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1/Hey @TVNZ. Instead of allowing Silly Billy to rant on primetime TV about how masks are bad for the immune system (they aren't), here's a list of new political candidates who actually know what they are talking about. #nzpol
2/Overall, this list includes 3 medical doctors and 3 PhDs, and includes 8 people from 4 parties who have expertise in Medicine, Genomics, Geology, Aged care, Genome sequencing, Genetics, Epidemiology, Infection control, Bioinformatics, Virology, Nursing, and Cancer.
3/Greens: Dr. Sylvia Boys (Medicine, emergency medicine), Gerrie Ligtenberg (Nursing, aged care, governance), Dr. Aaron Stallard (Geology, scientific publishing), and me, Dr. Dan Jones (Genomics, genome sequencing, bioinformatics, virology)
4/National: Dr. Hamish Campbell (Medicine, virology, cancer). TOP: Dr. Ben Peters (Genetics). Labour: Dr. Ayesha Verrall (needs no introduction), Monina Hernandez (Nursing, infection control)
5/At a critical point in Aotearoa's history, you've chosen to highlight the evidence-free views of a weirdo, in the middle of an outbreak of a deadly pandemic. I wish I could say this made me angry, but the truth is, because of the silly clickbait media...I'm always angry.
Image caption for screen readers: Bruce Bannor turns to the camera, says "I'm always angry", and then morphs into the Hulk.
And in case anyone wants to pollute your brain, this was in the 6pm TV1 news last night (15th August) and it's still up on TV1 on demand (24 mins)
