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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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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      The authors of the Great Barrington nonsense have produced a website called "collateral global", claiming to document the collateral effects of COVID-19 lockdowns I thought I'd have a look at the scholarship on display 1/npic.twitter.com/N6TdiWQ7Bp

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      2/n First up - suicide. I have actually looked into this subject a fair bit, and as someone with mental health issues I take a fairly personal interest in the statistics What does this global repository say?pic.twitter.com/Zqn2A8Juy7

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      3/n There are currently 4 studies listed. One found no change in suicide rates, one is an opinion piece by a psychiatrist, and the other two are cross-sectional studies of suicidal ideationpic.twitter.com/qiOODb62DT

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

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      4/n This is odd, because there are now half a dozen academic studies showing NO increase of suicides during lockdown, and a further few published by governments:https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1336493616097681412?s=20 …

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      Lockdowns have mostly not been associated with a large increase in suicide rates: a thread of evidence (CW: suicide, mental health) 🧵
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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      5/n Moving on, education The very first study is a red flag. This is the research that a colleague and I have published a critique about due to mathematical, statistical, and theoretical errors https://osf.io/9yqxw pic.twitter.com/fVA1K7otkk

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      6/n Next up, we have in red a white paper by a for-profit exam/tutoring company, blue an analysis of students who got free school meals, and green an interesting non peer-reviewed "observation" piece from the institute for fiscal studiespic.twitter.com/4GH1N2m7s8

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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      7/n Not nearly as bad as the suicide page, but it's not quite the robust evidence that we are promised on the tin

      2 replies 2 retweets 33 likes
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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      8/n Moving on, the employment section is just bad. Only the UK, no attempt to disaggregate the impacts of the epidemic from lockdowns, just blaming any and all financial issues on government actionpic.twitter.com/WRW8SJlSoU

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    9. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      9/n This is particularly surprising given that economists have indeed produced detailed analyses of the financial impact of lockdowns vs widespread COVID-19 epidemics For example, the IMF, who said this:pic.twitter.com/jWH9taOVOs

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

      10/n Pretty odd to have a whole webpage on the collateral impacts of lockdown on the economy and completely ignore a report by the IMF saying that lockdowns may actually benefit the economy in some circumstances

      3:42 PM - 17 Dec 2020
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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

          11/n The Cancer page is a bit better, but again many of these studies don't address lockdowns specifically. Not sure why these would be included in a webpage about the collateral impacts of lockdownpic.twitter.com/AEAQmiRHY5

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

          12/n All of this is a bit galling. The question of government restrictions and COVID-19 is a vitally important one. The answers are complex and nuanced

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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

          13/n Instead of engaging with that, the authors of this website are presenting all of these pieces of often very detailed scientific research as some kind of proof that lockdowns are bad Which is nonsense

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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

          14/n In reality, as we now know from many places in the world, the impact of COVID-19 itself are problematic, and there are quite clear BENEFITS to lockdowns in some cases

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        6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 17 Dec 2020

          15/n The scientific approach is to approach restrictions with careful consideration Instead, we see this sort of absurd political rhetoric from the authors of the GBDpic.twitter.com/CcNvrjh1zW

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        1. Michele Capobianco‏ @Capobianco2005C 17 Dec 2020
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          If they ignore the IMF reports they could at least look at available experiences... 🤔https://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1210050.shtml …

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        1. Eric Walker‏ @saltyposaune 17 Dec 2020
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          It’s almost like they’re trying to make the evidence fit a narrative and not the other way around like you’re supposed to...

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