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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 27 Dec 2020

      Just a reminder that the Great Barrington Declaration is at its heart intellectually dishonest because the "focused protection" it proffers consists of things that most places are already doing anyway

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Dec 2020

      What the plan explicitly calls for is a herd immunity approach with some recommendations to do things that every aged care centre in most of the world has been doing since March. In other words, no real measures to protect anyone, just a total reopening of everything 🤷‍♂️

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 27 Dec 2020

      I mean, cool, if that's their position we can discuss it, but the obvious lie that GBD has anything novel about protecting the elderly in it is just a waste of time for all involved

      3:12 PM - 27 Dec 2020
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        2. The Vaccinated Simmo  💉 💉‏ @Vaccineswork21 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          How on earth did it manage to get so much traction?

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        3. DanLimone‏ @globetrotter090 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Vaccineswork21 @GidMK

          It was written by a right wing think tank and they know how to make things go viral.

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        2. DW‏ @docderwood 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          The people who wanted to implement it didn't really have a any plan to prevent low level caregivers in nursing homes (young, mobile, and unwilling to practice social distancing) from bringing it into their facilities. We still aren't doing rapid testing on these employees.

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        3. Dang and Blast!‏ @Dangandblast 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @docderwood @GidMK

          Or, those low level caregivers who aren't *able* to practice it because they're not young singles, but instead live in households with other working adults.

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        2. Rodric Jenkin‏ @ValleyWye 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          I do think some serious modelling of what opening up like normal would look like would be helpful. When i tell people GBD would be horrific i waft my hand, say carnage and do 80% of 50 million adults x 0.7% IFR. That feels a big underestimate though as nhs overwhelmed so ifr up.

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        1. Elder Grizzly‏ @ElderGrizzly 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          It’s amazing how many of these right wing groups hide behind something much more ‘intellectual’ sounding. Great Barrington Declaration European Research Group Project Veritas

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        2. Ian Sharp-Smith‏ @Iansharpsmithy 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @GidMK

          They're still right. Care home staff need to stay in care homes for 2 week periods, isolated until everyone vaccinated. Vulnerable people need unprecedented support - financial, social, day to day needs. Everything else needs opening, those who of course want to shield can do

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        3. Dang and Blast!‏ @Dangandblast 27 Dec 2020
          Replying to @Iansharpsmithy @GidMK

          ... do care homes have the ability to have all their staff from all shifts move in? And of course the ability to pay everyone the huge amount of overtime for that requirement.

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