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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

      2 replies 7 retweets 94 likes
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    3. giannmi‏ @giannmi Feb 18
      Replying to @GidMK

      We also had massive evidence on the immense harms caused by lockdowns...yet they persist.

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @giannmi

      What harms can be definitively linked to lockdowns that are entirely unrelated to the pandemic itself?

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    5. giannmi‏ @giannmi Feb 18
      Replying to @GidMK

      Nearly everything is related to the pandemic. On that I hope all agree. Lockdown harms exceeded the "benefit" and violated basic human rights in the process.

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @giannmi

      Which harms? Serious question, no joke, what evidence demonstrates that these harms are due specifically to lockdowns and could not be attributed to the socio-economic fallout of a pandemic

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    7. giannmi‏ @giannmi Feb 18
      Replying to @GidMK

      Are you asserting that there were zero missed cancer diagnosises?

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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @giannmi

      How many missed cancer diagnoses would have occurred without government action? We know it is not zero, given the strong evidence that high case numbers cause avoidance of healthcare services, so what's the cost that can be explicitly attributed to govt action?

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. giannmi‏ @giannmi Feb 18
      Replying to @GidMK

      This is a cute avoidance. If the government maintains a public communication strategy that leaving your home presents a great risk to one's health, how do you quantify missed cancer diagnosises?

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Feb 18
      Replying to @giannmi

      It's not avoidance. People who make extreme claims about the harms of lockdown are rarely interested in engaging with the harms of an unmitigated epidemic. The thing is, the counterfactual to govt action is not life as normal, so the question is key when calculating harm

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