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David Spiegelhalter. (2022, January 6). Good news: Admissions for flu not quite as tiny as last year, but close. Https://gov.uk/government/statistics/national-flu-and-covid-19-surveillance-reports-2021-to-2022-season https://t.co/YILvkQ4Vqu [Tweet]. @d_spiegel. https://twitter.com/d_spiegel/status/1479139047515856901

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Stephen Reicher. (2022, January 13). Following evidence is that peak infectivity with Omicron comes 3-6 days after symptoms emerge (https://niid.go.jp/niid/en/2019-ncov-e/10884-covid19-66-en.html), the isolation period is cut to 5 days. How is this “following the science” https://t.co/XRf0pbgiHG [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1481652386993041415

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Prof. Christina Pagel. (2022, January 10). I agree with pretty much all of this @FT article https://ft.com/content/e200156f-2e5a-4165-8aa2-28c24fe3c036 https://t.co/zhqPpqdyn7 [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1480568139947692041

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Stephen Reicher. (2022, January 3). NHS Chiefs: “Hospitals in Crisis” Head Teachers: “Schools in Crisis” Prime Minister: “Crisis? What Crisis?” (i.e. You will have to sort it out without any support from us) https://t.co/OWDdGFrWl2 [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1478124355431419904

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Shaun Lintern. (2021, December 30). Just so I have this clear in my own mind...the Govt has relentlessly pushed the narrative of no need for more restrictions and yet the NHS is building makeshift field hospitals in its car parks 🤷‍♂️ [Tweet]. @ShaunLintern. https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/1476469941381570561

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Peter den Haan. (2021, December 21). @dgurdasani1 Two headlines, one year apart. ~74,000 dead. Nothing learned whatsoever. Https://t.co/pjEmUoXxfA [Tweet]. @revpdh. https://twitter.com/revpdh/status/1473252947903590402

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Sam Coates Sky. (2021, December 16). For posterity this is what the Joy Morrissey now deleted tweet said: Https://t.co/IZHX2tZrGs [Tweet]. @SamCoatesSky. https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1471428868573732876

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Adam Bienkov. (2021, December 14). Conservative MP Desmond Swayne says the “carnage” on UK roads is “certainly killing more people than Covid at the moment”. For context there were just 1,460 deaths on British roads in the whole of 2020, compared to more than 4,000 deaths of people with Covid last month alone. Https://t.co/NVD6SxhTKB [Tweet]. @AdamBienkov. https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1470783359064358929

shinydoc. (2021, December 12). I love how I, an actual GP...who was involved in the initial covid vaccination programme ...has to tune in at 8pm with the public to find out that apparently we are vaccinating the entire adult population with boosters by the end of the year [Tweet]. @irishayesha. https://twitter.com/irishayesha/status/1470123478221303810

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Dave Keating. (2021, December 8). Boris Johnson’s continued pretence that UK is one of the most vaccinated countries in the world, repeated again in press conference just now announcing new restrictions, is getting tiresome. That has not been the case for many many months, despite 🇬🇧🇺🇸 vaccine hoarding early on. Https://t.co/tQt6aXGtNI [Tweet]. @DaveKeating. https://twitter.com/DaveKeating/status/1468655107436802052

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Progressive International. (2021, November 29). BREAKING: 2.5 million nurses from 28 countries have filed for a UN investigation of human rights violations by the EU, UK, Switzerland, Norway, and Singapore for blocking the waiver on Covid-19 vaccine patents as new strains proliferate: Http://covid19criminals.exposed https://t.co/Rj37RqDA4J [Tweet]. @ProgIntl. https://twitter.com/ProgIntl/status/1465202919687348227

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ReconfigBehSci. (2021, November 23). query: Https://unherd.com/2021/11/the-lefts-covid-failure/ “Is there really no progressive criticism to be made about the quarantining of healthy individuals, when the latest research suggests there is a vanishingly small difference in terms of transmission between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated?” 1/2 [Tweet]. @SciBeh. https://twitter.com/SciBeh/status/1463146737804140558

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