Thread by @MikeyKayNYC

#COVID19

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1. A key takeaway hitherto in the response to #COVID is the politicisation of some governments’ responses that absolutely do not place the citizen’s health as a priority. More, the response takes a populist theme generated by a base leveraged by a politician 2/

https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1323015020641456128

2. There’s no better example of this populist response to a pandemic leveraged by a politician, than what we’re witnessing in the U.S.

The results of Trump’s populist policies fuelled by his base have created 9 million+ reported cases; 3.6 million recovered: 230,000+ dead. 3/

3. What is critical for us as a society to acknowledge, is twofold:

#1: that politicians like Trump & Farage do not have your best interests as a priority,

#2: and for society to seek trusted medical & scientific evidence to inform what is actually best for themselves 4/

4. #COVID19

Farage was a key player in the disinformation campaign surrounding #Brexit. Look at what he promised and pushed then, and look and understand the reality of where the U.K is today. Now Farage is pushing a more dangerous uneducated opinion that will cost lives.5/

5. #COVID19

If you take anything away from this thread please take this:

The @TheLancet is a highly trusted medical journal writing unequivocally that *herd immunity is a fallacy unsupported by scientific evidence*

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

6. #COVID19

@TheLancet goes on to say:

*Any pandemic management strategy relying upon immunity from natural infections for COVID-19 is flawed*

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7. #COVID19

Another key excerpt in @TheLancet. Acc to the medical experts, Fararge’s policy would only result in recurrent epidemics.

Please read the entire article below. It’s what you need, not Farage’s opinion based on a person vying for power.

thelancet.com/journals/lance…