Comments by "pinball1970" (@pinball1970) on "BBC News" channel.

  1.  @davyjose1978  I care about the same things as you, my health, family friends my job the economy. I understand some of the science is all. The weird thing is about the conspiracy stuff is that none of it is needed. There is some really scary shit regarding vaccines but I have not seen any citations regarding it. Children as you said is a concern but I doubt jabs will be recommended for them. I am glad you do not think I am a TOTAL psychopath, nice to know.
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  2.  @zoedark7101  Have you ever set foot in a laboratory? Why would you say something so profoundly stupid?
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  3.  @stephenlambert9826  Of course masks work.
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  4.  @zoedark7101  Of course they can mandate it, it's called a law. Premises can do that also, it's their business and if they want you to wear a mask to enter their business they can do so. PPE has been around for decades in medical, Science and industry. It's there for a reason, it works. Viruses do not travel on their own. They travel via their host, usually body fluids like sputum, mucus. A mask can greatly reduce that risk of transmission, this is why health care professionals wear them. They work.
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  5.  @zoedark7101  This study explains some of the science. Widespread use of masks was not down to efficacy, it was down to some other factors such a false sense of security and also supply to an extent. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0843-2#Sec3
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  6.  @zoedark7101  'I don't care.' Spoken like an intelligent adult.
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  7.  @zoedark7101  I generally don't post to change people, I post to make sure the correct information is out there. If something is very obviously wrong I will point it out. Do you distrust all Science or just the stuff you see on Facebook?
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  8.  @zoedark7101  Like I said I am not interested in changing anyone. A neutral could be reading and take a view. Which Science do you not trust? Which gives conflicting information? You trust the science that enables you to post on the internet I take it?
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  9.  @zoedark7101  I'm drunk and going to bed. Take care
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  10. @True Well no I don't know all of them, nobody does
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  11. @True As a student I fell asleep in the road, idiot. Hammered. They got my ID and dropped me off home. I had no idea where I was when I woke up. They gave me a talking to, I think I was 19 or so. They don't have time for that now, especially in Manchester and other big cities.
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  12. @Hawsey Hoolihan Bullshit
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  13.  @Vaultboy101  I don't think your question sums everything up.Can you neatly package people up like that? We have always had laws and government. Why do you think things are more authoritarian than in the 50s? Or China? Or Pakistan? You ever been there?
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  14. @Hawsey Hoolihan What you recruit police?
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  15. @Hawsey Hoolihan What is the criteria for Scientists?
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  16.  @Vaultboy101  My advice is don't scale back. There are interesting beautiful people out there. Some of which just may disagree with you.
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  17. @Hawsey Hoolihan That's weird, twenty years in a lab never met a pay master. I take it you have never set foot in a lab?
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  18. @Hawsey Hoolihan So no then. You are clueless regarding Science and the Scientific method. Zero qualifications in Science too probably. What's your view on Quantum mechanics?
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  19. @Hawsey Hoolihan If your view on the police is similar reasoning to how the science community operate, I can comfortably disregard it.
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  20.  @dilatedbeholder3865  It's obvious. Do I need to explain it?
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  21.  @BertRussie  Good post
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  22. yeah quote the Bible over Science, that will work
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  23. Who else Rayner? Ha ha!!
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  24. @Mal Driskel Because you're a virologist
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  25.  @kazthamc58  Every time I see a 'recovery' rate from the conspiracy nut jobs it's different. Why is that? Perhaps you are not immunologists and are making it up as you go along?
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  26.  @kazthamc58  You are clueless regarding biology, do you know what novel virus means? Your body has NEVER encountered it. Plenty of healthy people encounter disease and die, that's why the smart guys developed vaccines and that's why we don't die from smallpox Poliomyelitis TB and other diseases like we did 100 years ago
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  27.  @kazthamc58  We don't actually know what the kill rate is yet because 1/Not every one who is going to die from COVID19 has yet died. 2/ we don't know many cases there have been in total. 3/Different variants have different epidemiology 4/What does 'recovery' mean? It does not necessarily mean 'as you were' We are approaching 3% kill rate. 2.8% if you crunch the numbers. This will drop to 1-2% possibly. This is WITH lockdown and WITH a vaccine since December 2020. Without those things the kill rate would be much higher with a swamped NHS. so these numbers of 99.99...... recovery are simply ignorant nonsense.
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  28.  @kazthamc58  I have tried to explain why 'death rate' is not a number you can cite
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  29.  @isaac_aren  Notice how they distrust science whilst using science and technology to post that they don't trust science or Scientists? That's irony right there.
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  30.  @kazthamc58  They are not my 'assumptions' they are from the published literature. Ok let's do it this way. UK 127000 dead 66 million population. Death rate from 4.7 million cases is?
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  31.  @kazthamc58  So YouTube links to dispute science?
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  32.  @kazthamc58  Well no. Science works on published literature. Do you read any of that? The BBC dumbs it down to report to the masses because not everyone understands how biology works.
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  33.  @kazthamc58  It's not exaggerated. The stats guys look back of 5 year death toll averages. Year by year month by month. They don't know how many Covid has killed precisely, not until it's all over. Spanish flu estimates were 25-50 million globally. That's a factor of 2 wriggle room, we should get better estimates.
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  34.  @kazthamc58  Immunity may last 6-12 months. Boosters will be required as per seasonal flu.
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  35.  @kazthamc58  Yes we're on YT. I am saying don't get your primary information from it. CDC, WHO, Lancet BMJ have good resources.
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  36.  @kazthamc58  Of course they are continuing trials, they are doing that AND monitoring is situ as we speak. That's good science. They didn't just get results back from phase 3 trials and go to the pub.
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  37.  @kazthamc58  What's wrong with 12 months? Seasonal flu is also 12 months. The virus changes we need to change with it. It just means I get 2 not 1 jab per year.
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  38.  @kazthamc58  Science is not about knowing everything is knowing something that can make a difference. These vaccines are making a difference, saving lives.
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  39. No. Let's stabilise the economy first. She has messed up, probably get rid.
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  40.  @TheBestlaidschemes  No they don't where are you getting this nonsense
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  41. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades wrong, https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
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  42. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades Why do you keep saying, 'so called scientists,' then citing one over the other? Are you telling me you are in a position to judge? You are qualified?
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  43. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades There are hopes for a vaccine early next year. Try not to keep knocking down the scientists, they will be the guys who work this thing out.
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  44. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades I was quoting numbers in the states, please concentrate on one thing at a time. Estimates are as low as 26,000 deaths in one year for seasonal flu and COVID numbers are now at 100,000 WITH lock down. Why is his so difficult for you to grasp?
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  45. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades Vaccines with hair loss, where on earth do you get this nonsense? Do you have any science education at all?
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  46. @KehOfAllTrades KehOfAllTrades You are in as much of a position to judge Professor Ferguson as you are a quantum physicist, none. You are just another boring arm chair internet warrior, scientifically illiterate judging by your posts, lurching from one brainless conspiracy web site to another.
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  47.  @TheBestlaidschemes  I studied immunology and microbiology at university as part of a applied Biology degree I do not need read a pop science book on vaccines. They work that's all you need to know, that's why we don't have small pox any more
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  48.  @TheBestlaidschemes  As soon as see the word, 'pharma' I know follows will be nonsense and you did not disappoint.
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  49.  @TheBestlaidschemes  Please cite the peer reviewed publication that demonstrates vaccines do not work including the programs of the 1960s.
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  50.  @TheBestlaidschemes  Polio was eradicated where there were vaccine programs it's a fact. Same with TB, MMR, smallpox this is well documented established science. What you have posted is conspiracy face book nonsense. Compatible with flat earth, it's THAT stupid.
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