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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Oct 2020

    Some MYTHS about COVID-19: - that herd immunity is inevitable - that epidemiologists love lockdowns - that it is less lethal than flu - that we can easily protect "the vulnerable" - that we can "let it rip" without cost

    12:44 PM - 9 Oct 2020
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Oct 2020

        MYTHS cont.: - that government regulation to prevent disease necessarily costs money - that there is no economic cost to large epidemics - that "the vulnerable" are a discrete, readily defined category

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Oct 2020

        MYTHS cont. - that there are simple solutions to a COMPLEX pandemic - that t-cells can magically solve our problems - that 10% of the world has been infected already - that there is a silver bullet, whether it be HCQ, remdesivir, vaccines, etc

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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 9 Oct 2020

        Interestingly, I've never been able to figure out who actually made that graph. The non-COVID deaths can't be from this year - unless they are entirely estimated - so I'm fascinated to know where the numbers came from

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      2. National Picnic Crab  🦀 🇦🇺‏ @Glaven1994 9 Oct 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        It was public policy experts who pushed the idea of everyone doing shutdowns in March and that’s because almost every government was caught napping.

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      3. Compassionate Downsizer (aka Sewer Ratty Tat)‏ @avrilduck 9 Oct 2020
        Replying to @Glaven1994 @GidMK

        Lockdowns have been a mainstay of epidemic control for ahhh... a very long time. - 1609 Shakespeare published the Sonnets - because the theatres were closed in a time of plague. We just think time started with the latest PM because Australia has a vested interest in forgetting.

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      2. Sian Harding‏ @SianHarding20 9 Oct 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        The cost in lives of lockdown must also be considered. At best lockdown offers 5% reduction in deaths (based on available data not modelling), compare that to the modelled 75 - 150 k deaths lockdown has and will continue to cause for years to come.

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      3. Michele Capobianco‏ @Capobianco2005C 9 Oct 2020
        Replying to @SianHarding20 @GidMK

        Who measured the "5% reduction in deaths (based on available data not modelling)"?🤔

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      2. W. Igg Lin‏ @wigglin 9 Oct 2020
        Replying to @GidMK

        If herd immunity is not inevitable, please explain why sars-cov-2 is special in the history of viruses, and will somehow keep infecting us over and over until the entire human race dies? Is that not the only alternative to herd immunity, either through infection or vaccination?

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      3. Dr Simon Ashworth‏ @DrSimonAshworth 10 Oct 2020
        Replying to @wigglin @GidMK

        Coronavirus would not be unique in not forming lasting and effective immunity. Simpleism doesn’t help in this area.https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/503030 …

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