Apparently now 4 dead. The mayor of Trier, Wolfram Leibe, apparently said that the victims include a nine-month-old baby and a 72-year-old woman. According to one report, time between start of the attack and the arrest of the perp (police rammed his car) was only 4 minutes.
1/n On the #KieraBell court ruling. This is a UK High Court legal review that has been set in motion since January. Defendant: The Tavistock And Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
The NHS England also enters as "Interested Party".
2/ One point here: the #Tavistock, & anybody who cared, have had since January to brush up their data, & their legal arguments, since January. *Plenty* of time.
3/ So what is the #KieraBell legal review case & ruling about?
The prescribing of puberty-suppressing meds to those under the age of 18 who experience #GenderDysphoria, by the #Tavistock, through its Gender Identity Development Service (GIDS).
2/ It's eyebrow-raising, but not a real biggie. Pfizer have submitted the vaccine for general EU emergency conditional approval too. There's always concern with any new vaccine, rightfully so. Corners should never be cut in vaccine safety trials.
3/ That all being said:
a/ The Pfizer & Moderna vaccines look fine. The Brit AstraZeneca one needs a further trial phase.
b/ The UK govt are clearly trying to make up for their incompetence handling the pandemic.
c/ The backlash against the vaccines seems to come mostly from nuts
1/n I regret to inform y'all, the anti-vaxx nutters are out in force, and this time round, Michael Yeadon is helping them, Yeadon has become a total crank on the subject of COVID_19, & now it seems like he's opposed to *any* tackling of the virus or pandemic at all - incl. vaxx
2/n This time round, Yeadon's been joined by Wolfgang Wodarg, a German physician and parliamentary member. Wodarg *also* shows a base attitude of not wanting anything done at all about COVID_19 (he pretends it's nothing, just usual).
3/n The two of them have come up with four 'reasons' to demand that current COVID_19 vaccination programs be halted 'for further study'. Yes, ha ha, the underlying motives are clear. But let's go through the putative 'reasons'.
1/n I am not an economist. But let me help you guys out anyway. Already, for decades, if you want to travel to certain countries, you must display a yellow-fever vaccination certificate. This is not dystopia, this is reality, for a good reason.
2/n If you need a long visa to Finland, and I note you are Finnish, @Lahiss and @mtmalinen, so you might not know this, but as a foreigner you need then proof of travel medical insurance to quite a large amount.
3/n In Finland itself, vaccinations for measles, mumps, rubella, tetanus, diphtheria, pertussis, chickenpox, shingles, pneumonia (for over 65's), meningitis & polio are *routine*.
If you do not understand why this is so, I advise you read some history.
1/n A while back I went to the trouble of looking through an Objectivist (Ayn Rand type) article on a response to the #COVID19 pandemic. I looked at each section, and detailed some large deficiencies
2/ I also looked at a different libertarian detailed 'response' to the pandemic. Unfortunately the author of that flailed around & abused me in an empty way, rather than dealing.
3/ Couple of days ago, I criticised the US Libertarian Party for once more simply ignoring social response to the pandemic, only bitching about individual rights. I lost a tweep over that, who basically told me, "Educate yourself!", except as already clear, I have. Deal with it.
I know, rite? So weird to see the RE-imposition of putative gender-roles, vastly impoverished conceptually, and to see that all called liberation, necessitating radical medical & surgical treatments to be liberated. Like neo-Victoriana but with a scalpel