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Aug 5, 2022Liked by Jean Marc Benoit MD

Hey, Bret Sears here. Just wanted to say I always appreciated your twitter posts. I'll keep an eye on your substack for further information if you'll be keeping this up.

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Gday! One thing that might interest you is that after your account got zapped, someone else picked it up and started posting stuff from vancouvertimes.org. They also did this with Dr Mary Bowden from Houston, and with "Roger Grimes?" - I'm misremembering that one.

What's interesting about vancouvertimes is that they appear to be based in Ukraine and London England

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Even if you've had enough of Twitter, I hope they reconsider and restore your account.

I think there's a lot of history there, part of the public record.

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I did notice that, I asked friends to report, not something I wanted my name to be associated with.

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Aug 5, 2022Liked by Jean Marc Benoit MD

So sorry you've been hit. Glad to see you on Substack. Maybe this is better, gives you opportunity to expand on your thoughts...

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You can check what is going on with your name by using Nitter.net, which allows Twitter searches

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It's actually quite an interesting situation. Vancover Times uses "Jason Pires" as the name of its contact person, which is the same as a CTV reporter who is in Vancouver. He is quite annoyed about it.

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I love that idea! For me, dialogue stimulates new ideas, and provides an opportunity to see many sides of an issue. Any suggestions?

At its best, this was Twitter for me. As much as I like to hear myself talk, it's the ability to kibbitz.

Also, joke-telling and wit isn't quite as fun outside of dialogue.

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But the proverbial “health authorities” admit there is a connection between Covid vaccines and myocarditis! The EMA just asked Novavax to add a warning to this effect to its packaging. Novavax, which presumably has a far lower incidence than the mRNA vaxes! The EU knows this and is trying to prevent Novavax from gaining a competitive advantage against its own vax, viz. BioNTech-Pfizer.

Why don’t you, Jessica Rose, Nick Hudson, Igor Chudov, Joel Smalley, etc. all open accounts on the same app/platform and keep the conversation going there? Others will come, including persons such as myself who have not yet had the honor of being nuked by Twitter. You could be the C19-response-critical-accounts-in-exile. I would suggest looking into Minds. GETTR is too much of an American Republican Party ghetto.

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Agree re GETTR. Same is true of GAB, Parler. I looked at Minds, and things seemed so quiet over there. I wonder if telegram provides a chat option?

The other thing I find is happening with Substack is that my inbox is starting to fill up with writings from boriquagato and others. Which I love - however, it'd be nice to see interaction between these thinkers. And some of the molecular types, such as Walter Chestnut, would be nice to see him integrated into this community. And Mike Yeadon. And Geert van der Bossche. For me, it'd be nice if it was on a website, and sort of organized into threads. Ultimately, peer-reviewed literature will catch up, as will honest scientific/medical journalism, but it will take a while.

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I forgot to mention Jonathan Weissman. And there are many others. I haven’t yet tried Minds and am a little wary of the connection to cryptocurrency. I would be perfectly happy with an old fashioned capitalist enterprise that just wants to make money for itself and respects freedom of speech. But all of them will seem quiet if one goes there individually. I’m suggesting a collective action. Virtually all of the best and most influential Covid-policy-critical accounts on Twitter have been nuked and the others are living on borrowed time. If all the exiles went to the *same* platform, then the broader audience would come. The important thing is just that the app/platform works.

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Substack appears to maintain a decent population of exiles. Dr John B and Peter McCullough are the ones that I know of who aren't here - Ryan Cole I don't know if he has written anything - I see video links.

I had envisioned sort of a substack"newspaper" that stuck everyone's writings together. But most of the writing types - such as Berenson or black cat - don't appear to be too interested in dialogue with other writers. Not sure why that is.

A format I could imagine would be interviews - sort of a written version of a podcast

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It’s stupid - I’d just leave it and work on something else like gettr or one of the others

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