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Billy Quilty

@BQuilty

Infectious disease epidemiologist and modeller based at @ChariteBerlin @WHO Pandemic Hub | PhD @LSHTM | MSc @ImperialCollege | Bluesky: @BQuilty

Berlin, Deutschland Bergabung Mayıs 2009
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
Very happy to share our new study out today in NEJM, showing fewer PCV doses are non-inferior to standard schedules in maintaining control of vaccine-type carriage in Vietnam. This could make vaccination programmes much more affordable for LMICs. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
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@CoolRunnersClub And such deafening silence on all the 9s and 10 reviews coming out now for Marathon, but tonnes on why reviewers are wrong about Crimson Desert.
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Paul Tassi@PaulTassi·
NEW VIDEO: This week at Tassi we have some news from literally today, including the PS5 price hikes, and also checking in on Crimson Desert sales, Fox McCloud and $300 million games youtube.com/watch?v=q47TRv…
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
@eternalcrim Also he hasn't said a word about all the critical acclaim coming in from reviewers now, instead just making posts and videos about Steam numbers, but was all over the reviews for Crimson Desert...
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
@PaulTassi Which is a stark contrast to your Crimson Desert coverage, which is all about the less-than-stellar reviews it's getting and how that goes against your experience. You're entitled to your opinion, but discussing reviews for one and not the other exposes your bias pretty strongly.
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
@PaulTassi It's frankly baffling that you posted an article last week about critics reviews - knowing that Bungie asked critics to wait until Cryo was out - and now the reviews are out, today post a video about sales and numbers, and not mention at all the critical acclaim it is getting?
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Paul Tassi@PaulTassi·
NEW VIDEO: Video version of all the stuff we discussed with week about the new Marathon numbers coming in, much of which I can confirm. If you don't care, that's fine! youtube.com/watch?v=TwlNQ2…
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
@PaulTassi Pretty biased sample, no? The people who like the game are actually playing the game, not jumping onto X to immediately post.
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Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall·
We have a student loans system which, on a *massive scale* actively embeds injustice and inequality both between and within generations. And the government apparently has no interest in reforming it.
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What not many people realise about UK student loans is that earners in the middle of the salary range end up paying back far more than either lower or higher earners, as they earn enough to pay the loan and interest back before the 30 year cut off, but not enough to pay it off early before the interest balloons. Someone earning £70k ends up paying almost double someone on £150k.

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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
It needs reiterating that the proposals by @KemiBadenoch to fix interest at RPI or @MartinSLewis to unfreeze thresholds do not address the issue that Plan 2 hits middle income hardest and lets the richest off the hook. Student loans should be abolished and debt wiped.
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Whether or not interest is capped at RPI, or thresholds are unfrozen, middle earning graduates will continue to be squeezed the most while the richest pay less.

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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
Whether or not interest is capped at RPI, or thresholds are unfrozen, middle earning graduates will continue to be squeezed the most while the richest pay less.
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Robert Palgrave@Robert_Palgrave

What not many people realise about UK student loans is that earners in the middle of the salary range end up paying back far more than either lower or higher earners, as they earn enough to pay the loan and interest back before the 30 year cut off, but not enough to pay it off early before the interest balloons. Someone earning £70k ends up paying almost double someone on £150k.

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Jessica Simor KC@JMPSimor·
The student loan issue - beyond predictable; all it required was some very basic maths - 16 years ago… Talk about creating unnecessary problems.
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Vicky Spratt@Victoria_Spratt·
A new deal for young people? About time! My newsletter this week is about how years of squeezing the finances of young adults - with student loans, high housing costs and frozen tax thresholds - has created a big political problem inews.co.uk/news/graduates…
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Prem Sikka@premnsikka·
Education Secretary defends freezing the repayment threshold for student loans in England. Ridiculous. Graduates pay tax+repayment at marginal rate of 37%, higher than capital gains tax rate for the super rich. Abolish uni fees. Write-off debt. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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Student loans need to be completely reformed, not just tinkered with. And arguably the solution that causes the least headaches is wiping them completely and funding out of general taxation.
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Billy Quilty@BQuilty·
This shows really well that simply unfreezing the threshold or limiting interest to RPI fail to address the main issue - it is an inherently and hugely regressive tax on middle earning graduates.
Robert Palgrave@Robert_Palgrave

What not many people realise about UK student loans is that earners in the middle of the salary range end up paying back far more than either lower or higher earners, as they earn enough to pay the loan and interest back before the 30 year cut off, but not enough to pay it off early before the interest balloons. Someone earning £70k ends up paying almost double someone on £150k.

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Robert Palgrave
Robert Palgrave@Robert_Palgrave·
What not many people realise about UK student loans is that earners in the middle of the salary range end up paying back far more than either lower or higher earners, as they earn enough to pay the loan and interest back before the 30 year cut off, but not enough to pay it off early before the interest balloons. Someone earning £70k ends up paying almost double someone on £150k.
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