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Apr 11 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
So you are thinking you and your kids have to get COVID-19 at some point, so what’s the point of wearing a mask?

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Have you thought this plan all the way through to the end? Because it’s not just one infection. It’s repeated infections for the rest of your lives, and it can be as frequent as just a few weeks to a few months apart all year round.
Each infection chips away at your organs and immune system, risks clots and heart attacks. The vaccines help with severe disease and death… but what about the rest of it.

Where does your plan take you?

#WearAMaskSaveALife
#CutDownTransmission

Protect yourselves.

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Apr 9
I think it would be good if people stop asking family members of vulnerable people when they will unmask and go on holiday… and what their off ramp is.

Like… is off ramp code for bumping off the vulnerable person in the household? Exit strategy via coffin?
The faster everyone accepts that some of us can’t even go to a dentist without a risk benefit analysis, let alone a dinner party, the happier we will all be.
Do I walk around asking you about your personal choice not to mask? What makes you think you can ask me why I do mask? I know that tone says you aren’t actually interested in the answer.

Let it go.
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Apr 8
amp.theaustralian.com.au/nation/home-sc…
“many families were reluctant to send kids back to class for fear of spreading Covid-19 to vulnerable relatives”
“When schools are open one day, closed the next, there’s a whole group of people who want security for their kids and the only way to do that is to opt out of the system and do it themselves.”
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Mar 26
Just saw someone citing a study that did not reach statistical significance as proof of something not being true.

Not reaching statistical significance in a study doesn’t mean that. It just means in that study, by that design, you didn’t find a difference. ->
It is possible to design studies to not find a difference.

Don’t recruit enough people. Run the study for too short a period. Muck up the protocol so the two groups become more similar (like unmasked communal eating in a mask study). Use impossible endpoints etc.
Although some parameters might be more “real world”, at other times you really do need to make a protocol that has a chance of making a difference in order to find out if something can be achieved…->
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Mar 26
For everyone craving getting back to normal, for thousands of years normal involved disease control.

We had to avoid disease somehow, or suffer the horrid consequences. Quarantine and other public health measures helped us survive.

It’s not normal to have unmitigated disease.
Nowadays we have great stuff like antibiotics and vaccines… but it’s still not a good idea to invite illness. There are still long term consequences.

We have the option of combining modern medicine with older public health measures to reduce the impact of COVID-19 further.
This state where we can travel at the drop of a hat across continents without quarantine or disease control… that’s fairly new, and a luxury. It’s not always what we have even in modern times. Some diseases are still controlled on immigration.
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Mar 23
@smitchellmlc @NSWCHO @NSWEducation @NSWHealth

How about we get some clear guidelines on exactly how many tens of thousands of cases in the state is required before masks are mandated in schools and regular RAT testing is available?

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I’d settle on even how many cases in the school itself for a start, because my kid has been sitting next to COVID-19 cases, or their close contacts, all week.

Thanks.
If anyone is wondering how I know this… the ten year olds are doing their own contact tracing.

Well done grown ups.
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Mar 3
Cuddle up to your T-cells.

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More from a T cell scientist…
Rough translation. A part of your immune system thinks burning the house down is the solution to the pest problem.

#TCell
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