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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 Apr 18

    I don't think it's surprising that COVID-19 denialism has shifted to anti-vaccine rhetoric, because if you consider the risk of COVID-19 to be essentially 0 then even the tiniest risk of vaccines outweighs that

    3:59 PM - 18 Apr 2021
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      1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Apr 18

        The antagonism towards vaccinating children is also pretty easy to explain, because many people have been saying that kids are essentially not at risk from COVID-19 at all and we don't vaccinate against things that are harmless

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      1.  🦅 Petra Kilangelo the Indicted 2021  🏳️‍🌈‏ @pamelasm Apr 18
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        This is ignoring a large contingent of anti-vaxxers who are grifters who will use and sell all variety of health treatment and "cure" with zero evidence of efficacy nor effectiveness

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      2. Matthew Martin‏ @hyperplanes Apr 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Though a lot of the denialists are just reflexively contrarian. The mainstream says covid is bad so it must not be that bad; the mainstream says vaccines must be safe so they must not be safe. Berenson fits this mold

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      3.  🦅 Petra Kilangelo the Indicted 2021  🏳️‍🌈‏ @pamelasm Apr 18
        Replying to @hyperplanes @GidMK

        It makes them money and gives them perceived and real power

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      1. Carl...‏ @user12467342423 Apr 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Very unfortunate because I don't know how these anti-vax COVID-19 skeptics could have come to these conclusions if they knew how percentages work

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      2. lala  🇦🇺 🇩🇪‏ @Oh_come_on_1 Apr 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Covid denialism is based on personal risk assessment, as is anti-vaccination. They never agreed to the societal approach to begin with.

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      1. Mark Hoofnagle‏ @MarkHoofnagle Apr 18
        Replying to @GidMK

        Just the usual extension if the naturalistic fallacy. They got to none of this with numbers, simply the belief that anything natural is good. Fortunately, as Australians, your continent has usually disabused you of this notion by adolescence.

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      1. Anthony Goldsmith‏ @AGoldsmithEsq Apr 18
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        That and the fact that most anti vaccine influencers are making money on a payroll or grifting off their flocks

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      1. geline rhymes with vaccine‏ @sarahgeline Apr 18
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        geline rhymes with vaccine Retweeted geline rhymes with vaccine

        Linking my own tweet:https://twitter.com/sarahgeline/status/1383714055865528328?s=21 …

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        geline rhymes with vaccine @sarahgeline
        Note: @PanData19 walk & talk like antivaxxers, despite the disclaimer at the end of this nonsense regurgitation. An attempt to disguise themselves as something other than a hysterical disinformation machine, I guess? Hard right libertarian & far left hippy odd couple purgatory. pic.twitter.com/nXUrYvylut
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