matthew leydig

DC sports fan...who knew we could have nice things?!?

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@BillSimmons from that draft diary:

Hey Wizards — don't think I haven't noticed that you're slowly transforming yourselves into a young, high-flying, high-energy team with cool caps and jerseys.

[Robert Dyer @BethesdaRow]

Pepco tells Maryland customers angry about high electric bills, "It's not us":

https://t.co/kx3tkn5GFk

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@mattyglesias Apartments will not be built irrespective of what the Mayor wants until tenant laws materially change. When everyone is excited to announce a new 54 unit Affordable deal that costs $1 million/door…it’s broken.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@geoffschwartz Then you make them a "deconstructed ________" If you were a restaurant, you could charge more.

[Dave Portnoy @stoolpresidente]

Not caring about him wheeling six chicks at once when he was married is your choice

Not caring that he pretends to be a populist when he went to one of the richest prep schools in America is your choice

Not caring he went to war saying he always wanted to kill people is your choice

Not caring he went to work for Blackwater after serving and now calls the army very dumb and stupid is your choice

Not caring that he made fun of Purple Heart recipients is your choice

Not caring that he jerks off in porta potties is your choice

Not caring about all the shit he’s deleted on Reddit and he never thought would see the light of day and shows what a giant jackass is he is your choice

Not caring that he is a Nazi is your choice but if you support him and promote him don’t ever lecture anybody about the moral high ground again because you are a piece of shit

[Lauren Arikan @laurenformd]

SO MUCH WINNING-- according to @iamwesmoore I hope he will gift me a pair of the glasses he is using to see that reality with.

[aka @akafaceUS]

More of this and less sitting on the phone all day.

[Greg @SoundMoneyG]

Worst Montgomery County Executive in modern history, certainly since mid-1990s. A faux-socialist who battered small and large business with taxes and costs and harmed home ownership and middle class home owner wallets.

RT or comment if you agree.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@rosalindhanson @GraceRiveraOven @MCPS This was my second favorite tone def quote in the article:

To county residents who wanted more positions cut from central staff, believing the district had too many administrators, Taylor said MCPS “is right in line” with Prince George’s County Public Schools central staff.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow fired the company’s entire HR team because they were “creating problems that didn’t exist.”

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@JPFinlayNBCS Voted Skins. Kinda nuts to say, but for the first time it feels like all four are building something correctly. Hopefully that continues.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@john_keim @gregcosell @ESPNRichmond Crazy the level of detail @gregcosell is able to talk when discussing the roster…off the dome naming guys deep down the depth chart. Awesome listen.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@KateRyanWTOP I've read multiple articles published by WTOP, but perhaps I missed it; can you point me to the article where you show the current proposal does not in fact cut a budget, but rather simply increases last year's budget by a little bit less? With declining enrolment?

[Jeanette Dixon @dixon_jeanette]

Re:MCPS Budget #2
1. Premise budget should be larger every year even with less students???NO
2. Greatest reduction should be in $200,000 + central office supervisor jobs.
3 Transparency-Show every position in MCPS, # of employees & cost & expenses 4 everything
5. Eliminate waste

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@7NewsDC @ModeratelyMoco Please stop framing this as a school funding cut. The MCPS budget as currently proposed is still an increased amount…just less of an increase than MCPS asked for. Despite decking enrollment and performance. Not a cut. Smaller increase.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@WTOP This really needs to stop being framed as a budget cut. The council is contemplated a lesser increase to the budget than requested. The budget will be going up. Again. In spite of the declining/flat enrollment.

[Martin Zizi @MartinZ_uncut]

Hantavirus - cruise ship - and false narratives galore!

My scientific and medical opinion as a scientist who did research on Hantavirus is that an inquiry into Dr Bix is warranted
Please share massively - accurate info -

1. First and foremost we studied Hantavirus in my lab for many many years and published about it.. so what follows is ACCURATE by someone who did THIS!

It is a zoonosis, monitored by many Defense depth, and I was one of those army scientific officers (I was CSO of BE DoD actually, not the copy machine guy!)

Type my name and Hantavirus... and you'll see, non classified peer-review research.

2. This woman (Dr Birx) is ‘guilty as charged’ because she was one of the architects of the SARS2 debacle where she forced with her friend (prof Neil Fergusson, Imperial College, London) the policy of ZERO-Covid aka as a suppression policy

ZERO covid for a zoonosis? It was NOT possible, not even a policy.. only a ploy to bring about a technology that was NOT ready to the market (RNA vaccines).

One can NEVER eradicate (= zero covid) a zoonosis when 600 + mammalian species (cattle, all our pets, zoo animals, deers,... even minks...) share a virus with us and may play 'ping-pong' - that is getting it from us, and giving it back to us!

3. Now she is at it again with the same old LIES and misconceptions

Hantaviruses, human-to-human contamination is very rare!

1 - For the EU strains, one gets infected crawling in the woods, and literally inhaling rodent poop/urine (a bit like snorting coke LOL)
-The operational army personnel is at risk because that is part of their training and job!
- It has essentially no lethality... but one can get sick, and can get complications IF NOT TREATED, like a bacterial colonization of our lungs

2 - For the US Strains (sin Nombre, Andes), there is a slight increase in human-human transfer.
- but it remains RARE,
- and requires continuous contact with SYMPTOMATIC people for a while like in a family, or like in a CONFINED room with the HVAC of that cruise ship for exemple (where they kept people in THEIR CABINS for a while - which was the ultimate STUPIDITY!)
- just passing by someone who coughs or giving a hug - like in the case of a flu, will NOT do it.
- mortality nearly only when NON treated.. that is an important point- very important.

Why NO PCR to find out?
The PCR testing can NEVER b used for a fishing trip. Its is because - and it is known for age- , it has a very low PRE-test predictive value.

After SYMPTOMS however, in order to ascertain and/or to differentiate between different pathogens, it is perfectly legit

So systematic PCR will just create FAKE cases, like the 80% false positives obtained for SARS2 during COVID

Contagion?
Hantaviruses have a long incubation period ( a few weeks) but CAN only be contagious with symptoms.... This appear fun general after 15-18 days on average, and are FLU-like.

So before any SYMPTOM -> NO contagion

Vaccines?
NO matter what they tell you, Hantaviruses are ZOONOSIS - so offering a mass protection (useless as I just explained) via a vaccine is
- USELESS
- INEFFECTIVE...
This is true for ANY zoonosis. Because to really mitigate such transmission, vaccinating humans ONLY would be useless!

So vaccines NON needed, and besides especially NOT those RNA-based ones

Treatments exist!
- First of all, we have -when confronted with symptoms- treat those.. like for any flu-like syndrome
- if and when bacterial surinfection arises, antibiotics are in order
- HANTA-specific molecules do also exist
- Ribavirin is an enzyme blocker of the enzyme of the hantavirus...
But there is BETTER!

ANY medication/drug which interferes with the acidification of late endosomes will PREVENT hanta to reach the biochemical interior of the cell ...
and here we find HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE (HCQ) - yep! and it has been published
See here:

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Biology
https://t.co/tz0viXlMDN
Chloroquine, an Anti-Malaria Drug as Effective Prevention for Hantavirus Infections

The author list is Ironic - this come in tempore non suspecto from a lab of one Birx Friends - also responsible for the SARS2 debacle in EU and in Belgium :)

And i want you all to understand the next sentence.
This bug is a NON PROBLEM (see image below), it is pure media manipulation

In Belgium - for example - we have each year between 150 and 350 cases of Hantavirus patients. We do not loose them, and NO one has ever heard about it.. because it is a NON problem!
In the US, with the ANDES strain... one has more chances to die from a lightning strike than for an Hantavirus infection.. in the US roughly 30 cases a year and 10 deaths, lightning strikes 20 deaths per year and several hundred 'cases" per year too.

(And no.. GoF research of this germ is not an easy act... it is NOT a new Hanta, the serology, not the PCR, will prove it...)

So i hereby request that an inquiry into Dr Birx statements be made, her full list of conflicts be researched, and that HHS refers her to DOJ for the spread of FALSE information, with ill intent .. as outlined in this post.

Prof dr Martin ZIZI, MD-PhD
former CSO BE DoD
former UN bioweapon inspector

@RFKJr_Official
@SecKennedy
@NIHDirector_Jay

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@BenStandig @davidaldridgedc Also:
🏀 Nene reference.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@SoundMoneyG Has waaaaay more to do with Maryland energy policy/shuttering of plants than AI overlords. But wouldn’t expect the “state agency” cited to admit as much.

[matthew leydig @mattleydig]

@BenStandig The man made the most out of a super random opportunity. Fun guy to route for during some lean years.