2/ Viners review searched through studies, many weren't on covid and those that did were based on Preprints and very early rough data sets, its clearly wrong and any reference to it should be withdrawn immediately
@RachelSJohnson on @LBC has a guest saying that restrictions are slowly down Covid's evolution into a mild endemic illness...
"Its well on the way to doing this"
More comments about Omicron being more mild
There is no data for this, just some anecdotes, said same about Delta...
Ah the guest was hereditary Tory peer Matt Ridley, looking at his track record I think he's done enough damage to this country without taking Pandemic advice from him
Ridley is a great example of the damage the privileged aristocracy can do
Educated at Eton, Zoology degree, becomes a writer for Telegraph, then gets a place on the Northern Rock board where daddy was boss...
Well that worked out well
🧵Nothing on schools? Where infection rates are already highest?
Even if Omicron doesn't turn out to be a big deal, we are already struggling, stretched sick and exhausted, also causing disruption and absence
3/ Here he is questioning the need of 2nd doses for students (rethink time)
Again talks about younger people getting a boost from infection, talks about endemic and testing being scaled back
Miriam Cates read out UsForThems petition against vaccination at Westminster Hall debate, quoted HART and is vice chair of an APPG set up by Great Barrington Declaration authors