No mention that the UK includes ANY death within 30 days of a positive test as one caused by Covid-19. You get run over 2 weeks after recovery and they count you in the statistics. Even worse, thanks to the Coronavirus Act 2020 the rules around death certificates have been loosened so we will never be able to get an accurate figure in the future. Basically every death in a care home is being signed off as Covid 19 if the person displayed any of the symptoms no medical tests are conducted to confirm infection.
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Wed 27 Jan 2021, 12:13,
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Better to slightly inflate than to downplay if it will save more lives
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Wed 27 Jan 2021, 13:12,
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Similarly, when I was doing my initial training to work at a clinical trial a few years agoone of the things I learned was that anything that results in hospitalisation or death is considered an "Adverse Event". Even if the patient was run over by a bus, that would be recorded as an AE and reviewed accordingly.
At the time, I thought that was a perfectly reasonable precautionary requirement for clinical trials - after all, if 90% of people receiving the Investigational Medicinal Product were run over by buses, but 0% of people receiving the placebo were run over by buses, that might indicate that the IMP makes you walk out in front of buses. Now, however, I realise that I should have just run out of the hospital screaming "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" at the top of my lungs.
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Wed 27 Jan 2021, 13:51,
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At the time, I thought that was a perfectly reasonable precautionary requirement for clinical trials - after all, if 90% of people receiving the Investigational Medicinal Product were run over by buses, but 0% of people receiving the placebo were run over by buses, that might indicate that the IMP makes you walk out in front of buses. Now, however, I realise that I should have just run out of the hospital screaming "WAKE UP SHEEPLE" at the top of my lungs.
yeah because 1,600 people are getting run over every daywhile they are in intensive care beds
Grow up you idiot.
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on,
Wed 27 Jan 2021, 15:08,
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Never a good idea getting those "smart motorways" to divert traffic
Be fair. It must be hard for an AI to grow up on a diet of right wing talking points.
brb homonecrobatrachophile,
Wed 27 Jan 2021, 15:21,
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You’re mistaken. Specifically, about anyone giving a shit what you say. 
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ,
Thu 28 Jan 2021, 3:36,
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