"We should be grateful for small mercy" - Dr John Lee
In order to determine what we need to do, we should: 1) how serious is the C19 virus 2) effectiveness of measures (lockdowns + masks) 3) costs of measures 1/n
"The threat of the virus and the effectiveness of the measures have been systematically exaggerated while the costs of the measures have been systematically underestimated." Dr John Lee
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"some scientists seem to have made a career out of being doommongerers" Dr John Lee
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"There is an issue with attribution of death to covid.. counting many people as having died of COVID when it's quiet dubious whether it's really contributed much to the actual death" Dr John Lee
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John Lee answers
@ 14:35 Do the lockdown affect our immunity?
@ 17:00 Do lockdowns affect the virus (mutations)?
"if you change the environment, you change the beast."
@ 24:00 on Vaccine trials for kids
"There are always going to be new variants around. When you introduce a vaccine, that is a huge selective pressure on the viruse"- Dr John Lee
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"closing international borders will not stop new mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 virus circulating in the UK population. It is a futile endeavour with no scientific basis." 1/n @hartgroup_org
“History will thus record lockdowns as the product of pseudoscientific ideology, manifestations of an unprecedented mass hysteria ... & reminders that we must always defend vital freedoms against panicking and power-drunk politicians”@NickHudsonCT
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“In taking up the lockdown baton from China, the world was conducting a dangerous experiment. That experiment involved tearing up the public health policy guidelines for respiratory virus epidemics” @NickHudsonCT
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“The lie that lockdowns worked spread as a social contagion, persisting among petrified citizens and ideological opinion-makers who continued to use overblown models as their alternative “what if” scenarios.” @NickHudsonCT 3/n
The Vatican getting its hands dirty now!!
This is blatant guilt-tripping.
“It is an ethical choice because you are gambling with your health, with your life, but you are also gambling with the lives of others,”- Pope Francis 1/n reuters.com/article/us-hea…
But how are you gambling with the lives of others? Doesn't the vaccine protect the people who are taking them?
How about humans stay out of this and let God punish those who refuse to take the vaccine? Isn't that what heaven and hell are for? 2/n
Fearmongering had its birth in religions.
Religious leaders use fear and guilt to control people. The whole pavlovian approach of reward and punishment has its roots in religion. This bit is human-made to serve human interests. 3/n
School closure, is it to keep kids safe?
"The irony in such language is that children are safe at school already. The CDC states that of the first 68,998 U.S. deaths from COVID-19, only 12 have been in children under age 14" Scott Atlas & Paul Peterson 1/n thehill.com/opinion/educat…
"only ten of the 16,469 confirmed coronavirus deaths in New York City were among those under the age of 18."
To place things in perspective...
"600 children in the United States died from seasonal influenza in 2017-18, according to CDC estimates" 2/n
“Our data indicate that children are at far greater risk of critical illness from influenza than from COVID-19.”
So why is it we keep schools open during influenza seasons but we have decided to close them for COVID-19? 3/n
Definitions matter. @WHO defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”
Is "COMPLETE" health a realistic expectation?
Does it lead to irrealistic strategies like #ZeroCovid?
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Aiming for 'COMPLETE' has its own ills.
1)"medicalisation of society"=>MASS testing
"New screening technologies detect abnormalities at levels that might never cause illness and pharmaceutical companies produce drugs for “conditions” not previously defined as health problems."3/n
"The global health community that, in the past, prioritised HIV/Aids, TB and the big child killer, malaria, appears to consider avoidable deaths from such illnesses an acceptable cost in their attempt to reduce transmission of SARS-COV-2." @bell00david 1/n newsafrica.net/sections/inter…
"In a new form of post-colonial oppression, the rich world, via video meetings on Zoom, have introduced policies that are leading to impoverishment in Africa." @bell00david
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"And given the very low impact of Covid-19 on younger people, and thus on the vast majority of Africans, one has to question why a vaccine for Covid-19 should take precedent over investment in mosquito nets for malaria, for instance." @bell00david 3/n