Mau

Passionate about nature, tech, and people. Backyard scientist 🔬 | Armchair genealogist 🧬 | Advocating to save lives and build a world that works.
#VaxStatRep

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

Follow me as I seek to explain & validate the argument that wins the vaccine debate.

My🧵s in search of the truth.

1) What happened in New Zealand?

How and why does a small island country show us beyond doubt how safe vaccines are?
https://t.co/vlpzlFK4Fi

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

Clear evidence that covid vaccines are safe can be found in New Zealand, a country of ~ 5.1m people where ~12,8m vaccines were administered to date.

As the graph below from NZ health shows, most of those were administered from March 2021 to March 2022.

https://t.co/aVzVEkHxkU

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@IzzyTruthSocial Stop wasting my time. Good bye.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

That there are people who cannot tell their ass from their elbow and will gain tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of followers because people blindly belief them.

[Luiz M.D. @Luizmd]

Most important thing you learned from the plandemic?

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@IzzyTruthSocial @elonmusk Clearly you have issues with comprehension. Make one more absurd comment that has nothing to so with the topic in response to a considered post from me and we will part ways.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

"Smokers are immune"
3,5m views & 50k likes

Another one for our @elonmusk will be proud of spreading misinformation series. #ElonMuskWillBeProud

Truth: Smoking DOES NOT protect against Covid-19 or long Covid.

Multiple meta-analyses show current and former smokers have higher risks of severe Covid-19, hospitalization, progression to critical illness, and death (often 30-50% increased risk or odds ratios around 1.2-1.6)

Smoking damages lungs, impairs immune function consistent with worse respiratory outcomes.

Nicotine does not block the spike protein in a clinically meaningful way. Nicotine is harmful and addictive and there is no sound evidence to recommend nicotine patches for long Covid.

This fits a pattern with McCulloughs usual highlighting contrarian or emerging ideas with some basis, but often with less nuance than the broader literature supports. Smoking is terrible for you.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

THEO VON: “Was there anybody who was immune to COVID-19?”

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “There’s one adult group. You’re going to laugh.”

[Theo Von listens closely for the reveal]

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “Smokers… They got very mild cases. And they don’t get long COVID.”

THEO VON: “Why?”

MCCULLOUGH: “Because smokers maintain a level of nicotine in the bloodstream… Smoking blocks the spike protein. It’s amazing. I thought smokers were going to go down.”

THEO VON: “Do you think that’s a good idea [to use nicotine patches] on a regular basis?”

DR. MCCULLOUGH: “I think [it’s a good idea] if they have long COVID... Nicotine, don’t forget, is a nootropic. A nootropic is a drug that makes the brain function more effectively... It’s addictive, but it’s not harmful to the human body... Nicotine patches are perfectly safe.”

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@MikeDoris @elonmusk This particular event is a marketing campaign. Peddling some sort of knowledge (idea) using a grey area to make the propaganda do the work and setting themselves up as some authority. It helps them heard the potential customers to the next steps. What they are after. 👇

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@Jnjokovic @elonmusk We have a saying. Dont throw the baby out with the bathwater. Thats just never a good idea.

That applies here.
https://t.co/sRWenr4mAA

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

I understand you no longer trust mainstream journals or institutions.

That frustration isn’t random because there have been real mistakes, there are continuous retractions and communication failures. Like with every human system we have there is lots of room to improve.

Especially when it comes to Covid. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.

That said, dismissing all evidence from mainstream sources solely because of their origin is a logical error (guilt by association). The same journals that made early missteps also published the studies that corrected those mistakes. When it comes to smoking that is a good example.

The hypothesis that smoking might protect against covid was initially floated in journals, then refuted by larger, more rigorous studies in those very same outlets. The system, imperfect as it is, self-corrected.

If your position is that no amount of evidence from those sources will ever count, then we’re not arguing about evidence anymore, we’re arguing about authority and trust. On that level, I can’t force you to trust anything. But I’d ask, What kind of evidence would you accept?

And on what basis do you decide that alternative sources (like a podcast guest) are more trustworthy than the collective, adversarial process of peer review?

If we are smart we will keep following where the most robust, replicated evidence points.

McCullough and associats, and their propaganda based stories are not it as this very example shows.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

I understand you no longer trust mainstream journals or institutions.

That frustration isn’t random because there have been real mistakes, there are continuous retractions and communication failures. Like with every human system we have there is lots of room to improve.

Especially when it comes to Covid. I’m not going to pretend otherwise.

That said, dismissing all evidence from mainstream sources solely because of their origin is a logical error (guilt by association). The same journals that made early missteps also published the studies that corrected those mistakes. When it comes to smoking that is a good example.

The hypothesis that smoking might protect against covid was initially floated in journals, then refuted by larger, more rigorous studies in those very same outlets. The system, imperfect as it is, self-corrected.

If your position is that no amount of evidence from those sources will ever count, then we’re not arguing about evidence anymore, we’re arguing about authority and trust. On that level, I can’t force you to trust anything. But I’d ask, What kind of evidence would you accept?

And on what basis do you decide that alternative sources (like a podcast guest) are more trustworthy than the collective, adversarial process of peer review?

If we are smart we will keep following where the most robust, replicated evidence points.

McCullough and associats, and their propaganda based stories are not it as this very example shows.

[Jovak Njokovic @Jnjokovic]

Yeah, nobody believes the establishment anymore. And you can go ahead and cite whatever you want from mainstream journals.

They have discredited themselves completely and betrayed the American people and people worldwide.

Keep doubling down on the wrong side of history.

We laugh in scorn at you people.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@DrNice2026 @scoopsmcgoo @thereal_truther @DrJohnMDAPD You are trying to talk sense into a brick wall. Its no use.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

The typical McCullough "anti the rest of the establishment" crowd are out in full swing.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

The little campaign is doing well..
https://t.co/pbP2OMztYJ

[Nicolas Hulscher, MPH @NicHulscher]

@VigilantFox Accurate. https://t.co/QKNkJpdSDW

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@IzzyTruthSocial I wont. No use speaking to the mindless.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

My response here is to Luiz who has difficulty acknowledging simple biology. That you want to somehow talk about practical things people tried to implement at a time when there were many unknown is informative. Common sense tells m that a few feet distance is better than breathing in each other's face. But hey 5 years later you seem to still have difficulty with the very basic concept and retroactively want to now somehow have me answer for that? How stupid is that. No doubt you hang onto every word from Luiz.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@mpc_xetts @tatiann69922625 My beloved brother is at it again...

https://t.co/hUpFZ0IEIP

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

All this because you've been shown up for your obvious lies.

https://t.co/2LByYVOJss

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@IzzyTruthSocial What has the price of seawater got to do with the size of eggs?

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@henjin256 @BarryYoungNZ @HopeRising19 The reason Barry does not share how he got to his plots is because he doesnt know.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@ThePeplesLobby You so prove my point.👍 Thank you for that.

https://t.co/t4HihSXDU8

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

So let me summarize the argument around Ibuprofen.

Ibuprofen may be used to treat symptoms in covid patients, mainly fever, headache, body aches, sore throat pain, and other inflammatory aches, (provided the person has no usual contraindications to NSAIDs.)

Why, well, using this one study isolation and without diving deeper into the nuances and all the consideratios, this is what they concluded.

"In a series of meta-analyses of over 600 randomised trials with over 350 000 participants (mean age 61 years), the authors found that all NSAIDs doubled the risk of heart failure (rate ratio 1.85-2.28). Compared with placebo, a COX 2 inhibitor or diclofenac caused three additional major vascular events per 1000 participants per year (from a baseline risk of eight events per 1000 participants per year), with one such event causing death"

https://t.co/5dgBIDkqFs

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@IzzyTruthSocial Thank you. I'm not.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

Right, the seasonal flu just politely stepped aside for a year out of professional courtesy.

And all those overloaded ICUs and refrigerated morgue trucks were just method acting.

The level of global coordination required to pull that off would be genuinely impressive. If humans could agree on anything long enough to fake a pandemic without a single leak.

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Just a psa: Covid-19 was nothing more than the flu with a new label. That’s exactly why the regular seasonal flu suddenly vanished from the planet for a whole year. It stands as the biggest scam in modern history. The most massive psychological operation ever inflicted on the public. Those behind these crimes against humanity must face justice. Heads need to r*ll.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@goingtogetugly Go away.

[Mau @MauritzPreller]

@RWMaloneMD @jeffreytucker What introspection.