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Richard Hodkinson 💙. (2021, December 1). @Twitter why are you promoting civil war #Bürgerkrieg in Germany? @TwitterSupport Can you try to be at least slightly responsible about ot promoting these antivaxers? Https://t.co/iXTdktPLRn [Tweet]. @richardhod. https://twitter.com/richardhod/status/1466111888027271171

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Eric Feigl-Ding. (2021, December 2). A rise in possible #Omicron in England—Tripling (0.1 to 0.3) of S-Gene dropout PCR signal, which is a proxy for Omicron (before 🧬 sequencing confirms). @_nickdavies estimates this represents around ~60 cases in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿. Still early—But it displacing #DeltaVariant is not good sign. 🧵 https://t.co/4aIiqiVsqH [Tweet]. @DrEricDing. https://twitter.com/DrEricDing/status/1466234026843205637

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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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gianluca c 🏴‍☠️🇻🇪 #TeamFauci #MaskUp #no GBD. (2021, November 29). Gauteng just updated 47 week and its shit https://t.co/yu5aLzwoJE [Tweet]. @gianlucac1. https://twitter.com/gianlucac1/status/1465300644336738308

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Stephen Reicher. (2021, November 26). 55.1% of the worlds population has had one dose of Covid vaccine. 29% in South Africa 10.1% in Africa as a whole Only 6% of Africans are fully vaccinated So is it any surprise new variants are arising from Africa? What doesn’t go around (as vaccine) Comes around (as Covid). Https://t.co/0X0vZ6flmc [Tweet]. @ReicherStephen. https://twitter.com/ReicherStephen/status/1464202267196858380

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Meaghan Kall. (2021, November 26). B.1.1.529 in the UK • Designated a Variant Under Investigation (VUI) VUI-21NOV-01 • No cases in the UK 🇬🇧 to date • Enhanced case finding & rapid assessment is underway https://t.co/0DGvlgvdPR [Tweet]. @kallmemeg. https://twitter.com/kallmemeg/status/1464210457795907588

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That's ironic. That's exactly what the vaccine-pushers are doing: over-reporting the danger of the Covid virus.

The speaker points out that covid-19 is perceived as a more immediate threat, while climate change is less directly perceivable as a immediate threat. It takes place graduallyl over time. Climate change is a tragedy of the commons because a lot of individual leaders choose to free-ride.

Asch, D. A., & Allison, K. C. (2021, November 26). The pandemic is deeply affecting many people with eating disorders. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2021/11/26/pandemic-deeply-affected-many-people-with-eating-disorders/

Variants that show reduced sensitivity to NAbs don't necessarily mean mRNA vaccine failure

New variants may emerge that show reduced sensitivity to NAbs.

This may not result in vaccine failure because:

1. The mRNA vaccines induce such a strong NAb response, there will be enough spare capacity to deal with the virus.
2. The mRNA vaccines also induce other virus specific protection such as helper T cells and cytotoxic T cells, which may not be affected by the reduction in NAb sensitivity.

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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

Prof. Christina Pagel. (2021, November 24). Meanwhile AY.4.2 (Delta grandchild) continues its very slow path to English dominance. Makes life a bit harder by being a bit more transmissible but luckily doesn’t seem any worse than Delta in any other respect. Https://t.co/kB0V0Z66GT [Tweet]. @chrischirp. https://twitter.com/chrischirp/status/1463508172941967365

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Gearoid Reidy. (2021, November 22). Tokyo coronavirus case count for today is just 6 Previous two Mondays: 7, 18 7-day average: 17.1 Serious cases -1 to 8 Newly reported deaths: 1 https://t.co/RMcui7EaZf [Tweet]. @GearoidReidy. https://twitter.com/GearoidReidy/status/1462694865964175361

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