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May 26 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
📢 Our paper on COVID-19 vaccine policy has been published💉🦠

We discuss 12 unintended consequences of mandates and passports across society

& argue that pandemic vaccine policies have caused more social harm than good

Read the paper: gh.bmj.com/content/bmjgh/… Image
Our framework considers evidence from (👇)
1) Behavioural psychology 🧠
2) Politics and law 🗣️
3) Socioeconomics 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
4) Science policy and public health ethics 🧪 Image
Overall, we find that these policies have had damaging effects on public trust, vaccine confidence, political polarization, human rights, inequities & social wellbeing.

We urge policymakers to return to non-discriminatory, trust-based approaches for C19 and future pandemics

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Apr 23
Impressive epidemiology study, @sdbaral et with important implications: which NPIs “work” and "for whom" ?

Study found no/weak association between NPI stringency and covid case growth in Canada, 2020.

2022 should be the year of mandate evaluation

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
@sdbaral Thought experiment: imagine the implications if this statement is true (evidence is still mixed & debated, of course): all the sacrifices, moralizing, grandstanding, harms for naught

The cultural, psychological and political forces against accepting this possibility are massive
& the options are not 'kitchen sink lockdowns' vs 'let-er ripe everyone is infected'. That fictitious dichotomy has caused so much silly harm

I see the debate more between 'aggressive mandates' vs voluntary risk reduction and efforts to address structural vulnerabilities
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Apr 21
New Oxfam report estimates 263 million more people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022.

Collateral damage from pandemic response (misguided lockdowns) and debt servicing

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"The COVID-19 crisis has been one of the defining points in history for economic inequality. The wealth of the richest exploded, rising to unprecedented highs, while at the same time poverty numbers started to rise dramatically for the first time in decades."
"COVID-19 has stretched the finances of governments worldwide to the limit. The cost of the recession caused by the pandemic was immense, and the actions taken to tackle the impacts on people by many governments cost a lot of public money, and drove up levels of public debt." Image
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Mar 7
I was just denied entry into Canada (land border) because I did not fill out the ArriveCap app. Had all necessary paperwork. Officer decided I needed a 5,000$ fine since 'App is mandatory'

"I am not denying you entry. Just giving you a $5,000 fine"

The faceless bureaucracy
I decided to not enter. As far as I am concerned, I was just denied entry into Canada (I am a citizen) because some middle bureaucrat wanted to flex his muscle.

The pandemic has provided lots of opportunity for individuals to play micro-power games, supporting useless rules.
We wanted to wish Oma a happy 91th B-day. Spur of the moment decision to cross, & thought with restrictions being removed it would be easy.

I have crossed US-Canada border many times over the pandemic (maybe 10?, for many diff reasons). First time I was threatened with a fine
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Feb 1
📢Are mandatory COVID-19 proof-of-vaccination policies ethical, scientifically justified & effective?

Read our new pre-print📰💉🦠

We explore 13 possible unintended consequences across society

& argue that they may cause more harm than good

Paper:papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

🧵👇
1/ Our paper is the first to comprehensively explore this multifaceted & important topic

We discuss evidence from (👇)

1) Behavioural psychology 🧠
2) Politics and law 🗣️
3) Socioeconomics 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦
4) Science policy and public health 🧪
2/These policies are not "incentives/nudges" as many proponent say - many are coercive & punitive

They are also unlikely to convince many vaccine resistant pls to get vaccinated

They provoke resistance/backlash,& may impact long-term vaccine confidence &political polarization
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Dec 31, 2021
Canada's Justin Trudeau on the unvaccinated:

“They don’t believe in science/progress and are very often misogynistic and racist....This leads us, as a leader and as a country, to make a choice: Do we tolerate these people?"
Original source neglected to mention this is from Sept 17 2021, right before our national elections.

westernstandardonline.com/2021/12/trudea…

So NOT a recent statement

Also longer video provides some context (its in French) m.facebook.com/JulieSnyderOff…
More generous interpretation is that he is singling out "extremists" & not speaking about all unvaxed pls (he had been recently attacked on campaign trail)

But I am not so convinced.

Vaccine debate has descended into in/out tribalism- myopic, dehumanizing, discriminating, etc
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