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4 Jun, 7 tweets, 3 min read
Pretty sure Naomi Wolf is taking the piss now.
Even Twitter seems to have finally had enough of her shit. Image
This is what you may have missed. Wolf recently became obsessed with the idea that water supplies and food chains could be contaminated by vaccinated people shedding the spike protein in their urine and faeces.

Oddly she never seemed this worried about the actual virus. 🤨 Image
Before this she'd been claiming for weeks that people felt fatigued and moody after just being in the same room as someone who had been vaccinated.

Many of us feel the same after reading her tweets.

It's all a bit reminiscent of the paranoid USAF General from Dr Strangelove...
Good news: the Guardian reports that Twitter has said Wolf's suspension is permanent and not open to appeal.

The only question now is why it took them so long to ban her when she's been spreading deranged nonsense about vaccines for months.

theguardian.com/books/2021/jun…
Here are a few of her greatest hits, from vaccines containing "nanopatticles that let you travel back in time" to claims that "vaccines are a possible bioweapon".

Good bye and good riddance.

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John Bye Profile picture
6 Jun
Conservative peer, friend of Cameron and Hancock, married to a Tory MP, worked for McKinsey, then hired them and 72 (!) other management consultancies to help run Test & Trace, at a cost of half a billion pounds...

She's going to get the job, isn't she?

thetimes.co.uk/article/dido-h…
She does have some useful skills though.

She produces a good business plan, for example. Even if it bears little or no relation to reality. And even if what she's running is supposed to be a public service, not a business. 🙄

And she's either a brilliant liar or a useful idiot who doesn't know what's going on in the "business" she's running.

Exhibit A: her wildly misleading and/or worryingly ignorant evidence to a Commons Select Commitee last year.

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27 May
The government seems to have published a shelved PHE study today just to defend Matt Hancock against accusations by Dominic Cummings about discharging patients from hospitals to care homes without testing them for covid.

And the study is flawed, due to that very lack of testing!
It's been widely assumed that many deaths in care homes in the first wave were caused by patients being discharged from hospital without being tested. A policy that continued until April 15th.

This issue was raised by Cummings in his testimony yesterday.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
The study looks at this issue and claims it only caused 286 deaths.

It was conveniently published today, just in time for Jenny Harries to reference in a press conference.

But it's dated April 2021.

And it's clear it was actually written last autumn!

gov.uk/government/pub…
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26 May
Assuming any of this is true (it is Dominic Cummings, after all), it paints a pretty damning picture of a government hopelessly unprepared and woefully unsuited to dealing with a serious emergency.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
For starters, apparently the Prime Minister and others were convinced the whole thing was overblown, and that the economic damage from acting would be worse than the death toll from doing nothing.

They saw it as another Swine Flu.

They were wrong.
Once they got past that, herd immunity WAS the initial policy, because they didn't see any alternative. Either 260,000 people die in the spring (the "optimal" strategy!) or even more die in the winter.

He claims there was even talk of asking people to intentionally get infected!
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23 May
PHE's study on vaccine effectiveness against the Indian B.1.617.2 variant is out, clarifying figures leaked to the FT yesterday.

It confirms the 1st dose is less effective against B.1.617.2, but the 2nd dose still gives similar protection. However...

gov.uk/government/new…
As @fascinatorfun pointed out, the FT figures mixed data from both Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs.

The study breaks it down by vaccine and, on the face of it, isn't good news for AstraZeneca (ChAdOx1).

But they do say this may be partly due to 2nd jabs starting later for AZ.
Data for both vaccines on preventing symptomatic cases is similar 21+ days after the first dose -

Pfizer:
49% protection vs B.1.1.7
33% protection vs B.1.617.2

AstraZeneca:
51% protection vs B.1.1.7
33% protection vs B.1.617.2

So about a third less effective against B.1.617.2
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22 May
Handy thread on vaccine protection against variants.

First dose seems to be significantly less effective against the B.1.617.2 (Indian) variant.

Second dose still provides excellent protection against both the B.1.1.7 (Kent) and B.1.617.2 variants though.
Looking at how effective vaccines are at stopping you from catching covid and developing symptoms -

1st dose:
51% protection against B.1.1.7
33% protection against B.1.617.2

2nd dose:
87% protection against B.1.1.7
81% protection against B.1.617.2

But it's worth remembering that the vaccines also make you less likely to die or become severely ill if you *do* catch covid.

While we don't have data yet on how this translates to B.1.617.2, there's no evidence it's more deadly than other strains.

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20 May
Update on the situation in Bolton, courtesy of the covid dashboard.

First up, cases are still rising rapidly. Daily case numbers are almost back to the peak they reached during the second wave that hit the North West hard in the autumn.

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?… Image
This is despite 65% of Bolton's adult population now having had one vaccine dose and 37% having had both.

Not far behind the national average (70% / 40%).

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/vaccin… Image
Probably at least in part thanks to vaccinations, infection rates are still relatively low amongst the over 60s.

But they are now clearly rising.

Note: this data is a few days older than the raw case numbers, so the rates will be even higher now.

coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/cases?… Image
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