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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 Feb 18

      The key issue with the Great Barrington Declaration and similar efforts was never about the policy per se, it was the absurd pretence that we could have enormous COVID-19 outbreaks without cost This was clearly never true

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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18

      We had more than sufficient evidence by mid-2020 (and earlier) that large COVID-19 outbreaks come with an associated cost. People desperately wanted this to be untrue, despite the very clear reality

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18

      And so we got all this obvious misinformation, like the idea that the whole pandemic was just down to false positive results, or that we were all already immune to COVID-19 anyway

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18

      If these efforts had consisted of honest, reasonable arguments about whether government restrictions were the best path forward based on the data at hand, we would've been having very different conversations for the last 6-12 months

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18

      Instead, over and over again, we've had to spend countless hours fighting over basic facts, because the denialists would rather pretend that there was no pandemic than face reality and the difficult trade-offs that entails

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18

      It is totally acceptable to say "the pandemic is bad but I think there will be greater harms from government action". I might disagree, it's complex, but that's a totally defensible position Instead, most denialists have just said "the pandemic isn't bad"

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        2. wsbgnl‏ @wsbgnl Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I don’t know how many people believed the denialists, or used Great Barrington arguments in good faith. But many people in the US absolutely believed public health officials and experts who said in October and November that we can control the pandemic though “targeted measures.”

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        3. wsbgnl‏ @wsbgnl Feb 18
          Replying to @wsbgnl @GidMK

          Those claims were horrifically off target. They never called for lockdowns. There have been almost 300,000 deaths since October with no reflection or admission of error. So we just keep pressing forward with the same approach and refuse to have any real public dialogue.

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        2. Mark Gossage‏ @bulkbiker Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          Depends surely on the width of your view. In some countries the pandemic has been very bad indeed, in others hardly seen at all. In global terms has excess mortality risen significantly ?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
          Replying to @bulkbiker

          The challenge is that mortality at a global level is a very crude estimate, because the reporting systems in different countries vary so widely. It would be very hard to estimate excess mortality for the entire world in any realistic way

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        2. Venditore di papaye fresche‏ @shtuiothashuvot Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          I really do my best, but then I see people claiming "99.9% survival rate" (it was still popular mere weeks ago), "but the cures exist" "fake news media" "everybody is asymptomatic" and get discouraged. How do I bridge when they literally cling to their reality?

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        3. Venditore di papaye fresche‏ @shtuiothashuvot Feb 18
          Replying to @shtuiothashuvot @GidMK

          The politicization has amplified the damages enourmously. Sometimes from the left, okay, but mostly from Trumpists - and they're trapped in their post-truth politics because they prefer to hear that. What a world.

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        1. Tom Dric‏ @dric_tom Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          We can debate about whether IFR in the USA is 0.5% or 0.6% or even 0.4%. But instead we have a doctor writing op ed in WSJ stating the IFR is 0.23% (two sig. figs!) and therefore 2/3 of Americans are already infected. Laughably tragic.

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        2. The Night Watchman‏ @NightWatchman21 Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          This is just an arrogant and baseless take on the GBR from one of the biggest Lockdown-Damage deniers. The "pandemic is bad but I think there will be greater harms from government action" is what the GBR stands for. Tell us about the perpetual European lockdown successes...

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        3. Iain Mulady‏ @IainMulady Feb 18
          Replying to @NightWatchman21 @GidMK

          The world isn't just Europe.

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        1. Anne‏ @anne123456781 Feb 18
          Replying to @GidMK

          That’s not what I heard. There was no debate on the full cost of lockdown any debate was closed down. The trade offs were not even allowed discussion.

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