The thing that puzzles me is that goings-on on twitter keep getting reported. If these so-called storms are just the gibbering ravings of an unhinged minority, which I’m sure they are, why mention them at all? Boycott twitter, and let the moronic inferno consume itself.

Happy Holy Innocents Day everybody!

I have the perfect solution to the Twitter frenzy. I avoid all social media and discuss the issues of the day with the people I choose and not faceless, nameless entities who can hide behind the platforms issuing threats and unpleasant comments.
What sort of person even thinks of issuing a death threat anyway?

One thing i would like to know, is how many of those people who died with no known underlying medical conditions were white. Asking such a question would cause more fury from the usual suspects. But it is known that Covid is not a colour blind killer and that this non colour blind approach is not due purely to economic factors, since many well paid physicians have died from it. Until we address the fact that the Wuhan virus has a propensity to kill not just the old and already ill, but those with the highest levels of Neanderthal DNA, we will never be able to get back to normal.

Not just the the mob, but the whole of the establishment will continue to protest too much against any reasonable statement about Covid, and deem the locking down of the whole of society a necessity, to protect the elderly and ill, because it cannot acknowledge there is any reality to the idea of biological difference between races. To admit such a thing is to give up on the idea that race is a purely social construct and they would rather keep their faith in this batty ideology than get to work finding out how to protect all the most vulnerable people, while allowing the healthy and least likely to suffer to continue to fund the NHS by earning sufficient sums to replenish the Treasury, over time.

I think that the twitter reponses show how successful SAGE’s propoganda has been, with the help of the MSM.
There is never any context to the figures reported. e.g Hospital beds nearly full – they are always nearly full at this time of year; the number of “cases”, when they actually mean the number of positive tests – many people did not even know they were ill; the number of covid deaths – with no accompaning total deaths; the number of people who recover – never seen any figures; etc.

As most people take their news from TV, is it any wonder that they are frightened?
So you writing an articule which shows 377 under 60 deaths ( with no other illnessess) must be dangerous fake news and thus rightly condemend – or at least by those people who do not look beyond the headlines!!

I think it’s about time we stop being outraged by the Twittersphere being outraged. I read somewhere that less than 10% of people have an active Twitter account. And I suspect it’s largely a circle-jerk of lefties, with a few exasperated normal people trying to get a word in edgewise. I gave up on it after a few months, realizing it was impossible to have a reasonable discourse. Twitter makes FB look like a Mensa meeting. My take – give up on it. Let it die. Go to the pub and see friends in real life.

‘i saw the tweet and the insane responses. Sorry you had that. Keep disseminating the true numbers (at least as true as we’re able to get).

Agree we need more data and facts. Let’s start with trying to work out how many would count as vulnerable (in Barrington terms) and what we’d do for them. I’ve not seen a single advocate of the Barrington Declaration answer those questions.

“I have argued for some time that, as part of a more focused approach, the full resources of the state and civil society should be given over to protecting the genuinely vulnerable ” no matter the financial cost ” while the healthy part of the population are granted greater freedoms to live their lives.”

Wow, that sounds as stupidly extreme as the lockdown zealots who likewise don’t care about the massive opportunity cost from the resources put into tackling Covid.

As for Twitter, it’s another platform that gives nutters a voice. In the past they’d mainly be stuck under their rocks and limited to ranting in the pub.

But why on earth did an intelligent, sensible guy like Paul Embery put the info up on a flaky medium like Twitter? Indeed, why put anything rational or reasonable there to be seized upon and distorted by the deranged and malicious denizens of the medium? As my old grandmother used to say in pre-social media days “What can you expect from a pig but a grunt?” Better to starve it of any involvement or attention. Better still if, as a public service to society, it could be taken down!

Now lets start with the facts and figures on the “man-made climate change” scam eg the 10 climate predictions for 2020 that went horribly wrong (Global Warming Policy Foundation)

I agree with the criticisms of twitter mobs. But at least you were able to get this important statistic out into the public discourse. Twitter does have its uses.

I sometimes wonder if Twitter exists to give pigeons a rest from mad people shouting at them, hence the name.
For me it serves as a painless way to peer into other people’s view, one that I can disengage from in a moment.
Alternatively it gives the possibility of engaging with the great and the good in way that normally would be impossible. I try to follow a range of opinions from left to right and parody (not always easy to separate).
With regard to the original post, i too have signed the Declaration.

Another example justifying the assertion that social media platforms should be designated as publishers.
Every individual on these platforms should have a physical address to which their joining code is sent and a mobile phone account that is regularly checked via an access code to validate their account.