Mark Ungrin

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Hardline scientist. There's too much fascism and AI-driven manipulation here.

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

🧵The next big deal the public is going to have to wrap its collective head around is that sufficiently diverse variant waves *do not have to wait in line*. Deliberate political interference with information flow means society is just beginning to realize that "endemic" can be...

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@ChristineGuent8 @sameo416 That pretty much summarizes the IPC grab-the-mic-and-yammer mentality that let COVID get out of control: "Experts point out that aerosol physics, well understood since 1934, makes it clear that COVID is airborne. In our next clip, an infection control doc disputes physics."

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@JOHNJOHNSTONED @mvankerkhove @doctorsoumya @BarryHunt008 @CorsIAQ @Don_Milton @ukhadds @mkeulemans @mdc_martinus @jljcolorado Yeah, not sure "WHO knew it was a matter of life or death so recognizing that it could be airborne would invoke appropriate precautions - therefore it was the right choice to confidently deny even the possibility and hope to get lucky" is the slam dunk she seems to think it is...

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@surf4children Great to see @fitterhappierAJ validated yet again after all the vicious attacks he faced for his leadership in the medical community on this.

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@RA762 @Globalbiosec @zalaly When infection control leaders blew the call on airborne transmission of COVID, they made the single worst preventable medical error in human history. Very few people have *ever* had more blood on their hands - or such an enormous incentive to lie and cover up their guilt.

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@LinnJarte @AndrewMeffan Yes. Some division of labour likely makes sense too. The medical culture right now gives primacy to retaining authority over everything at all costs. Giving up control over things like PPE policy to better qualified experts means less work for docs - and better care for patients.

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@thoughtson_tech @5_utr A big part of this is the growing rift between science and the subjective heuristics that are increasingly replacing it in institutional medical decision-making.

A surprising number of trials are junk when you look under the hood, and it's not caught.

https://t.co/fN3mV9eQHg

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@LinnJarte @AndrewMeffan The core problem is institutional culture - it'll be progress when ID docs finally catch up with basic aerosol science from 👉1934👈, and stop thinking rejection of appropriate PPE for aerosols is logical because everything "drops to the ground within 3 feet". 🙄

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@vickyrobinbaum @sameo416 @raghu_venugopal @AntibioticDoc IPC has been allowed to mark their own homework for so long that they've gone beyond sloppy and reached the point where they don't understand the concept of rigour. Everything's just politics to them, and so if you try and discuss evidence etc their reflex is just to "win".

[Vicky Baum @vickyrobinbaum]

@Mark_Ungrin @sameo416 @raghu_venugopal @AntibioticDoc My Mom asked staff in an outpatient clinic to mask last week. The doc entered the room in a blue floppy!🤬

We didn't have the nerve to ask him to wear an N95. The power differential is massive- we didn't want to piss him off and compromise her care. It was a 💩 show. 2/2

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@CovidSolidarit1 @CMClase @winthrop317 @DFisman @jvipondmd @JillianHortonMD @thewrightpage @groningerDick It at least got explicitly on the record that the aerosol denialism and 5-micron error underpinning COVID policy world-wide are "a widespread failure" among clinical leaders, "were and are wrong" and "should no longer be relied on in healthcare guidance".

https://t.co/bUjOSBT4UP

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@Bun_E_Kirwin @Globalbiosec @angie_rasmussen This paper is an important read around pandemic gaslighting: https://t.co/25MsEvXwxK

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@SolidEvidence @beansprouts_mom @CDCofBC @MetroVancouver @jeffgilchrist @DrFiliatrault The public health mentality in BC reflects the same failures we saw in SARS-CoV-1. Information seems to be viewed as a source of power, to be shared and manipulated as best benefits the medical management class rather than the rest of us.

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https://t.co/8XcD0YMWoZ

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

It's criminal that the only progress we've made in the last 20 years is that now we can say we have the "..wrong men *and women* in the wrong places at the wrong time."

"...a sense in recent years that bright independent minded people were not particularly welcomed..." 🤔

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@Globalbiosec @angie_rasmussen I can confirm from personal experience, trying to correct even the most egregious droplet dogma errors in medical journals runs into major breaches of publication ethics. Science is overridden by egos and Dunning-Kruger.

One example (with full reviews): https://t.co/oIomuGy2qM

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@RageSheen Ask it to summarize the failures identified in the module 3 report of the UK COVID Inquiry, and provide its best estimate of the upper and lower bounds on the harms caused by those failures...

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Also, this may be of interest from a systems perspective: https://t.co/znVKEEYfhJ

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@jmcrookston @threadreaderapp please unroll

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@vickyrobinbaum @kasza_leslie @outbreakupdates @NightShiftMD She was also the lead author on the Seven Oaks whitewash (which was so bad that Justice Campbell wrote an addendum to the report of the SARS Commission about how nothing had been learned while he was dying of cancer).

https://t.co/RcPXyJ6Fuc

[Lisa Oshima @lisawhelan]

Did @MonicaGandhi9 really tell @sfgate she thinks "immunity debt" is a "real phenomenon” & blame 📈CA Parvo cases on 2020 lockdowns?

@UCSF Next time, please refer @SFGate to @MichaelPelusoMD to discuss immunological consequences of COVID-19 instead.

https://t.co/KDAgR1w9zb

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@AlleBurgers @OttoKolbl @Suzaku_is_tired @BiologyAwesome @amiandlife There's a really interesting systems aspect to the recurring failure modes in the medical policy and guidance space. The problems are structural.

https://t.co/znVKEEYfhJ

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@OttoKolbl @Suzaku_is_tired @BiologyAwesome @amiandlife ...have little or no advanced science training. And so they see any influx of serious science, rigour etc as competition for authority, rather than desirable. I'm sure the same is true for human rights, equity etc.

The real threatens the performative.

https://t.co/sjRxmL8lKG

[Mark Ungrin @Mark_Ungrin]

@OttoKolbl @Suzaku_is_tired @BiologyAwesome @amiandlife This is consistent with my experience as a biomedical researcher, trying to force some basic scientific rigour into medical policy and guidance space. The underlying problem is that the people at the top of medicine got there by being the "science expert", but in reality most...