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@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Something has been bothering me It is increasingly apparent that many people suspicious covid started via some kind of lab leak also pushed for what I consider to be very harmful, unjust and ineffective measures (including excluding “the unvaccinated” from society). 1/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

At first this struck me as odd. I assumed they would share others’ skepticism about many other pandemic issues. But it makes a kind of sense: the worse covid is believed to be, the stronger is the impetus to curtail dangerous and downright reckless research. 2/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

On the other hand, those of us against lockdowns, vax mandates, “zero covid,” masking children, and many other issues tend to emphasise that covid always posed a risk to a minority of society. Even *if* restrictions delayed some infections, they caused immense social harms. 3/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

The GBD, which has been senselessly slandered as “libertarian” or “let it rip,” called for #FocusedProtection because it was apparent from the get-go that covid was overwhelmingly a risk to the very elderly. See Swiss data https://bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/health/state-health/mortality-causes-death.html 4/14 https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/en/home/statistics/health/state-health/mortality-causes-death.html 4/14

Mortality, causes of death Development of the number of deaths and the mortality rate, mortality over the year, mortality by age and gender bfs.admin.ch

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

We knew this very early. Chinese CDC data showed the same age distribution, though we did not have an exact idea of the total no. of infections then. But by April 2020 @MartinKulldorff was forced to publish this basic observation on LinkedIn because no media would touch it. 5/14

@MartinKulldorff - Martin Kulldorff

"Since COVID-19 operates in a highly age specific manner, mandated counter measures must also be age specific. If not, lives will be unnecessarily lost." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/covid-19-counter-measures-should-age-specific-martin-kulldorff/

COVID-19 Counter Measures Should be Age Specific Among COVID-19 exposed individuals, people in their 70s have roughly twice the mortality of those in their 60s, 10 times the mortality of those in their 50s, 40 times that of those in their 40s, 100 times that of those in their 30s, 300 times that of those in their 20s, and a mortality that is more linkedin.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Whether covid began as a natural spillover or as a laboratory related incident is irrelevant to the policy of focused protection. SARS-CoV-2 was always here to stay, whether it was begun by a pangol.. oh wait.. raccoon dog or synthesised in a lab. 6/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Either way, we were all destined to get it and we should have used our collective immunity to protect those at serious risk for as long as possible. That was why herd immunity was invoked - it denoted the collective nature of the problem/response. https://statnews.com/2022/03/25/how-we-got-herd-immunity-wrong/ 7/15 https://www.statnews.com/2022/03/25/how-we-got-herd-immunity-wrong/ 7/15

How we got herd immunity wrong Herd immunity was always our greatest asset for protecting vulnerable people, but public health failed to use it wisely. statnews.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Contrary to popular belief, @DrJBhattacharya @MartinKulldorff @SunetraGupta were very clear on the need to protect the vulnerable, not “let it rip.” For e.g. the GBD suggested using recovered workers in care homes and focusing testing there https://gbdeclaration.org 8/14 https://gbdeclaration.org 8/14

Great Barrington Declaration and Petition Great Barrington Declaration - As infectious disease epidemiologists & public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical & mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, & recommend an approach we call Focused Protection. gbdeclaration.org

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Soon after they wrote the GBD, they outlined possible interventions for four specific vulnerable groups: nursing home residents, elderly living at home, elderly still in workforce, elderly in multigenerational households. GBD never meant do nothing. https://newsweek.com/we-should-focus-protecting-vulnerable-covid-infection-opinion-1543225?amp=1… 9/14 https://www.newsweek.com/we-should-focus-protecting-vulnerable-covid-infection-opinion-1543225?amp=1 9/14

We Should Focus on Protecting the Vulnerable from COVID Infection Immediately replacing lockdowns with focused protection will reduce the long-run harm to the old and young alike. newsweek.com

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

To return to the point of the … The divisions between those concerned by pandemic restrictions and those querying its origin threaten to divide the broad united front that will be essential to successfully having ALL of these issues properly investigated. 10/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Irrespective of how severe we think the virus is/was, BOTH the origin AND the authoritarian response to covid need to be ruthlessly interrogated. 11/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

We should be united in our criticism of a certain retired immunologist who was partly responsible for much of what happened->from labelling people “fringe epidemiologists” to “conspiracy theorists.” Personally, I am sus. of anything he and other comparable figures claimed. 12/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

So please, if you think governments overreacted but LL is a conspiracy theory, consider that it is the same officials who label LL a conspiracy theory who pushed us to shut down schools, close borders, mask two year olds, and destroy the very fabric of our societies. 13/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

Meanwhile, if you are committed to investigating origins but think it appropriate to mock/dismiss those who you believe “downplayed” covid b/c they didn’t agree with you on the nature of the threat, please consider reassessing your opinion of, for example, @gbdeclaration 14/14

@equal_ibrium - Vital Resistance

A final caveat: everyone should feel free to respond to this thread. But I would ask that this not become a place for precisely the types of confrontations I am suggesting we avoid. Please be courteous, curious, and polite, or just observe 🙏