Thread by @VanessaBeeley

1."620,000, sometimes less if we had a mild winter, sometimes quite a bit higher if we had a severe ’flu season." - average annual deaths in UK. So, number of 42k fm or with #Covid19 0.06% of population.

Michael Yeadon - ex CSO VP, Allergy & Respiratory Research Head Pfizer

2. " Flu vaccines help a little, but on only 3 occasions in the last decade did vaccination reach 50% effectiveness. They’re good, but they’ve never been magic bullets for respiratory viruses. Instead, we have learned to live with such viruses, Medicines & human caring do best"

3. "The (PCR) test cannot distinguish between a living virus and a short strand of RNA from a virus which broke into pieces weeks or months ago."

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@MichaelYeadon3

4. "I believe I have identified a serious, really a fatal flaw in the PCR test" [...] I have no choice but to show that the Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, misled the House of Commons [..] what I have uncovered is of monumental importance to the health and wellbeing of all.."

5. "We now know that lockdown made no difference at all to the spread of the virus."

"I am now resolutely against further interventions in what I have become convinced is a fruitless attempt to ‘control the virus’."

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6. " A virus that kills few, then leaves survivors who are almost certainly immune – a virus to which perhaps 30-50% were already immune because it has relatives and some of us have already encountered them"

7. "Surely they (British Govt) have some evidence?" of the second wave. "I don't think they do".

"Part of the ‘project fear’ that is rather too obvious, involving second waves, has been the daily count of ‘cases’."

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8. "in most so-called cases, those testing positive had no signs or symptoms of illness at all."

"I don’t doubt there have been some cases of asymptomatic transmission, but I’m confident it is not important."

9. "Government decided to call a person a ‘case’ if their swab sample was positive for viral RNA, which is what is measured in PCR"

"All tests have some degree of weakness in generating false positives."

10. "Because of the high false positive rate and the low prevalence, almost every positive test, a so-called case, identified by Pillar 2 since May of this year has been a FALSE POSITIVE."

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11. "Not a quarter or even a half of the positives are FALSE, but around 90% of them. Put simply, the number of people Mr Hancock sombrely tells us about is an overestimate by a factor of about ten-fold. Earlier in the summer, it was an overestimate by about 20-fold."

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12. "This test is fatally flawed and MUST immediately be withdrawn and never used again in this setting unless shown to be fixed. The examples I gave are very close to what is actually happening every day as you read this."

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13. "On September 11th 2020, I was a guest on Julia Hartley-Brewer’s talkRADIO show. Among other things, I called upon Mr Hancock to release evidence underscoring his confidence in and planning for ‘the second wave’. This evidence has not yet been shown to the public by any1."

14. "I have no idea what Mr Hancock’s motivations are. But he has & continues to use hugely inflated output fm a fatally flawed Pillar 2 test & appears often on media, gravely intoning the need for additional interventions. (none of which, I repeat, are proven to be effective)."

15. "There are very serious consequences arising from grotesque over-estimation of so-called cases in Pillar 2 community testing, which I believe was put in place knowingly."

16. "What this huge over-estimation has done is to have slowed the normalisation of the NHS. We are all aware that access to medical services is, to varying degrees, restricted. Many specialities were greatly curtailed in spring.."

17. "Going into winter with this configuration will, on top of the already restricted access for six months, lead inevitably to a large number of avoidable, non-Covid deaths. That is already a serious enough charge."

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18. "In closing, I wish to note that in the last 40 years alone the UK has had seven official epidemics/pandemics; AIDS, Swine flu, CJD, SARS, MERS, Bird flu as well as annual, seasonal flu. All were very worrying but schools remained open and the NHS treated everybody.."

19. "I have explained how a hopelessly-performing diagnostic test has been, and continues to be used, not for diagnosis of disease but, it seems, solely to create fear."

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20. "This misuse of power must cease. All the above costs are on the ledger, too, when weighing up the residual risks to society from COVID-19 and the appropriate actions to take, if any."

Thank you @MichaelYeadon3

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