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WEBVTT
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Hello, it is two oh six to now two oh seven p.m. Eastern standard time on Thursday November 30th year two thousand and twenty three
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This is episode
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731 a fusatonic live not including the shorts of course and today we are
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Lest and with the opportunity to have a discussion with a Jessica Hockett who I've been introduced to on Twitter
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This is her Twitter account. It's wood house
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76 and you see the
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Underscore between wood underscore house 76
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She is a
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Bicentennial baby as her profile says please reach out and follow her on Twitter
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The other way that you can follow her amazing work is on sub stack and she was smart enough to go out and get the wood house
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76.com domain so you don't have to worry about remembering the specific username on
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Substack it will just link directly to there and should something ever happen in the future of where she needs to change
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Where her blog posts are being written she can always then redirect the URL
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So with that said welcome to the show Jessica
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I'm just reading your the profile that you have a grown-up bicentennial baby writing from a wood house
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And I think that's a reference to hunger games. Do I have that right or is that another?
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So my original
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COVID focused Twitter account was an eponym
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Emma wood house and that is the titular character of Jane Austen's
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Emma
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Which is one of my favorite books and I'm a huge Jane Austen fan Jane Austen's my daughter's middle name actually
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So yeah, I use I used that name after I had
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Deactivated my other Twitter account under my name that it was for a different purpose
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But then when COVID madness came down
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I and my kids came came home from school and they were locked out of school
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I had I deleted that account and wasn't gonna do Twitter anymore and then I
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Mean as you know as we all know things were not adding up with COVID at all
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I'm like I got to go back on Twitter because that's where people tend to know what's up
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So there are where those people tend to be so I didn't want people to find me under my real name
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Like in my other account. So that's why I created an eponym. I never I never aimed to amass like
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53,000 followers or whatever it is that it has right now
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But I went ahead earlier this year and changed it to my my real name
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It wasn't really a secret who I was anyway
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I was sometimes on Chicago radio and they would say Emma Woodhouse, you know Jessica Hockett aka Emma Woodhouse
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So I didn't really have a hidden identity. I just I more had a a pen name is what I would say
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So yeah, that's that's what I do live in a woodhouse
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It's a cedar shingled house. So that it goes it goes with that as well. So it's sort of a throwback to the old
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Pen name, right, but it makes sense with where I live. So
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Just a curiosity were you in the and I don't mean business in terms of
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Getting rich because none of us is doing this to get rich, but were you in the business of blogging before?
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COVID-19
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No, no, not at all
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So my background is in a K-12 education years ago
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I started out as a K-12 as a middle school teacher for five years
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and then I went to University of Connecticut and then University of Virginia is where my PhD is from my background my
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specialty was gifted education and
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I was gonna go into academia
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I actually was hired for a ten-year track position
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I accepted it and then I turned it down two weeks later. That was one of the best decisions
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I've ever made in my life. I just felt like the weight of all the the rules and expectations of
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Academia, I'm like I can't I can't do it. I can't do it
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I just want to do what I want to do and that's what I ended up doing for a while 15 plus years
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I did a lot of consulting work in K-12 education did a lot of teaching of teachers
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I had certain specialties and I mean still do really within education did a lot of traveling worked with state agencies did some program evaluation
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Wrote some books. So so yeah, that's what I did for a while until March March 2020 when you know when everything went crazy and shut down
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So no, so no, I wasn't doing that that I was I've always been a writer
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Okay, you know art of books and things like that, but not not a not a blogger
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University Connecticut, I went to University Connecticut if you knew that or not. Yeah. Yeah, my degree in computer
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Engineering and I don't even remember what you're graduated 96. I think it was 96
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So okay. Yeah, I wasn't a graduate like a summer an interesting
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Graduate program called three summers and so and I was when I was still a classroom teacher
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So I would go in the summer and for like an intensive with another like a cohort of people and then during the
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Year, it was actually at the beginning of online learning. I and I was really a fan of online learning back in the day. I also taught
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Graduate courses for University of Virginia online graduate courses
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My view of online learning has changed a little bit since they tried to foist it all on to you know K-12 kids
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But in the graduate space it was great
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Dedicated people offered that that flexibility, but yeah
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I was physically on campus at at UConn and stores and those those were magical times
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I really enjoyed it really enjoyed it. So yeah, I didn't know we had that connection. That's cool
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What what just out of curiosity what pulled you to University Connecticut?
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I know different schools have
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Expertise like they have a supposedly a very strong agricultural school which I was there something about their their K through 12
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Or their special education program. That's right. And so my my field was gifted education
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So University of Connecticut University of Virginia
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College of William and Mary those are just a few of the the universities that have
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You know the the big names in the small field. It's fantastic
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It was a great great time in my life for sure and then went from there to
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University of Virginia
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So I left my my full-time teaching job
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This was before my husband. I had kids who've been married 25 years, but we moved from the Chicago area to
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Charlottesville for Virginia
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And so I did my my program there for a couple years and then we moved back
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Charlottesville Virginia, that's not really a big city is it?
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No, and there's a lot that I really appreciated about Charlottesville
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But it's funny to think back on now because we used to go drive up to DC all the time
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Because we're city people really at at heart. So we're like, oh my gosh. There's nothing going on here. Things are closed on on Mondays
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So but I but I enjoyed it the whole the Jeffersonian vibe all of that the history you you can't you can't beat it
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But we we were we were never planning to stay there long-term just because it was more rural in our in our view
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But yeah, I really benefited from that from that program really appreciated it
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You didn't happen to pump into David Martin while you were there. Did you because no, it's funny though
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Right all these people that that later later come up. Although I will say and I don't know what David Martin's background is
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is fully but University of Virginia is
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Along with Yale well known for secret societies and and things like that
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So it would not surprise me if David Martin was part of the seven society or the z society or any number that we're crawling about on campus
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See he seems like that sort of character, but I but I really don't know. I'm making I'm making this up
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You know, we've looked into it a little bit
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There's like this Charlottesville business council and it's just one of those areas where
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There's there's multiple people have congregated with respect to the topic of patents and intellectual property
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And I don't know
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I mean, I'm sure it's a beautiful town but
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Usually there's something else something else that anchors these particular things to one area
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So yeah, we my husband I used to joke that it seemed like charlotte's phil was where like young rich people go to retire
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It so it had that sort of a vibe. There's a very clubby kind of old money south vibe
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And I I just realized recently Robert Malone has not really ever been on my radar
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I've always sort of seen him as a 1980s like soap opera star or something
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I just haven't paid much attention to him
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but
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Recently I was like oh wait this horse farm thing. It's in Madison, Virginia. I know I know where that is
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So I I find that that interesting. Yeah, nothing to really say about that
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Just that you know duly noted
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South of charlotte's phil for several years before buying the the horse farm
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I think and there's there's a lot of horses on that farm. So so let's get down the business
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So the one thing the one look there's many topics that you've covered related to the pandemic
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There's one thing in particular though. Everyone's got there one area of of focus where they're just and
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You're at the lead as far as I'm concerned regarding this
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Uh, it is a casualty data mass casualty data in the year 2020 and in particularly you've done extensive work on New York City
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Um, and there's just no one else that has even come close to doing the you know
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The research that you have on that
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But I would love if you could just walk us through your little journey
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Because I'm always encouraging people don't think that just because someone isn't questioning narratives now that they can't in the future
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Right. So you're mining your own business
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It's uh, January February
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You couldn't miss the news reports about what was coming what everyone seemed to expect in the media
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What was that first year like of something's not quite right? And then you you turned around and it actually started to invest your time into research
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And what led you to?
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Focusing on New York City. Please share that journey
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Great great question
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I mean, January, February 2020 with these reports that were coming out of china and then the diamond princess cruise ship
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Um, I just remember people women in my bible study
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Honestly talking about this and a few of them being concerned and some of them are sort of prone to worrying about things like this
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Anyway, right and I was sort of known for not being like that as you might imagine
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So, oh, what's going on in china people falling down on the streets? Oh this cruise ship. I'm like
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That this is nothing like and like it's china like who knows what who knows what's going on there
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And I looked into the cruise ship a little bit like
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There's old people on cruise ships like they they die. I mean what what is the big what is the big deal with this?
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I just I just thought it was a nothing burger
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And then in march as the tension started to build
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And especially when you know the 15 days to slow the spread
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I was like what the heck is going on here a huge alarm for me
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Was when you know the governor governor jb pritzker went up from you know the pritzker family one of the richest families in the world
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um when he
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ordered churches to close
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I was like what wait what what like it and churches were doing it
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And I was questioning my christian friends and like this this doesn't seem constitutional to me
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This seems completely out of out of line
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um
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And I got a lot of pushback honestly from from christian christian friends. It's only two weeks
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It's you know, it's an emergency. We just don't know
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Um, he's not only shutting down churches
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And I thought well, yeah, he's also shutting down restaurants and my husband's in the restaurant industry
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But target is staying open. So I mean so for I can honestly say even though
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I did I thought there might be a new virus something spreading around
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I was skeptical from the very beginning and in cook county where I was living at where we were living in the time and had been
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So that's you know, chicago. We were in evanston where north western is
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Every death that goes through the medical examiner
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Is public and at the time then included deaths that were determined to be from this novel virus
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So I was every day looking at line by line by line. I'm like, okay
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85-year-old person who has coronary heart disease diabetes kidney failure
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Dies, okay, so I I was going through that we had 12
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Long-term care facilities in evanston alone
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So the local paper was tracking those and I tried I remember this so vividly
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I tried to get a local reporter to kind of look at some things. He called me a covid denier
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He canceled my subscription to his online message message board
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Um, I emailed my mayor mayor of evanston put put out a mask mandate mid april
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I'm still still have the email. I responded right away. I was basically like, what are you doing?
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This is you know, this is ridiculous. This doesn't make any this doesn't make any sense at all
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So the questioning I can honestly say that I was doing that from the very beginning got back on twitter in may 2020
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Started that account. I'm just trying to find out like, okay, is anybody else really questioning this because even though there was a lot
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You probably remember this there was some rah-rah energy at the beginning right like the first two weeks
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Maybe even the first month we had Broadway performers on tv and on the internet being like yay
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You know stay home save lives there there was some positive energy in those days
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Which I think is part of the propaganda and it's it's really dark and scary to look back on it now
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But you know then as this starts dragging on it's like what is really happening here
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And with new york in in particular I try to remind people about this all the time
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New york was part of really the justification for locking down
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the specter of
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Look at what's happening in new york. The hospitals are overrun
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Look, they're calling in the travel cadre of nurses and doctors and we don't want to be in new york
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Without new york
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I would say americans would never have agreed that there was an emergency or or something actually
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going on
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So new york is kind of burned in my brain as a key part for getting the us on
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On board. Um, I would say and and it'll be I can walk the sequence back
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But new york was like the linchpin and then that was it
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That that that was it and I don't know when maybe my first tweets about it were but I know for sure in 2021
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That I was asking like because the more the data was out right more of the finalized death data
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And I mean, I I asked pretty consistently within a dm group
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I was in at the time and then on twitter itself, but what the heck happened here
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This makes no sense and I could never really get a lot of traction around it
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It was sort of like well vent ventilators, right or or they messed up or the nursing home policy
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Like there were a lot of pat answers around it some of which I agreed with
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Initially, especially with the nursing home policy, which I now realize is not really part of the picture
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Um, so yeah, I just I kept pursuing that that and the alleged disappearance of flu
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Uh, which I I now realize are related, but those were two things that always bothered me
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But I was also fighting mandates at the time
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And my kids were home and I pulled them out in my homeschooled them and there was all of that going on
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So as you remember like when you're when you're actually fighting what's going on day-to-day
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And I'm getting kicked out of the grocery store
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You know police came and like, you know, basically threatened to arrest me denied my grocery purchase
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Like when that stuff is going on
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You can't attend to every every little data issue that that you that you have
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Especially when your homeschooling is as well. So it when I was kicked off of twitter more more permanently in july 2022
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That is when I was like, okay now now I now I have some more time to delve more
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Specifically into this new york event. I can and I already had been submitting public records requests for data
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But now I couldn't could do that more intensely with some other consulting work that I was doing
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So that that's when I really dove in and that may now it's been well over a year of of that
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Um, but yet I I I like doing it
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I like like doing it, but there's there's still a long way to go
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There's still a long way to go. The more I find the more questions I have and the more bizarre
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Whatever app actually happened there becomes
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So it was something about in the area of chicago. You were looking at specific deaths or records
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uh, the profiles of them and that was a good match for the type of
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skepticism and
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Critical approach that was required to go back to new york city
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Now having the perspective that it was such a big part of the narrative and I think you frequently
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Remind the audience that new york city is I think 7.8 million
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People and new york city proper and then the metropolitan area of new york city. I think it's around 15 or 18 million
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Uh and us is 330 million people
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Right. Yeah, it depends on population numbers you look at for the five boroughs
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Actually, the the cdc numbers and the city of new york numbers are not the same. I think there's some shenanigans there
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But it's between the five boroughs proper is eight between 8.3 and 8.8 million
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The 20 the 2020 population and yes, if you're talking about greater
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Metro, it's bigger than that
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But in spring 2020 for that what I would call 11 week of event from mid-march 2020 to the end
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May 2020
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The new new york city
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proper is 19 percent
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of the total covid deaths in the us
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And what do I mean by covid death? I mean we could go into that at length, but for data purposes
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It's the deaths that attribute covid 19
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as underlying cause
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So 19 percent of the deaths that do that in the us in that period in that along with period are in new york city
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Even though new york city only comprises less than 3 percent of the total population
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Does anyone have questions about that?
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I do just a curiosity
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How would you describe the profile of of of deaths related to covid in new york city met the entire metropolitan area
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Have you noticed like a major drop-off as soon as you cross the hudson river like people just stop dying in jersey city in new work
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or
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That those areas have higher high rates of death also
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They did too. They did too. I mean I can pull it up if you want to it's it's really interesting to look at county
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Level each burrow is a county and york's kind of weird like that
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But then you look at the other counties and then if you sort the counties in that
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Period it's it's new york new jersey cook county
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Is is up there um detroit is up there
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You know relatively relatively speaking
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But by and large, I think the metro area if i'm not mistaken that that tri-state area is about 50 to 55
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Of the total covid attributed deaths in the whole country
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Connecticut which is only 3 million people
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Right on a good day
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So I mean again, it's it's kind of by different counties in there
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So I I like to think in terms of like like city so new york city, new york city metro area
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Boston metro area, chicago metro detroit
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New Orleans right those those were the key
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locations that saw the most increase but nobody saw what what the new york city new york city metro is
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I mean five five burrows alone. I mean we we see a six to seven hundred percent
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Increase in all cause mortality in a matter of a few weeks
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It's not an event that's indicative of viral spread
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Let me let me put it that way. It's not it. It's not anything like a disease spread event
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It's it's like you would see with a bomb or with um multiple like an earthquake and aftershocks
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Afterwards the the mortality equivalent of 10
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9-11 events, you know, whatever you think about 9-11
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You know, if whatever they said the mortality was about 10 times that
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um
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And and nobody seems to have any
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Questions about it. There's no real investigation about it
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Nobody's asking if
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This event really occurred in the way that it's claimed in some ways. I find the silence
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More disturbing than the actual
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Casualties as they're depicted on paper so to speak
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So what we see here
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So what we see here is I'm associated with a group called international group called panda
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Introduce a plenary group of people from different places in the world. That's uh chaired by nip hudson
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And we recently put out on multiple
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Candles the panda website and then the panda sub stack included
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This um this article does new york city 2020 make any sense and it's eight
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We spelled out eight reasons to doubt the official data. Now these aren't the only reasons
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These are just some eight uh some reasons that sort of lay the foundation for it and the first
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Uh graph. So I think this is what you're referring to is uh daily daily
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I know it it's it's just absurd
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But this is daily deaths from the beginning of 2019
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All the way to the end of 2020
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Uh just a reminder that death is a daily event right your your death when you die when I die will be recorded as occurring on a day
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In a particular location in a particular setting and there will be some causes listed
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Uh by a medical examiner or by a doctor or whomever and the dates down below
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Uh on the x-axis those are looks like one week apart. So those are weeks
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No, they're not this is daily data. It's just that to make the the font a reasonable size
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You necessarily kind of cut out some days, but this is daily dates each of these points is daily
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So, you know, what something I point out to people is we see
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Uh, and I've looked at this data in about a trillion different ways different slices, uh age group
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Uh setting of death cause of death
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We see basically the claim that nothing is going on
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Mortality wise
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No, nothing
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nothing
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And then at around uh on the 18th or so, which is a couple days after
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15 days to slow the spread was announced. Oh my gosh. Why did I just get balloons?
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Did you see the balloons on my screen? Anyway, I did
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I
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I was celebrating 15 days to slow the spread
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15 days to slow the spread
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That didn't happen again. That was fascinating. It's the fbi watching
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um
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I'm just kidding. So we see that
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Massive, I mean just the speed of this
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alone
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Is I realized a huge red flag
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Huge red flag
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based to peak here about
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21 days ish if i'm not mistaken, maybe 22 days
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go from about
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120
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150 ish deaths a day to this is 1200 deaths in a single day
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So the the sense of scale here, I think is something that people still don't grasp
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They think well, there's 8.5 million people that live in New York city
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Sure, you know a lot of people died
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But you have to think about the baseline or the claim to baseline anyway
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That you know really we don't have a thousand people a day dying in New York city
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We have fewer than 200 people a day dying in New York city
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And then we're being asked to believe that
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There was no
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Signal whatsoever in all cause mortality and this is true in New York city, but everywhere
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There's no signal of this super spreading
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Deadly or risk additive pathogen in the data until after
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mass testing in hospitals has commenced and
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The government has given this pathogen permission to show up apparently i mean being facetious
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But permission to show up in all cause mortality and then we see it literally go off like a bomb
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in New York city like
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Nearly no place else in the world except
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Northern some select provinces in northern, Italy a couple weeks before
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Their their events started first. They also started testing in their hospitals first
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So we have northern Italy and New York and then nobody else ever comes close to this scale
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again
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Or the speed