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Super thread on the gospel of Covidicus, who was sent down from covid heaven, Covidia, to make us more virtuous people.

Updated regularly.

 "If a man is wearing a mask in the woods and there's no one around to see it, is he still virtuous?"

- Covidicus 4:35
"Tell a child to wear a mask and you deny him fresh air for a day.

Have a teacher force him to wear a mask and you deny him fresh air all day every day."

- Covidicus 6:57
"The path to righteousness is paved with double masks."

- Covidicus 3:14
"Two masks always make a right."

- Covidicus 7:12
"The Lysol spray is mightier than your irrational fear."

- Covidicus 7:54
"The squeaky wheel gets the lockdown."

- Covidicus 8:65
"It is better to let your neighbors lose their loved ones to suicide than to admit you were wrong about the covid lockdowns."

- Covidicus 5:64
"You can't make a covid-zero omelet without breaking a few souls."

- Covidicus 6:10
"If it ain't covid, don't fix it."

- Covidicus 9:23
"When a 95-year-old dies of covid, it's a tragedy. When a 13-year-old dies of lockdown-induced suicide, it's a statistic."

- Covidicus 7:23
"Kids are resilient. The best thing a parent can do is deny them fresh air."

- Covidicus 7:32
"The best modellers always give me a massive covid erection."

- Covidicus 7:19
"If solitary confinement is good enough for death row inmates, it's good enough for children."

- Covidicus 6:73

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2) noted that the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 can enter cells through macropinocytosis, without the presence of the entire virion. Given the recent Tweet to me by @endocdoc, where he recently saw a patient develop Creutzfeld-Jakob after COVID-19, the extant paper showing CJD

3) CJD after COVID-19 infection and the recent death of the head of Astra-Zeneca research from CJD should be concerning to all. Especially if he gave himself the AZ therapy during Stage 1 or Stage 2 trials. This would give a possible timeframe for onset.

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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

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:

1.https://t.co/VseXe862AX

“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”

2.https://t.co/EzTSzeZyue

“Inferences on effects of NPIs are non-robust and highly sensitive to model specification. Claimed benefits of lockdown appear grossly exaggerated.”

3.https://t.co/4c4LqeQ5bz

“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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Abir Ballan \U0001f60a
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A brief tutorial in health education to show you how sound health education models have been used for manipulation instead of creating health awareness during the COVID 19 pandemic. We'll uses masks as an example of a health behavior.
Are you ready to explore? 1/n

The Health Belief Model (HBM) consists of 5 components: perceived threat (lethality + Susceptibility),
perceived benefits,
perceived barriers and
cues to action.

Familiarise yourself with the definition of each concept in this table. 2/n
https://t.co/1tOz1cJFvc


Study this diagram to understand how the components are interrelated. 3/n
https://t.co/iUoaqNkgyP


Now let’s apply this to the COVID 19 pandemic.
Review this diagram to see how the HBM applies to the behaviour of mask-wearing.
“perceived susceptibility appeared to be the most significant factor determining compliance” 4/n
https://t.co/xF6uwUx12N


Part I: The HBM
Increase the perceived threat of a disease
1) increase perceived severity: Confusing the general public with CFR & IFR- 2 indicators that are an order of magnitude apart.
People understood wrongly that the fatality rate of C19 is
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Robin Monotti FRSA MA BSc
Robin Monotti FRSA MA ...
@robinmonotti
BAYES' THEOREM: The basic reason we get so many false positives to COVID19. The disease is so rare that the number of false positives greatly outnumbers the people who truly have the disease: THE MATHS:
https://t.co/oLHyxYJW9H


"Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time"

"Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people. If your test results come back POSITIVE, what are your chances that you actually have the disease? LESS THAN 1% chance that you have the disease!"


"The basic reason we get such a surprising result is because the disease is so rare that the number of false positives greatly outnumbers the people who truly have the disease"


Say mass testing of the contagious virus was done to 1 million people. In that million, 100 will really have the disease, 99 will be correctly diagnosed as having it. 999,900 of the million will not have the disease, but of those about 9,999 will be false positives! #BayesTheorem
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Medical Nemesis
Medical Nemesis
@Medical_Nemesis
I am puzzled as to what the greatest medical scholar found in his research of smallpox vaccination.

/1


Legends and myths in medicine. Debunked. Not that but few care.

https://t.co/3Hu2D9Un0J

/2


https://t.co/xnZ2EXO1f5

/3


Open access.

Where have we seen this before? 🤔
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