ElucidateTheMechanism

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@NoNameNoFoul @walterkirn @DrPlutocracy 💯🙂

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@DrPlutocracy @walterkirn "Its vs it's" is actually hard to remember, since it's an exception to the "apostrophes indicate possessive" rule.

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@PeterHotez Non-military virologists didn't even do GoF before 2012. It was considered too dangerous.

I agree with the gist of the article, that we need to step back from doing it for a second and figure out how to make sure it's only done safely.

[Jeoffry Gordon, MD, @paradocs21]

Nebraska hasn't passed a single bill this year because one lawmaker keeps filibustering in protest of an anti-trans bill: 'I will burn this session to the ground' https://t.co/zbRZRsUzQ1 via @businessinsider #AmericanPatriot

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@PeterHotez @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins This very sad chart is probably the clearest evidence imaginable that the vaccine saved many lives, and ivermectin doesn't work. https://t.co/2EP1Vye2Mp

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@EricTopol My highschool kid has already confessed to feeling the temptation to get some "help" from it.

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@PeterHotez @JHUPress @JohnsHopkins The weirdest, creepiest aspect of the delta wave in the south I saw was all the people with loved ones in the ICU, who were convinced ICU doctors not using ivermectin were responsible for bad outcomes. This, after they ended up in the ER after ivermectin failed to keep them out.

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

40,000 Texans needlessly lost their lives because they refused mRNA vaccines that were >90% protective vs death or serious illness during our horrible delta wave in summer/fall of 2021. They were victims of a politically motivated, well-organized, financed antivaccine campaign

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@angie_rasmussen @stuartjdneil How was its transmissibility (or lack thereof) tested?

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@zeynep Thanks! I didn't know that. I thought civets had been conclusively "proven" (to whatever extent science can prove things) to be the intermediate host with SARS1.

I thought the civet strain was much, much closer to human one than the bat one is to the human one.

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

You know you live in the sticks when the Ivermectin is kept in a locked cabinet with a sign telling people not to kill themselves with it 👍

[Gromit Stevens @mdpollak]

"49% of Democrats now sympathize with Palestinians while 38% support Israelis. Republicans still overwhelmingly side with Israel: almost 80% sympathize more with Israelis, while 11% side with Palestinians."

https://t.co/Rr6HyyY9RD

[Jason Overstreet @JasonOverstreet]

I love when reports come out that Trump obstructed justice AGAIN and people act like it’s news every single time. “This one’s a bit different though, Jason.” Fuck you. He obstructs justice for a living. Lord. Arrest this person. Prosecute him. And remove him from civil society.

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@EricTopol BMI is what's used to classify people into the weight categories, so I wouldn't say the paradox has been been "debunked." Clarified some, maybe.

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

Me reappearing in people’s lives after inexplicably disappearing for several months…

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@angie_rasmussen @stuartjdneil It gains functions that enhance infectivity and possibly transmissibility, though, doesn't it?

The famous H5N1 GoF paper that sparked the moratorium just made the virus more *transmissible* in ferrets.

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@walterkirn @kellywind @realZenelan Well, you *appeared* to think that. You strongly implied it. That was not some sort of out-there inference.
Questioning election integrity is not illegal, never has been, and it's an abomination that social media companies have acted like it is. Musk prolly won't do that, tho.

[ElucidateTheMechanism @tennessee_for]

@JacktheBearNOLA @mtaibbi Yes. But a lot of that is because so many on the left turned against him when he told the truth about Russiagate.

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@ryanbeed @DiaHollyHemlock @EricTopol No, a vaccine's effectiveness significantly waning within 3 months is not good.

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@semvn @EricTopol @ArianaSeigel The 30 year old with no pre-existing conditions are a lot more likely to be "primary series only," and the 80 year olds with cancer are more likely to be double boosted.

If you control for age and pre-existing conditions, I'm sure the data looks at least somewhat better.