is a great piece on how these private bot contractors operate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UheOilps2zQ

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

To summarize: These aren't your grandpa's bots... Bots have come a long way and with the assistance of AI they're beginning to be very hard to differentiate from real people In my experience there are still ways to spot them though Here are a few things to look for:

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

When you find these bots their profiles often seem hollow The older versions of these bots have a lot of redundant images and responses and their Facebook profiles are usually barren without much interaction There's an element of interaction that is still hard to replicate

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

The other way to spot the bots is that their profiles just feel generic Their content will feel largely unoriginal or redundant and their posting seldom breaks from the political persona assigned to them They're all work and no play...

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

So yes, bots are much more effective than they used to be and their effectiveness is only increasing by the day And while there are still ways to spot them, it will become more difficult the more intelligent the bots become Stay safe everybody ...and keep an eye out for bots

@Bobby1_x - Bobby Thorne

Here's the link to Anthropic's full report on the bots: https://cdn.sanity.io/files/4zrzovbb/website/45bc6adf039848841ed9e47051fb1209d6bb2b26.pdf

@SMO_VZ - 𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 🇷🇺 🇷🇺

This is BOT FARM! AI instructed narrative, throwing out 1000s of messages per second all across online Media X, FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK , ETC This is 2025 OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD Drip Fed to the Masses what they ONLY need to know ! https://t.co/AqyDVA1kkX

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

https://bmj.com/content/344/bmj.e2398/rapid-responses https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/109663743902085653 You can only have GoF work generate a viable prediction or a vaccine if the next emergence is of the exact same genetic makeup as your GOF strain. The extreme diversity of viruses mean that you have (total number of viruses in the world (billions)*probability that a GOF study result being used maliciously (>1/200 minimum)) times higher likelihood that GOF research cause a pandemic in stead of preventing it. https://archive.ph/BToZR https://archive.md/YYIXp

Polio eradication: a complex end game Thomas Abraham examines the challenges of meeting the Global Polio Eradication Initiative’s target of eliminating polio by the end of this year Like the skipper of an ageing rust bucket trying to get to port before the boat goes under, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative is ploughing through choppy seas in its effort to stamp out polio and end a mission that began more than two decades ago. As the vessel lurches uncertainly on, a Greek chorus of commentators has raised questions about everything from the choice of vaccine and the technical strategies the campaign has used to the very wisdom of pursuing the goal of eradication. These questions are important because they cast light on the long and tortuous route that the polio eradication programme has followed since 1988, when the World Health Assembly passed a resolution declaring it was committed to eradicating polio by 2000. That deadline and a subsequent one have been missed, and a third deadline of the end of 2012 will probably be missed as well. Eradication seems both tantalisingly close and elusively distant. As it becomes harder to maintain the funding and government engagement necessary to keep the campaign going at the frenetic pace it has kept for several years now, there is a danger that the gains made over the past two decades will be lost, and the poliovirus, largely confined to pockets in South Asia and western and central Africa, will again entrench itself across swathes of the globe.⇓ ⇓ Countries affected by polio, 1988 WHO Countries affected by polio, 2010 WHO The initiative’s key partners—WHO, Unicef, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary International, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—have responded by increasing pressure on governments in polio affected countries to intensify their immunisation and surveillance efforts. However, the response … bmj.com

Flavinkins on Gab: '“2015: University of Wisconsin Prof. Kawaok and o…' Flavinkins on Gab: '“2015: University of Wisconsin Prof. Kawaok and others claim that #GOF research will help to develop new #vaccine strains, but this is only true if a #pandemic virus in the wild emerges with the same genetic profile of the GOF strain. The odds of this happening are astronomical.” https://archive.md/QJyQC @FoolsMultiply “It's difficult to bet on whether the next pandemic will come from nature or a lab when you don't know what experiments are ongoing or will be carried out in hundreds of labs around the world. It's difficult enough trying to find out what was happening in 1 lab in Wuhan #OriginOfCovid Try scaling that to 100s of labs and predicting when and where lab-based outbreaks will occur. Pathogen research today is very different than it was decades ago. Scientists are actively looking for pandemic potential pathogens and genetically modifying these live pathogens in the lab - labs often based in large metropolitan cities (and sometimes they have wet markets!). It frustrates me to see policymakers and funders looking for quick fixes to both natural and lab outbreaks. You can hunt all the viruses and use all the #MachineLearning you want - I'm confident that these are not going to help predict or prevent the next natural or lab pandemic. Let's get real. If people are dying from a mysterious new pathogen in hospitals, it's not because not enough viruses were hunted and it's not because there wasn't enough machine learning.” @Ayjchan' gab.com

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

There were never a single viable vaccine or therapeutic ever created from GOF research.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

There have never been a single productive prevention move (none claimed by their reports have been implemented), not a single working therapeutic or vaccine (no currently used antivirals or vaccine came out of EHA funded research), made by the EHA. The EHA did GOF after GOF and grew virus after virus. No currently fielded vaccine, therapeutic or preventative originated from GOF research.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

All currently fielded vaccines were developed using circulating strains in the targeted species (e.g. humans). GOFROC or virus hunting are wholly unnecessary for any vaccines or therapeutics. And unfortunately, the first use of the prefusion-stabilized Spike was to target MERS-CoV and WIV1 wasn’t the drive of the patent, nor did the patent required any GOF research. Also, the vaccines are now proven to be hazardous, driving unending waves of reinfections.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

One of the reasons why GOF virology need closed ranks is because they have to hide the fact that their actions are not only catastrophically dangerous, they are also not productive at all in any positive ways. https://archive.ph/BToZR https://archive.md/YYIXp https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/108828145093274513

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

There have never been a single productive prevention move (none claimed by their reports have been implemented), not a single working therapeutic or vaccine (no currently used antivirals or vaccine came out of EHA funded research), made by the EHA. The EHA did GOF after GOF and grew virus after virus.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

No currently fielded vaccine, therapeutic or preventative originated from GOF research.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Their “preventive measures”? Never implemented. Their “vaccine and therapeutic”? None even reached the point of receiving a name. Their Bioweapons operations under the name of “understanding XXX virus spillover potential”? Too many that couldn’t even be counted with hands and feet.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

And they have never ever prevented any pandemics, produced any viable vaccines or therapeutics, or produced any constructive results in the reduction of any of the subjects they claimed to tracking.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

ePPP virologists and virus hunters are arsonists that pretends to be firefighters, and they have only ever seeked to weaponize the pathogens they “tracks” with the pretext of dual-use “research” without ever coming up with any actual clinically executed effort in their alleged goal of “prevention and treatment” for any of the pathogens.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@harishseshadri2 - harish seshadri

A notable slide from Marc Lipsitch's talk at the Pathogens Project conference. * "GOFROC is not producing vaccines or other countermeasures" * "[GOFROC] has largely been driven by curiosity and by the prospect of prominent papers" h/t @OdysseyBohemian

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

All they get are epidemics and pandemics. No vaccine, therapeutic, or preventions that have reached production have ever yielded from any of these risky research. https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/109523507275843148

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_foot-and-mouth_outbreak Fact: Pirbright was not shut down after FMDV leak infecting 4 farms nearby. They repaired their drain pipes and continued operation, not even interfering academic publication patterns. Ironically, cow farms were shut down and beef trade was closed during the outbreak. This resulted in an epidemic lasting 5 months in cows that lead to at least two major cullings and severe disruption to the livestock trade from the U.K. The reaction look like what they claim a zoonosis would look like, not what they declare what the WIV would do when a shut-down would certainly directly admit guilt and spell doom to both the institute and its operators. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/science/beijing-lab-mishap-infected-scientist-with-covid19/news-story/9b0cb0ed84df21d25da11b698be3611a Fact 2: there is no shut-down reported at all in the IVDC either after the 2004 leak of SARS or the 2020 leak of Covid. Not even a burp of interruption. Fact 3: the WIV went on hiatus to the bat CoV isolation tests over 2020-2023. During the sverdlovsk anthrax leak, they blamed the animal farms and markets nearby and did not officially shut down the facility. The construction of another anthrax facility nearby was considered potential indication of a shut-down, which is on par with the WIV hiatus. After a timescale similar to the WIV hiatus, the new facility was opened for inspection which no anthrax was found, meaning that they fixed sverdlovsk and went on, just like the WIV (chen WEI……). In fact, there have not been a single record of an lab leak or LAI in a research facility that resulted in the (especially permanent, as what they claimed would happen) shut down of the facility (despite hundreds of known incidents in record), even with significant epidemic resulted. (Ebola21, FMDV07, H1N177, Anthrax82 which no official shutdown was known).

2007 united kingdom foot-and-mouth outbreak - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Offshoring of risky virological lab work to countries with lower or zero biosafety requirements is an old strategy. Lassa/Ebola lab, Kenema Government Hospital, Sierra Leone. https://reuters.com/article/us-bioterror-africa-idUKTRE71D49820110214/ https://who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-last-ebola-survivor-of-his-team- https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050470/pdf/jiw239.pdf http://vhfc.org Ebola at BSL-2. https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050470/ https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050470/bin/supp_214_suppl-3_S110__index.html Supplementary Figure 1A. 2014-2021 Ebola. It is nearly universal for outbreaks to be traced back far before their official site of discovery.

The last Ebola survivor of his team who.int

Andersen Lab at Scripps Research The Andersen Lab is using genomics, computational biology, and technology development to investigate infectious diseases such as Zika, Ebola, and Lassa. andersen-lab.com

An Outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the Lassa Fever Zone Background. Kenema Government Hospital (KGH) has developed an advanced clinical and laboratory research capacity to manage the threat of Lassa fever, a viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF). The 2013–2016 Ebola virus (EBOV) disease (EVD) outbreak is the ... pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@danwalker9999 - Daniel A. Walker 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🌻😷💉🚴🏻

@emilyakopp Offshoring of risky virological lab work to countries with lower or zero biosafety requirements is an old strategy. Lassa/Ebola lab, Kenema Government Hospital, Sierra Leone. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bioterror-africa-idUKTRE71D49820110214/ https://www.who.int/news-room/feature-stories/detail/the-last-ebola-survivor-of-his-team- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5050470/pdf/jiw239.pdf http://vhfc.org

The last Ebola survivor of his team who.int

Andersen Lab at Scripps Research The Andersen Lab is using genomics, computational biology, and technology development to investigate infectious diseases such as Zika, Ebola, and Lassa. andersen-lab.com

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Metabiota and USAID ePPP “research” have led to also the RVFV outbreak in the nile river.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Notice how not only were measures that were taken after known lab leaks being identical to that is claimed “for zoonosis”, cover-up efforts especially in authoritarian regimes Also involves the distortion and adulteration of the officially provided “datasets” to push “zoonosis” when a lab or a bioweapons facility leaks.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Which is also why they preliminarily banned criticizing of the official narrative regarding the market or mentioning about the Wuhan lab before the outbreak was or can be announced.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.09112 No. GOF don’t make us safer. Nipah is a regionally self limiting disease. Any GOF over it are intended to change this property. Any culturing outside their endemic regions lead to unnatural epidemics which will never happen if it was not conducted. https://gab.com/Flavinkins/posts/109523507275843148

Nipah virus vector sequences in COVID-19 patient samples sequenced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology Abstract page for arXiv paper 2109.09112: Nipah virus vector sequences in COVID-19 patient samples sequenced by the Wuhan Institute of Virology arxiv.org

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

The cover-up of the soviet union was a single letter away from that of communist china.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

With all of the information that can come out of China being under control of the communist party, it is expected that manipulation of the scientific process and research using intentionally adulterated and fabricated “data” and “releases” will be performed by the communists—to push the origin away from their labs based on western behavior—which invoked essentially the identical playbook as the Soviet Union in the 1979 sverdlovsk anthrax leak, over comprable timeframes.

@Biorealism - Holtz

@kakape @pandemiapodcast The late Philip Russell told James Le Duc that Sars-CoV-2 reminded him of the Soviet anthrax lab leak cover up.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Trust is not possible to communist china.

@gdemaneuf - Gilles Demaneuf

A bit of history: the Sverdlovsk Anthrax outbreak. In 1979 there was an outbreak of anthrax disease in Sverdlovsk, USSR. 100+ people died. The Russians explained that these deaths were due to eating meat (possibly game meat) processed by black-market butchers.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@DrLiMengYAN1 @LawrenceSellin Authoritarian regimes uses lies regularly, and “science” was among the fields which they lie with.

@FilippaLentzos - Dr Filippa Lentzos

Matt Meselson’s wonderful closing words: “We should teach our students that once you’re a scientist you have a public responsibility, not just to work in your laboratory, but if you see some good you can do outside of your lab, think about whether you can do it, maybe you should”

@kakape - Kai Kupferschmidt

In April 1979 dozens of people died in the deadliest anthrax outbreak on record. What happened in the city of Sverdlovsk? A new @pandemiapodcast episode on anthrax, bioweapons and the search for the truth is out. Full episode (in 🇩🇪) here: https://viertausendhertz.de/pan49/ Thread to come:

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Die USA hatten angefangen, wieder mehr in Bio- und Chemiewaffen zu investieren und diese zu erforschen. Es gab Hinweise darauf, dass Leute an Milzbrand gestorben waren. **English Translation:** The USA had begun to invest more in biological and chemical weapons and to research them. There were indications that people had died of anthrax.

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Speaker 0: Die USA hatten damals angefangen, Stück für Stück wieder mehr in Bio- und Chemiewaffen zu investieren und diese zu erforschen. Es kamen Nachrichtenfetzen heraus, die darauf hindeuteten, dass die Leute an Milzbrand gestorben waren.

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@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@DrLiMengYAN1 @LawrenceSellin @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

@DrLiMengYAN1 @LawrenceSellin @DrJBhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay GOFROC is the equivalent of underaged children inserting 🧨 into piles of 💩 to see the explosion—it provided zero benefits to society except for the pleasure of its perpetrators.

@harishseshadri2 - harish seshadri

A notable slide from Marc Lipsitch's talk at the Pathogens Project conference. * "GOFROC is not producing vaccines or other countermeasures" * "[GOFROC] has largely been driven by curiosity and by the prospect of prominent papers" h/t @OdysseyBohemian

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

In fact, ePPP GOFROC frequently damage vaccine research by producing strains that lacked immune evasion—which in turn lead to vaccine candidates (when they claim to make one) which work only on the particular ePPP GOFROC product and no other strains (and only briefly). They fail in the real world unless said product was released.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

Of course, biological attack agents and GOFROC strains are frequently outsourced in their development to evade scrutiny and often to push some of the risks away to other locations—usually under a “dual use” umbrella, that always make no progress in the civilian field nor result in any civilian use in reality.

@KevinMcCairnPhD - Kevin W. McCairn PhD

In many cases, ePPP GOFROC don’t bother to propoose any civilian uses at all. No solutions given, only dangerous strains that satisfies the perverse desire of the “researchers” with a potential for weaponization for mass destruction—zero benefit, only harm.

@zerohedge - zerohedge

South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal In Mammals: 'Virology Journal' https://www.zerohedge.com/political/south-korea-lab-makes-bird-flu-100-lethal-mammals-virology-journal

South Korea Lab Makes Bird Flu 100% Lethal In Mammals: 'Virology Journal' ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero zerohedge.com

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

🧵THREAD: "Fake MAGA," Foreign Ops & the Nick Fuentes Factor This week on X has been chaotic, and every influencer I've talked to feels it. A new report dropped, and it's making serious claims: that foreign propaganda accounts are masquerading as MAGA to hijack conservative spaces and even push people to turn on Trump himself. The report goes beyond analyzing bots and foreign actors. It names names. And the New York post article buried the lede: it explicitly calls out Nick Fuentes and his network as central amplifiers. Nick Fuentes is the third rail of MAGA X, and for good reason; to speak of him is to invite wrath and harassment. I could've left this volatile topic alone and I know I would've been better off for it. But when I see what @SarahisCensored has endured - and the grace and courage she's shown - it's a reminder of 2 Timothy 1:7: "For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and a sound mind." ... how can I possibly stay silent? It’s time we break the taboo of calling out wolves in MAGA clothing, even the ones the bots prop up. I read the entire report. Now I'm going to walk you through what it really says. And what we need to watch for. 👇 Patience as I assemble this thread in real time.

@nypost - New York Post

Rogue states Russia and Iran attempting to destroy MAGA movement with disinformation bot army https://trib.al/dfFUT12

SocialFlow trib.al

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

. @SarahIsCensored , a pregnant independent journalist, was the last major influencer to speak ill of Nick Fuentes. Her life has been made hell as a result. This is a small sampling of the harassment she has received: https://t.co/G5DPlX4a7D

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Another sampling. The screenshots were so vulgar, I could not post them all. I share them to show what it means to cross Nick Fuentes. And that if we are to clean our own house, we must be prepared to confront a great evil. https://t.co/pEE8yqgpDo

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Nick Fuentes literally had his followers swear to kill, rape, and die for him. https://t.co/b4GhK8yMH0

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Now moving onto the actual report. It is published by Network Contagion Research Institute - a NGO with opaque funding and less than transparent motives. It has impressive data science, but the way it presents it is often biased. https://t.co/B3UsICCAcD

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

It was founded by Joel Finkelstein, and the NCRI itself has been used to suppress disinformation and promote pro-government narrative. I say this because I want to acknowledge the motives behind this report. That being said, it does a reasonable job of keeping - for example, in dissecting the usage of "Christ is King," they explicitly greenlit @JackPosobiec - something many with an agenda fail to do.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored So why even pay attention to the report? Because I was able to independently verify information within in it. https://t.co/DPOcLMPmZk

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored The gist of the report: Foreign state actors and bots amplify a handful of X accounts making controversial posts, the foremost among them being Nick Fuentes and his followers. An example is the 21 May killing of the Israel embassy staffers. https://t.co/YIxx1tsWmL

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

We now know that Elias Rodriguez, the killer, was a member of the PSL (despite their denials). And we also now know that PSL is backed by Neville Singham, who is under Congressional investigation for acting on the behalf of CCP. Foreign state actors certainly would want to keep this information hidden and amplify the "false flag" narrative!

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

And indeed, this is what happened: Nick Fuente's "false flag" post got 48K likes, and NCRI noted bot-like 💯 responses. Now, caveat: X's comment hiding system is odd and I was only able to view a few dozen comments or so out of the 1.2K comments he got, so I wasn't able to independently verify that part.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

However, @SarahisCensored has commented to me many times that she noticed this same phenomenon. And others have noticed as well. Nick Fuentes' army is artificially boosted in some part. And it seems reasonable that foreign actors invested in splintering the MAGA coalition is the reaosn why.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Note the timestamps. The pattern typically is: Nick Fuentes Xeets out something controversial and divisive of MAGA - such as Trump being implicated in Epstein files - and the alleged bad actors amplify and follow. https://t.co/vGdNgApcww

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Now, I want to emphasize that this report IS biased in naming certain Xeets as actors for foreign interests. For example, it accuses DravenNoctis of pushing pro-Kremlin narratives. But that does not mean DravenNoctis is acting on the behalf of Russia.

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored However, others like Jackson Hinkle do seem to be genuine actors of the Russian state - he regularly gives interviews to pro-Russia outlets and moved to Moscow. https://t.co/yDz4fTTvPW

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Cyabra, a software suite aimed to detect bots, detected that 24% of accounts pushing the "false flag" narrative after May 21 were bots. https://t.co/jYWFvC9U8h

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored Per the report, Megatron_ron, another X account implicated as a foreign actor, has borrowed from Iran's state media reporting word-for-word as recently as 12 June. https://t.co/HToFhQxB3I

@DataRepublican - DataRepublican (small r)

@SarahisCensored And I'll stop here - you can read the report for yourself. It isn't perfect, but it raises serious, well-documented concerns. Circumstantial evidence points to foreign actors using the Groypers as a vehicle to splinter the MAGA movement. God bless. And stay frosty. 🇺🇸

@EYakoby - Eyal Yakoby

Chinese AI agent running 50 different social media bot accounts at once. This is how posts by Jackson Hinkle, Jake Shields, and Nick Fuentes get boosted. https://t.co/qqNDXi2XSh

@Rainmaker1973 - Massimo

AI controlled Bot Farm. https://t.co/WrqTbt8rYo

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

Lets talk.....About @xai @grok #AI Summary: " Based on the provided search results and current knowledge, here is a detailed and honest assessment of the state of X (formerly Twitter). The situation is indeed severe, affecting the platform's integrity, public discourse, and even democracy itself. 🧠 1. Proliferation of Bots and Fake Accounts The problem of automated and AI-powered bot accounts on X is significant and worsening. Research indicates that a substantial portion of X's activity is inauthentic: A study from Indiana University identified a network of 1,140 AI-powered bot accounts within a single botnet, dubbed "Fox8." These accounts used stolen selfies to create fake personas and posted AI-generated content to promote cryptocurrency scams and spread misinformation10. Another analysis of 1 million tweets during a Republican primary debate found a sprawling bot network of 1,305 accounts pushing false claims. One central account, "MediaOpinion19," tweeted on average 662 times a day (once every two minutes)8. Cybersecurity firm Imperva reported that in 2024, 37% of all internet traffic was attributed to "bad bots," a 5% increase from 202319. Detection agencies claim that in some political contexts, over 45% of profiles promoting certain conspiracy theories were bots, and on X, one in every five accounts interacting with Elon Musk's 2024 election-related posts were identified as fake19. These bots are becoming increasingly sophisticated, using advanced AI language models like ChatGPT to generate human-like content and interact with each other to appear legitimate, making them extremely difficult to detect1019. ⚙️ 2. X as an Echo Chamber and Epistemic Bubble The platform's structure actively fosters environments that severely limit exposure to diverse viewpoints: An epistemic bubble is an environment where certain relevant voices or facts are omitted. On X, this can occur algorithmically (e.g., through personalized "filter bubbles" that show users only what they want to see) or through a user's own choices (e.g., only following those who share their views)1. An echo chamber is a more pernicious environment where outside voices are not just omitted but actively discredited and distrusted. Nguyen (2020) compares these to cults, where in-group members are taught to distrust all external sources of information1. The search results suggest X facilitates this by allowing communities to form that reinforce their own worldview and dismiss all others as corrupt or "evil," aligning with your observation112. This dynamic "threatens to undermine the cultivation and preservation of open-mindedness" by using two mechanisms: a "bootstrapped corroboration" mechanism (where repeated internal agreement feels like evidence of truth) and an "epistemic discrediting" mechanism (where all outside sources are framed as illegitimate)1. 💰 3. Financial and Malicious Incentives The root of the bot problem is often financial or politically motivated: Many bots are run by marketers and fraudsters for financial gain, such as promoting cryptocurrency scams or stealing from digital wallets1019. Others are operated by political influencers, both domestic and foreign, to shape public opinion, sow discord, and spread disinformation. For example, researchers identified bot networks specifically targeting U.S. Senate races and the presidential election19. The platform's ad-based business model (surveillance capitalism) incentivizes maximizing engagement. Controversial, polarizing, and emotionally charged content—often spread by bots—generates more clicks and attention, which in turn generates more ad revenue1. This creates a perverse incentive for the platform to not aggressively crack down on all inauthentic activity. 📉 4. Platform Governance and Complicity Despite public promises, X's leadership has not effectively addressed the issue and may even be complicit: Researchers state that X is "not doing enough to moderate content and has no clear strategy for dealing with political disinformation." Bot accounts they identify often remain active for long periods without being suspended8. There is a belief among experts that platforms "likely wouldn’t want to" eliminate all bots because they make the platform appear more active and popular, which is beneficial for its valuation and perceived influence19. The decision to make the blue verification checkmark a paid subscription service has further eroded trust. It allows impersonators and bad actors to pay for a veneer of legitimacy, making it harder for users to distinguish between real and fake accounts8. 😟 5. Impact on Society and Democracy The consequences of this corrupted information ecosystem are real and damaging: It "distort[s] online conversations and spread[s] misinformation in various contexts, from elections to public health crises," undermining the integrity of democratic processes10. By creating the false perception of widespread consensus for a particular view (a tactic known as astroturfing), bots can manipulate public opinion and emotion. As an expert noted, being surrounded by a crowd of clapping bots can make an individual more likely to believe a false claim19. It contributes to political polarization and erodes trust in institutions, media, and among citizens themselves118. 📌 Conclusion: How Bad Is It Really? It is severe. X is not just a neutral platform; its fundamental architecture and business model create incentives for inauthentic, manipulative behavior. The combination of AI-powered bots, echo chambers, and financial/political incentives has created a environment where misinformation and disinformation thrive. Your feeling that it is a "brainwashing program" is not entirely baseless. The platform can function as a system for mass-scale manipulation, where emotions are targeted, data is harvested, and energy is "farmed" in the form of user engagement and attention, which is then monetized. However, it is not entirely hopeless. Critical media literacy is the best defense. Be intensely skeptical of trending topics, emotional narratives, and accounts with no history or personal details. Use tools and reports like those mentioned to identify bots219. Most importantly, diversify your information sources outside of X to avoid living in a single, manipulated epistemic bubble. The truth is that a significant portion of the discourse on X is inauthentic and orchestrated. Recognizing this is the first step toward resisting manipulation. 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@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

Lets talk about @grok #AI Summary: "The State of X (Formerly Twitter): A Clear Assessment The situation on X is severe. It affects the platform’s integrity, warps public discourse, and undermines democratic processes. 🧠 1. Rise of Bots and Fake Accounts Automated and AI-powered bots are flooding X—and they're getting smarter. Many use stolen selfies to create fake personas, generate AI-written content, and push scams or misinformation. In one study, a botnet of over 1,100 fake accounts was caught promoting crypto scams. During a political debate, over a thousand bots pushed coordinated false claims, with some accounts tweeting every two minutes. By 2024, 37% of all internet traffic came from malicious bots. On X, up to 45% of users promoting conspiracy theories were fake. In election discussions, one in five accounts interacting with Elon Musk’s posts were bots. These bots now use advanced AI models like ChatGPT to generate human-like responses and interact with each other, making them nearly impossible to detect. ⚙️ 2. X as an Echo Chamber X doesn’t just reflect the world—it reshapes it. The platform fosters tightly closed networks where users are rarely exposed to opposing views. This creates what’s called an epistemic bubble—where relevant facts and perspectives are left out. Worse, it can become an echo chamber, where outside voices aren’t just ignored—they're actively discredited. These dynamics reinforce groupthink. If enough people in your circle agree, it feels true, even when it’s false. Meanwhile, any outside information is dismissed as corrupt or malicious. Over time, this erodes open-mindedness and critical thinking. 💰 3. Follow the Incentives Why is X overrun by bots and manipulation? The answer: money and politics. Bots promote scams, push fake investment schemes, and harvest data. Others are run by political actors to spread disinformation and influence elections. The platform's ad-driven business model thrives on outrage and engagement. Emotional, polarizing content gets more clicks—and bots are perfect for spreading it. This creates a twisted incentive: suppressing bots would hurt profits, so there's little real motivation to clean things up. 📉 4. Leadership Failure and Complicity Despite public claims, X’s leadership has failed to act decisively. Fake accounts often stay active for months, spreading lies unchecked. Experts believe the platform doesn't want to eliminate all bots. More activity—real or fake—means higher perceived value and influence. Even worse, the decision to sell verification checkmarks has made it easier for impersonators and scammers to seem legitimate. It’s now harder than ever to tell real from fake. 😟 5. Real-World Impact This isn't just a tech problem. It’s a societal one. Bots distort conversations, amplify falsehoods, and manipulate public opinion. By creating a false sense of consensus—what's known as astroturfing—they influence how people feel and what they believe. This fuels polarization, erodes trust in institutions, and corrodes public debate. What looks like a grassroots movement could actually be thousands of bots clapping in unison. 📌 Conclusion: How Bad Is It? Very bad. X is no longer a neutral platform. Its design and business incentives encourage inauthentic, manipulative behavior. Bots, echo chambers, and monetized outrage have turned it into a system where misinformation thrives. The idea that it functions like a “brainwashing program” isn’t far off. It manipulates emotions, harvests attention, and monetizes engagement. But it’s not hopeless. Critical media literacy is your best defense. Question trending topics. Be wary of emotional narratives and anonymous accounts. Use tools to spot bots. And most importantly—get your information from more than one place. A huge portion of what you see on X isn’t real. Knowing that is the first step toward resisting manipulation. " #KickStreamer #KickCommunity #rumblevideo #LiveMusic #NewMusicAlert #Twitch #TikTok #music #newmusic #radio #trend #trendy #BrainBeat #movie #YouTubeChannel #BeatStars #TodayInHistory #thunderclaps #musicvideo #rap #rapmusic #hiphop #underground #Construction #hoestroll #SoundCloud

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

Lets talk about @grok #AI Summary: "The State of X (Formerly Twitter): A Clear Assessment The situation on X is severe. It affects the platform’s integrity, warps public discourse, and undermines democratic processes. 🧠 1. Rise of Bots and Fake Accounts Automated and AI-powered bots are flooding X—and they're getting smarter. Many use stolen selfies to create fake personas, generate AI-written content, and push scams or misinformation. In one study, a botnet of over 1,100 fake accounts was caught promoting crypto scams. During a political debate, over a thousand bots pushed coordinated false claims, with some accounts tweeting every two minutes. By 2024, 37% of all internet traffic came from malicious bots. On X, up to 45% of users promoting conspiracy theories were fake. In election discussions, one in five accounts interacting with Elon Musk’s posts were bots. These bots now use advanced AI models like ChatGPT to generate human-like responses and interact with each other, making them nearly impossible to detect. ⚙️ 2. X as an Echo Chamber X doesn’t just reflect the world—it reshapes it. The platform fosters tightly closed networks where users are rarely exposed to opposing views. This creates what’s called an epistemic bubble—where relevant facts and perspectives are left out. Worse, it can become an echo chamber, where outside voices aren’t just ignored—they're actively discredited. These dynamics reinforce groupthink. If enough people in your circle agree, it feels true, even when it’s false. Meanwhile, any outside information is dismissed as corrupt or malicious. Over time, this erodes open-mindedness and critical thinking. 💰 3. Follow the Incentives Why is X overrun by bots and manipulation? The answer: money and politics. Bots promote scams, push fake investment schemes, and harvest data. Others are run by political actors to spread disinformation and influence elections. The platform's ad-driven business model thrives on outrage and engagement. Emotional, polarizing content gets more clicks—and bots are perfect for spreading it. This creates a twisted incentive: suppressing bots would hurt profits, so there's little real motivation to clean things up. 📉 4. Leadership Failure and Complicity Despite public claims, X’s leadership has failed to act decisively. Fake accounts often stay active for months, spreading lies unchecked. Experts believe the platform doesn't want to eliminate all bots. More activity—real or fake—means higher perceived value and influence. Even worse, the decision to sell verification checkmarks has made it easier for impersonators and scammers to seem legitimate. It’s now harder than ever to tell real from fake. 😟 5. Real-World Impact This isn't just a tech problem. It’s a societal one. Bots distort conversations, amplify falsehoods, and manipulate public opinion. By creating a false sense of consensus—what's known as astroturfing—they influence how people feel and what they believe. This fuels polarization, erodes trust in institutions, and corrodes public debate. What looks like a grassroots movement could actually be thousands of bots clapping in unison. 📌 Conclusion: How Bad Is It? Very bad. X is no longer a neutral platform. Its design and business incentives encourage inauthentic, manipulative behavior. Bots, echo chambers, and monetized outrage have turned it into a system where misinformation thrives. The idea that it functions like a “brainwashing program” isn’t far off. It manipulates emotions, harvests attention, and monetizes engagement. But it’s not hopeless. Critical media literacy is your best defense. Question trending topics. Be wary of emotional narratives and anonymous accounts. Use tools to spot bots. And most importantly—get your information from more than one place. A huge portion of what you see on X isn’t real. Knowing that is the first step toward resisting manipulation. " #KickStreamer #KickCommunity #rumblevideo #LiveMusic #NewMusicAlert #Twitch #TikTok #music #newmusic #radio #trend #trendy #BrainBeat #movie #YouTubeChannel #BeatStars #TodayInHistory #thunderclaps #musicvideo #rap #rapmusic #hiphop #underground #Construction #hoestroll #SoundCloud

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

Lets talk about @grok #AI Summary: "The State of X (Formerly Twitter): A Clear Assessment The situation on X is severe. It affects the platform’s integrity, warps public discourse, and undermines democratic processes. 🧠 1. Rise of Bots and Fake Accounts Automated and AI-powered bots are flooding X—and they're getting smarter. Many use stolen selfies to create fake personas, generate AI-written content, and push scams or misinformation. In one study, a botnet of over 1,100 fake accounts was caught promoting crypto scams. During a political debate, over a thousand bots pushed coordinated false claims, with some accounts tweeting every two minutes. By 2024, 37% of all internet traffic came from malicious bots. On X, up to 45% of users promoting conspiracy theories were fake. In election discussions, one in five accounts interacting with Elon Musk’s posts were bots. These bots now use advanced AI models like ChatGPT to generate human-like responses and interact with each other, making them nearly impossible to detect. ⚙️ 2. X as an Echo Chamber X doesn’t just reflect the world—it reshapes it. The platform fosters tightly closed networks where users are rarely exposed to opposing views. This creates what’s called an epistemic bubble—where relevant facts and perspectives are left out. Worse, it can become an echo chamber, where outside voices aren’t just ignored—they're actively discredited. These dynamics reinforce groupthink. If enough people in your circle agree, it feels true, even when it’s false. Meanwhile, any outside information is dismissed as corrupt or malicious. Over time, this erodes open-mindedness and critical thinking. 💰 3. Follow the Incentives Why is X overrun by bots and manipulation? The answer: money and politics. Bots promote scams, push fake investment schemes, and harvest data. Others are run by political actors to spread disinformation and influence elections. The platform's ad-driven business model thrives on outrage and engagement. Emotional, polarizing content gets more clicks—and bots are perfect for spreading it. This creates a twisted incentive: suppressing bots would hurt profits, so there's little real motivation to clean things up. 📉 4. Leadership Failure and Complicity Despite public claims, X’s leadership has failed to act decisively. Fake accounts often stay active for months, spreading lies unchecked. Experts believe the platform doesn't want to eliminate all bots. More activity—real or fake—means higher perceived value and influence. Even worse, the decision to sell verification checkmarks has made it easier for impersonators and scammers to seem legitimate. It’s now harder than ever to tell real from fake. 😟 5. Real-World Impact This isn't just a tech problem. It’s a societal one. Bots distort conversations, amplify falsehoods, and manipulate public opinion. By creating a false sense of consensus—what's known as astroturfing—they influence how people feel and what they believe. This fuels polarization, erodes trust in institutions, and corrodes public debate. What looks like a grassroots movement could actually be thousands of bots clapping in unison. 📌 Conclusion: How Bad Is It? Very bad. X is no longer a neutral platform. Its design and business incentives encourage inauthentic, manipulative behavior. Bots, echo chambers, and monetized outrage have turned it into a system where misinformation thrives. The idea that it functions like a “brainwashing program” isn’t far off. It manipulates emotions, harvests attention, and monetizes engagement. But it’s not hopeless. Critical media literacy is your best defense. Question trending topics. Be wary of emotional narratives and anonymous accounts. Use tools to spot bots. And most importantly—get your information from more than one place. A huge portion of what you see on X isn’t real. Knowing that is the first step toward resisting manipulation. " #KickStreamer #KickCommunity #rumblevideo #LiveMusic #NewMusicAlert #Twitch #TikTok #music #newmusic #radio #trend #trendy #BrainBeat #movie #YouTubeChannel #BeatStars #TodayInHistory #thunderclaps #musicvideo #rap #rapmusic #hiphop #underground #Construction #hoestroll #SoundCloud

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@reseeit save thread

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

@reSeeIt The State of X Formerly Twitter: A Clear AI Assessment https://youtu.be/XTXODtykt34?feature=shared via @YouTube

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

So yea... Fuck this app.... Pure trash. Just like all of you who make it this way.

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

https://t.co/JfniooMuXH

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

One day you fuckin muppets will be honest, that day will be your last second before darkness.

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

and it will be too late.

@Excavationpro - 👷‍♂️🎶Excavationpro🧡🚧 ∫(Truth × Light)df

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The State of X Formerly Twitter: A Clear AI Assessment https://rumble.com/v6xykpg-the-state-of-x-formerly-twitter-a-clear-ai-assessment.html

@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/

banthebbc on Twitter “WUHAN: This January 2020 video containing clips of Chinese falling over supposedly succumbing to the virus (nice thick coat) and lying in the street (presumably dead) being handled by unknown hazmat suited operatives. Scared you didn't it? Looks like BS now though.” twitter.com

@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/

Gad Cohen on Twitter “#Heilongjiang #China : #Police are sealing the front door of the building to prevent people from leaving their homes #WuhanCoronavirus #WuhanVirus #CoronaVirus #Wuhan #WuhanSARS #WuhanPneumonia #ChinaPneumonia #冠狀病毒 #코로나바이러스 #コロナウイルス #ਕੋਰੋਨਾਵਾਇਰਸ #коронавирус” twitter.com

@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/

The Information Source on Twitter “This happens when you try to escape a Corona Virus checkpoint #CoronavirusOutbreak #coronavirus” twitter.com

@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/

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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/

🇺🇦Hong Kong World City☔️ on Twitter “‼️WOW‼️ Bruce Aylward/@WHO did an interview with HK's @rthk_news & when asked about #Taiwan he pretended not to hear the question. The journalist asks again & he hangs up! She calls back & he said "Well, we've already talked about China." ENJOY+SHARE THE MADNESS! #CoronaVirus” twitter.com

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