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New thread consolidating all the “only 6%” takes inspired by this misinformation, introduced to Twitter by a QAnon follower 2 days ago. I’m creating this thread because there are *so many* 6% takes, and I don’t want them to overwhelm all other content. https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1299902179587903490
This earlier thread explains why it’s wrong. Basically: CDC changed nothing, deaths are much higher than normal, and most common conditions are pneumonia and respiratory failure—caused by COVID! Lots o’ folks have hypertension, diabetes & are obese too. https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1300478066448269317
I don’t remember another single lie spreading this fast before. Undoubtedly it was helped by Donald Trump’s retweet. (Both the original and therefore this retweet were removed by Twitter yesterday.) https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1300275855646752768
Besides Trump, lots of other well-known blue checkmark accounts spread the original tweet, headlined by Dinesh D’Souza… https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1299912607365763074
And the idea was spread by athletes-turned pundits… https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1300216059446820866
And other political hacks. https://twitter.com/BadCOVID19Takes/status/1300156844850262018
This thread will log all examples of this stupid phenomenon.
First up, did I say Twitter deleted the tweet Trump retweeted? Well, turns out that when a blue checkmark tweets the same nonsense published by another blue checkmark (gatewatpundit), Twitter won’t touch it.
