Thread by @Gurdur

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'.

4/ polyethylene glycol (PEG) in vaccines: Yeadon + Wodarg write in high hysterics, "This means that many people can develop allergic, potentially fatal reactions to the vaccination", utter bollocks. PEG's been used safely, no-one has died of that.

5/ "much too short duration of the study does not allow a realistic estimation of the late effects", whoopidoo. We have the safety trials, the risk/benefit calculus is clear, you are far more at risk from late effects of COVID_19, not from the vaxx.

6/ antibody-dependent amplification, ADE, i.e. is this damn thing like dengue. Well, we've had the safety trials. No-one has shown any ADE reactions to COVID_19 as yet, the vaccine trials have been very big. Whoopidoo again, COVID_19 is the risk, not the vaccine.

7/ One last argument, how's yer syncytin-1. Again, safety trials have not shown any bad effect there at all. Yeadon + Wodarg completely ignore (of course) that COVID_19 c/w/ould cause exactly the same autoimmune reaction they claim to fear, if the fear has any real basis at all

Just by the by, here's an interesting study on syncytin-1, in relationship to the flu, this time.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

also just by the by, some interesting questions about syncytin-1, as well as small notes about schizophrenia as risk in late reaction to the 1918 flu pandemic virus.

bjgplife.com/2020/05/21/of-…

All in all, you are *much better off* not getting infected with COVID_19, who knows what it might do to you in later life if you're unlucky.

To wit, with the 1918 flu:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

So, while we're talking about HERV's & so on, looks like you're far, far better off, at *far* less risk, with the anti-COVID_19 vaccine than with COVID_19 itself.

Thank-y'all for coming to my TED talk.

I'm pretty sure Yeadon and Wodarg are also anti-face-mask. It's insane; they both downplay the virus at every conceivable opportunity.

https://twitter.com/TheNeuroTimes/status/1334185212624990210

This is just one example of the kind of sheer mindless hysteria that Michael Yeadon is whipping up. He never combats such common results in his threads, so one has to deduce he's fine with it.