Links:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)30418-9/fulltext
https://oversight.house.gov/release/final-report-covid-select-concludes-2-year-investigation-issues-500-page-final-report-on-lessons-learned-and-the-path-forward/
@newt journalists and politicians in germanistan still call this conspiracy theory 
@bonifartius @newt
I don't even see who's shooting whom here — they are different groups of people who have a hand in the game and different interests, first paper is by a scientist directly linked to this research and the note on competing interests was published in the Lancet itself, this can be found under "Linked articles": https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01377-5/fulltext
@bonifartius @newt
And the other one is a committee chaired by a republican praising Trump administration's actions: Operation Warp Speed, travel restrictions — but downplaying the importance how soon those were adopted. How unexpected that it reinforces other points of Trump's agenda! 😲
@bonifartius @newt
The Oversight report even makes such questionable statements as "Children were unlikely to contribute to the spread of COVID-19" — children were considered the primary spreaders at early stages, never once I've seen a refutation for it.
I'd be taking what either side states with a grain of salt.
Ah, the children hoax. Was never based on data. Hence no refutiation. The German scandal paper/leak talked about Urangst vom Versticken. That was around that time they just invented it.
We now know that children are either sick to the bone (and stay home) or very quickly on their legs again - vs the vax blasted, IgG4-damaged adults, who have a lagging IgG-Response, despite having higher tithers than children.
Oops.
I knoe bc our government said VERY early in 2020, well that sucks and pediatricians see no problem, school stays open while in all countries around us they had them closed far longer.
But there was no data at all. They just asked the doctors associations and they said everything normal. Which is bizarre on its own.
@CapitalB
No, this has nothing to do with vaccines or keeping schools closed down than it probably was necessary. But I still don't see how this is a hoax, even without data — and COVID isn't special in this regard, children contribute greatly to the spreat of airborne infections: in urban areas in most countries they stay together in larger groups than say people in offices, younger children aren't hygiene-conscious…
@bonifartius @newt
@CapitalB
That is why schools and kindergardens usually get closed down early on in case of any epidemiological risk, it's only logical. It's just that it's usually done on district or city level, not nationwide. Claiming that children do not contribute to the spread of viral disease — WTF is that? Sounds like bullshit to me, word mingling ("unlikely") at best 🤷
@bonifartius @newt
@CapitalB
Even if children don't get seriously ill, they still serve as major spreaders. If COVID is indeed different in this regard — now that should be proven instead, that's where you'd probably need numbers — not to confirm what is true for any airborne virus.
@bonifartius @newt