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Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช

Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช

@mitrouscience

FRCSC @westernusurgery | MD @schulichmeddent | PhD @SFU | blocked by @DrWakefield and @stkirsch

London, Ontario ๊ฐ€์ž…์ผ Nisan 2014
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Dirt Diggler@alpine_andrewยท
@jonathanstea @mypeabrain @famdocparker1 Hey mr. beta bun cuck. I just looked at your profile and see that you are psychologist. Not a medical doctor. So Iโ€™m wondering how you know that your stance on the issue is 100% right and Iโ€™m completely wrong.
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Don Lewis
Don Lewis@hamgrayยท
@mitrouscience @DrSusanOliver1 I believe the data was anonymized. Since tax payers are ultimately paying for these "vaccination" programs the people should be free to see the data with a depersonalised data set.
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Dr Susan Oliver (PhD)
Dr Susan Oliver (PhD)@DrSusanOliver1ยท
Steve Kirsch uses illegally obtained record level data to show the world that he is clueless about epidemiology. Even Cindy was shaking her head.
The Real Truther@thereal_truther

๐Ÿšจ Steve Kirsch PROVES the Covid vaccines aren't killing people! Last night at MIT @stkirsch gave a presentation using illegally acquired "record level data" from New Zealand. While Steve claimed the data "proves" the vaccines are "killing" at high rates in reality the data is reassuring & strong evidence the vaccines are NOT causing mortality. Let's break it down! We'll start by comparing highly vaccinated Sweden to highly vaccinated New Zealand. In 2020 Sweden had ~7% excess mortality largely driven by Covid. In 2020 New Zealand had ~ 7% NEGATIVE excess mortality largely driven by keeping all infectious diseases out of the country, including Covid. In 2021 Sweden vaccinated 86% of their 18+ population & had no excess mortality. In fact, their younger ages (20-44) have had negative excess in every year since 2021. In 2021 New Zealand vaccinated over 90% of their 12+ population & continued to have negative excess mortality. Vaccination did not lead to increased mortality in either country. Steve's record level data confirms what we already knew. Vaccines do not correlate to increased mortality in the weeks after vaccination. Steve's own data shows death rates lower than baseline death rates in the weeks following vaccination. Thanks, Steve! How about months after for younger ages? After everyone under the age of 60 received an average of 1 vaccine dose in New Zealand the death rate didn't move in every year since, even during COVID waves. Steve's own data shows any "increase" months after vaccination is only seen in older age-groups. As @jsm2334 notes he hides this by only presenting charts of older ages and all ages combined. Steve claims the vaccines are killing at rates of 1 person per 1,000 doses. Highly vaccinated younger age-groups in New Zealand don't even have a mortality rate of 1/1000 for ALL CAUSES COMBINED, meaning his claim is mathematically impossible for those ages. How about months after for older ages? With New Zealand having historic negative excess mortality in 2020-2021 when they opened the borders & Covid along with other infectious diseases returned mortality was always going to return to baseline. This was inevitable regardless of whether they vaccinated a single person. The vaccinated stay BELOW baseline when the first doses are given which implies a strong & long HVE effect, despite Steve claiming otherwise. But according to the central value theorem if there is a time period below baseline, then later times must be above baseline in order for that baseline to hold over time. Which means any increased mortality is not "excess mortality" or "vaccine deaths" but simply a return to baseline. Steve exploits this inevitable "rise" to trick his followers into believing this proves the vaccines are "killing." Again, Steve assumes, without any evidence, that any increase after 30 days are "vaccine deaths" but he completely ignores the fact that even after 30 days the death rate for the vaccinated is still FAR below the population baseline rate! In 2017 the death rate for 70-79 year-olds in the New Zealand population was just over 20 per 1000 person-years, which shows that they are FAR below baseline for the first 3-4 months & don't reach baseline until about 6 months.ย  Once again, this rise is NOT "vaccine deaths" but a return to baseline. What does the mortality rise in 2022 correlate to? Covid! The periods of increased mortality in 2022 correspond directly to the two Covid waves New Zealand experienced. For example in the 80 year-old group the median time of the 1st dose was August 10, 2021. Looking at his data you see spikes of 2 dose and to a smaller degree 1 dose between Week 30 & 35, and again between week 50 & 55.ย  This corresponds directly to March and April 2022 in the first wave of Covid deaths, and then July to August 2022 in the second wave of Covid deaths. Steve completely neglected to mention COVID in his presentation. I wonder why? What about comparing to unvaccinated? The biggest limitation in Steve's data is that he doesn't have an unvaccinated control group to compare to. Which means he can't prove any rise 4-6 months after vaccination is higher in vaccinated vs unvaccinated. Of course actual studies using record level data have shown the unvaccinated dying at higher rates! ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/Pโ€ฆ What about comparing death rates pre-covid to post-vaccination? @Thoughtfulnz has compiled great data on this. Every age group in New Zealand has lower death rates post-vaccination (Feb 21 - Sep 23) compared to pre-Covid. (Feb 17 - Sep 19.) Every. Single. One. Age: Post-Vax | Pre-Covid Under 60s: 23.1 | 23.6 60-79: 262.8 | 269.0 80 and over 1850.7 | 1933.9 If vaccines were killing people at significant rates this would not be possible. In conclusion as @Thoughtfulnz shows below using the proper age-standardized death rate you'll see while New Zealand has seen an increase in raw deaths this is simply because there are a lot more older people. Deaths are up but death RATES are down. And vaccination didn't lead to any increase. Those who claim otherwise are ignoring the historic drop in 2020 in mortality and the older population rise. Following a significant drop in 2020 & 2021 in New Zealand mortality simply returned to baseline. End of story. Once again, @stkirsch got it wrong.

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Don Lewis
Don Lewis@hamgrayยท
@DrSusanOliver1 What is illegal about obtaining record-level data? I thought the whole idea of science was that data should be free (as in open) so it could be independently verified and analysed.
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Ron Barbosa MD FACS
Ron Barbosa MD FACS@rbarbosa91ยท
Me (in the red trunks) trying to get Microsoft Word to do what I want it to do.
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Bo Lovvorn
Bo Lovvorn@BoLovvornยท
@rbarbosa91 A flat knot is a flat knot, whether throwing 1 or 2 handed, instrument tying or laparoscopy. The direction in which one throws it, is the direction in which one pulls it. Vectors must be 180 degrees opposite. Any of the above achieves that physics. #PhillyPretzel! @VUMCSurgRes
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Ron Barbosa MD FACS
Ron Barbosa MD FACS@rbarbosa91ยท
(Occasionally) requesting that residents tie knots using a 2-handed technique, mostly to have them practice tying this way, is a useful activity.
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Keith Siau
Keith Siau@drkeithsiauยท
Display at the Body Worlds exhibition. Whatโ€™s the diagnosis?
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Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช
@jonathanstea Same reasoning: We recorded every house fire in the last 20 years. In all of them, a fire truck was present. Therefore the presence of a fire truck causes house fires.
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Dr. Jonathan N. Stea
Dr. Jonathan N. Stea@jonathansteaยท
โ€œPost hoc ergo propter hocโ€ is one of the most powerful fallacies of human logic. It also features prominently in both alternative medicine and anti-vaccine beliefs.
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Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช
@dr_jon_l It often seems like for Dr. Makis here the lower the quality of evidence the more convincing it is. Not a unique trait.
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Jonathan Laxton MD, FRCPC ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ
Makis, who was NEVER a haematological oncologist and has no current medical license, has taken to giving out (bad) medical advice to people suffering from acute leukaemia. His evidence? An article from a predatory MDPI journal.
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David Wolfe
David Wolfe@DavidWolfeยท
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@nelson_rosen @rbarbosa91 The vascular surgeons (at least at my institution) tie one handed and repeat the same half hitch i.e. not square when they tie a vascular anastomosis. How does this align with the sensation that 2 handed knots are somehow the gold standard? Iโ€™m just a trainee and actually curious
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Dr. Nelson Rosen
Dr. Nelson Rosen@nelson_rosenยท
@rbarbosa91 Most struggle at it. 1-handed tie is a fetish and overwhelming majority are only competent at that. When it counts they either do slip knots, or fumble the 2-hand. Please make ur trainees learn both and MASTER both. Personally donโ€™t care if they master 1-hand, no advantage to it.
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Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช
@rbarbosa91 Of the >15 general surgeons at my institution I have only ever seen one of them ever use a two handed tie. Is it a Canada/America difference?
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Peter Hon
Peter Hon@pamchenko2ยท
@rbarbosa91 Is there any other way than 2H to tie the looped PDS on fascia?
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Luiz
Luiz@__luzid__ยท
ALL vaccines are unnecessary. Therefore, you get 0% benefit. 100% risk. Always.
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Brent Lee
Brent Lee@BrentLeeSDCICยท
Sometimes the universe is a giver of gifts... today I had two. Dear conspiracy theorists, if you can not be trusted to get the simplest and most basic details correct, why should anyone trust you with the important stuff? I barely trust you to boil an egg these days.
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Nick Mitrou ๐Ÿ’‰๐Ÿ”ฌ๐Ÿ”ช
@panzer_VI @goddek I have done quite a lot actually. I just did not want to use a personal anecdote as an argument. It makes more sense just to point out the physical properties of a surgical mask canโ€™t really have this effect on oxygen.
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jagdtigger
jagdtigger@panzer_VIยท
@mitrouscience @goddek "The pore size of a surgical mask is far too large to do anything to oxygen flow." Try doing physical work with it on and you will realize how wrong you are......
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Dr. Simon Goddek
Dr. Simon Goddek@goddekยท
I'm so tired of still seeing these "but surgeons wear masks!!!1111one" arguments: โ–ช๏ธSurgeons don't wear masks to protect others from viruses. โ–ช๏ธThey wear masks because of splash-back from bodily fluids and to prevent bacterial infections in open wounds. โ–ช๏ธEvidence suggests they might not prevent bacterial infections either. โ–ช๏ธInstead, masks just starve our brains of oxygen, making us docile and easy to control. #FactsMatter
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