Alexandra

Divine being of light experiencing life through a human body. Truth teller. Roller skater.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@Mo_translates Because that worked so well the last time she went 🙄🙄🙄

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@Qu33nJ3llyb3an If AI had existed when I was 12 I probably would’ve done that. As an adult, the mere thought of doing something like that makes me cringe. 🤣

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@isaacrrr7 I have friends who live in Raval, and one of them recently had to walk past a knife fight to get to her house, and the other one has come home to find his locks changed by squatters. People need to wake up to the reality of living in Barcelona.

[🇪🇸🇪🇸Creo en la justicia divina y terrenal. @Beni019670]

Barcelona.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@BADSEED007 Is that a self portrait? I don’t keep up with this one anymore.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@ChickenGorl She’s using Trisha Paytas as a moral compass?

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@Qu33nJ3llyb3an Temu quality shoes

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@500KidzNoMoney Anyone believes Chantal thinks mr Snowflake is unattractive? 🤣🤣🤣

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@BlaireWhite So he was too scared to come out as gay in 2012!!!

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@Saraabbey2 @milkychaai The little IQ she had to begin with she burned with drugs and junkfood.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@StuffKSaid Out of breath from doing nothing. She’s so superior.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@CasuallyGreg If you can’t afford to pay your employees a living wage don’t start a business!

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@StuffKSaid Could someone lock her up already?! The delusions are completely taking over.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@BoxMountains @PhatCowChronics It’s easy to think you’re the most beautiful woman in the world when your whole world is your apartment.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@BlaireWhite This is why I don’t like this app anymore. People are clearly being told what to post… https://t.co/YI4PBQnJQn

[Carmine Sabia @CarmineSabia]

All I ever hear the media talk about is right wing violence.

All I ever see are left wing shooters.

[Alexandra @AlexandraKokett]

@V559R I haven’t watched her in weeks, it’s too depressing. I can see nothing has changed.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1950. Your doctor lights a cigarette and tells you smoking is fine. He read it in a study. He is telling the truth about having read it. He does not know, or is not saying, that the study was funded by the tobacco industry.

The year is 1958. Your doctor tells you to eat less fat. The evidence is contested. The contestation is not in the public messaging. The food industry has been helpful in clarifying which findings deserve attention. Some researchers who published contradictory data have been quietly defunded. Ancel Keys is on the cover of Time magazine.

The year is 1962. Your doctor prescribes thalidomide to your pregnant wife for morning sickness. It has been approved. The FDA gave it the green light in Europe. Twelve thousand children will be born with severe limb malformations before anyone in an official capacity acknowledges the problem. The families are told the drug was safe. The drug was approved. Both of these things remain true.

The year is 1972. Your doctor prescribes Valium. Britain is in the grip of a benzodiazepine wave that will last two decades. The dependency risk is known internally. It is not shared. Your doctor is not lying to you. He was not told either.

The year is 1999. Your doctor prescribes Vioxx for your arthritis. It is newer than ibuprofen, well-tolerated, and Merck has a study showing it works. Merck also has internal data suggesting it roughly doubles the risk of heart attack. This data will not reach your doctor for four more years. Fifty thousand people are estimated to have died in the interim. Merck eventually settles for 4.85 billion dollars. No criminal charges are brought.

The year is 2002. Your doctor prescribes OxyContin. Purdue Pharma trained its sales representatives to tell doctors the addiction risk was less than one percent. That figure came from a letter, not a study. The letter was about patients with terminal cancer on short-term doses in hospital settings. Your doctor is a GP with a patient who has a bad back. Nobody draws a distinction. Nobody is required to.

The year is 2008. Your doctor checks your cholesterol. Your LDL is elevated. You are prescribed a statin. Nobody mentions that the number needed to treat for primary prevention is approximately 250. Nobody mentions that the muscle deterioration you'll notice over the next two years is listed as a rare side effect rather than a documented pattern affecting a meaningful percentage of patients. The trial that informed the prescription was funded by the manufacturer.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines. New studies. New consensus.

He is confident.

He has always been confident.

The confidence has never been the problem.

The confidence is, in fact, precisely the problem.

[Geoff Wacker @GeoffWacker]

That's fuckin' right!