Sunil Peck
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South African scientists were right about the mildness of the omicron COVID variant. All UK restrictions should be lifted and we must not follow the same reaction path again. Fear, propaganda and shutdowns are not a strategy for a virus that is endemic. telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/0…
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@AllisonPearson There've been 11,010,286 covid cases - mainly delta - recorded in the UK since it all began, and 612,615 "hospitalisations". That's one in 18 cases in hospital. With omicron there've been 10,017 cases so far and 11 hospitalisations. That's one in 911 cases in hospital!
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@AllisonPearson 20 Dec 20, the UK recorded 81,475 positives from 344,775 tests.
A positivity rate of 23.6%
Todays numbers are 78,610 positives from over 1.3 million tests.
A positivity rate of 6%
In other words, Covid prevalence is 1/4 what it was in late December 2020.
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@AllisonPearson Mr Witty forgot to mention the huge increase in testing which goes alongside the increase in cases.
Also forgot to mention the death rate continuing to drop, as it has since early November.
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Booster jabs are overwhelmingly more important for over 50s & the clinically vulnerable.
If an unstoppable ‘tidal wave’ is indeed coming, we should surely focus on those who most need protecting?
Cancelling routine medical care to boost an 18y old is disproportionate & harmful.
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More than 450 people a day die of cancer and this government has prioritised a jab as one person dies ‘with’ omicron. WTF
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📢 An inconvenient truth - vaccine passports don't work
Celebrities don’t speak for the rest of us when they tell us that vaccine passports are not "inconvenient". We know that they are also illiberal and ineffective.
✍️ My latest substack
lauradodsworth.substack.com/p/an-inconveni…
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These concerns are real and need an open honest public discussion by medical leadership
Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson
One Omicron death (though sad) against 50,000 pending preventable deaths from undiagnosed cancers. And that number will be bigger as medics are diverted to the booster campaign. Has our country lost its mind?
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Just remember, SAGE have been proven wrong EVERYTIME.
Yet their apocalyptic models are being parroted as truth by every media outlet.
Scandalous
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It is criminally irresponsible to fearmonger about the mild Omicron variant.
Millions of cases which don’t harm people are called A Cold.
Meanwhile, more Stage 4 cancer cases come forward. Death certain. Because of the last round of Fear.
Just Stop It.
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The irony is 50,000 people, many of them younger, are going to die prematurely of cancer because of crazy Covid fixation.
Try explaining that to their small children
Luke Johnson@LukeJohnsonRCP
Society has become fixated on disease and death over Covid for which: average victim is around 80; 95% of victims had a co-morbidity; since it started 85% of people have died from other causes. We have lost all sense of proportion and are suffering from morbid monomania.
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This is utterly irresponsible. That “could” is doing an awful lot of work.
Bear in mind lockdown and restrictions will easily end up having killed 120,000. Cancer, heart, excess deaths in the home.
No “could” about that.
The Guardian@guardian
Omicron could cause 75,000 deaths in England by end of April, say scientists #Echobox=1639224901-1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…
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Made me furious too. Words chosen to frighten people
Jeff Stelling@JeffStelling
For a politician to use language like ‘ a tsunami of cases’ and the variant ‘running riot’ makes me so angry. Disgracefully irresponsible .For gods sake stop trying to make headlines.
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What a night at Old Trafford. You get the feeling United are winging it big time but to come back from 2 down with a Ronaldo winner what’s not to like? The ground was absolutely bouncing at the end.
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