MatchaCatnip

Former technology journalist, anti-COVID, anti-PM2.5, masker, winter cyclist, extreme sports enthusiast, reader 🇨🇦 |

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

@rabbitholebot Five years after studies predicted pancreatic cancer would be the most likely cancer to occur after Covid infection, we’re doing mRNA pancreatic cancer vaccine trials while everyone gets more Covid.

We are being culled.

[MatchaCatnip @MatchaCatnip]

@NukitToBeSure Amazing! Thank you @NukitToBeSure ❤️

[Barry Hunt @BarryHunt008]

@themjdworldwide Yes!

It's been a long time coming But both Upper Air UV and AutoUV are now Health Canada PMRA authorized

We can start building them into our hospitals

And long-term care

And schools

And public places

👏👏👏

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Nearly all of these "philanthropists" promote and fund research exclusively for Ushio products.

Ushio is publicly held and controls most of the Far-UVC market. Ushio has refused to implement the incredibly simple measure of replaceable excimer bulbs, but instead forces users to replace the entire product- bulbs, cut-filter, ballast, enclosure, electronics- all ripped from the wall and thrown in the trash. There is no good faith reason to refuse to implement a 136-year-old "innovation" like user-replaceable bulbs except for profiteering.

Why sell $50 in gas and glass when you can make the rubes pay $2000 for a whole new fixture? They'll even demand their governments pay for your scam instead of demanding you make it properly and not scam them😂

Ushio also knows that simply replacing aluminum reflectors with PTFE will increase the efficiency of their emitters by around 30% at almost negligible additional manufacturing cost, making Far-UVC that much more affordable per watt of output. Instant 30% savings according to Ushio’s own data:

https://t.co/L1HhVzlJrn

They won't because why spend on even modest retooling when they can coast on an 8-year-old design and spend the money on marketing? Why increase the milliwatt output of your product per dollar when you only need a certain number of milliwats per room, so that will just result in people buying less of your product?

If you were a philanthropist genuinely concerned about global biosecurity and saving lives, why would you focus all your advocacy on a single brand-name product that costs 5x as much per milliwatt as non-IP-encumbered products that can be made by dozens of competing factories, a proprietary product that has planned obsolescence, and limited efficiency baked in?

The single largest impediment to Far-UVC at scale is cost- so why are these "philanthropists" focused on promoting the most costly possible solution from a company that flatly refuses to innovate? Why are they funding research with almost comical conflicts of interest, to exclusively validate the products of a billion-dollar company that has its own well-funded R&D division?

All while pinky promising that Ushio will totally lower the price if they get enough orders on the product they have a near monopoly on- in violation of their fiduciary duty. Because that's what companies with proprietary products do when faced with government-mandated demand: cut the price in half🤡

Oh, right- because that's the Far-UVC company the "philanthropists" can quietly buy stock in, and get in on the ground floor while they advocate for mandatory ACH regulations (funded by corporate tax breaks) that can only be cost-effectively met by Far-UVC.

Invest in the supply side, and then- out of the goodness of your heart, as a true philanthropist😇, advocate for inelastic demand that will just coincidentally make your stock price skyrocket.

If philanthropists were actually interested in Far-UVC for biosecurity reasons- trying to save lives on a global scale, they would be funding non-IP-encumbered solutions, user-replaceable bulbs, and an open-source gas mix specification to extend bulb life- all of which would instantly lower costs to about 10% of what they are now and make it actually financially feasible to put Far-UVC in most of the places where it will do the most good.

Fortunately for them, if there's one thing USians can be counted on for, it's staggering gullibility when it comes to the actual motivations of their "philanthropists".

[MatchaCatnip @MatchaCatnip]

@NukitToBeSure 😭

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

People keep saying we “didn’t address something” or we “deleted posts”, this is, again, a lie on top of all the other lies coming out of the usual US Firehose of Lies that has become the preferred way to justify violence against the vulnerable.

We’ve left all posts up, we have addressed the issue countless times. We have no problem with a factual evidence-based discussion, we suggested mediation and a CoC-

https://t.co/sZ9A4RB2yF

https://t.co/pI9RMXdmDl

They want to screech accusations because they know what they did and care more about clout than lives.

https://t.co/FIHdz9pouF

At this point, two years after the initial “offense” of our not keeping track of a US holiday, they continue to double down and tweet about Nukit- because the alternative is people realizing just how horrific what they did was.

[Kathryn @kadamssl]

We need a place for masking teens and adults to connect with employers/paid work opportunities.

With everything else even close to equal, I’m picking the masked candidate every time.

But the discrimination out there is real, and people need paid work.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

@kuza55 @AGamick The Far-UVC industry is basically a cartel at this point, and it's quite difficult to get appropriately skeptical research done.

https://t.co/SEc8Xrc6o8

[Lazarus Long @LazarusLong13]

Thread of 2026 Olympic respirators.....they don't want to cut their dreams short.

Neither should you want to cut your dreams short with LongCovid (38% risk after the 3rd), immune system dysregulation, IQ loss, and all the rest that can come with COVID.

The German Team!

[Parenting Mishmash 𓊧 ۗۗۗۗۗ💜 @ParentMishmash]

A friend commented on the Tempest Pro “wow is that even turned on? It’s almost too quiet”
Built with 5 P14 fans, 1 Nukit fan, and 6 fan deflectors, set to max speed

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

You can make a Tempest with nothing but foamcore, tape and whatever secondhand PC fans you can put your hands on- even mismatched, and it will still out perform many commercial filters.

https://t.co/Knx4D0uZZk

[Julia Marie @julia_doubleday]

Masking and COVID safety are “unreasonable” to abled people.

But for someone already disabled by COVID, the CDC’s advice is simply to practice perfect COVID safety- forever.

Is masking unreasonable? Or is this situation unreasonable?

My latest:

https://t.co/CLXiPnmdvm

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

May the memory of the 250 journalists murdered in Gaza be honored in the **Genocide Museum** that must be part of the reparations program owed to the Palestinians, when the genocide actually ends.

PS. Deleting a killed journalist's account is to kill them twice.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

For the record- early on I offered to help them get it made. I didn't even charge.

Not talk myself up, but do you have any clue what I can charge to coordinate manufacturing for a hardware startup, on the ground in Shenzhen? I'm one of five locals who even have a Wikipedia page. I can get damn near anything done in my city. I might be a micro-influencer globally, but in the Shenzhen hardware community, I'm a rockstar (if an aging one👵🏻😅. I could not have done what I did with Far-UVC otherwise.

Everyone knows I put people before profits. I would have absolutely gotten their Ushio enclosure made faster, and for less than anyone else- just like I do with Nukit.

All they had to do was not be assholes and show a modicum of professionalism and respect, regardless of whatever impression they might have of me. The bar was a centimeter off the floor, the cost was zero.

Now they are begging hat in hand for someone who actually knows how to make things- and eventually will end up with something they know could have been made for far less, far faster. For no reason they they could not accept someone different as a peer. Bigotry is a hell of a drug.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

All of which are vulnerable to GUV, which would stop or slow spread until vaccines can be formulated. But no one will implement or stockpile it.

You can't really have a meaningful rapid response to modern biosecurity threats without GUV. Everything else is just closing the barn door after the horse has bolted. Sorry, but you can fill a room with filter cubes and they still aren't going to equal the effect Far-UVC has on near-field transmission in an isolation ward or emergency room waiting area, that's just math.

[Investigative Journalism Foundation @IJFMedia]

Canadian police have never charged anyone for exporting methamphetamine to New Zealand in an incident that led to the death of a 21-year-old man there. Read our exclusive investigation with CTV’s W5 in our continuing series.

https://t.co/v6jGAr1Mc6

#cdnpoli #crime

[Parenting Mishmash 𓊧 ۗۗۗۗۗ💜 @ParentMishmash]

I'm going to be a bit vulnerable in this thread, which is for the people who care & have been failed by public health. I care deeply about people, and it saddens me to see masks with an apparent poor fit, especially when I know the person is trying their best to stay safe 1/12

[MatchaCatnip @MatchaCatnip]

@coffeeteanxiety 🔥

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

Directional UV is great for fast surface sanitizing, but TBH a little spritzer of HOCL is better. Most people are using Far-UVC for aerosols- and for that, you want as omnidirectional as possible.

Not only is 50mW of defused (wide) UV light more effective than 50mW of focused (narrow) UV light at activating bioaerosols in a room, reflectors are lossy- if you don't use them, more of the energy you put into a Far-UVC device comes out as 222nm light.

So the Torch 2 emits more milliwatts of 222nm light per cubic centimeter of product size than the original Torch kit.

The batteries can also be removed entirely, allowing it to run on USB power alone, so it's future-proofed against airline crackdowns, at least concerning battery-containing devices.

[Nukit @NukitToBeSure]

New blog entry on the relative strengths of Far-UVC and air purifiers. Kindly repost wherever you can on various platforms, if we do, mods tend to delete it.

https://t.co/9LpouEFf2m