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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 Jan 17

    Health Nerd Retweeted Nate Silver

    Narrator: Nate had finally twigged to what epidemiologists had been saying since March 2020https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1350821132736360448 …

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    Nate SilverVerified account @NateSilver538
    I'm pro lockdown for the time being given the circumstances of the moment (vaccines here, new variants etc.) but I also worry that when we look back in 5 years we'll discover all sorts of adverse consequences from people being physically/socially isolated from one another.
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      2. Esoteric Sciences‏ @VoidSciences Jan 17
        Replying to @GidMK

        Johnny come lately. Bite notice he is still couching his concern of side effects as if he is the only person raising these concerns. Or like he is discovering something new or thinking something new

        1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      3. Esoteric Sciences‏ @VoidSciences Jan 17
        Replying to @VoidSciences @GidMK

        Not like PH and Epi pros haven’t been saying all along that lockdowns come with side effects on other area of health and social well being. He could just amplify pro voices but always has to look like the pontificator and public intellectual

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      1. Craig Kaplan‏ @TriggerLoop Jan 17
        Replying to @GidMK

        The fact that they wanted to wring hands and ho-hum about it only increased the needed severity of any measures. This was of course obvious from the beginning. Magical thinking about threading the needle with a potential fanciful solution rather than using the most direct tools

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      2. wsbgnl‏ @wsbgnl Jan 17
        Replying to @GidMK

        My guess is Australia will see far fewer long-term consequences from their lockdown than the US from its failure to lockdown.

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      3. David Ridley‏ @RidleyDM Jan 17
        Replying to @wsbgnl @GidMK

        Probably, but the long-term effects are more likely to be from the pattern of things we have closed and the inequities of our response than from failure qua failure. Unless you count the absence of dead people as a long-term effect; on a straightforward level it is eternal.

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      1.  💧 Ian "Department of Diseasology"  🍩 Musgrave‏ @ianfmusgrave Jan 17
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        Bwahahaha 😂

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      1. Stephen Dugmore‏ @StephenBDugmore Jan 17
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        Not sure how "circumstances of the moment" are the same as circumstances of March.....?

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      2. black coffee afficionado‏ @thatgirljj Jan 17
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        I don’t get these people who think that public health professionals (some of us who specialize in mental & community health) don’t understand the damage of lockdowns. WE DO! We also understand that unrestrained pandemics are worse!

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      3. black coffee afficionado‏ @thatgirljj Jan 17
        Replying to @thatgirljj @GidMK

        And people like Silver should know that we actually look at statistical models of disease and of mental & physical health while weighing those decisions.

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      2. Dennis Sweitzer (PhD)‏ @DennisSweitzer Jan 18

        Indeed, it seems to be a codeword for whatever public health measures a commenter finds repressive.

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