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  " I'm done with COVID" is short for: "Continuing draconian restrictions at this moment is inflicting far more damage on vulnerable populations (especially kids) than benefit, and I will no longer participate in your inability to consider trade-offs" 🧵
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  When serious people start saying 'actually babies don't need to see faces' and 'did you know, most of your ancestors never attended school,' I think it's fair to say the train is off the track
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  He argued against lockdowns because he is not a fucking idiot Damn the news media is dishonest
  
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  Something is deeply broken with your COVID policy if the more vaccine doses you get in your arm, the more layers of mask you wear, and the more restrictions you face
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  When people say "we are never returning to normal" they just mean they aren't. Everyone else will soon.
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  Yes, COVID is on par with Flu in terms of risk to kids, but more to the point, the amount of restrictions we placed on children is in no way whatsoever commensurate with their risk of COVID. We restructured their entire lives, and deprived them of a year of education. Horrible
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  It Is Now Undeniable 👇 Vaccine can cause more Myocarditis in Men Under 40 Than COVID-19; Just OUT! Patrone Circ 2022; I have said repeatedly Moderna should be banned in Men<40 FDA failed Americans & this analysis is more complicated Everyone gets breakthrough eventually 1/7
  
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  Every organization mandating boosters in young healthy people knowing the data on omicron's breakthrough rate despite boosting is making a big error. It is ethically bankrupt, it is scientifically bankrupt, and it is going to cause serious damage to future vaccination efforts.
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  I don't know if people know this but vaccinating 6 month to 4-year-olds with an old MRNA vaccine that has very weak vaccine effectiveness against the dominant strain and can't generate high antibody titers is not going to magically end the pandemic.
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  There really is a disconnect in a society where a 79 year old who gets COVID just keep working while it clears, but cities and school districts panic and cloth mask kids to 'stop the spread'.
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  Wearing a mask from the door to the table, but at no point during the meal, in a crowded restaurant Making kids wear masks outside at recess Two examples of real policies that are metaphors for how the US handled COVID-19
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  Eventually politicians will strip CDC and other public health agencies of their power, and I won't be able to argue with them. Why? Public health misused and abused its powers Closing beaches Pouring sand into outdoor skateboard parks............ 🧵
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  University students who did not comply with booster mandate are not permitted to enroll even in online classes. Wtf? Coercing a 20 year old to be boosted after the FDA top 2 vax regulators resigned over it? The virus didn't do this Bad policymakers did