John Bassett

Food safety scientist with 20 years experience in risk assessment, risk management and food safety. Also found drinking good coffee or out for a bike ride.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@gidcoe Yum https://t.co/lr0DUzlBjA

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

14hrs and counting @delta to get to Atlanta and a300€ new ticket, now facing another 3 delay. Be honest stop the last minute reschedule and I’ll go sleep

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@benjaminchapman Finally just finished Schitts Creek from your reco on FST. Thanks for that, amazed it wasn’t so big in UK. See you at IAFP.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@mbbatz Sorry Batz, either your brain is too big or you can spend far too much time doing puzzles, but that one is messing my head..

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@discord Your notification of policy changes is blocking the ability to use discord on my iphone 8 at least

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@bearepeating @billsveiws1966 @TheBernician Actually many people die after the vaccine as a lot of people die and a lot of people are vaccinated. It's the percentage where there is a causal link that's important (and worth comparing with the likelihood of dying from covid)

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@chrischirp Is it right to use the growth rate from SA when their vaccination rate is so much lower?

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@bugcounter I'm particularly with Bob on the apple bobbing (even if he has got arms and legs and is not floating in a barrel)

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@indepdubnrth Your graph is actually cumulative deaths and hence a drop off from spring, when vaccinations only started end Dec in Ireland. not double over summer at all. Misleading. The data shows the opposite of your assertion.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@Letsstartasking @DaPearl1978 @WoodReporting Actually seems like those who chose to get vaccinated are the target here. Everyone just let everyone make their own decision and take their own consequences (for me I trust those who have assessed the data and done risk benefit analysis)

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@Amma15704006 @indepdubnrth Sure you are right esp deaths. But the risks of vaccine also v low, and then to consider long covid, also that things maybe changing re kids and Delta. All I'm saying is give them (teens) the numbers and the choice, they are not stupid

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@8Sully @indepdubnrth Thanks,I understand the difference between the technologies. once smallpox was a new technology and scared people (&electricity). I chose the mRNA vaccine because it is producing the spike for a more specific immune response rather than against a lot of other genetic material.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@timspector Either they don't get relative risk or there is ulterior motive to keep people spending in UK; neither answer showers them in glory. Oh for a WTO system for human movement like animals, these policies would be challenged.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@mbbatz @barbkowalcyk Nice one @FAO and thanks for the alert Mike! Will take a look.

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@TimHarford We still love your work Tim keep it up! Cow pats are everywhere...

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

Where have we gone wrong? Let me count the ways...
Op-Ed: COVID -- Where Science Went to Die https://t.co/Uf292gFdCA

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

@BMPA_INFO Thanks!

[John Bassett @FoodRiskGuy]

Great news for food waste and risk based policy. ⁦@BMPA_INFO⁩ why not share the research with everybody for transparency and wider review and use? https://t.co/aSMrwWiBrc

[The Food Programme @BBCFoodProg]

This weekend @SheilaDillon and panellists @QUBFoodProf @Didara & @HelenMunday_FDF discuss the future of our food system - in light of the pandemic, holiday hunger, the obesity strategy and the @food_strategy; which we’ll get into with @HenryDimbleby... Sunday 1230 @BBCRadio4.