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Devi Sridhar,

Nicola Sturgeons favourite spokesperson, though a professor in the dept of public health Edinburgh University is an anthropologist. Michie is a psychologist and 40year member of the communist party of Great Britain.. None of the experts in the article are medically qualified. Does that say something

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Fair point - it is true that none of my colleagues or indeed any medically qualified people I know got sucked into a zero covid purity vortex. They were all quite realistic.

But a medical qualification was no guarantee of protection -there were some pretty vocal medics (from a spectrum of specialities) on social media espousing some unrealistic views about viral suppression in 2021. A smattering still do, many of whom also declare an interest in long covid. This is one mild example from 2022 https://bjgplife.com/our-children-are-sitting-ducks/

Possibly what they have in common is prolific activity on social media. Saying that, I always had a sense TG didn't deeply believe half the things she said.

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I doubt TG would commit to print something she didn't believe in.

And yes a medical qualification didn't guarantee a disbelief in zero covid

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The Great Crapestry of Covid's avatar

Hmmm she wore a neck gaiter as her face covering of choice for well over a year. That spoke volumes.

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