Dr. Ding cautioning he is breaking Twitter rules by telling truth.

[SheltieLover]

Offers subscription to his newsletter.

Link to tweet

[Hekate]

1. Kick

[MontanaMama]

2. Kick.

Dang it.

[SheltieLover]

5. He rocks! Always ahead of the curve & speaks out against CDC when warranted!

[Farmer-Rick]

3. From 0 to 11% surge not good

Will we ever be free of Trump COVID?

[SheltieLover]

6. Probably not.

Keep masking! 😷

[Duppers]

19. YES! TY. KEEP MASKING, folks.

[hlthe2b]

4. +1

[SheltieLover]

8. Thx. I love Dr. Ding.

He is always ahead of the curve & regularly calls CDC out for their bs policies, esp on masks!

[we can do it]

20. He called it way early. Also interested in what he has to say.

[SheltieLover]

23. Yes he did! Because of his tweets, I stocked up on toilet paper & 3M N-95s in Feb. 2020

Before either were a concern in States.

I bought 50 3M N95s for $30, incl shipping.

About 10 days later, the same quantity box was selling for $750 on ebay!

So big ty to Dr. Ding for keeping us alive here...and in tp. (I still have enough tp for about 1.5 more years, a great hedge against inflation since it has way more than doubled in price!)

[we can do it]

28. And we fully stocked pantry, so never ran short on anything.

[SheltieLover]

30. Oh me, too!

Cases of tuna, veggies, etc!

Way ahead of all the shortages, thx go Dr. Ding's heads up!

[Joinfortmill]

7. 👍

[SheltieLover]

9. Thx!

[LymphocyteLover]

10. IMO Feigl-Ding is a bit of a drama queen and doesn't have the best reputation in science twitter

I mean, even here, he's exaggerating what he's doing a lot.

[SheltieLover]

11. He is hardly a drama queen & only antivax people dispute his credibility.

He is always ahead of the curve & hardly afraid to call out CDC for their bs policies.

[markodochartaigh]

13. I agree

I'm a registered nurse and I have seen Dr Feigl-Ding many times on Thom Hartmann. I think that he provides a lot of great information in a completely levelheaded manner.

[SheltieLover]

24. I feel he is way ahead of curve & not afraid to call out CDC for their bs.

[LymphocyteLover]

21. "only antivax people dispute his credibility"-- not true, he is well known for exaggerating

[SheltieLover]

25. Not true

[Celerity]

62. +10000

[Dorian Gray]

63. I have five covid vaccines in me

And i have worked fastidiously on getting my in-laws vaccinated and boosted (they were hesitant), and I think Ding is full of shit.

There are myriad other doctors who give more level headed information. Dr. Eric Topol, Dr. Michael Mina, Mark Lipsitch, @gidmk (health nerd at twitter), Dr. Tara C. Smith, Dr. Seema Yasmin.

There are so many who give fantastic info about vaccines and the various variants out there.

I implore everybody to follow people on twitter who are giving good strong info about all of this.

The catastrophic nature of Ding's posts are problematic for many reasons.

He also created something called the World Health Network... which is an obviously problematic name for an organization. Through this org's twitter feed he pushed alarmist info about Monkey Pox and other diseases. It's obviously he was looking for people to confuse the organization with the WHO... and take his information as gospel.

[Celerity]

68. +10000

[LymphocyteLover]

71. Yes, definitely. There are 100s of great scientists on twitter. All those you list are excellent.

Topol is a regular go-to for me, but I also like @VirusesImmunity and @macroliter

[Dorian Gray]

73. Thanks for the recommendations!

[LymphocyteLover]

32. here's a good example-- called Monkeypox a new pandemic back in July

Link to tweet

?s=20&t=r_nIpGuVsDMEPdEayuuWKg

[beaglelover]

45. Oops, he was sure wrong that time! LOL!!

[SheltieLover]

27. +1,000!

[Beautiful Disaster]

33. He absolutely is an alarmist and not helpful.

If you read his tweets over the last year-plus, you'd think we would have 10s of million dead from COVID just in the US alone.

[NNadir]

35. I absolutely agree. He is incompetent to discuss the topic of Covid, and is Dr. Ozian in...

...manner and form.

This is my opinion in any case as a person who looks at this issue to some extent using the primary scientific literature.

[BannonsLiver]

37. He's totally bonkers

If it were up to Ding everyone would be on a lockdown in perpetuity. He’s the guy who the anti vax Covid mask truther crazies use whenever they want to mock those who take precautions. He’s a total embarrassment. A disgrace to his profession.

[beaglelover]

44. Agree.

[LymphocyteLover]

54. Yes. He's basically a joke to most public health experts and epidemiologists I know on Twitter

[Dorian Gray]

64. yep

[Elessar Zappa]

38. Agree.

I consider him somewhat of a nutjob, to be honest. He’s not credible.

[Dorian Gray]

60. "a bit..."

understatement of the year. lol. But you're absolutely right.

[littlemissmartypants]

12. ❤️

[SheltieLover]

15. Thx, Pants!

[littlemissmartypants]

17. You're welcome! ❤️

[SheltieLover]

18. ...

[spooky3]

14. I hope the TSA re-institutes the mask mandate on planes

I won’t fly again until they do.

[SheltieLover]

16. I wouldn't get on a plane or cruise ship for anything these days.

Funny how the qpukes quit assaulting flight crews since they started being fined, isn't it?

They should try it with tfg & qpuke ruskie assets in Congress!

[spooky3]

39. ITA!

[SheltieLover]

26. It was actually Delta Airlines who asked for CDC to make quarantine shorter.

I might be able to find article. If I can, I'll post here for you. I think it might have been CNN? Going hunting.

[spooky3]

31. Here is a description of the SCOTUS ruling allowing TSA to reinstitute the mandate

https://www.forbes.com/sites/suzannerowankelleher/2022/11/01/supreme-court-allows-tsa-to-issue-mask-mandates/?sh=52d3108e3c01

[SheltieLover]

29. Here is article about Delta crying to CDC.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/21/delta-asks-cdc-to-cut-quarantine-guidelines-for-breakthrough-covid-citing-workforce-impact-.html

[spooky3]

40. Thanks! Nt

[SheltieLover]

41. Yw!

👍

[bronxiteforever]

34. Kick & recommend. Thanks SheltieLover for posting.

Valuable and scary info.

[SheltieLover]

43. Yw, Bronxite!

It sure is!

[BannonsLiver]

36. If Musk throws that hair on fire cretin off Twitter it would be a huge improvement

He’s absolutely bonkers.

[SheltieLover]

47. See #46

[BannonsLiver]

49. No need. I've read the fanzine posts before.

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It’s actually easy to not take him seriously. Few of his peers do.

Also, how many “Harvard epidemiologists” are lying about getting censored on Twitter while trying to get their fans to migrate over to his “new thing” so he can monetize/panhandle for money?

Why does a supposed health expert with a presumably well paying job need to make money off a public health crisis?

[SheltieLover]

51. He is not selling or promoting anything other than truth.

[BannonsLiver]

52. He's literally asking for contributions in the tweet you posted.

🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦

[SheltieLover]

53. "It's free to subscribe--COVID news will always be free, though support welcome" is hardly begging

For $.

Not sure what your issue is with this well-respected man.

Have a lovely evening.

[Dorian Gray]

65. well respected by whom?

There are plenty of people who have a very healthy suspicion for him.

[BannonsLiver]

69. My issue with him is that he is an alarmist crank.

Alex Jones vibes.

[Sympthsical]

42. He got too addicted to the clicks and eyeballs during Covid

And now he ramps Everything. Up. To. 11!

I read him early on, but he started being far more alarmist than the scientific literature warranted. I think he realized anxious, panicked people would spread his message more across Twitter.

Eyeballs are good for landing on TV and enhancing your brand as a commentator.

It is true BQ is more resistant to treatment with monoclonal antibodies, but the bivalent vaccine is also effective against the strains.

What he's angling at is to induce a panic to go back into lock downs - he's selling fear.

Good for him. Terrible for policy and just not particularly useful to where we are with all this.

[SheltieLover]

46. I've been reading him for over 2 5 yrs daily & never seen him be wrong.

He provides credible charts, graphs, excerpts from scientific papers & memos.

Hard to dispute that track record from a Harvard epidemiologist.

[Sympthsical]

48. People have their motives

In my microbiology class, we've been following Covid updates all semester. We had a project on it, and now we take time every week during lecture to discuss latest updates and things. So, we're encouraged to read and discuss all the latest scientific news and materials.

What he's discussing is familiar to me, however how he is presenting it to the layperson public is absolutely alarmist. Hell, I know what he's talking about, and I could feel my anxiety level rise a bit while reading through and seeing how he is presenting the information.

Some salespeople want to sell you a car. And some salespeople want to SELL you . . . a CAR!!!!!!!!!

He's the latter sort, which I don't think is helpful. We'd be a society of shut-ins and paranoics if everyone listened to him regularly.

[SheltieLover]

50. But in 2.5 years, I've never seen him attempt to sell or promote anything but truth.

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[Sympthsical]

57. We just experience him differently

And that's totally ok.

I like boring information. Right now, I'm going through a study about using cephalosporins instead of fluoroquinolones to treat kidney infections. (Narrow band antiobiotic vs broad band in order to combat drug resistance).

And it is just the driest read in human history. And that's my jam.

[SheltieLover]

58. I guess so & I'm good with agreeing to disagree.

Sounds like interesting work you are doing!

Maybe Dr. Ding is trying to get the attention of those who are anti-vax & anti-mask?

[Dorian Gray]

66. He as extremely wrong

in that he thrives on creating panic about covid. That is morally and ethically wrong.

And 2) he completely misrepresented Monkey Pox.

[LymphocyteLover]

55. Yes, exactly

[Meowmee]

56. I will be subscribing to his blog and

I am glad he is leaving twitter.

[Dorian Gray]

59. Ding

is an alarmist for clicks.

Sorry but there are better sources of information on twitter about all this stuff.

Any epidemiologist or virologist who starts multiple tweets with MOTHER OF GOD is doing a disservice to the world. Alarmism at the expense of science.

[Celerity]

61. Ding is an alarmist hack who predicted hundreds of thousands would die here in Sweden by spring 2021

33 months in from the start of the pandemic here, the actual number is 20,721.

[Dorian Gray]

67. Yes

And also while he was being alarmist about school closures in the USA... he moved his family to Switzerland (I believe) where his kid could keep going to school.

He's a hypocrite.

[live love laugh]

70. Sounds like a way to attack Biden's CDC.

[LymphocyteLover]

72. "BQ.1s & XBBs are not causing a deadly wave of infections in world"

Link to tweet