I want to see something: Have you ever taken a day off from work for your mental health but were too embarrassed to say it, so you pretended it was something else?
Gonna have to pretend I don’t feel well at like 7:30pm tomorrow and go to bed so conflict doesn’t arise when my parents want to “clap for Boris” and I don’t 🙄 I’m sorry that he’s sick but I still don’t agree w what he’s done, I’ll clap for the nhs he underfunded though
UK policy is reckless: they’ve stopped population testing, contact tracing and rigorous quarantine measures - the bedrock of epidemic control and WHO advice. This will not delay but accelerate the epidemic. THREAD (1 )
8. Vaccines are a safer way to develop herd immunity, without the risks associated with the disease itself. Is it ethical to adopt a policy that threatens immediate casualties on the basis of an uncertain future benefit?
4. Doesn’t this herd immunity strategy conflict with WHO Policy? After the announcement of this being a pandemic, Dr Tedros, Director General WHO, said “The idea that countries should shift from containment to mitigation is wrong and dangerous.”
Unlike all other countries, the UK strategy aims to build herd immunity by allowing the steady spread of #COVID19. The government argue it will block a second peak in several months time. Here are EIGHT questions about this HERD IMMUNITY strategy: (THREAD)