Gregory Travis

Toxically materialistic Hoosier farmer. I love my truck, my tractor and the Midwest. I also write software and write about the ethics of writing software

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

"If you don't vote for Trump this will be the last election"

Says man campaigning for a candidate who, when he lost an election, tried to violently overthrow the government

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@CarneroMediano @AlanLevinovitz @zeynep @MeganTStevenson I don't know any children who, when they were asked if they wanted to go back to school and get infected with SARS-CoV-2 they said "yes!"

Do you?

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@CarneroMediano @AlanLevinovitz @zeynep @MeganTStevenson They went way up after children were forced, against their will, into classrooms contaminated with the SARS-CoV-2 virus

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@AlanLevinovitz @zeynep @MeganTStevenson This isn't real, either

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

Maybe Levinovitz and Zeynep can collaborate on an article about how this isn't real, either

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

As someone who has found himself on the shit-end of the "long COVID" advocacy stick, I was sympathetic to parts of Levinovitz's argument

No longer

[Alan Levinovitz @AlanLevinovitz]

Zeynep — this is not like TB (or cancer, or HIV, or any of the other analogized conditions), because there is no "long Covid" in the first place. There's an extremely vague definition that could apply to a range of conditions, from post-ICU syndrome to basically every PAIS that's out there. Much of the article is dedicated to discussing the definitional problems, as well as the problems that creates for studying "the" condition in the first place. The piece isn't saying that "mind-body" therapies work, or don't work, for long Covid, or any PAIS. It's saying that right now there IS no single entity we can call "long Covid," there's just vague definitions of a family of syndromes and symptoms, which result in everything from extremely moderate to very severe illness.

Equally important, and also the point of the article: A subset of very, very ill people — and a larger subset of mild/moderate — attribute their recovery to mind-body interventions. Was it spontaneous remission? Was it "placebo"? Was it...something else? It would be great to know! But that patient group, specifically, has been of zero interest to researchers, and are actively ostracized by the advocacy world.

No one studies *recovered* LC patients who were severely ill and attribute their recovery to mind-body therapies, as, for example, they do over in ALS where the very, very few spontaneous remissions are of great interest to researchers. Instead, people like Larson and Lupi are told they are full of shit, or were never really sick, or are wrong about what caused their recovery.

That's what the article is about. Other articles can discuss other things! But those are the dynamics and themes I address. They are important. Failing to address them is holding back research on a very heterogenous and poorly defined set of conditions.

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@michael_trumper @cremieuxrecueil Unlikely, given the timing

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@michael_trumper @cremieuxrecueil 73+ million children have been infected now multiple times with the SARS-CoV-2 virus

The result has been a wave of cognitive damage, physical mutilation and death in school-aged children that is not abating

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@michael_trumper @cremieuxrecueil It's true

https://t.co/ui9fxKP7sK

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@SukaruAnow @JayUrban11 @cremieuxrecueil I haven't been an elementary school student for fifty years

Yet I can still read and still do algebra

How is that possible?

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@billybinion Excess death from disease is highest in school-aged children

It started when we began a mass program of forced infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus in 2021, in order to protect adult's investment portfolios

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes the right way.

by Ezra Klein

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@JayUrban11 @cremieuxrecueil What do you mean by "learning loss?" Did kids lose the ability to do algebra or how to read?

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@RonDeSantis Because Native American reservations are sovereign and not "US soil"

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@PeterHegarty17 @henjin256 Excess death calculations are always going to show higher results the lower you go in age

To be blunt, this is because children aren't supposed to die while old people like me, are

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

Just a reminder that in the USA, the number of excess deaths from disease in the 2020-2023 timeframe exactly matches the number of officially recorded COVID deaths

COVID deaths were not over-reported and vaccines didn't cause death. It was (and is) the virus

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@henjin256 @PeterHegarty17 NB that R codes (R99, 999) are irrelevant outside a 2 year lag. Ie. they don't bias the data for data that is more than 2 years old, which anything looking at 2020-2024 would be

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@PeterHegarty17 @henjin256 In 2021 I show 4,057 actual deaths from disease in those aged 5-17. @henjin256 shows 4,274 actual deaths.

Not sure why Henjin has so many more deaths from disease

Expected was 3,772 deaths. Henjin seems to have 4,255

4,057-3,772 is 285

[Gregory Travis @greg_travis]

@PeterHegarty17 @henjin256 These are similar to what I get. This is death from (any) disease where the disease was the underlying (not contributing) cause of death

Second screenshot shows my definition for which ICD-10 codes are "disease"