1/42 Good to see yesterday’s @thetimes editorial attacking the pandemic of covid misinformation. Here’s my twitter contribution to fighting it, as suggested. Lockdown and covid sceptics continue to consistently misuse cherry picked data to argue NHS not unusually busy.

2/42 NHS trust leaders believe this disinformation is profoundly disrespectful to staff and risks reducing vital compliance with restrictions on social contact. Below is a long two part thread answering the main "NHS not unusually busy" and other NHS related disinformation.

3/42 Much of the disinformation comes from simplistic year on year percentage comparisons of data. Some types of NHS demand are flat or lower year on year. But it’s a huge distortion to argue that these individual statistics mean the NHS is not unusually busy.

4/42 For example, there ARE much lower levels of winter flu year - a global phenomenon. There ARE fewer elective operations - because of covid pressures. And there are many other examples. But there are five problems with cherry-picking/using these individual datasets.

5/42 1. They do not capture anything like the current total level of NHS demand which is very differently shaped due to COVID-19. Traditional, existing, NHS datasets were built to reflect “normal” levels of demand, “normal” operations and "normal" capacity. This isn’t normal.

Alright, folks. You may have seen that the FDA was in a fight with distilleries last week.

Let's unpack what happened, why it happened, and why it's now resulting in some extremely unusual behavior by HHS.

Thread below. Follow if you're interested.

If you're like most people, you might have stumbled across a few news items in this past week talking about how the big-bad-FDA was deciding to screw over distilleries with a $14,060 fee.

It should be noted that the only reason distilleries were being charged this fee was because they had been permitted by the FDA to make hand sanitizer.

It basically sounded like "no good deed goes unpunished by the government." Reddit's

The problem is that this is a wildly incomplete picture of what happened and why it happened.

So let's look at what did happen, and you can decide for yourself where the blame lies.

Let's start with some regulatory background here.

Hand sanitizer is regulated as an over-the-counter (OTC) product. Under that regulatory approach, entities which adhere to an FDA "monograph" may market an OTC drug without obtaining explicit FDA approval.

As the @guardian continues their antisemitic game of contorting everything in existence to attack Israel, (in this instance perpetuating a libel of Jews as disease spreaders withholding vaccines), here are some other headlines I’ve written for them to keep up their sleeves:

Israel’s national anthem sung in Hebrew - not Japanese - another low for this racist state

Israeli of the year award goes to Israeli - not Frenchman - is there no end to Israel’s racism?

Israeli sports budget spent on Israelis - not on Scottish skateboard parks. What would we expect?

Diego Maradonna doesn’t even place in list of top ten greatest ever Israelis. An insult to world’s football fans. FIFA must act...

When I wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times, there was a pretty extensive fact-checking process (shout out to @jdesmondharris). Apparently, that is not the case at the Wall Street Journal, at least when a piece advances a highly partisan, fundamentally racist view...

So let's dig into just how wrong Bob Stefanowski's screed against Hartford is. To be clear, Hartford has a lot of problems! But Stefanowski diagnoses them all exactly backwards. He is consistently and astonishingly wrong...

So, yes, Harford has high violent crime *relative to other cities*. But crime has been at historic lows for a decade, so being the most dangerous doesn't mean "actually dangerous for middle class people who live in the suburbs."

(It is unsurprising that Stefanowski is more concerned with the mostly white, mostly nonresident staff of the Courant than with the Black and brown Hartford residents who *are* affected directly by violent crime.)

Bob is so close to getting it here. White flight and resource-hoarding (and the loss of manufacturing jobs to globalization and souther states with poor wages) *did* hurt the city badly.

HAPPENING NOW: I'm on the call now where Derrek Evans is having an initial appearance before Magistrate Eifert. They are reading the allegations out loud.

*Derrick

They are laying out, second by second, what was seen on the since deleted video posted to Evans' Facebook live-stream.

Also talking about other posts on Evans' FB page leading up to the Jan. 6 protest in D.C.

Now they are reading Evans' "official statement" where he said he was an independent member of the media.

Thread day after @MyMDC_T held its Ex congress @DrThoko_Khupe chaired an alleged National council, which arrived at the resolution of firing @DMwonzora recall him from parliament. The resolutions were supposed to be read by #Phugeni then party spokesperson but he refused ...

We share with you the resolutions which were withheld last minute at a Press conference addressed yesterday on advice from @ProfMadhuku - below are the full resolutions.

NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING RESOLUTIONS
28 Dec 2020
 
Upholding and Respecting the Supreme Court Judgment (SC56/2020) which ordered the holding of an EO C in terms of the party constitution to elect a substantive replacement for the late Party President Dr Morgan Richard Tsvangirai.

Acknowledging that the same Supreme Court judgement recognises the existence of the constitution of the MDC without any qualifications.
Affirming that the Supreme Court judgement doesn’t entail deviating from the clear provisions of our constitution.

Realising that some members of the Party have left the party and joined or formed other political parties, and that by that fact alone, the said members have renounced their membership of the party.
Acknowledging the resolutions of the N Cof 9 May 2020, which meeting resolved to

1./ Oh look! @ScotlandLgb have started 2021 as we mean to continue: opposing gender identity nonsense. We responded to a letter from the lavishly funded lobby group @LGBTIScotland. They’d complained about our ads in the Herald with a bunch of unsubstantiated assertions. 👇

2./ Tim Hopkins claimed @ALLIANCELGB doesn’t even represent a minority position among LGB peeps. Rich given Equality Network itself isn’t a representative body. It’s more a job creation scheme funded by the Scottish govt to keep lobbyists like Hopkins from the dole queue.

3./ The govt funnels tax payers money into Equality Network’s coffers so it can then lobby for the anti-gay, misogynistic and child harming policies the politicians would be a tad embarrassed to champion otherwise. I wonder why Tim i$ so worried about u$. 💷💷💷

4./ We pointed out we’ve thousands of passionate supporters after just a year; which is a better track record than the fruitcakes at @stonewalluk who after 30 years are set on destroying the legal definition and therefore effectively the protections for same sex attracted people.

5./ They’re no longer really a gay organisation; more a trans obsessed cash machine that takes lucre from the likes of Goldman Sachs in effect to campaign for under 16s to be deprived chemically of a healthy and normal puberty. “Acceptance By Hormone Disruption”?

BREAKING NEWS
Big news of the world.

Italy did postmortem of dead corona patient, big revelation happened.

Italy has become the first country in the world to perform an autopsy (postmortem) on a dead body from a Covid-19 and, after a comprehensive investigation, has

It is VITAL that you understand we got here because we allowed Fox News, Newsmax, Alex Jones, Brietbart and MANY MANY others to create a siege mentality in the right.

One of the most disturbing aspects of a siege mindset is a willingness to reflexively believe ANY claim against

the perceived enemy that echoes or aligns with the established belief. Put simply, the right wing talk sphere trained its listeners to be willing to believe ANYTHING about “libs,” without the least requirement for there to be evidence to support it. It obliterated reasoning as

“They’re gonna steal Georgia ! ! !” They ‘have to’ steal it—here’s why. | SOTN: Alternative News, Analysis & Commentary

A typical leftist strategy is "accusing the opponent of doing what YOU have done."

What do I mean by this?

You trigger a riot, kill majority and in the backlash if minority gets killed you call it "genocide of minority."

You spread fake news 24*7 but label THEM as fake news.

The 2 SIMULTANEOUS COUPS IN 🇺🇲

#Thread #Strategy

I'll try to decode the game of chess currently going on in the US.

I'm taking a shot at predicting what will happen on Monday - 11/1/2021.

Read at your own peril.

A NEW GREAT GAME?

Even in India when FIRST the Godhra carnage took place, who STARTED the RIOT?

WHO KILLED WHO?

BUT WHAT DID MSM PORTRAY IT AS GLOBALLY?

WHAT DO PEOPLE THINK FIRST WHEN YOU MENTION THE WORDS 'GUJARAT RIOTS'?

Godhra Carnage definitely not. Coz no one even remembers it.

Democrats are accusing Trump of a COUP.

Who do you think has REALLY BEEN THE ONE TO START A COUP? THINK.

A CENTRAL FEATURE OF A COUP IS CUTTING OFF COMMUNICATION OF THE CURRENT LEADER.

What and why the sudden URGENCY to BAN TRUMP ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS?

Revolutionary leftists LOVE slaves that accept their fate and don't fight back.

The reason why the viscerally hate Trump and Modi is because they fight back and don't take shit from leftists.

Godhra Carnage was action. Reaction everyone knows.

Not only that but for every

My latest piece at @mmfa:

Fox News keeps trying to justify GOP efforts to object to the Electoral College vote by pointing to the number of people who think the election was stolen (after spending 2 months telling their audiences that it was

This is Fox, basically:

Another comparison to the role Fox is playing here via one of my favorite Onion articles:

Or maybe a human centipede, but with the front connected back to the end for a loop of shit-eating. Yeah, that's it. That's the role Fox is playing here.

But seriously, check out the *more than 2 months* of Fox-enabled conspiracy theories (a partial list):

Not sure who needs to hear this, but if you're continuing to baselessly argue that there was widespread fraud and/or that the election was somehow "stolen" from Trump, you're encouraging people to attack again.

It's time to stop lying to your audiences, to your constituents.

Fox News host Mark Levin on January 3:

"Our Declaration of Independence and Constitution are being destroyed by the Democrat Party and the media. ... We're standing at the precipice and we're looking into the abyss."

Seriously, watch this.

One of the reasons people don’t know recovery happens through many avenues is because newspapers, TV, and film always promote 12-step recovery as the primary and only means by which one can recover. This is a big problem. 1/9

I also need to highlight that “self-care” is something specific to each individual. In all honesty I still have no idea what it is, what it looks like, or how I deploy it in my life. But I do know what is listed here 👇as self care would not work for me. 2/9

I completely understand that this is just one story focused on one person’s chosen (maybe) recovery path. But as most of us know, when you enter treatment, 12 step ideology will be preached 24/7. 3/9

if you don’t submit you will be labeled dishonest, closed-minded and unwilling. Often this starts a cascade leading down 2 paths. First, you assimilate into 12s culture, tc staff treats you well and gives you outstanding evaluations (which play a significant part in DC date) 4/9

Or the second pathway where you honestly admit 12s just isn’t for you (after all, this is a program of rigorous honesty right?). This path usually leads to public shaming, constant blaming of the patient for not “taking responsibility for cleaning his side of the street.” 5/9

Here are the 10 most popular CAMERA UK posts in 2020:

10. BBC INTERVIEWER ASKS ENTEBBE RESCUER ABOUT ‘RESERVATIONS’

9. SENIOR INDY EDITOR ACCUSES JEWISH ESTABLISHMENT OF “PERPETUATING RAPE CULTURE”

8. THE TIMES PRESENTS PALESTINIAN PROPAGANDA ON 1948 AS “HISTORY”

7. BBC NEWS MISLEADS ON ETHIOPIA-BORN MKs

6. GUARDIAN PROMOTES SETH ROGEN’S BREATHTAKING IGNORANCE ABOUT ISRAEL