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Stephen Griffin

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Mar 26

@IndependentSage

Some long-standing critics of @IndependentSage appear to be conducting an interesting work of fiction casting us as either some useful stooges, unintentionally supporting government mind control strategies, or a dedicated psy-ops operation trying to create a world of restrictions

Well...

Whilst several amongst this number are indeed trying to sell books, watchful magazines...or rose-tinted retrospectoscopes 🤪

I'm sure it helps comfort some suffering with the increasingly common affliction pre-vax amnesia (PVA) that some sinister plot was in fact responsible for

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Stephen Griffin

@SGriffin_Lab

Mar 24

@iansample

Thanks @iansample for this nicely balanced article.
Aware some embittered souls have tried to make a stink around what @uksciencechief thought about the @IndependentSage NAME.

If there was confusion, yes, that's regrettable, but remember how things were.

amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/m…

SAGE was secretive, and seemingly attended by some with vested interests, and/or in need of an eye test...
None of this is the fault of SAGE members who, let's face it, faced an impossible task.
I can't imagine how it must have felt in Autumn 2020 to be on SAGE, to watch as alpha

@IndependentSage

emerged, knowing you'd warned those in power repeatedly...only to be scuppered by folk who, let's face it, had certain conflicts of interest...
The WhatsApp revelations must be salt in an open wound.
Yes, @IndependentSage did science, policy, advice, media and public fora, the

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Stephen Griffin

@SGriffin_Lab

Mar 18

@WHO

OK, so @WHO have, in the space of a few weeks, confirmed that SARS2 remains a #PHEIC, then compared it to seasonal influenza...
Anyone else confused/astonished/outraged?
No, we are not in the same position as in 2020, and thank goodness that’s the case. But, it does not mean the

job is done. Consider if COVID emerged now as a new disease with associated harms, would we act? Of course we would.
Ironically, the fatigue many feel is due to mismanagement of the pandemic and swinging like pendulums from extreme measures to the total absence of restrictions.

This does not occur in many South East Asian countries, who brilliantly applied test, trace, support and isolate both prior to, and following the availability of vaccines.
I do not understand how a virus that continues to cause mass hospitalisation, longer term and latent health

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Stephen Griffin

@SGriffin_Lab

Mar 15

Today is #LongCovidAwarenessDay
This is SO important, because it's likely that a great many people are NOT aware of it...
Unseen disabilities and chronic health conditions are something that millions of Brits face and deal with on a daily basis.
This isn't helped by black and

white judgemental nonsense from folks that don't understand the nature of such things.
Remember the whole nonsense around disability benefit fraud in the 2010s, people with blue badges being attacked when they didn't have a wheelchair in their car boot?
Sometimes people can

outwardly seem to function reasonably normally in public (ideally with reasonable adjustments in place), but to carry on like that costs them dear when they get home...
Then, there are the people that remain unseen, forgotten, behind closed doors and relying on others for their

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Stephen Griffin

@SGriffin_Lab

Mar 13

https://twitter.com/SGriffin_Lab/status/1519478454504337408?s=20

So, exasperated with the total lack of mitigations against a pandemic, I settled in to write one of my verbose threads...then realised I'd done it already and the situation hasn't really changed much...aside from getting worse!

We STILL have next to no

https://twitter.com/SGriffin_Lab/status/1519478454504337408?s=20

investment into the future of clean air, no public awareness of viral prevalence (SARS-CoV2, and its' mates), little ability to act altruistically because testing has evaporated and supported isolation remains a figment of most people's imagination...there's nothing safeguarding

our workplaces, schools, universities, public transport, shops or other public spaces, no masks, mis/dis-information is rife and anti-vax narratives now echo round the house of commons thanks to certain feckless mockeries of public representatives...

Most people think the COVID

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Stephen Griffin

@SGriffin_Lab

Mar 8

So, COVID vax entering preschool programme is frowned upon by some...after all "kids are all infected anyway, and they don't get sick"...a 🧵

This excellent paper is often cited to support that protection from infection is equivalent to vaccines...

nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Sure, protection from infection and hospitalisation appear better in the infected cohort...

BUT, what's sometimes missed is the actual numbers reflecting how we get to these pretty graphs...

193K infections, 309 hospitalised, 7 died
273k vaccinees, 15 hospitalised, 0 died

Other important points:

The vaccinated cohort included either one or two shots...we know from adults that three is best, so efficacy could theoretically be improved.

Vaccinating pre-infected kids improves protection, the authors recommend boosters for both vaxd & infected kids

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