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2 Jan, 4 tweets, 4 min read
This may be a storm petrel, it may not be at all. The new #LondonVariant may be just making its presence more widely known among those under 65 by sheer force of more transmission, higher R0, or it may point to something else. Very indistinct as yet.
This is very true. Is it the new #LondonVariant? Is it just governmental mismanagement, including defunding the NHS for years, plus MSM press idiocy & misinformation from the likes of @IsabelOakeshott & @allisonpearson? Something else? Or a combination?
The warning that @zeynep writes here is very true. It may yet turn out to be a false alarm. But taking no new action would be completely disasterous if it turns out to be a real problem.

theatlantic.com/science/archiv…
Via @lucaxx85: the new #LondonVariant (#VOC202012_01? #B117? #B_1_1_7??) seems well established to be much more transmissable.
imperial.ac.uk/news/211793/ne…
This is a disaster that cannot be allowed to happen elsewhere.

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4 Jan
1/ I'm going to tackle this one very directly & separately in public, because the target of @allisonpearson's hate campaign has expressed suicidal ideation. It has been suggested to me publicising his name is not in his interests.
2/ I *strongly* suggest that serving the victim's needs is best done by exposing @allisonpearson and her lackadaisical relationship with the truth, in the context of her spiteful attacks on the victim.
3/ If the only way to stop @allisonpearson's hate-campaign against him was by revealing his name (already published a whole lot of times by @allisonpearson, with 83.1K followers; I have 8.3K, a tenth), then I'll stick to what I've done. Let's NOT pretend my addition will hurt him
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New thread on #AllisonPearson! Continuing from the old thread linked below
2/n Just an idle note on the irony: now that Brexit has happened, UK citizens may not be able to charge the NHS for costs of a knee-operation in Poland. Them's the breaks.

3/ This December tweet from @allisonpearson seems like a direct lie. Judge for yourself, compare with reports from *real* journalists:
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and edition.cnn.com/2021/01/02/uk/…
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4 Jan
1/n @allisonpearson, columnist whips up a storm against a microbiologist, & threatens legal action, because his abject apologies, multiple, & deletion of tweets, weren't good enough for her.

So let's look at @allisonpearson's record on the truth.

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2/n You might come away from these exchanges thinking that @allisonpearson is a vicious & vindictive person who can't handle disagreement. But that would be irrelevant to the question of how truthful she is. So let's look at that.
#AllisonPearson.
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3/n @allisonpearson doesn't have a great record on truth regarding the lies thrown about autism being 'caused' by MMR vaccinations; she's listed by @spikedonline among "Gullible hacks: journalists duped by the anti-MMR campaign"
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2 Jan
1/n and now for something completely different. You all know I got myself an auto camera to video the hedgehogs in my garden.
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2/n You also all know I caught the smallest hedgehog twice, to weigh it. It was badly underweight, but I managed to get it up to above needed weight just before it disappeared into hibernation for the winter.

3/ The hoggles disappeared into their winter torpor sleep, and the only thing caught on the camera was a thieving cat, various shrews and wood-mice.
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2 Jan
Reading through replies to this thread, I'm struck by how many:
— denigrate the specific vaccines, for murky purposes;
— simply have no & don't want understanding at all of vaccine safety & efficacy trials;
— are obsessed with "government", when in fact on this it did very well
also, not only an #ff for @clairlemon, but also an #ff for @ScepticalAussie, who is almost always right (except for the times she disagrees with me) & who knows how to find & present data well (& has much more patience than me).
For a while, I thought they might be doing it out of overpowering unconscious fear (surrender to the virus!). But now I think it's just a mixture of antivaxxers, and those who want to pretend the pandemic doesn't exist, because stupid politics.
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2 Jan
Folks, now is NOT the time to relax. Get the vaccine as soon as you can, be very wary of the next 2 months anyway, they're going to be hell on the ICU's. Maintain all precautions until a fortnight after you & everyone around you got the vaccine (and better, the booster jab too).
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Folks, pardon me harping on this, but every day seems to mark a new milestone in why you all should be taking the new #LondonVariant very seriously indeed, & why it needs tough suppression.

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