Thread by @mom_in_NL

We are in a state of emergency. Our hospitals are days away from #codezwart, the government is psychotically insisting schools stay open, insisting on mass infection and 20+ months of misinformed and gaslighted public who has had enough. Now we have the #nuvariant #B11529.

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.#B11529 #nuvariant is a Black Swan that is 7x more transmissible than the Delta variant, with preliminary estimates of an R0 of 16-20 and is likely to have immune escape, both from vaccines and infection. It is a monster.

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https://twitter.com/tuliodna/status/1463911571176968194?s=21

Whatever “herd immunity” —both in terms of vaccination and infection —we’ve built up against #deltavariant is useless against #B11529 #NuVariant.

South African demonstrates this clearly — low vaccination grade, mass infection = #b11529 is capable of immune escape.

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.@SylvanaBIJ1 predicting chaos is the stark reality we are currently facing. #B11529 #nuvariant, with an R0 of 16-20 and immune escape, will ravage the NL. We are back to March 2020 but on already on the brink of hospital collapse, societal unrest, and no leadership.

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https://twitter.com/sylvanabij1/status/1464208901126168579

We have no herd immunity against #B11529. The 40,000+ Covid-19 deaths, 75% infected population, hundreds of thousands of long-term disability and collapsing hospitals is for nothing. This cycle will repeat over and over again for every variant. The government doesn’t care.

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If closing down stores earlier, a curfew, and keeping schools open is really @MinPres plan on the eve that #B11529 is going to sweep through the NL, his inaction is a direct threat to our society. Forget #codezwart — this could lead to societal collapse. I am terrified.

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https://twitter.com/nos/status/1464219685340258320

I don’t know how to communicate with politicians and medical scientific advisors who refuse to comprehend the threat that #B11529 #NuVariant poses to our country. We’re already on the verge of hospital collapse with Delta; #b11529 will cause deaths and sickness in weeks.

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I don’t know how to get to @hugodejonge to understand, to explain to him that we are on the eve of a monster that is much worse than wild type Covid-19 and Delta. That his own country is on the precipice of societal collapse if he insists on mass infection with #B11529

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I hope with all my heart and soul that I am wrong about #B11529. Ya’ll can have a good laugh at me.

We can always scale back measures once this danger passes and our hospitals recover. If we wait, which I am afraid the is the plan, we are f*cked 💩

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.@SylvanaBIJ1 @PieterOmtzigt @jesseklaver @MinPres @hugodejonge @RenskeLeijten

#B11529 is a Black Swan variant — it is immunologically distinct that we have absolutely no immunity against it. We need urgent, decisive and courage leadership. Do not abandon us in our darkest hour