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"The peak of infections was two weeks before we locked down." Image
"There's always a surge in respiratory illnesses in Europe during autumn." Image
"European Countries are sadly getting clobbered by the China Virus." ImageImage
"Switzerland is doing better than most." ImageImage
"Respiratory deaths rise in Northern countries at this time of year." Image
"I'm going to go out on a limb and predict there will be no 'second spike' - not now, and not in autumn either. The virus has melted into thin air." Image
"Only a small increase in bed demand. No pandemic." Image
"Scotland is not doing better than the rest of the UK." ImageImage
"The number is almost nothing. Because we’ve gotten control of this thing, we understand how it works. They have the therapeutics to be able to deal with this." ImageImage
"Trust your eyes, not the fake news." ImageImage
"It's called the autumn. Every autumn we see an increase in respiratory diseases. It happens every single year." Image
"It's called the autumn. Every autumn we see an increase in respiratory diseases. It happens every single year." Image
"Lockdowns don't work." Image
"In all of them the epidemic is now (in terms of positive test results) either in decline or plateauing." ImageImage
"Switzerland and Austria - the new Swedens?" Image
"Sweden settled in for the long haul, and now doesn't need to worry about a second surge."

@DanielJHannan Image
"Covid deaths in Sweden remain low."

@ClarkeMicah ImageImage
"So many on Twitter dancing on the head of a pin when it comes to Sweden because they don’t like the data."

@afneil Image
"Sweden settled in for the long haul, and now doesn't need to worry about a second surge."

@DanielJHannan Image
"Lockdowns don't work." Image
"There hasn’t been a 'second spike' anywhere. Not in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Holland, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland... not in any US states… nowhere. Utter balls."

@toadmeister Image
"I’ve asked so many people if they know anyone who has had Covid. Hardly anyone. Two people knew someone (not close) who’d died. Without daily news would we even know there was an epidemic?"

@AllisonPearson Image
"We want them infected." ImageImage
"General infection rates and respiratory diseases always go up in September and October. I've had a cold every September since my daughter started nursery."

@JuliaHB1 Image
"Sadly, we are still not following Sweden. Why, don't you think it would be a good idea?"

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"The entire WORLD is being badly hurt by the China Virus."

@realDonaldTrump Image
"Despite a supposedly deadly second wave..."

@ClarkeMicah Image
"Sweden settled in for the long haul, and now doesn’t need to worry about a second surge."

@DanielJHannan Image
"It's December. Respiratory disease hospitalisations rise every winter."

@JuliaHB1 Image
"Vitally important that people understand that 'infections' (as BBC call them, actually positives, often without symptoms) are reflection of the number of tests done, not a measure of the level of illness."

@ClarkeMicah ImageImage
Feb.
"The coronavirus isn't going to kill you."

May.
"There hasn't been a 'second spike' anywhere."

Jul.
"Let's relax and accept the risk."

Aug.
"At what point do we declare the pandemic over?"

Dec.
"Without daily news would we even know there was an epidemic?"

Meanwhile. Image
"I’ve asked so many people if they know anyone who has had Covid.

Hardly anyone.

Two people knew someone (not close) who’d died.

Without daily news would we even know there was an epidemic?"

@AllisonPearson Image
"Let's relax and accept the risk."

@ClarkeMicah Image
"Over 42 million [UK citizens] must have had it and are thus ‘effectively vaccinated’ and cannot transmit."

Sure.

@LanceForman Image
"They're still doing a lot better than us."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"I'm happy with Sweden, thanks."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"Endemic seasonal virus. Causing respiratory disease. In winter."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"I wish we'd done what Sweden did."

@JuliaHB1 Image
"A not-very-severe outbreak of disease which is largely over."

@ClarkeMicah ImageImage
"What I can tell you is that we truly did everything we could."

@BorisJohnson Image
"Winter respiratory viruses have one, or two, winter peaks. The fact every country has falling cases is wonderful news and evidence of endemicity."

@ClareCraigPath ImageImage
"Endemic seasonal virus. Causing respiratory disease. In winter."

@JuliaHB1 Image
"Do lots of tests, you'll get lots of positives. But it will only mean that you have... done lots of tests."

@ClarkeMicah ImageImageImage
"The rates of both deaths and hospital admissions will soon dwindle to nothing."

@AllisonPearson ImageImage
"The fact every country has falling cases is wonderful news and evidence of endemicity."

@ClareCraigPath ImageImage
"It is absolutely undeniable that Brexit has saved lives." ImageImage
"The virus kills. It just isn’t causing excess deaths anymore."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"Always happy to mention Sweden."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImageImage
"Winter resurgence has collapsed resoundingly in Europe."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"Respiratory disease cases go up in the autumn and winter in the northern hemisphere."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"Deaths will go up in January because they go up in January EVERY year. It's called 'winter'."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"Who's joining me on a delegation to Stockholm to ask the Swedes to take charge of our Covid policy?"

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"If people were dropping dead in the street we would notice."

@MorrisseyHelena ImageImage
"The summer squashes the viral activity."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"Herd immunity is closer than we think."

@toadmeister ImageImage
"Be not afraid. Take off your mask."

@LPerrins ImageImageImage
"It's now a seasonal endemic virus."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"There is and was no pandemic."

@LPerrins ImageImage
"COVID will be another seasonal infection from now on."

@ClareCraigPath ImageImage
"Nobody talks about Uruguay, even more impressive than Sweden."

@DaFeid ImageImage
"Have confidence in your immune system, it's old enough."

@denisrancourt ImageImage
"Embrace viruses and abandon fear."

@denisrancourt ImageImage
"Thank you seasonality and natural community immunity for turning the winter resurgence curve down."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"COVID will be another seasonal infection from now on."

@ClareCraigPath ImageImageImageImage
"Respiratory disease cases go up in the autumn and winter in the northern hemisphere."

@JuliaHB1
"A seasonal respiratory disease."

@toadmeister ImageImage
"The UK never recorded even close to 2,000 deaths a day."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"There is and was no pandemic."

@LPerrins ImageImage
"The thing is endemic with loads of immunity (e.g. see massive extent in India)."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"India is bristling with antibodies."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"The other novel coronaviruses this millennium have not produced second waves and there's been no second wave of this novel coronavirus anywhere in the world."

@toadmeister ImageImage
"Thank you seasonality and natural community immunity for turning the winter resurgence curve down."

@FatEmperor ImageImage
"The other novel coronaviruses this millennium have not produced second waves and there's been no second wave of this novel coronavirus anywhere in the world."

@toadmeister ImageImage
"Germany reached herd immunity weeks ago."

(from August 2020)

@Tony__Heller ImageImageImage
"Respiratory disease cases go up in the autumn and winter in the northern hemisphere."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImageImageImage
"Thank you seasonality and natural community immunity for turning the winter resurgence curve down."

@FatEmperor ImageImageImageImage
"It was not vaccination that brought down the number of Covid cases in the UK, it was herd immunity of disease."

@OsmarTerra ImageImage
"Pandemics end with herd immunity without a vaccine, as is now the case in Sweden."

@OsmarTerra ImageImage
"A seasonal endemic virus."

@dockaurG ImageImage
"Respiratory disease cases go up in the autumn and winter in the northern hemisphere."

@JuliaHB1 ImageImage
"There should be no expectation of a large scale ‘second wave’ with smaller localised outbreaks when the virus contacts pockets of previously uninfected populations."

(from September 2020)

@LD_Sceptics @toadmeister ImageImageImage
"What evidence *was* there, precisely, at the end of August that there would be a 'second wave'?"

@ClarkeMicah ImageImageImageImage

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"It will be over by Christmas." Image
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