Evan Coopes

Clydesdale triathlete, embarrassing Dad, frequent numpty, seeker of wisdom (with occasional accidental success), Musculoskeletal and Sports Physiotherapist

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Behold the anti-vax evangelist.

When you contradict their mythology of COVID, they do not debate — they declare.
When you say you were there, they accuse you of lying.
When you describe hallways lined with ventilators and refrigerated trucks behind hospitals, they reply with a video of an empty clinic lobby taken at 9 p.m. on a Tuesday.
Each move is deliberate. Each designed to plant doubt.
You bring data — randomized trials, excess mortality curves, ICU capacity graphs — and they inform you that the data are fabricated. You explain how ventilators are used, and they insist you never understood them. You describe surge staffing, proning teams, tracheostomies at 2 a.m., and they counter with TikTok clips of nurses dancing for 20 seconds between codes.

The performance is the point.

They operate in a closed epistemology. If hospitals were full, it was staged.
If they were not full in a viral lull, the pandemic was fake.
If vaccines reduced admissions, the decline was natural immunity.
If admissions rose before vaccines, it was hospital fraud.
No outcome falsifies the belief. Every outcome confirms it.

This is not skepticism. It is theology.

Show them excess deaths — conspiracy.
Show them ICU occupancy — manipulated.
Show them randomized vaccine trials — rigged.
Show them global replication — coordinated fraud.
Meanwhile, they will tell you they know how to run a ventilator, despite never adjusting PEEP in refractory hypoxemia. They will mock exhausted nurses for dancing as a coping mechanism and then, in the next breath, deny the very surge conditions that made coping necessary.
They deny the fire while criticizing the smoke.
And here is the final absurdity:
They insist hospitals were empty — until the vaccine arrived. Then they insist vaccines didn’t work. The contradiction does not trouble them, because coherence was never the objective. Conversion was.
Doubt is their currency. Outrage is their marketing strategy. Certainty is their costume.

Science revises.
Medicine adapts.
Data accumulates.

But conspiracism calcifies.
And so we arrive here — where those who have never held pressure on a crashing patient accuse those who did of inventing the crash.

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@pbasilstrength PLYOS

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@pbasilstrength Pluto’s

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@mcuban Sorry - I have zero sympathy for the USA if things go badly for you economically. You voted for this administration. Same administration is crowing about “running up the score” in trade with some its closest allies. USA increasingly no longer viewed as a reliable friend.

[Physio Meets Science @PhysioMeScience]

The clinical course of acute, subacute and persistent low back pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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https://t.co/tWpGb0EQyn

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@mattxiv Eloquent, powerful and brave

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

florida high school class president zander moricz was told by his school that they would cut his microphone if he said “gay” in his grad speech, so he replaced gay with “having curly hair.” i am in awe

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@T_Cortazzo Thanks for the thoughtful and generous thread Tim

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

I'm attending ACLPerth Symposium . Like to attend - here's the link? https://t.co/v5Y84wcwFu

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@ClementsCharl96 Thank you Charlie - greatly appreciate these clinical summaries.

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

Another brilliant piece from Stan Grant about the dispiriting trajectory of Oz politics.

Katherine Deves's trans women comments ignited another round of culture wars – and added another nail in the coffin of democracy https://t.co/Te0fOVXg7W via @ABCaustralia

[the Juice Media @thejuicemedia]

So many people concerned about climate are asking us who they should vote for. I don't like telling people who to vote for, but I like reminding them that we have a pretty great (preferential) voting system where u can truly make your vote count if you know how to use it.

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@GregLehman Sigh....yet another example of clinicians trying to needlessly over-complicate things

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

Please, save the Australian Music Industry. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/k5aAubH0TS via @ChangeAUS

[Christian Barton @DrChrisBarton]

Hey @ScottMorrisonMP stop being a #dickhead and make RATs free - be humble, apologise

ROI on RATs is a no brainer - you and @JoshFrydenberg clearly are not fit to manage health or economy

Focus groups of quiet 🇦🇺 would tell you are being ridiculous

https://t.co/f8n55vNjk9

[Michael Gunner @fanniebay]

G’day from Down Under @tedcruz. Thanks for your interest in the Territory. I’m the Chief Minister. Below are a few facts about COVID down here.

[Evan Coopes @evthebigeasy]

@GardinerTroy @GregLehman Well said Troy

[Thinking Is Power @ThinkingPowers]

Vaccines aren’t “personal choices.”

#VaccinesWork #Covid_19

[Tim Soutphommasane @timsout]

What a time to be Australian. The Premier of our 3rd most populous state can’t understand that in our multicultural society people have family overseas. Or that as a trading nation we do business with others. People don’t just travel for leisure and for piss-ups in Bali, Premier

[Luca Maestroni @lucamae1987]

"Hip Muscle Strength Explains Only 11% of the Improvement in HAGOS With an Intersegmental Approach to Successful Rehabilitation of Athletic Groin Pain"

https://t.co/gqFrTCNU0k