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Just disappeared down a #COVID denial twitter rabbithole. Truly saddening. Thread time.
1) "It's no worse than flu" - yes, it is. Even in young ppl who may get few/no symptoms, there is long covid and other long term complications like clotting problems and lung scarring.
1) "It's no worse than flu" - yes, it is. Even in young ppl who may get few/no symptoms, there is long covid and other long term complications like clotting problems and lung scarring.
2) NHS is no more stretched than normal for this time of year - grow up. The NHS has been vastly underfunded for a decade. Just because they're drowning every winter doesn't mean that is either ok or right.
Plus - covid and flu not mutually exclusive. They will happen together.
Plus - covid and flu not mutually exclusive. They will happen together.
3) lockdown will cause mental health problems: yes it will. So will further decades of early death & sickness due to letting a disease we know little about run riot. Just imagine being responsible for killing a relative b/c you watched a youtube vid saying you didn't need a mask.
4) vulnerable can shield while we get on with our lives: yes, maybe, but what an awful thing to wish on ppl already systemically disadvantaged in our ladder-kicking entitled society. I'm sure they'll be fine as long as they never need to have post or groceries delivered.
5) a vaccine might be here before Bill Gates said it would, so it must all be a hoax - really? The whole world is turning its efforts to this. If we get a vaccine before previous projections that is because humanity is working together for the greater good. Amazing really.
6) others are dying of other illnesses at home because they can't go to hospital. Yes, this is true - and it is awful. This should be even MORE of a reason to get this eliminated. Not to drag it out and have it circulating forever to keep punishing the underfunded NHS (see 2).
7) Some ppl in hospital are getting multiple tests - this is skewing the figures: sure, why not. But when we don't know the false neg rate (which is likely 30% by comparable data) and 1000s can't even get tests, this pales in comparison to what is actually out there.
8) it's not real - how dare you. I have family who've had it. I know NHS workers and am doing research with frontliners. It's real. It's harrowing. It's wearing them down. Your denial and refusal to do something as basic as wearing a mask is the biggest kick in the guts.
More likely to follow with the next tranche of youtube evidenced "facts".
