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.
4/ if this is your *total* response to the pandemic, then maybe you're just irrelevant to anything. Seriously; I happen to think the libertarians have a ton of good points, then they ruin it all all over again, so habitually.

5/ But now, this. As all long-term tweeps know, I'm very aggro about inconsistencies, favoritism, any illogical or deeply unhelpful quarantine responses.
But this, by @JD_Tuccille, is mere hidden, party-partisan shilling for no quarantine measures at all.
reason.com/2020/11/28/pan…
6/ @JD_Tuccille cites Ferguson as, "Ferguson's above-the-law attitude is common among those who feel entitled to write regulations and impose penalties on others for violating them", except Ferguson HAD NO such power to write regulations or impose penalties.
7/ @JD_Tuccille cites Iain Duncan Smith, and quotes, "It risks undermining the Government's lockdown message." In DECEMBER. Does neither @JD_Tuccille nor IDS want to mention the more recent Dominic Cummings, who WAS in a position to write regulations??
8/ @JD_Tuccille then cites some Democratic politicians in the States who were arrogantly hypocritical. Nice cherry-picking work, but the entire thing is, only denouncing all and any quarantine measures, and using populist emo to pretend to be on the side of the 'Little People'
9/ It's all a huge pity. The US libertarians consign themselves to always being the bridesmaid, never the bride. They have no social response to the pandemic to offer, only more endless bitching which too often just devolves into sociopathy.
Don't demand my sympathy for that.
Different Ferguson. The Ferguson in question here is Neil Ferguson, epidemiologist in the UK, who annoyed the government by pointing out, March 16, that UK ICU's would be overwhelmed if the virus was allowed to run riot.
As already said, I personally am very big on detailing idiocies and inconsistencies. Trust me, search my tweets, I've put the boot into WHO, the CDC, and even Pelosi (re Birx). But one lot's asininities don't excuse another lot's cretinisms.

That's a very short way of evading all points, but sure, I've already gathered from others today that it must be Emo Week over there, so sloganize, sloganize, sloganize!

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2 Dec
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".

theguardian.com/society/2020/j…
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.

It involves not just #KieraBell, but another, Mrs. A..
A good start to understanding:
womansplaceuk.org/2020/11/30/kei…
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).

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl… Image
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2 Dec
1/n Another tweep asked me a couple of days ago about concerns around the sheer speed of the British approval of the Pfizer vaccine.

I replied it needed a real expert, not me, to answer, but I do have some thoughts on it all.
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
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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'.
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2 Dec
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.

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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.
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Tomorrow I'll do a full thread on the #KieraBell court case judgment, and on all the issues tackled in it. Lots of very important things in there.
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

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Rampage attack with a car in #Trier, Germany, at least 2 killed and 15 injured. The killer is under arrest:

theguardian.com/world/2020/dec…
Several dead, including a small child, several injured.
The 51-year-old perp has been arrested. No further comment from police as yet.
#Trier:
More on the #Trier amok attack:

bbc.com/news/world-eur…
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