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Thank you so much for this thread, Mr. Hagan, @joehagansays. You almost presciently understood precisely what I was at least attempting to do to the best of my abilities during the hearing Thursday.

I like how this guy treats every line of his testimony like he's engraving it on a national monument.
— Joe Hagan (@joehagansays) June 16, 2022

What you could not know, and did not know, but I will tell you now, is that I believed I had an obligation to the Select Committee and to the country, first to formulate . . . then to measure . . . and then . . . to meter out . . .

every . . . single . . . word . . . that I spoke . . . , carefully . . . exactingly . . . and . . . deliberately, so that the words I spoke were pristine clear and would be heard, and therefore understood, as such.

I believed Thursday that I had that high responsibility and obligation -- to myself, even if to no other. Also please bear in mind that Thursday was the first time in 68 years, to my knowledge, I had ever been on national television, let alone national television like that.

And though not scared, I was concerned that I do my very best and not embarrass myself, as I think anyone who found themselves in that frightening circumstance would be.

I decided to respond to your at once astute and understanding tweet finally this afternoon, because I have been watching the tweets all day suggesting that I am recovering from a severe stroke, and my friends, out of their concern for me and my family,

have been earnestly forwarding me these tweets, asking me if I am alright. Such is social media, I understand. But I profoundly believe in social media's foundational, in fact revolutionary, value and contribution to Free Speech in our country,

and for that reason I willingly accept the occasional bad that comes from social media, in return for the much more frequent good that comes from it -- at least from the vastly more responsible, respectful speech on those media.

That is why, 16 years after my retirement from the Bench, even then as a very skeptical, curmudgeonly old federal judge, I created a Facebook account and then a Twitter account -- slowly . . . very slowly . . . one account first . . . and then . . . followed . . . by the other.

All of this said, I am not recovering from a stroke or any other malady, I promise. Thankfully, I have never been as sick or as so debilitated as that ever in my life, and would not want that for anyone. Knock on wood, I have never even been really sick a day in my life.

I was more ready, prepared and intellectually focused (I had thought) during Thursday's hearing than I have ever been for anything in my life. I gather my face appeared "too red" for some on Twitter, betraying to them serious illness. The explanation was more innocent than that.

At the last minute, I had been able during the weekend preceding my testimony to help my daughter get settled into her new home, where the temperatures were in the upper 90s, and where I was appreciatively, though unwittingly, to get just a little bit of needed suntan!

What I will say, though, is this. And I think it explains it all. All my life, I have said (as to myself, and at times, by way of sarcastic prescription for others) that I never . . . talk . . . any . . . faster . . . than . . . my . . . mind . . . can . . . think.

I will proudly assure everyone on Twitter that I was riveted, laser-like as never before, on that promise to myself beginning promptly at the hour of 1:00 pm Thursday afternoon.

What is more, as consciously as one can be aware of something subconsciously, I was, in your poetic words of which I was, and am myself, incapable even of conjuring, Mr. Hagan, supremely conscious that,

if I were chiseling words in stone that day, it was imperative that I chisel the exact words that I would want to be chiseled in stone, were I chiseling words in stone for history.

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There is evidence that every time you are infected with Covid, even a mild case you are experiencing brain damage equivalent to ten years of aging.

The long term consequences of treating this like 'just the flu' are going to be grotesque.

#MaskUp

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Thread🧵on modes of pathogen transmission. #monkeypox

Transmission is messy, and there is no single mode that pathogens employ to invade a body. Indeed, modes can change.

Plague provides a great example of this: it occurs in multiple forms, depending on transmission route. 1/13

All are caused by the bacterium Yersenia pestis

Bubonic plague occurs when infected fleas bite a person, or the bacteria enter through a break in the skin. Infection causes characteristic "buboes"

Preventative strategy would be flea and rat control. 2/13 https://t.co/xR5gdRuK53

Plague can become more widespread via the bloodstream, causing septicemic plague. This leads to black areas of necrosis in the body, hence the term, "Black Death."

As long as it doesn't get to the lungs, prevention is the same as previous - flea and rodent control. 3/13

However if the bacteria set up infection in the lungs, they can now exit the body via respiratory aerosols

This is now pneumonic plague, a highly contagious form of the disease, transmissible by air, with an incubation period of only 1-3 days & 100% fatal without treatment. 4/13

The infection control measures of flea and rodent control are ineffective against pneumonic plague -- isolation and treatment of cases, airborne precautions, and prophylactic treatment and monitoring of exposed individuals are needed. 5/13

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@rob_shehan @complainster @Eleven_Films @PDXEleven @RepJerryNadler @RepAdamSchiff This has settled under the radar but WHAT prompted thus odd behavior from an @msnbc pundit? Looking for original video.

@maddow

Respect you, Mr. K., but I keep MSNBC at arms length. I was upset when Ms. Ruhle used her huge platform to, in my opinion, attempt to soothe the masses, by calling around to some old Deutsche friends about Jstc. Kennedy's son BEFORE hard investigation had been completed.
— Maureen Murphy (@MamurphyMaureen) February 21, 2020

@complainster @Eleven_Films @PDXEleven @RepJerryNadler @RepAdamSchiff @MSNBC @maddow ORIGINAL Ruhl video after she "called around" on Son of Kennedy.

I worked on US GAO audit teams for 12 years. This methodology is shady

Especially now that the "informal" calls and commentary by Ruehl ate being USED by The Daily Caller to argue to Trump base that she has "debunked" any claims of link between Deutsche Bank and Justice Kennedy's resignation.
— Maureen Murphy (@MamurphyMaureen) June 30, 2018

@complainster @Eleven_Films @PDXEleven @RepJerryNadler @RepAdamSchiff @MSNBC @maddow Oooops. Here is DIRECT link. What is this incestuous, NYC dinner party

I worked at deutsche bank for 8yrs
I worked with Justin Kennedy
I read the stories - reached out to some former colleagues for their reaction
Here\u2019s some broader context/perspective- Neither of which fit in 240 characters
(Part 2/2) pic.twitter.com/ba8f3059YX
— Stephanie Ruhle (@SRuhle) June 29, 2018