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Redefining Reality One Word at a Time

our newspeak dictionary is coming along nicely

Ann Tomoko Rosen
Jul 31, 2022
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Could we have avoided a pandemic entirely had we not tampered with some important definitions?

I can’t help thinking that we might have dodged this whole mess if some powerful people hadn’t messed with linguistics (and gain-of-function research).

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If only the WHO hadn’t changed the definition of pandemic to make way for a “swine flu pandemic” back in 2009…

Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable…

So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?

Simple. It rewrote the definition of "pandemic."

A previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required "simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness." Severity--that is, the number--is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But one promulgated in April just days before the announcement of the swine flu outbreak simply eliminated severity as a factor.

That's also how we can have a "pandemic" when six months of epidemiological data show swine flu to be far milder than the seasonal variety.

If only regulatory agencies didn’t wiggle the bar of “safety” and “efficacy” and promote deadly drugs and ineffective ventilation protocols that did not save lives and likely added to the death toll.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2021/01/31/remdesivir-covid-coronavirus/?sh=4325d02e66c2

the published data lated showed that "remdesivir was not associated with statistically significant clinical benefits [and] the numerical reduction in time to clinical improvement in those treated earlier requires confirmation in larger studies."

…What's weird about remdesivir is that it hasn't been held to the same standards as other drug candidates.

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SomethingInTheWater @iKookAlert
@RealMattCouch So hospitals refuse to use very safe off-label treatments because they may cause harm but are okay with a treatment that has a 95% death rate?
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5:07 PM ∙ Sep 6, 2021
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If only off label use of drugs that have been used for decades didn’t suddenly become controversial at a time when we desperately needed treatment. Imagine if doctors had been free to treat patients using inexpensive and available drugs with known safety profiles.

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Alieta Eck, MD @AlietaEck
“We could have saved 80-85% of those who died if we had given early treatment with hydroxychloroquin, ivermectin, steroids, colchicine, fluvoxamine, antibiotics etc.” Dr Harvey Risch. Why is this government trying to stop these Rx’s for COVID? @P_McCulloughMD @AAPSonline
1:58 AM ∙ Dec 27, 2021
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2015/10/27/nobel-prize-winning-drug-ivermectin-may-fight-malaria/?sh=5b13f3376026

Resurrecting old drugs for unmet medical needs—known more formally as drug repurposing—was an important message in the Nobel Prize for Medicine earlier this month…

More globally, this report of successful repurposing of an old drug, ivermectin, for treating a totally different disease, is another important reminder that, particularly for urgent threats like antibiotic resistant superbugs or neglected diseases, we should reexamine our existing armamentarium. Older drugs, like many older people, are a source rich in treasures.

If only we had used more accurate definitions for “cases” and “COVID deaths”

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Red Sky @Alp_Trader
US definition of a Covid Death
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@PeterRQuinones https://t.co/YFdDHjnt6u
9:55 PM ∙ Jul 21, 2022
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If only the WHO didn’t change the definition of “herd immunity” to render natural immunity useless…

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Tezzi G @tezzig1961
Now why would the WHO change the definition of “herd immunity”. On the left June 2020 and on the right November 2020👇
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1:32 PM ∙ Jul 28, 2022
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Who knows what we could have created using different definitions and parameters?

Thanks to semantics, we constructed a pandemic.

And then we redefined our way out of effective solutions.

A new definition of vaccines gave us a shot that didn’t produce immunity.

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Del Boy @Leedsleeds66
Definition of a vaccine has changed!
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4:59 PM ∙ Jul 17, 2022
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Ian Miller @ianmSC
With four vaccination doses, treatment with Pfizer’s Paxlovid, supposedly “strict isolation procedures” and continued masking, Joe Biden tested positive for COVID yet again today How can anyone support continued mandates after this?
outkick.comJoe Biden Tests Positive for COVID Again After Using Pfizer TreatmentJust a few weeks after the White House announced that Joe Biden had COVID despite being fully vaccinated and boosted twice, news broke Saturday that he
7:40 PM ∙ Jul 30, 2022
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A new lower bar allowed Emergency Use Authorization and liability protection of these “vaccines” to remain even as their efficacy dropped to well below 50%…

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/02/28/pfizer-covid-vaccine-was-just-12percent-effective-against-omicron-in-kids-5-to-11-study-finds.html

A new definition of “anti-vaxxer” made anyone who opposed mandates a potential threat fueled ad hominem attacks against anyone who spoke outside the lines.

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James McDaniel @JamesMcDaniel
@SwipeWright @EricRWeinstein They changed the dictionary definition of “anti-vaxxer” a few months ago to include those who oppose mandates, for exactly this reason.
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4:05 PM ∙ Feb 13, 2022
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Jude @JudyHo60916235
It baffles me that unvaccinated nurses are still banned from work. The Labour government has decided that it is more important to punish the unvaccinated nurses than to provide care for our sick. This ridiculous ideology is causing lots of suffering.
9:34 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
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Meanwhile, a continued push for a “more inclusive definition of health” paves a way for normalizing chronic disease and using all kinds of drugs to manage them.

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Arbuza Regenerate Ltd. @ArbuzaL
COVID-19 has opened our eyes to one thing, that we need a more inclusive definition of health. A definition as "the absence of disease" leaves little space for people with chronic diseases and for managing them in new ways. What is health for you now?
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6:14 AM ∙ Jun 4, 2021

At least we have a new definition just in time to dodge a recession…

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Dr. Eli David @DrEliDavid
🚨 Breaking: Wikipedia just changed the definition of recession from “two consecutive quarters of decline in GDP” to “there is no consensus on definition of recession”, and locked the page for editing 🤡 Ministry of Truth rewriting everything in front of your eyes. _
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2:06 PM ∙ Jul 29, 2022
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unusual_whales @unusual_whales
Doocy: "Why are White House officials are redefining recession?" Jean-Pierre: "We are not redefining a recession." Doocy: "A recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth." Jean-Pierre: "That's not the definition."
10:21 PM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
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But maybe we should stop letting these people define our future. Their pathological ideas have a funny way of becoming our realities.

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Chromatic III @iii_chromatic
Bill Gates Predicts Pandemic 2 In the Next 5 Years, Possibly A Bio Terrorist Attack Colbert Jokes About Gates Celebrating Being Right About Predicting This Pandemic. Why can't he just enjoy his billions and leave us the fuck alone?
1:19 PM ∙ Dec 24, 2021
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humblerock @humblerock
WHO calls Emergency Meeting on #monkeypox threat as US buys millions of monkeypox vaccine doses, just 6 mths after Bill Gates predicts next pandemic will be ‘the pox’, 4 mths after lab monkeys escape truck crash in PA, and 14 months after NTI/MSC runs designer monkeypox war game.
6:25 AM ∙ May 21, 2022
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Our 1984 Newspeak dictionary is in progress. We need to pay attention.

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There are so many more. The WHO also redefined "causality" ..."In the new causality assessment, only reactions that have previously been acknowledged in epidemiological studies to be caused by the vaccine, are classified as a vaccine-product–related-reactions. Reactions observed for the first time during post-marketing surveillance (Phase 4 clinical trial) are not considered as ‘consistent with causal association with vaccine’. All new serious adverse reactions are labelled as coincidental events ‘inconsistent with causal association,’ or ‘unclassifiable’ and the association with vaccine is not acknowledged. (5). It has, in effect, made phase 4 trials redundant."

https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l2268/rr-0

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el gato malo nails it here. https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/sunlight-not-gaslight?r=gt86w&s=r&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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