Guiding principles to voting in the time of medical authoritarianism

From the 2020 presidential election, but still applies today. Maybe more so.

Mark Changizi

Nov 07, 2022

[You can also link to the Twitter thread version of this here.]

Vote for anyone who does NOT believe that you can "freeze" the economy.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

We learned that people actually believe that - you can "freeze" the economy - the economy has little relation to health - there's no large apocalyptic risks with stopping the economy - suspending civil rights en masse is no big deal, and stop fussing about "freedom" like a kid.

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie

Anyone who thinks we can turn the economy off and on like a light switch is economically illiterate. We must open our economy back up before even more permanent damage is done. https://t.co/eyirXfqftL

2. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe that mandatory masking of our human identity, facial expressions, breathing holes is no big deal.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

MASK NUTSHELL ~ Most are asymptomatic ~ Asymptomatic spread not main driver ~ Virus “smokes” through & around ~ Covid has flu-like risks ~ Masks harm ----cardiovascular ----falls (poor vision below, fogged glasses) ----skin wounds ----wrecked socio-emotional behavior ----dental

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Masks down-sides threads: GENERAL https://t.co/uxSY3Voxxa EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS https://t.co/v34ZopReMl FALLS https://t.co/qW3V1eNHYQ CARDIOVASCULAR https://t.co/McEjOKH1oI FACE WOUNDS https://t.co/jWLmm2np9f NOT FOR EVERYONE EVERYWHERE ALWAYS https://t.co/6WZfWm5o37

3. Vote for anyone who does NOT want to hoist their religion upon you.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

The Lockdown religious cult. ~ Believed initially on faith (“common sense”) ~ Impervious to evidence they did nothing ~ Demand that all else must be sacrificed ~ Requires unrelenting devotion and asceticism ~ Promises forever life ~ Moral outrage for any who protest

4. Vote for anyone who does NOT treat you as a guinea pig.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

They experimented on us without our consent. These interventions — lockdowns, masks — were not only not common sense, they were explicitly rejected as notions prior to the pandemic, with no evidence supporting them. https://t.co/41omZHa9qq

5. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe being called an "authoritarian" is flattering.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

If “authoritarian” sounds like an epithet, well, it should.

6. Vote for anyone who does NOT treat real life like SimCity.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Authoritarians have now had their appetites whetted. Doubly so, from lockdowns to curfews. The threshold has been lowered to try other forced societal transformations only previously allowed in SimCity, China and Cambodia. https://t.co/r5JOn4vlxw

7. Vote for anyone who is NOT likely to ever refer to "black swans."

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

15. The greatest low-risk black swan dangers for humans are the stuff other humans do. Riots, revolutions, wars, human-induced famine, and so on. Playing with civil rights en masse while devastating the economy -- what could go wrong?

8. Vote for anyone who is NOT so pretentious that draconian levels of civil rights violations are "common sense."

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Lockdowns were NOT common sense measures. They were hysterical reactions out of fear. Here are 15 of just some of the reasons why it was not common sense. (I’m not including all the reasons we have NOW to see they were a bad idea.)

9. Vote for anyone who does NOT believe it is wise for a leader to purposely induce fear and hysteria.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

The moral of coronavirus19 will be that social contagion via social networks is more dangerous than biological contagion.

10. Vote for anyone NOT likely to be who snitches vote for.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Righteously angry Karens accosted our group at @DeltaSkyClub tonight in Atlanta as we say eating and drinking at our chairs. We were a danger to everyone because we were not placing our masks back on between bites, between drinks.

11. Vote for anyone NOT supported by cancel weasels.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Why not just ban my speech altogether? For the SAFETY. https://t.co/qvIZPx7TO2

12. Vote for anyone NOT turning a blind eye to the insulting new tiered class distinction, where hundreds of millions of service industry employees toil faceless, serving their unmasked clients eating, enjoying.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

Appalling result of mask mandates is you have world of hundreds of millions of service industry employees working faceless, serving their unmasked, with-face clients eating, enjoying.

13. Vote for anyone NOT believing the science suddenly changed when it was politically convenient.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

0/ 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 💥 Important 2005 — pre-COVID!! — study from the Technical University of Munich showing harmful effects of extended face mask wearing. Cardiovascular, motor, and psychological issues that frankly should be obvious to anyone. <thread>

14. Vote for anyone NOT attributing the devastating effects of lockdowns as "consequences of the pandemic."

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

“Two out of every five adults interviewed between May and June reported that their household had lost its main source of income since the lockdown started. This has had devastating consequences for household food security and hunger.”

theconversation.comSouth Africa faces mass hunger if efforts to offset impact of COVID-19 are easedSouth Africans have experienced significant shocks to their livelihoods, and the threat of hunger presents a major concern for health, political and social stability.

15. Vote for anyone NOT making an Islamic mullah embarrassed for him because of the level of micromanagement.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

If your position leads you to very specific prescriptions about what other people should wear, how far they should be standing from one another, and how frequently they can take a sip between masking up, then perhaps you should rethink your position.

16. Vote for anyone NOT holding positions on science designed so as to be able to get invited to the right parties.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

If your BS alert had never gone off for climate change, ...and it didn’t go off for COVID hysteria, then you might want to begin thinking differently.

Michael Shellenberger @ShellenbergerMD

On behalf of environmentalists, I apologize for the climate scare Climate change is real but it's not the end of the world It's not even our most important environmental problem I am delivering my apology in the form of a book I hope you accept it https://t.co/l99Ixjd3Cf

17. Vote for anyone NOT characterizing his political opponents as the modern day version of witches. (Racist, Fascist, white supremacist, deplorable, ...)

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

“With almost no intellectual opponents remaining, campus radicals have lost the ability to engage with arguments and resort instead to the lazy alternative of name-calling: Opponents are all “fascists,” “racists” or “white supremacists.” “ ...witches. https://t.co/NNa13l5tW3

18. Vote for anyone NOT blind to the disproportionate suffering from lockdowns of the lower incomes.

Mark Changizi, misinformation oracle @MarkChangizi

——LOCKDOWNS CRUSH—— Low wage Leisure & hospitality workers hit industry devastated hardest, flattened at 50%. not recovered.