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4 Sep, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Q: When did Ivermectin go from being a cheap, safe, widely used drug “commonly used to treat parasitic infections” in humans & animals globally, to being “the horse deworming drug”?

A: July 2021

[Disclaimer: I’m not really interested in ivermectin, but am in the spin]

BBC..
The Oxford PRINCIPLE study, which is trialling Ivermectin with Covid patients, describes it quite unlike the BBC as “a safe, broad spectrum antiparasitic drug which is in wide use” that (for Covid) “has shown promising results as a potential treatment in small studies in humans”
But now Ivermectin has been successfully rebranded simply a “cow dewormer”, I hope the Oxford trial participants don’t get a public flogging like this…
Also interesting both NPR and BBC say @joerogan “has dismissed vaccines”. That’s a pretty unclear but highly suggestive phrasing. BBC doesn’t quote or give a right of reply. I listened to JR on a podcast yesterday with Dave Chappelle where he was unequivocally pro-vaccination 🤷‍♀️

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16 Sep
Two bits of news make it now seem certain that the NHS App (NHS Covid Pass) is soon to become a vaccine ID, regardless of whether it's mandated for domestic events.

1. Travel lists are to be replaced with vaccine-based rules

2. Care workers must show vaccine pass to keep jobs
So, soon, it seems test and antibody status are to be removed from the NHS Covid Pass.

Government said it would do this to implement the vaccine passport scheme - but looking at these other policy areas, it's clear, it's happening anyway. Soon.
As expected, this could make travel extremely difficult for unvaccinated people. Countries like Spain had accepted proof of recovery for entry, as an alternative to PCR/vaccine. I am speculating, but that would seem likely to be dropped from the NHS Covid Pass app quite soon.
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12 Jul
The Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) Bill has second reading in the Commons today. And something strange has happened on the Labour front bench… 🧵
There are problems with this Bill. In practice, it could either make no material change (there are existing legal duties to protect free speech in education) or create more authoritative or political interference with what speech is deemed acceptable or not.
It also contradicts the Government’s Prevent duty, which requires educational institutions to take part in counter-terror-spying-lite, usually resulting in undue suspicion of young Muslims & speech-vetting. If they were serious about free speech, this would be first to go.
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10 Jun
Maya’s case was hard for her & many women, esp @jk_rowling, who defended the right to hold the basic belief that sex should not be conflated w gender identity.

Today’s judgment is a victory for free expression & the women who fought for it ✊@MForstater @anyabike @jodieginsberg
The judgment is rightly mindful of the risks trans people can face at work and the difference between beliefs, expression and harassment.
The abuse & silencing women have faced over recent years for basic expression about sex, gender + sex-based rights has been bullying tactics (mostly male) dressed as moral superiority. As always women overcome -esp thanks to @Womans_Place_UK facilitating debates despite hostility
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25 May
Today's Grand Chamber judgment on UK mass interception definitively vindicates @Snowden's courageous whilstleblowing. The UK's surveillance was unlawful and breached millions of citizens' rights.

But in some ways this is just the end of the beginning of a longer journey...
Together, Snowden, journalists, lawyers, rights groups and supporters enabled this challenge + ensured much needed accountability. Safeguards will improve for millions of people.

But the Court missed an opportunity for a definitive judgment on the principle of mass interception.
Given @Snowden's demonstration of the change one person and one voice can bring, there is perhaps some poetic justice that - in my view - the most historic artefact from today is the dissenting opinion of one Judge Pinto de Albuquerque... Here's just a few extracts from him:
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9 May
Hugging was never *not* allowed, but the fact absolutely no one in the media checked or questioned this, & that the commentariat seems A-OK with Michael Gove instructing the public on when they can/cannot embrace other humans, is why we’re now living in twilight totalitarianism👎
Ordinary people are just using their common sense about all this. The elitist fantasy of population micro-controls via regulations, statutory instruments, Govnt webpages that change every day, or Michael Gove’s disturbed stream of consciousness, are just that. Fantasy...
Also, this is the sort of territory where you will more or less never see The Fact Checkers who seem to have become more comfortable punching down than actually holding power to account.
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3 Apr
The government, which isn’t known for its anti-discrimination credentials, will argue that Covid passes are not discriminatory because you can get the green tick via tests rather than vaccine/immunity.. 🥴 Wrong. Point missed. Here’s why...
First, the Covid pass is a health ID card for segregation via civilian enforcement. It will be a tool of oppression for bouncers, bosses, anyone with authority to police others. Like all suspicionless checks (stop & search) it will be used as a stick to beat marginalised groups.
Second, healthy people without vaccines would have to be tested more than lab rats, likely incurring time off work (soon college/uni?), possibly costs, with an unacceptably high risk of false positives that lead to more missed work, isolation and socio-economic disadvantage.
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