Twitter has officially broken up with me

Too many coffee cups left lying around I guess. I'm sure this has nothing to do with my commentary regarding mRNA vaccine safety, and is not naked interference with my work as a medical advocate

Regarding medical advocacy, for twenty years I was a clinician - seeing patients one at a time and sorting them out to the best of my ability. I was fortunate to be able to do this in many settings - rural Newfoundland, First Nations, ICU, emergency, urgent care. The systems I worked in were adequate and I seldom opened my mouth publicly to advocate for patients, because generally things that needed to get done got done.

With covid, that all changed, and pretty quickly. Part of what happened was that TV and the internet started messing with my patients, and with me. Why was I so afraid? Why was I bleaching my shoes and not touching doorknobs? This led me to Facebook - I started a discussion group at the hospital - and LinkedIn, where I started to discover like-minded thinkers such as Joel Smalley. On both platforms, my aim was to help people calm down, by presenting data that demonstrated it was not the zombie apocalypse.

I think Twitter use began because when LinkedIn kicked off Joel Smalley, I searched and found him on Twitter. Overall, during 2020, Twitter appeared to be the place where open discussion regarding covid was taking place.

There was some weird stuff, such as magnetic injections, but overall I learned a great deal. About six months into covid, in the fall of 2020, I spoke with Mr Randy Hillier, who found me through my writings on Twitter. We spoke over the phone, and he shared his perspective on the politics of covid - something I didn’t understand too well. He conveyed to me the sense that my work in social media was important, and encouraged me to continue working to inform the public about some of the details of covid that weren’t getting covered in the mainstream media.

The rest you know. Twitter became my home as a writer - 280 characters at a time - and as a researcher. Often, my leads regarding new medical or public health info came through Twitter.

It was smooth sailing until May 2021, when I learned to my dismay that Health Canada was going to approve Pfizer BioNTech Acuitas injections for teens. I knew the studies - small, no long-term data re fertility etc. - and corresponded with someone at Health Canada to confirm they had no great data proving safety. Then I went to the media, trying to find someone to publish my concerns. I was fortunate to work with Tamara Ugolini from Rebel News, who interviewed me on the subject. She was already working on the same subject, as it turned out.

Then was an interview with Trish Wood, along with Profs Don Welsh and Byram Bridle. I was less measured in that interview - had been reading about the history of lobotomy and when asked what covid vaccines were reminding me of, you can guess what I said.

Then was the federal petition, then CPSO sent me a notice of investigation in June 2021. This still upsets me a bit, but by this point I had learned to expect friction.

Twitter started flagging my tweets periodically back in 2021 - usually material from VAERS. Later it flagged tweets regarding myocarditis - although I posted on the subject hundreds of times over the past year.

I was suspended by Twitter, appealed and reinstated in 2022. Re-suspended, appealed, never heard back, and de-suspended. And now re-re-suspended, appealed, never had the appeal acknowledged, and now permanently suspended.

Twitter probably didn’t appreciate that my very last tweet was an explict experiment on their algorithm, come to think on it…

WHAT’S NEXT?

Unless Elon Musk or Alex Berenson decide to intervene, it seems that’s it for Twitter. And it is a relief, frankly. However, I liked to imagine that every so often, someone would read something I wrote and might be able to use it to help them in their health care - or just to have a laugh. Substack seems much more like preaching to the choir. I thrive on a certain amount of friction, it seems.

Thank you one and all for your support, peace and/or war be with you, as suits your destiny.

JMB