Thread by @SGriffin_Lab

Right, so the most frightening aspect of this excellent piece from @d_spiegel is the increasing numbers of pregnant/recently pregnant women, with disproportionate numbers from minority ethnic groups, being treated in ICU for COVID.

Why is this happening?

amp.theguardian.com/theobserver/co…

Well, it may be complicated, but I strongly suspect that the poisonous, insidious and completely untrue rumours spread by horrendous anti-vax morons including Michael (racist, amongst other things) Yeadon have played a massive role here...

Whenever I engage on vax hesitancy, I

hear genuinely concerned young women reluctant to get the jab because they're worried by the 💩 that people like Yeadon have spread. Who can blame them? People like Yeadon use their past credentials (however much their present actions/views completely invalidate them) and a blend

of half-truths, "facts" taken completely out of context, outright lies and conspiracy, then blend them with biological impossibilities and misuse of terms such that even an alien who landed last night, drunk, would be able to correct them regarding human physiology.

So, what has

Yeadon, and others, been saying?

First, we know from multiple studies and the sheer number of vaccinees that have had babies safely that mRNA vax carries no risk whatsoever during pregnancy. @VikiLovesFACS summarises this regularly and does a far better job than I could.
What

really ISN'T safe during pregnancy is COVID, especially during the third trimester - increased risk of premature or still birth, and admissions to neonatal ICU. Also major risk to mother, not least blood clots etc.

Second, fertility...
Yeadon stated that SARS2 spike, the target

of all licensed vax except killed virus, harbours an identical, overlapping sequence of amino acids as found in a protein made in the placenta called syncytin 1. Its job is to help the placenta form its specialised blood vessels as it embeds within the uterus. Pretty important!

Thus, Yeadon said that the COVID vax will immunise you against your own placenta, which you'd therefore reject leading to miscarriage...

Scary stuff...imagine having difficulty conceiving and then hearing this as you're invited for your vaccine?

Thankfully, it's a huge pile of

First, before I briefly explain why, remember countless 1000s of women have already conceived after their vaccines. We have not become infertile in the UK (there's a male infertility scare story as well, but really not worth my thumb moving).

OK, so, as above, this lie is based

on a "fact" taken out of context...there IS indeed an identical run of amino acids between spike and syncytin of 4 or 5 amino acids...

BUT THIS CAN NEVER CAUSE YOU TO REJECT YOUR PLACENTA!

Here's why...and I should add that @andrew_croxford did a wonderful thread on this back in 2020 as well with actual numbers and sciency bits, do check it out.

First, you will find myriad examples of this type of short identical amino acid sequence throughout many of the proteins

within our bodies. This occurs because all proteins - we make somewhere over 20k in each cell of our body - are made of strings of the same 20 amino acids, ie our genetic code is relatively simple. Thus, as proteins can comprise many hundreds of amino acids, short regions of

identity are really VERY common indeed. Hence, if Yeadon is right, you'd actually immunise yourself against huge numbers of your own proteins, nevermind syncytin, and probably suffer a short but agonising death as your immune system destroyed your tissues.

Of course, this does

NOT happen. This is because our immune systems actually work within a natural context, defined by our genetics...duh!

In short, our white blood cells - T cells (footsoldiers that recognise infected cells) and B cells (antibody production, bit like artillery), are exquisitely

programmed to take action ONLY when they are shown a FOREIGN protein fragment of AT LEAST 8 or 9 amino acids, sometimes more. I.E. nature isn't stupid.

Also, these precision weapons require other safety checks before they're activated and around birth all of the cells that can

react against proteins in our own bodies are deleted.

So, our immune systems can neither perceive Yeadon's overlap sequence, nor possess the weapons to act against it...plus, the sequence is all over our protein repertoire...

I'm continually amazed that morons like Yeadon

continue to attack vaccines, when they're the only way through a pandemic that they think should be over...feet and shooting yourself spring to mind. @STWorg has brilliant insight as to perhaps why...

Lastly, if anyone is unaware of the sort of poison that Yeadon spreads, he's

thankfully no longer on twitter, but can be found spouting turds such as the link below from his mouth...

#VaccinesWork

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