Brendan McNamara @fireballfilms Twitter profile

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Brendan McNamara

9 years

Trying 2 pick Charon's party theme. I heart "Psychopomp & Circumstance." Cerberus yips "Venice" ( #lastyear !). Hades giggles "Cat Stevens #4 "

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@conservmillen @DrLeanaWen And that vaccinated are up to 27x LESS protected than the unvaccinated with natural immunity (who also likely have protection for “years, possibly a lifetime” which inoculated do not)… She knows all of this. And doesn’t care.

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1 year

@AlexBerenson His apology reflects moral bankruptcy.

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1 year

@THR @BusyPhilipps This doesn’t make sense. That dude literally signed a bill that make teaching racism illegal, signed Curtis’ Law into effect off of the strong, tireless advocacy of a black woman, Patricia Ward… Mayhap she formed an assessment of a person off of headlines alone?

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3 years

@txsalth2o “People are more comfortable” A) prove that B) how would you quantify that? C) how is that a relevant metric? If people were “more comfortable around someone of their own ‘race?’ would that dictate staffing decisions and team construction? Cause, um, it shouldn’t?

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3 years

@alexandrosM Doing this by a vote is one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard. I wouldn’t even have imagined such a ludicrous thing. Natural immunity is superior by just about every metric available. Everyone had almost a year to develop a system of verification for it b4 vaccines.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@the_brumby N95s have also been repeatedly tested vs. Medical masks in multiple RCTs IN HEALTHCARE SETTINGS and were found to be ineffective with a singular success when worn an entire shift without interruption. REPEAT: N95s have repeatedly failed to be found effective in RCTs.

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Brendan McNamara

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6 years

@ostrachan 1. Fathers & Sons 2. Brothers 3. It’s cold 4. In sorrow & mourning 5. To express brotherly affection 6. Because you want a ding-dang cuddle 7. Are you seriously dropping “strange teachings” or is this just a joke tweet I 8. up w/ a spoon? 9. Brother, u might need a 10. Cuddle.

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@fireballfilms

7 years

@mindykaling Friends are great. This is cool. Thanks for sharing your affection and attention to one another on here, guys.

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3 years

@JuliaRaifman @NYMag They found a 1.8% decrease, yes, Ms Raifman? With confounders of social distancing, encouragement of stay at home, multiple sites of typical use shuttered… Masks, which we both know the preponderance of high confidence science has ruled “ineffective,” would be last 2 get credit.

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3 years

@dgurdasani1 But it doesn’t signal that because that assumes a protective effect of masking in regards to transmission which has not been observed. So that’s a talismanic placebo effect and that’s not healthy, society-wide, to invent a common superstition as a coping mechanism.

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2 years

@alexanderrusso @ajlamesa Ah, the Charles Manson defense!

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3 years

@PeterHotez Misinformation. All this has is evidence of exposure & system fighting to prevent infection. Which you know.

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3 years

@AlexBerenson @CDCgov Surgical masks & N95s have been rigorously tested in RCTs a multitude of times & no significant differences were ever discovered. N95s were ONLY effective when worn without interruption for an entire shift (not they’re used in public & not how CDC is advising their use here).

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3 years

@alexandrosM This NIH article said natural immunity was the standard they hoped vaccines could reach (spoiler alert: they never did). Haha, our complicity with profiteering costs so many lives ha ha ha.

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19

The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.

www.nih.gov

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@akheriaty We’re all experiencing a society-wide Munchausen by Proxy!

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@noorchashm 3) immune compromised individuals 4) We do not yet have evidence they decrease overall hospitalizations and deaths (& have clear evidence we should not expect them to) 5) Medical coercion is never advisable for a stable society

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3 years

@Thetwilightkid9 @DrLeanaWen Honestly, even IF it was NOW included, the hand has already been shown. This is not about protective effect. There was a year & a half to do this 4 the superior protection of former infection. Only now when it’s a for-profit product does this happen? And they IGNORE NI? #NC

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3 years

@JessicaValenti How does wearing a mask protect a kid under 12, exactly?

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3 years

@BenHoffmanNYT Why would you think they NEED to do it?

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3 years

@JoeBrunoWSOC9 A year and a half late. Not evidence-based then so, of course not evidence-based now. Welcome to the new normal of public health policy having no connection to public health! Woo hoo!

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7 months

@_nomadic_soul It’s funny because he was a rare spot of ethics and reason for me, not closing his church. Not mandating masks, etc. he gave me some hope that some in the body of Christ would respond rationally & not in fear & panic & fear of man.

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3 years

@angrybklynmom I am immunocompromised. I barely restructure my own life around my present infirmity.

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3 years

@The_OtherET 3 out of 4 of those already openly acknowledged to be either pure invention or “more harm than good.” Masks are such a psychic/superstition totem to many it will thusly be last to be admitted. We’ve known masks were irrelevant since before 2020 showed up… 🤷🏻

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2 years

@latimes This is a photo of three people literally bullying one person.

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@TheEliKlein It’s not true. Protection was around 38% at peak with Delta & efficacy is negative with Omicron. He’s either just making things up or talking about some time that is not now.

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Brendan McNamara

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9 months

@longdrivesouth You’re well aware of the hate @latimes fostered the last 4 years, yes? Mocking anti-vaxxers deaths (As though the slur was even relevant). Supporting city wide segregation (the return of “_____ only” establishments!). This paper was so hateful I remain astonished to this day.

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Brendan McNamara

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4 years

@AlexBerenson If anyone on this thread has an updated number from this estimate by US Dept of Health & Human Services, please let me know. If this remains the best .gov estimate we have we are talking at LEAST 8,600,000 adverse effects total.

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3 years

@Leftylockdowns1 Let’s all consistently remember that they could have reduced their risk of severe outcome by .8-1.4%. That’s all the vaccines ever promised to deliver. That’s all they deliver.

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Brendan McNamara

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4 years

@allieevolpe @VICE The Pfizer vaccine has an actual risk reduction of .4%, Moderna .8%. Missing out on what, exactly? This is the same vaccine that up to 60% of health care workers in some counties/industries weren’t interested in getting? Are you seriously just advertorial for these folks?

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@j_g_allen That’s an interesting hypothesis but a gross misunderstanding of “need.” And gosh is it unnecessarily complicated! We need to: 1. Remove mandatory masking mandates. End of list.

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Brendan McNamara

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2 years

@rachelbovard Biden, a former school segregationist, made this move last year with “The Unvaccinated” and that’s exactly how it played out - with the first mass segregation of citizens from public life since Jim Crow. Mask mandates akin. None evidence-based but instead ideology based.

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3 years

@MAJTOURE 8 months observed in blood samples, “years, possibly a lifetime” according to conductors of a bone marrow study.

Immunity to the Coronavirus May Persist for Years, Scientists Find (Published 2021)

Important immune cells survive in the bone marrow of people who were infected with the virus or were inoculated against it, new research suggests.

www.nytimes.com

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@AlexBerenson @YouTube @TuckerCarlson “Expert consensus” is literally the lowest form of scientific evidence. So this is a blatantly and deliberately anti-science position. Or, to be overly fair, a topsy-turvydom of the hierarchy of science. YouTube has NO conscience as to public health.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@ASlavitt Masks are not relevant to this or any respiratory virus pandemic in history.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@angrybklynmom @ashishkjha And that multiple studies have been conducted that indicate vaccination rates do not correlate with reduced case rates (to the contrary, in fact). And vaccines, in 4 studies & 7 national data, have negative efficacy re: infection with omicron. Your thesis is not credible.

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Brendan McNamara

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9 months

I’ve been reckoning with the psychological minefield this was to not only to hear society define you as such but to then, yourself, actively AGREE with that assessment! In this way, very plainly, PH displayed a novice grasp of human existence. Teleologically, ethically, etc.

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9 months

Never again let public health tell you that you are not essential.

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2 years

@sarahbeth345 @JeromeAdamsMD @j_g_allen @CDCgov They WERE wrong. And they’re still wrong now. They’ve not been following the science so what are you even talking about how it works?

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3 years

@JBetcke @JessicaValenti Not for preventing viral transmission, that’s for certain!

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3 years

@ajlamesa @CDCDirector They HAD NO SCIENTIFIC REASON TO RECOMMEND MASKING WHY WOULD THEY HAVE A SCIENTIFIC REASON TO STOP!?

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3 years

@CDCgov Joyfully, your opinion, CDC, as it’s typically ill-informed & sometimes contrary to the truth, is of, at MOST, passing interest to any reasonable person. Natural immunity is superior to inoculation re: preponderance of EVIDENCE. Why make anyone take a 2nd round of risk!?

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7 months

@benryanwriter @NYMag @jonathanchait @andrealongchu I’ve never heard anyone, conservative or otherwise, reject trans rights. All I’ve ever seen or heard is the proposal that trans identifying persons should not be granted extra or exceptional rights.

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2 years

@Variety @pattonoswalt He literally spewed hate about masks like… last year, was it? And said nothing when what was most tenably hate-based discrimination was enacted across Los Angeles. He’s right to furiously castigate antisemites & hate movements but… it’s very tonedeaf coming from him.

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3 years

@sarahbeth345 It’s Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy writ large.

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3 years

@MonicaGandhi9 We’ve been in a year and a half of hyperbolic and irresponsible Covid coverage. I’m glad it’s a problem but… where y’all been?

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3 years

@megynkelly It was not enacted based on science and reason. It will not be removed based on such. This should surprise no one. Daily reminder: @CDCgov has no authority whatsoever.

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3 years

@the_brumby “Randomised controlled trials in health care workers showed that respirators, if worn continually during a shift, were effective but not if worn intermittently.”

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3 years

@ToddZywicki @noorchashm @Leftylockdowns1 @mahesh_shenai @MartinKulldorff @DrJBhattacharya “At least as good” is borderline insane. It’s superior by just about every observable metric - duration in bloodstream, duration in bone marrow, comprehensive nature of response and TOWERS above in real-world efficacy. Where did this opposite of evidence narrative derive?

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3 years

@Jusrangers How LOST are we that we are acting like CDC guidance is gospel or law!? Also - still pretty funny.

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3 years

@MonicaGandhi9 This will make long term data on side effects next to impossible to assign to the appropriate vaccine. Once again, wildly incautious.

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3 years

@truthmattersTX @MartyMakary @AnnCoulter @washingtonpost They were just straight-up lying to you. Or, to be more charitable, they have no idea what they’re talking about. But lied in pretending they did. 8 months in the bloodstream has been the average since… 8 months after this pandemic began.

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19

The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.

www.nih.gov

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

2 years

@victorrriiiaaa_ @fromkdwithluv It’s a very common movie term, around for many decades. It essentially means “there was never any question of what we made getting a PG-13”

hard R - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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3 years

@sarahbeth345 @CDCgov Wait WHAT!? What’s the citation for that? And 80% effective at protecting them from what?

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3 years

@Leftylockdowns1 This study comes after their previous study in Oct attempted to say the opposite despite a dozen studies having already consistently found NI markedly superior to VI. EVERYONE PLEASE NOTE: with THIS & masks, CDC is trying to spin like “things changed and NOW…” FALSE

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

5 years

@MarkHarrisNYC I thought that as well reading it. Does she think this is where “believing women” really finds its best use? It could have been worse... if she’d said “I am a human being in all its frailty, confusion and complexity - #metoo ”

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

2 years

@Montalvo501 @StateFairOfTX @LBUCCDallas @NACHC This is factually inaccurate. Reported.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@MonicaGandhi9 @SFGate Yes. And mask mandates are malarky. As the preponderance of high confidence science has always indicated they would be. There's nothing wrong with just admitting you were wrong about masks. It was always a minority case to suggest their effectiveness.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@Leftylockdowns1 That’s… that’s horrifying. Gravity is settled science. If we HAD to settle vaccines and masks right now for some reason (we don’t) the current evidence clearly indicates they do not stop the spread. What in the world? That’s a full on fact check: FALSE.

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3 years

@MonicaGandhi9 That’s a rational thought. But… What rational human being looks to the White House for guidance on health and medical issues?

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@JoyAnnReid Natural Immunity is so completely “a thing” here it was the standard hoped for FROM vaccination. “The results provide hope that people receiving SARS-CoV-2 vaccines will develop similar lasting immune memories after vaccination.”

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19

The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.

www.nih.gov

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

2 years

@briebriejoy Yes indeed! The conclusions were in line with previous version, completed in April 2020. The preponderance of evidence remains indicative that masks are not effective in limiting viral transmission. Same as it ever was… same as it ever was…

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4 years

@Rachel_Sennott You can hop on Instagram and thousands of women are talking about it, sending shots of the uterine wall shedding, GOAT-level clots, etc. Strangely, the anecdotal information is EXTENSIVE but most “experts say” folks are just admitting they don’t know.

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Brendan McNamara

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3 years

@oni_blackstock They’d still have demonstrate the preponderance of evidence supported the measures. When has that happened? Until such time, they are certainly restrictions.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@DoctorNatasha False. The scientific consensus stands that masking is likely to make little or no difference, is “not effective.” You may be speaking of the perceived consensus of opinion which is the least relevant evidence to consider, as you well know.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@rachbarnhart @MomOnAMission30 “Although mechanistic studies support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”

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3 years

@MonicaGandhi9 Its not compromise to do 1 dose after infection. It would be compromise to ALLOW the vaccinated to move as freely in society as the naturally immune. It’s not compromise to have metrics for mask removal. It’s compromise to remove all masks now & ONLY apologize.

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3 years

@mgrich1985 @TheEliKlein The NIH is obviously replete with problems galore but would likely meet most people’s definition of “reputable source,” yes? Now you have to go confront why you believed a lie.

Lasting immunity found after recovery from COVID-19

The immune systems of more than 95% of people who recovered from COVID-19 had durable memories of the virus up to eight months after infection.

www.nih.gov

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@nckhui Mask mandates are not following the science. That’s objectively false.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@jhaskinscabrera It’s Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy as we were told to behave as though we were all infectious carriers of a virus. Then given forced placebos (masks) to allay our nonexistent condition. And that is just one manifestation that HASNT STOPPED YET.

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3 years

@DrPaulOffit @bopinion Thank you for a dose of rationality. To be fair, public trust was already nationally obliterated when masks were made mandatory without powerful evidence of a community benefit and, in fact, powerful evidence of their lack of efficacy. :(

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@MartyMakary How many times until we should assume intentional? I counted 11 such manipulations in 2021 alone.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

9 months

Loudermilk in the top 10, all streaming, is pretty cool.

Nielsen

@nielsen

9 months

Our Top Ten Streaming List is live! 📈 It was a great week for originals, with the No. 1 Spot going to #FoolMeOnce on @netflix with more than 2 billion minutes viewed. Read more:

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Brendan McNamara

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8 months

Third Time’s the charm with Loudermilk. Big love to all those who discovered us and went on our escapades!

Three Times A Charm: ‘Loudermilk’ Wins Over Netflix Viewers 6-Plus Years After Audience Network...

The Peter Farrelly created series 'Loudermilk' finds audience on Netflix seven years after airing on the dead AT&T Audience Network. Farrelly has a plan for season 4.

deadline.com

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@hamill_law @kellysulty As a man, I am particularly sorry there were no men there. Those who’ve abdicated the responsibility of our role, societally, do not count.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@akheriaty We should assume 24% is vaccine related as that’s what Pfizer’s final RCT results indicated. Their estimates for effectiveness re: Covid were quite accurate so we should assume their estimates for all cause mortality would be also

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@mark_gorelik @VPrasadMDMPH We have three systematic surveys of RCTs on masks dominantly returning result of “not effective.” And no one cares. Very few policy decisions, it seems, are based on high confidence science.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@beyondtheRK He is better protected by recovery from infection than a Covid-naive vaccinated person. ✅ He would be MORE likely to experience adverse effects from vaccination bc of his previous infection. ✅ “I don’t want to.” is also reason enough. ✅

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2 years

@EpiEllie The only indicator that suggests otherwise is the fact that the majority of best available evidence indicates masking is not likely to be relevant for the transmission of respiratory viruses. Which is quite germane, yes?

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3 years

@wesbury Also… no one is anti-vax unless they self-define as such. Being critical of usage of something is not to be anti-something. If I think scissors are good for cutting paper but not my neighbor, I’m not anti-scissors. Let’s all ditch this divisive vernacular!

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@justin_hart Vaccine deaths HAVE TO also be considered amongst the multiple other potential causes. 20% more deaths amongst vaccinated vs control group in Pfizer trials, for example (15 to 14 in 6 month but 5 more vaccinated died after unblinding).

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7 months

@_nomadic_soul I’m immune compromised & have been since 2017. Currently immune suppressed for the past year+. What in the WORLD ARE YOU talking about? Your response is a non-sequitur.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@davidzweig Does no one care that “consensus of expert opinion” is THE most trash scientific evidence that still gets to bear the moniker?

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@fireballfilms

7 years

2/11/18, @aartipaarti & I finally do battle, side-by-side, with victory or death the only options. Love is with us. And they say Love Conquers All. IS IT TRUE!? ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED!!! @aartipaarti @FoodNetwork #GGG cc: @jettila @MrsJetTila @ChefDPhillips @InsideAQuestion

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@rachbarnhart @MomOnAMission30 We know from highest confidence science that mechanistic success does not correlate with real world effect.

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@fireballfilms

7 months

@_nomadic_soul And you’re spouting ad hominems on no basis whatsoever. Avoiding Covid infection is borderline impossible (unless you were of the 20-50% with prior immunity). Vaccination increases infection rates after a few months. Nothing stupid here. I’d already had Covid by early 2020.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@Leftylockdowns1 @NCLAlegal @ToddZywicki @noorchashm @MartinKulldorff Thank you. It’s crystal clear and certain that any organization that does not give natural immunity greater or equal weight alongside vaccine requirements has no genuine interest in public health/protective effect.

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@fireballfilms

2 years

@Leftylockdowns1 It can be shown that he lied here. I’ll go ahead and say there were were no studies published in that time period so as to move the needle. This can be objectively assessed. And his deceit proven.

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@drlucymcbride That is SO disturbing. When in history has SHAME or GUILT been a response to being infected by a seasonal surge respiratory virus? That demonstrates effect of DEEP psychological damage. That’s unhinged from reality. Sincerely delusional. We all have to help!

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@sarahbeth345 Because they don’t believe in science. They believe in what people who they believe believe in science tell them.

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@fireballfilms

4 years

@TelGlobalHealth @martinmckee “While no-one is totally sure... it is clear...” Hahahahaaa Which one is it?

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@fireballfilms

1 year

@m_vronsky Early estimates in 2020 suggested as many as 50% of the population had prior immunity. STRANGELY under-discussed. Maybe you’re that other half!

Covid-19: Do many people have pre-existing immunity?

It seemed a truth universally acknowledged that the human population had no pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2, but is that actually the case? Peter Doshi explores the emerging research on immunol...

www.bmj.com

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@conservmillen Abortion, unlimited car horn usage, nuts in chocolate chip cookies, racism, anti-racism, dating shows, ban on comparing apples and oranges, qualified immunity for police, indemnity for vaccines, segregation, too long intros on podcasts… Im gonna need a good pen.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@justin_hart Why would half be wrong? The VAERS site literally says “Underreporting" is one of the main limitations of passive surveillance systems, including VAERS. The term, underreporting refers to the fact that VAERS receives reports for only a small fraction of actual adverse events. “

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@fireballfilms

3 years

@DrLeanaWen I am a medically vulnerable individual and it is despicable to demand someone else take a for-profit product to protect me. A premise with a weak evidence base. Let’s all remember when our consciences functioned. And return to that memory.

Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties...

European Journal of Epidemiology -

link.springer.com

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

2 years

@arielhelwani Gross hypocrisy, though. The Brooklyn nets also suspended @KyrieIrving previously for his vaccination status, which is a hate-based policy.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

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@LawrenceGostin Note vaccines relatively quickly make children more likely to get infected with Covid. Also note that here we see vaccination turns the superior protection of natural immunity into the inferior protection of vaccination. (Turning C into B, essentially).

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@akheriaty @ifihadastick How do we know it wasn’t the intention? Weaponizing the Other was key to Trump’s success (“immigrants”) and now being fostered to potentially animate base (“unvaccinated”) here. Why would we assume apolitical intention?

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@VPrasadMDMPH Also adverse effects risk potentially ENORMOUSLY exceeds that of benefit for this cohort.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@TFC3Tweets @politicalmath We have that from Covid-19 School Response Dashboard & UK data. Schools with voluntary masking in both US & UK had lower infection rates than mandatory.

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Brendan McNamara

@fireballfilms

3 years

@JeromeAdamsMD What authority figure has the power to shame you? Sincerely, what are you talking about? What world do you live in where the opinion of an AIRLINE PILOT can induce shame? Sir, you appear to have taken leave of perceptual reality.

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