elephants
Elephants do not forget.
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COVID-19, 2020–2021
Orders, findings and vaccine authorizations on one axis. Each names the instrument behind it, who signed it and when — or says that none was ever published.
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What the US government said about vaccines and transmission
From "data are limited" to "you're not going to get COVID" to "vaccinated people can transmit Delta". Strictly .gov sources: FDA, CDC, MMWR and White House transcripts. No journalism, on any point.
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Origins: the hypotheses, and what they were called
The leading origin hypotheses, what was documented when, how the lab hypothesis was labelled, and Fauci's position throughout. Strict chain of custody: every source is on the record, an institutional document, or named reporting — nothing anonymously sourced. Asserts no origin.
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Shoshin: a beginner's mind updates on the record
Someone with no prior commitment reads both timelines in order and updates one belief per document. Reads the other pages live, so it changes when they change. Every weight is a slider — take the argument away from us.
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Claims under audit: a random sample from someone else’s dataset
Thirty claims drawn at random from a tracker of 3,466, each set beside the document behind it. The events are real; the sentences assert more than the documents do. A different kind of page: it adjudicates somebody else’s work, so the draw was published before the reading and the rules before the draw.