Very disappointing to see so little consideration of Long Covid in policy - it's a huge and consequential omission. Will be an important component of advice for the incoming Government.
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Well, that is an essay! Final point is that I was an earlyish adopter of online forums (eg dnuk, 1990s doctors net) and these patterns were being endlessly repeated before the pandemic. I don't really like saying 'pick your battles' as it's not a battle, but certainly, 'pick your best time use'. 5/5
As for the influencers, no amount of evidence will change their stance because their position is now attached to their sense of self-worth. They'll have to navigate that one themselves, hopefully with the help of colleagues, but it's not a knowledge problem and sadly, rational debate can't help. 4/n
These people are powerful and in protecting themselves they're causing harm to the people they should be protecting. They may not mean to, but that's the result. Satire has a role here in highlighting nonsense reasoning that non-experts won't always be able to unpick straight away. 3/n
Those are important conversations and they're respectful & productive. But unfortunately some influential people attached their identities and reputations to particular points of view early on & the reputational cost of walking back is too high now, resulting in increasingly bad rationalisations.2/n
Thank you for explaining, I appreciate that and agree. And indeed I spend an enormous amount of offline time researching, writing, and talking about the risks and benefits of pandemic control, not only with colleagues but also with people who are questioning and challenging how things are done. 1/n
Yes. Alternatively, the disinformation tactic of throwing out multiple mutually incompatible arguments in the hope that one of them sticks (as in the two real-life examples in that post) is wholly in bad faith and deserves no consideration or respect.
@thev.bsky.social is always on the nose, but this one especially made me laugh. One to add to the large genre of Covid oxymorons. See also "Masks are bad because 1) the holes in the weave are too big to trap viruses and 2) children are getting immunity debt from wearing masks".
I thought yesterday's Independent SAGE briefing about the failure of government to follow behavioural science was so good, that I did a substack summarising the session, with several short clips of our experts. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
