Joseph Tang

Forever a disciple of Christ, student, curler. On the road not travelled; working to live out the chief end of man.

[David L. Bahnsen @DavidBahnsen]

Former President Trump has said, as of today in his own words, he won’t be doing any debates b/c he is leading in the polls. He won’t explain three lost election cycles in a row, the ghastly shutdowns he imposed on our country, or the largest spending binge (pre and during COVID) in history - because he is ahead in the polls.
If GOP voters nominate him, we deserve what will happen.

[James Wilkinson @NitroMH]

More @MartyMakary

"How does it spread? Is it from touching surfaces? Do I need to pour 20 gallons of alcohol on my groceries? When are you most contagious? What's the peak day of viral shedding? How long do you have to quarantine for? Do masks work?"

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

Public health lied about Natural Immunity
1 Vax campaign should have focused on non-immune
2 Unethical to fire people w/ NI who decline vax (hire back & apologize)
3 Novak's ban was stupid
4 No need to boost ppl who had COVID
5 Secret vote, bad
Full 17m:
https://t.co/cQDpG147lz

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

People need to read the Cochrane review on masking. In this post, I summarize the key findings, and explain why so many people lied. Important to set the historical record right.

https://t.co/KSW4w7rntC

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

Govt officials conducted a multi-faceted surveillance program–including stakeouts and tracking cellular mobility data–to spy on churchgoers who broke Covid rules

An extraordinary story with wide-ranging implications

Read my explosive investigative report
https://t.co/bD9l2TSG81

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

Public health now means saying things that
1 Aren't supported by any evidence
2 Not running RCTs to learn more
3 Fit with an extreme left wing deranged ideology

So PH is politicizing itself, ironically, and no longer a branch of science but politics

[David Zweig @davidzweig]

1. THREAD:

THE TWITTER FILES: HOW TWITTER RIGGED THE COVID DEBATE

– By censoring info that was true but inconvenient to U.S. govt. policy
– By discrediting doctors and other experts who disagreed
– By suppressing ordinary users, including some sharing the CDC’s *own data*

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

This is tinfoil hat stuff. There is zero evidence of price-fixing and you know it. The reason for high gasoline prices is because of high taxes and your opposition to expanded refinery capacity.

[Lance Christensen @Lance4CASuper]

BREAKING: @CADeptEd released key student test scores reflecting the state of our schools. Overall California saw a devastating decline statewide in English, reading and math.

[Michelle Tandler @michelletandler]

"San Francisco appears to have descended into a city of chaos."

Painful letter from the CEO of @cotopaxi about why they are closing their shop in SF.

[Marty Makary MD, MPH @MartyMakary]

“I don’t ever think you should ever ask tens of millions of people to get a vaccine based on mouse data“

[Jay Bhattacharya @DrJBhattacharya]

There is a strong desire after seeing the results of a disastrous choice like the lockdowns to validate it in retrospect. People sacrificed so much. It must have been worth it.

But the hard truth is that it was destructive and entirely unnecessary. A predictable disaster.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

August 24: California bans sale of new gasoline-powered cars

August 30: California asks Californians to avoid charging electric vehicles due to electricity shortages

[Tracy Beth Høeg, MD, PhD @TracyBethHoeg]

One day, historians will look back on the pandemic & find what we did to kids in the name of Health was harmful, unethical & as Scandinavia showed us, unnecessary
In many ways, it is still happening
It's up to us to do better
My piece in @Sensible__Med👇
https://t.co/cCsHZCA0N2

[Marty Makary MD, MPH @MartyMakary]

An ancient trait of the medical profession is to speak up when we believe something is not in the best interest of our patients. Less absolutism and more humility by health agencies would go a long way in rebuilding public trust. My piece w/ @TracyBethHoeg https://t.co/qFzkBsOcwY

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

I found a slide with all the evidence that vaccinating a child <5 that already had COVID19 provides a benefit to that child

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

If someone says vaccines for kids < 5 lower the risk of severe disease or death, it's important to remember that no data on earth proves that conclusion. The data we will soon get will be hopelessly confounded. And seroprevalance is already so high.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

My home county, Alameda, has just imposed a mask mandate on the basis of what, at this point, should be considered pseudoscience.

Mask mandates don’t work. As governor, I will disallow them, end covid vax mandates, & end the state of emergency.

https://t.co/GWcjJWUu3n

[Vinay Prasad MD MPH @VPrasadMDMPH]

I don't think anyone imagined in March 2020 when people invented a consensus for community cloth masking that we would be doing it two years later, indefinitely, after widespread vaccination, with zero randomized studies supporting it.

Insane

https://t.co/XfIamewQGm