👇There’s all sorts of wrong with the first still image. The helmet’s color is some kind of gunmetal, which is a bronze alloy you can only achieve via alloying with zinc (a 19th century innovation). The tapered back of the head fade cut in the pic is a modern style haircut achievable with electric clippers. You might shave a dude’s head in ancient Greece if he’s in mourning, but that’s the closest you’d ever see a cut like that. Otherwise the exposed hair should be visible curls, waves, or loose ringlets, or perhaps tied or braided in back. This looks completely out of place. And, like the poster below points out, the helmet is exposing a huge amount of cranial real estate from the back - a basic failure in combat protection. One of the defining, compelling aspects of Chris Nolan’s Batman trilogy was it’s obsessive attention paid to gritty hyperrealism. This aesthetic & approach seems to have been sacrificed in “The Odyssey.”

“We have small cloistered areas here where wealthy urbanites can gather & pretend we aren’t being devastated by weaponized migration, woke politics & socialist boondoggles”

Internet Archive has not been archiving since 10/8. Google Cache has stopped caching. The Alexa service - the one that used to rank web traffic (not the Amazon virtual assistant) is gone. The ability of censors to memory-hole the internet is growing. brownstone.org/articles/they…

I went to church for the first time in years today

It appears that Trump is flipping latino voters, & flipping them *hard*. As a lifelong WASP I would love it if it could be explained to me by someone more in touch w/ American latino / hispanic culture: WHY? Why is he resonating so well with them?

😕I’ve been trying to stay away from Twitter for a few days (maybe after this tweet I’ll do it). 3+ yrs ago today I was just some guy, a dad & a husband, toiling away in a nursing home tucked away in a corner of some blue state. I wasn’t political - like, at all. In fact - I despise the duplicity & rancor of politics. If you met me you wouldn’t guess my politics - I never discussed them much with anyone. I never voted for Trump, I voted for Obama in his first term & Gary Johnson (the libertarian) in the second election, IIRC. I simply was some rando healthcare worker - really, nobody remarkable. When the lockdowns started, like everyone else I was caught up in the mass panic & shock. I went along with it - I supported (brief) mask mandates. I felt unsettled & very wrong about it, but I went along with lockdowns. I believed this would all go away when vaccines came out. But it didn’t. My kids stayed home from school for a year. My nursing home patients got sealed away from the world & subjected essentially to nonstop terror campaigns, treated like prisoners (I’ve talked about the “prison-like window visits”) & essentially subjected to solitary confinement. They were cut off from their families. Everyone around them faceless, masked. I got to watch nurses trying to force decrepit old people with dementia into masks. These are images I still can’t get out of my head. I started feeling increasingly frustrated, guilty, demoralized. I was holding it all inside. The world has gone completely insane now, with a single party & a weird, toxic, paranoid patchwork ideology of Wokeness & biomedical terror reigning unchecked on the population since Biden took office. So I became a sort of weird online activist - I became “GeroDoc” almost a year ago now. My main advocacy has been to get an “urgency of normal” for nursing home residents started. I see the fortunes of children (who also have been isolated, terrorized, & forced to mask like nursing home residents) linked with my residents. The most vulnerable in society have been used as political pawns by cynical operators who weaponized empathy to control people. Everyone’s life has changed since three years ago. I don’t have nearly as much joy as I used to about the world - and I see what happened three years ago was a turning point where hope was stolen from so many of us. Anyways, I don’t know what else there is to say. I’ll read a few responses then I think I really do have to log off for a few days. Thanks for listening.

This is the most hilariously stupid post I’ve seen all month. Good job.

endless source of comedy

Whoever did this, mazel tov

Hmm it sounds bad when you say it like this

Went to a musical last night w/ the fam. Watched a young family that sat next to us - a young mom & a dad with two tween girls. I noticed as they tromped in with their surgical masks, into the packed theater, but then took them off & kept them off, despite being surrounded by a theater capacity crowd (yes, I know the presence or absence of the masks is irrelevant). As we got up to go to intermission, they strapped them back on - as apparently masks are only effective when you’re hitting the concession stand, or using the bathroom! Took them off again as they sat down. Kept them off until they got up again after the applause. I never get used to seeing this - it’s deeply unsettling that I am surrounded by such irrational, stupid people.

Got into a mildly heated argument w/ a center-left family member earlier today about the “gender pay gap” - but I held my ground. I went back & double-checked my claims (I always do!) and found out that the “gender pay gap” as its presented by the mainstream press & in the media zeitgeist is in fact so flimsy that even the Nobel committee couldn’t ignore it, & they awarded some Harvard economist named Claudia Goldin the 2023 prize for showing that basically what we’ve all long suspected is true: When you take into account that men work more overtime, & sacrifice free time w/ family & otherwise to work longer hours, the “pay gap” largely disappears - the much-ballyhooed “women make 77 on every dollar earned by men” pay gap meme is basically a statistical fakery - almost entirely explained by market and career choices. scholar.harvard.edu/files/lk…

This is the worst part of the video clip: the terrified arm-flapping

You're "migrating to Threads" so slowly you're leaving a visible slime trail in your oozing wake, you elitist, bigoted snob

I continue to be astonished at Kamala Harris. The more she speaks the more I realize that she has the IQ of a Crayola. I can’t figure out how she functioned as an SF district attorney. 1/

⁉️😯So apparently the "Qanon Shaman" - the guy I have labelled a "domestic terrorist" previously - was apparently peacefully led around the US Capitol building by Capitol Police on January 6th. I'm sort of having trouble processing what all this means.

From a clinician friend of mine: “I work in mental health. I’m tired of getting yelled at by parents when I tell them their kid isn’t autistic, doesn’t have adhd, and isn’t bipolar, they were just locked away for two years and this is the consequence. A pill ain’t gonna fix it.”

I think she likely singlehandedly destroyed break-dancing as a sport.

time for the frog

I really don’t like living through historical periods like this. Culturally I have far more in common with coastal progressives (these are the people I’ve worked with & gone to school with my whole life). I’m an agnostic / atheist. Socially I’m generally extremely liberal (legalize all drugs, marry who you want, etc). I used to laugh off their political & social excesses as them simply being misguided cultural descendants of the 60s counterculture. But it’s different now. The highly flawed Donald Trump scared the shit out of these people, because he represented the white-hot anger of middle America, the giant mass of the white working class who the coastal liberal elite have treated with derision, disdain, & dismissal for the last 30+ years or so. The hippy-dippy progressive descendants of the 60s counterculture have wholeheartedly embraced all the tools of brutal authoritarian statecraft they have at their disposal now - a mass digital censorship/ propaganda apparatus they are openly, in front of our eyes attempting to formalize & institutionalize to use against the unwashed masses should they rise up again. They also have “shock troops” - groups designed to violently intimidate people into politically falling in line - they are radicalized in colleges & higher education, groups like BLM are allowed to burn & terrorize cities, & radical gender theorists now openly talk about “genocide” being perpetrated by Christians (for simply wanting to be in charge of their children). They are whipping up violent leftist “Brownshirts,” essentially, in order to enforce their regime. This is a sickening time in American history. I don’t like living through Neo-Maoist cultural revolutions. They do not end well, historically.

This ad campaign was almost perfectly designed to elicit a generally dead feeling inside me, intermixed with hints of disdain & mild disgust.

You know, you’re allowed to simply say he sucks without genuflecting to the race gods like retards

👇I’m honestly fucking horrified that Charlie Kirk got politically assassinated by some radicalized Discord leftist and fucking alarmed that hordes of leftists rushed to their socials to openly praise it. So I don’t fucking give two libertarian or principled shits about anyone whining about “right wing cancel culture” or “LOL ITS SO FUNNY REPUBLICANS ARE DOING IT NOW” like fuck you I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A CULTURE WHERE POLITICAL ASSASSINATION IS NORMALIZED.

“Affinity groups” is such Orwellian f**king doublespeak. These were exclusionary race and sex segregated groups allowed to meet on official time & on the government dime. Aside from the obvious illegality from a plain-language civil rights law perspective, the idea that these groups furthered “inclusivity” in the workplace, or even a basic modicum of organizational functionality is f**king absurd. And the historical precedent for whats going on now with the left’s precious DEI isn’t the 1930s, its the 1950s when the preference cascade against that psycho drunk Joe McCarthy’s “red scare” bullshit got exposed with the McCarthy-Army hearings of 1954.

I sit on a lot of hospital & system committees these days, & even co-chair one of them. As a white, straight, middle aged male I play my cards very close to my chest & typically play the role of quiet, tireless workhorse, and, when it’s called for, facilitator & consensus-builder. It’s something I do well. This allows me a lot of leeway to sit back and surreptitiously observe contemporary office politics as they exist in typical large US medical systems today. Some observations: Medicine these days seems currently utterly awash in women, & of those women it’s overwhelmingly openly liberal white women (AWFLs I’ve heard them called). They are typically quite fearlessly vocal about their leftist politics, ostentatiously sign their emails with practically extraneous but politically significant pronouns & BLM affinity statements, & increasingly enjoy making snide side comments about “Trump” at office meetings whenever they feel they can get away with it. These women will also be the first to claim “harm” & also comically claim “oppressed” status at the first sign of even the slightest whiff of dissension (I have specific examples of this I will not share here due to my anon status). “DEI” is, of course, also extremely fashionable in medicine, at least where I operate. A few observations about that. So, I’ve noticed multiple clinicians in my system who have taken on the mantle of doing DEI consulting within our system, & they seem to fall into three different categories: 1) “the politically cynical DEI consultant”: these are typically younger, highly ambitious Asian women from upwardly mobile, often privileged families who see “DEI” as a stepping stone towards career success. Because they despise Republicans (and *hate* Trump) they throw themselves into the most awful aspects of it, “whiteness studies,” overt neo-Marxism, “we need present racism to fight past racism,” etc. Typically midwits relative to their earned credentials. 2) “the capable yet reluctant DEI consultants”: these are almost always black women, typically middle aged with often impressive careers & accomplishments elsewhere in the system. I’ve heard a couple of them do “DEI” presentations & they seem to carefully craft their offerings to avoid the overly neo-Marxist or hate-whitey aspects, e.g. they seem to be trying to do “DEI without the E.” I often wonder what motivates them, & I often am quietly applauding their efforts to actually try & bring some rationality & sanity to the discussion (although I tend to think it’s a bit futile). Definitely the most sympathetic of the group. 3) “The midwit career DEI consultants”: these are a mix. I’ve seen older, middle aged black men with unimpressive careers, I’ve seen young black women who have no business in medicine in this role. I’ve also see lots of relatively empty-headed younger white women & “LGBTQIASL++etc” men as well. For this group, it simply seems to serve as a busy-work, jobs program of sorts for them. Anyways, just some observations for today….

I think the ppl on Twitter today trying to retroactively justify their hatred of the unvaxxed & their wishes to bar them from receiving medical care, grocery stores, jobs, leaving their homes, etc. - they need to grapple with the fact they were traveling down the Nazi road. 1/

I’m still having trouble recovering from seeing this photo that @DrJBhattacharya shared earlier today. Apparently this was being done - tying rubber gloves filled with hot water to peoples hands - as late as 2021 in the USA, as dying people were denied family / visitors in their final moments. All of you who talked about lockdowns as “just a few months of eating takeout in your pajamas, what’s the problem” - I will have trouble for the next few days restraining the urge to kick your teeth in if I see you on the street

It’s like the British government has gone clinically insane

It’s one thing to be a holocaust denier. @Punchcut has a holocaust *enthusiast* on their senior management payroll 😵‍💫

Keep your eye out on this. Apparently national nursing union reps are working with the White House & there may soon be permanent rules mandating “universal masking” at all healthcare facilities in the USA. Yes. Permanently. healthcaredive.com/news/OSHA… via @healthcaredive

I dream of the day purveyors of pseudointellectual bullshittery like you are driven from the public square in tar & feathers. totalitarian f**kwads

Murdering Charlie Kirk publicly on camera, in a giant crowd, is literally textbook terrorism - it's designed to slow or stop the preference cascade - the massive, public swing to political sanity, to the right, to populism, that's been picking up steam. They want you silenced

The people that blackballed Swain and Fryer are evil. Claudine Gay is a venomous fraud enabled by venomous frauds.

You just got gifted an 8$ per month verification service which you just basically complained you were too cheap to buy for yourself. That’s sad, dude

I come from a family of highly educated people - parents, siblings with advanced degrees. I’m a city boy. Have mixed with the professional & managerial class my whole life. But right now the kinship I feel with the blue collar, working class, the “garbage,” the “deplorables,” is greater than it’s ever been. I want you guys to win so bad. I want you guys to take the country back!

Have you considered MAID?

Oh noes a black guy quietly listening to music on a subway. Cmon

The Democrat Party has convinced itself that it’s political opponents are literally “fascists.” For very large numbers of them now - this is not hyperbole. This is not figurative language. They literally believe this. This means they believe conservatives are just waiting for their opportunity to install the next Hitler into power and, I guess, restart a program of gas chambers, ovens, & mass mechanized genocide. Understand what this means. This means that anything is on the table now for progressives - if you’re fighting literal Nazis & fascists, then there’s no tactic that’s not justifiable. This means shredding any and all civil liberties, weaponizing all branches of government, shredding freedom of speech, wanton violence, it’s all justifiable. I think 2024 will be rough.

Almost into our 4th year of this. They’ve now widened their sphere of propaganda & fear from C19 to all manner of seasonal viruses (colds, flu, etc). No data needed. Realize the world they are offering is one where you stop living, in exchange for the fantasy of not dying.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

Remember “Dr. Robert Honeyman,” a pro-lockdown, LGBT MD w/ pronouns, Ukraine flag, etc interacted & w/ & amplified other pro-lockdown & pro-mandate accounts? He didn’t exist. DK who created him. He’s not the only fake pro-lockdown doc on Twitter either sfstandard.com/technology/th…

Ppl are now self-diagnosing themselves as “immunocompromised” (b/c they are diabetic, or obese, or asthmatic, etc.) & then using that self-diagnosis as a rhetorical bludgeon to get people to don the medical burkha. This is not a way to run a sane, free, compassionate society

I had never heard of @carolmswain before a week or so ago (apparently she’s one of several scholars whom Claudine Gay has plagiarized). I skimmed her CVs & life story, & after doing so, I became instantly, deeply ashamed of myself & my wasted potential. Yes, she’s one of those kinds of people. Dr. Swain grew up dirt poor, fought for everything she has, earned five degrees (!!!), ended up with a professorship at Vanderbilt, & has a 20-page publication history on Google Scholar (scholar.google.com/citations…) including multiple award-winning book publications. If @Harvard had any respect for itself, its students, or its traditions, it would fire the clearly deficient, horrible, politically cowardly Claudine Gay & come on their knees to beg Dr. Swain to take her place!!!

For the moderate amongst us who believed “15 Days to Slow the Spread” & mask mandates until vax were available was a reasonable PH compromise- the last 2.5+ years has been a searing, catastrophic demonstration of the old adage “give an inch & they’ll take a mile.” NEVER. AGAIN.

1 million times this

The reason why masks are coming back everywhere is simple: No one in power has been held accountable for the sh*tty pseudoscience, fearmongering, & corruption of the last 3+ years. The entire edifice is still in place. All the people. All the censorship. Everything

So, this happened. Almost 5 million views. Basically 3.5 times as much engagement as I've ever had on a single tweet. Completely unexpectedly too. Between that and the emotional post I did a few hours before (retweeting @DrJBhattacharya's pic of the pitiful person dying with a warm-water filled rubber glove strapped around their hand), I racked up over 300 new follows and well over 5 million views in the last 72 hours. How did this happen? Some people were wondering -- where did I get the screenshot? Here's the story. I did not go to the website to get the screenshot. I found out later was from some dodgy-looking Indian website caclubindia.com. I simply copy-pasted the screenshot of the page that I got in a DM group I'm in, from an acquaintance of mine who had posted it, without me even thinking about it. I never assumed it would get any traction. Got busy with some Dad-related things I was doing at the time, came back awhile later and within three hours it had racked up over two million views, w/ Hotez himself sputtering about it - he unblocked me to do it (which is basically how it got the visibility). Hotez was literally wrapping my tweet into this act he's been consuming himself with for the last 72 hours of of cloaking himself in melodramatic victimhood. You know - because being roasted by Twitter for ducking out of a debate which he was asked to do because he lobbed the accusation at RFK Jr. first (of being a "misinformation spreader") makes Hotez a victim you see. Anyways, once Hotez started in on me, I had the Twitterverse screaming at me from all corners to take it down. But the issue is - and I admit it - I'm incredibly stubborn. The more people yell at me to do something, the more likely I am to *not* do it. Might be a flaw of mine. But there it is. So, this went on for HOURS AND HOURS. I had people yelling at me that I would be sued for "libel" and "defamation" for this - which is obviously absurd given this was simply a screen grab from a website posted without comment. Really? I can't post a screen grab from a website? Lol fuck off. I also had people supposing I had created the website myself. Sorry, no. I'm not in the website design business. Was also told the website itself is also "antisemitic" and "racist," so I should just be so ashamed of that (I have no idea whether this is true or not, never spent any time reading the site). Oh, and the lists! I got added to like 50 different lists "Antivaxx crazies" "Asshole doctors" "MAGA Idiots" - all of which earned immediate blocks (for obvious reasons - there are all sorts of assholes that create these lists in order to mass-report people). I don't give a shit about Peter Hotez. From what I've seen of him - he lies frequently and has caused immeasurable harm to the world with his narcissistic and ceaseless preening for lockdownism, censorship, and biomedical authoritarianism, all apparently simply for adulation (or possibly money and book sales, who knows). He is the anointed saint of the establishment, and he loves it. He's obviously toxic narcissist like so many of these lockdowners are (Fauci, Birx et al), and deserves a lot worse than I could ever give to him, and I hope he knows it. So this is my statement. The tweet will stay up as long as my account stays up. Period.

As a kid, I was told if an adult ever encouraged you to keep a secret from your parents - 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 if it was related to sex, this meant DANGER. Now, it’s being normalized to do this - institutionalized, even. This is a signpost, if not an alarm bell.

Copeland appears to be employed by the US Army only. So who is paying him for the time he spends holding Twitter Spaces & shouting down “anti-vaxxers”)? Why the fake company? Who is he really working for? Remember - never assume anyone online is who they say they are. 3/3

Sometimes I watch people in public wearing masks… they pull them down frequently as they’re speaking (in order to make themselves heard), wear them on their chins, below their noses…I don’t think most of these people even can articulate much reason at all for why they do this

.This is f*cking psychotic

C’mon. Since 1971: - Cost of a Car: from $4K to $48K (12x) - Cost of a House: from $25K to $357K (14x) - Ivy League College Cost: from $3K/year to $87K/year (29x) - Healthcare Cost per Person: Increased from $400 to $15,000 (37x) source:

I just got brain damage listening to her

She looks down on the working class

People don’t like people who are pro-assassination. Home Depot doesn’t like to be associated with pro-assassination people. Sounds like useful information was organically shared

.I work in the long term care industry & have for nearly two decades now. The nursing staffing shortage is worse than I’ve ever seen it - & it’s not b/c of catching C19 or any such nonsense. Nurses are quitting LTC b/c LTC work is deeply morally injurious work now. 1/

👇The banality of evil, personified. Meet Jo Boaler of the Stanford School of Education, who has made herself famous (using data fatally rife w/ academic dishonesty, citational errors, & gross misstatements of fact) for justifying why rigorous math education is racist, & advocates for not teaching minority children math. She is currently on a committee in California tasked with ruining math education for K-12 students in the Golden State.

People may have noticed an “Ian Copeland (PhD)” (@IanCopeland5) rampaging around Twitter for the past few weeks, engaging in Spaces typified by shouting down “Antivaxers” & playing himself off as a highly credentialed expert fighting “disinformation.” 1/

Apparently two things can be true, simultaneously: 1) COVID lockdown never happened 2) COVID lockdown was extremely effective and saved tons of lives This is pretty amazing. Don’t ask me how this works

Here’s “woke” and CRT in the screenshot below, courtesy of @christopherrufo Cancel culture is totalitarianism lite - you have WrongThink? You get fired, deplatformed, banned, unbanked. Socialism? “an economic system in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state.”

I’m a firm believer that the truth is typically found somewhere in between two extremes: This is how I think about COVID. After about 3-4 weeks in early 2020, it became obvious it wasn’t even close to the second coming of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, 1/

Why wouldn’t polling go the same way as the rest of the censorship industry? Why wouldn’t we expect many / most polls to become as unreliable as the news is from sources like @APNews, @CNN, @MSNBC, etc., & for the same reasons? @MikeBenzCyber @shellenberger @thackerpd

“Unrealized capital gains” is such a ridiculous idea because it’s an entirely fictional concept. If you’re holding an asset that’s worth something, but haven’t sold it, there is no “gain.” This is basically a proposal to set a precedent in the public’s mind that really, nothing is yours anymore, it’s just stuff you might possess but really you’re just renting it from the government. Like property taxes. Just own nothing & be happy right?

this is you

My nursing home residents have virtually no agency, no control. I can go home and act normal with my family. I can avoid stores and places that are batshit about Coronaphobic rules. My residents do not have these options. That’s what’s the worst about all of this.

At the nursing home I work at we basically prohibited our residents from going outside for nearly all of 2021, and then only to tiny patches of fenced-in, outdoor patio areas after that. Prior to this, if a resident was cognitively intact or accompanied by family or friends, they could roam our entire grounds as they wished (just make sure you let nursing know when you’ll be back). Essentially we forced our residents to stay indoors & breathe each others’ air, avoid sunlight, avoid nature, & function as prisoners for the last couple of years, and now it’s only just starting to ease. Oh, & masks are still mandated in my nursing home. Still

I absolutely despise soulless grifters like @erictopol. My nursing home is filled w/ ppl 80+ years old, over 70% have dementia & 2/3 have meaningful hearing loss. They are at the ends of their lives. Basically haven’t seen the faces of the caregivers or family for three years now

Wexner Art Center, as in Leslie Wexner? Yeah once Wexner learns about her she’s gone

I haven’t even listened to the football guy’s speech (Harrison Butker), but my understanding is he was voicing some pretty bland, quaint ideas about sex roles that I likely disagree with, but don’t care much about. The fact there are petitions going around to fire the guy from the NFL w/ hundreds of thousands of signatures is absurd & kind of alarming in that speaks to a dynamic in our political & social discourse in this country whereby one side (the progressive left) sees their cause as basically a matter of life & death in most instances - so they have zero moral compass when it comes to fighting for their cause. That’s why they want to see him fired over his opinions. That’s why they want doctors to lose their jobs when they spoke our about mask & vax mandates, or when they wanted Moms to be publicly shamed & lose their jobs & livelihoods for wanting their kids to get educated. That’s why antifa & ‘trantifa’ are basically just violent thugs who want to beat on their opponents, or why the @DNC & their Soros & NGO swarm bankrollers are perfectly fine with backing “mostly peaceful” riots in the service of regime change. Certainly. for an unregenerate group of sociopathic rich people, its simply about money and power. But for the rest - If you’re a Republican, or conservative, or have traditional values & even dare to breathe a word of opposition in public, they want you fired, ostracized, even beaten up or killed. The ‘boots on the ground,’ as it were - they literally see this as a matter of life and death, so literally anything goes. There is no middle ground, they want you unpersoned, or dead.

This is a lot of words to say ‘masks don’t work’

… here it comes. They waited until it saturated social media. Now, the story isn’t the story. The story is YOU NOTICED

The end result will be mass mega-farms beholden to corporate ESG & essentially controlled & managed by Davos / WEF corporate types. It’s a recipe for eventual mass famines, imho - and I don’t think I’m exaggerating

👇I remember learning about this in my psych 101 class in college (90s). My psych prof told us about how researchers had done all this work to recruit willing parents to super carefully curate all of the clothing choices, toy choices, and color choices for their babies so they were "un gendered." In the end, my psych professor reported - the boys invariably gravitated to the color blue, trucks and playing cowboys and indians, and the girls invariably gravitated to pink and pretend play with babies. It's almost as if sex is biological and boys and girls are actually born different.

Got yah there! Meh? Meeeh???

I’m kind of astonished by how obese JB Pritzker actually is. Isn’t he worth billions? If I had that kind of money, I’d have a personal chef & personal trainer on staff following me around 24/7. My meals would be measured out to the calorie. I don’t understand.

A complete non-apology. You should be ashamed of yourselves. This is a historic betrayal of the backbone of your organization. Unless you re-issue an unqualified apology, you will never recover from this, guaranteed substackfwd.xyz/?url=open.su…

Egaz Moniz was a Portuguese neurologist famous for innovating & popularizing the practice of prefrontal lobotomy - severing or destroying parts of the frontal lobes - as treatment for severe mental illness such as schizophrenia. 1/

I find it amusing whenever I read about Africa’s response to COVID. From what I understand - low death rates, low vax rates, they largely have ignored COVID & if you ask them they’ll shrug & say it’s a disease of privileged white people.

The Daily Beagle did some digging & found out Dr. Copeland has published exactly one paper in his career, doesn’t appear to be affiliated with any active research programs, & the company he claims to work for (a “C2 Genomics”) appears to be fake. 2/ thedailybeagle.substack.com/…

The thing that’s really nuts is Lockheed Martin isn’t like a restaurant company, or a fashion brand. They literally are in the business of making large machines that ferry people across the skies and if they failed, people could die as these large objects fall from the sky

Medical care in major western countries

Most people who say that have no idea that Trump specifically requested national guard presence & had his requests ignored & countermanded by the likes of Pelosi & Mark Milley

🤡If these horror-clowns at @AmerAcadPeds stopped treating the public with such absolute f***ing contempt, perhaps this oh-so-mysterious cratering of trust in their advice might not be such an issue? What the f*** is wrong with you people? publications.aap.org/pediatr…

This CA law makes it illegal for businesses to physically stop shoplifters & burglars from robbing them, & will be the final nail in the coffin for CA small business. This will complete the metamorphosis of the “Freedom State” (as @GavinNewsom likes to call it) into a full fledged corporate feudalist state. sacobserver.com/2023/09/cont…

I know it’s obvious at this point to most of you, but in terms of governing philosophy, “if it saves one life” actually resulted in the most monumentally net destructive & insane public health policy imaginable.

Dollar Store Obama interviewed by Dollar Store Oprah

👇People don’t understand dementia. Like this idea that ‘you can just tell’ if someone has dementia. The fact is dementia sufferers can look lucid & with it in the morning, but crash at night & seem like crazy people. They can function at lunchtime with old friends, but when their grandkids visit they can’t remember their names. They can remember in exquisite detail what their wife wore on their wedding day and where they honeymooned (“see, his memory is fine!”) but they don’t remember a conversation from 20 minutes ago. Biden has been out speechifying today and apparently sounding great, and people are like “see, he’s fine.” I fell into this trap when I saw how Biden performed at the State of the Union Speech back in March. People were like “oh, that should put those Alzheimer’s rumors to rest now!” and “he sounded great!” - but forgot that particularly for someone like Joe Biden, simply reading words off a page with theatricality appropriate for a politician (something he’s done for the last 50+ years, remember), not comprehending, or even necessarily remembering what he read, is a trivial activity, simply muscle memory at work. On the debate stage, in an unscripted debate format in front of a surprisingly spry, relaxed, and prepared Donald Trump, even with sympathetic moderators, no audience, and a uniquely forgiving rule structure - Biden basically pitifully struggled the entire evening. It was tragic to watch.

My nursing home & others is filled w/ 80-90+ yo adults w/ dementia & hearing loss who are at the ends of their lives. Still can’t believe that people convinced themselves dooming them to being surrounded by faceless, muffled aliens like this was somehow humane. And there’s been no accountability, no reflection. The people running things at @CDCgov, @CMSGov, etc would do it all over again in a heartbeat

I’m supporting @GovRonDeSantis b/c I saw how quickly he turned against the nonsensical, cruel mask mandates & lockdownism which have been so destructive to my nursing home & others. If he was elected president he would make it a priority to make sure no elder is ever again forced to die alone, & that children are never again forced to be denied an education due to hysterical bureaucrats run amok.

Who is Sam Harris & why did anyone listen to him in the first place? I seriously have no idea, but he sounds like a fucking idiot

🫤Or, you could just *not* test every time you have mild URI symptoms, stay home until you feel better, and then go on with your life. Crazy thought, I know.

Oh boy

I think we’re already in a full scale cold civil war at this point

One of the worst images I'll never get out of my head is during the height of the panic of late 2020, watching my nurses repeatedly replace a mask on the face of one particular, severely demented resident of ours, on hospice care. Seated in her recliner chair in the hallway, staring up at the ceiling as masked and face-shielded alien nurses rushed about, after the mask got repositioned, she would invariably start chewing away at the mask again. It was an awful environment for this person to ultimately die. Of course her family was significantly restricted in their ability to visit her (they were allowed to come one at a time since she was on hospice) - and she regularly hallucinated and was delusional. While on the one hand obviously this was fed by her terminal dementia, I suspect the constantly trying to mask her, and being surrounded overwhelmingly by masked, muffled, and face-shielded alien staff, likely significantly fed her agitation and psychotic symptoms as she declined. I think we at least partially, mentally & emotionally, tortured her to death.

IMHO - every single medically credentialed person who has advocated for legally mandated public masking since (let’s be generous) January 2021 is a complete & unmitigated fraud. Full stop.

While wealthy white boomers can escape into their cloistered suburbs & avoid the wreckage these Antifa mental patients cause (occasionally emerging w/ their walkers & wheelchairs for the occasional “No Kings” media event) the urban black community of Portland is trapped.