Thread by @_almond_tree, THREAD: Urgent and dangerous - please read There are people among us [...]

THREAD: Urgent and dangerous - please read

There are people among us who WANT #Covid19UK to stay. For example, Oxford vaccine Professor Adrian Hill.
"We're in the bizarre position of wanting COVID to stay, at least for a little while." 1/8 https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-disappearing-so-fast-oxford-vaccine-has-only-50-chance-of-working-11993739

Coronavirus 'disappearing' so fast Oxford vaccine has 'only 50% chance of working'

Professior Adrian Hill describes the efforts to create a vaccine as a "race against the virus disappearing, and against time".

https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-disappearing-so-fast-oxford-vaccine-has-only-50-chance-of-working-11993739

The reason for this is simple: the UK government have invested a huge amount of money. It now makes sense why they want schools open - to spread it around more. They also want to trial the vaccine on CHILDREN. 2/8 http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-05-22-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-begin-phase-iiiii-human-trials

Oxford COVID-19 vaccine to begin phase II/III human trials | University of Oxford

University of Oxford researchers have begun recruiting for the next phase in human trials of a COVID-19 vaccine in human volunteers.

http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-05-22-oxford-covid-19-vaccine-begin-phase-iiiii-human-trials

Also, they're now planning to DELIBERATELY INFECT the trial volunteers with covid19. This has huge ethical implications, because there's no cure yet. So if worse comes to worse, these people are in danger of dying. 3/8 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/24/uk-scientists-want-to-infect-volunteers-with-covid-19-in-race-to-find-vaccine

UK scientists want to infect volunteers with Covid-19 in race to find vaccine

Trials could be speeded up by using risky strategy of deliberately introducing the virus

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/24/uk-scientists-want-to-infect-volunteers-with-covid-19-in-race-to-find-vaccine

Does the whole thing stink enough yet? It actually stinks a lot more. AstraZeneca, the pharma company who's at the top of this, are determined to start selling it in SEPTEMBER (link on next tweet). We're in for a hell of a summer... 4/8

They have also now changed the vaccine's name (I presume because of the negative publicity against it). "Formerly ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and now known as AZD1222." 5/8 https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-advances-response-to-global-covid-19-challenge-as-it-receives-first-commitments-for-oxfords-potential-new-vaccine.html

AstraZeneca advances response to global COVID-19 challenge as it receives first commitments for...

https://www.astrazeneca.com/media-centre/press-releases/2020/astrazeneca-advances-response-to-global-covid-19-challenge-as-it-receives-first-commitments-for-oxfords-potential-new-vaccine.html

AstraZeneca have a long history of scandals and failures. Examples:
(sources at end of thread)
1. Multiple scandals listed on wikipedia
2. August 2016 - fine for bribing China and Russia
3. July 2019 - UK redundancies scandal
4. 2003 - unethical lethal drug trials in US 6/8

5. January 2020 - failed heart drug trial
6. January 2019 - hiring a fraudster for Head of Cancer
7. Current deals (see 5/8 above for link) with BARDA, CEPI, GAVI, and WHO, all of which are involved in so many scandals themselves it would need multiple threads to cover. 7/8

Conclusion: I know how much many people pine for a vaccine, but, if there ever will be a vaccine, this is NOT the one to trust. Because of the ADE feature of coronavirus, there may never be one - but for sure BEWARE of the Oxford one. END 8/8

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