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This article may be unnecessarily alarmist: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067?s=19 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13240
by szopa 6y ago
This article may be unnecessarily alarmist: https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/1324085761449304067?s=19 https://twitter.com/BallouxFrancois/status/13240857614493040...
- intotheabyss 6y agoIf it's alarmist, how come the Denmark government is taking such extreme measures?
- tinus_hn 6y agoBecause they were alarmed? Governments are not immune to disinformation themselves and can experience pressure from a population rallied by falsehoods.
- Eupolemos 6y agoDane here. This is the danish health authorities' recommendation. If anyone thinks our government kills off >1000 farms and declares serious lockdown of a good part of our nation (no moving in and out of these counties, no going to work etc.) in a spur of the moment overreaction because of some Facebook sillyness, it is frankly getting insulting.
- erk__ 6y agoI would wait until the Danish health authorities actually publicate their findings. This is not a statement made by pseudo-scientists. While I don't know his credentials I don't see why I should trust him more than Statens Serum Institut. So I guess the question is if Denmark is alarmist or if this person is the opposite.
- SiempreViernes 6y agoArguably so should the Danish government, because SSI has not said anything in particular about this decision. They did publish a statement last week regretting they didn't properly mail the mink farmers to ask them about how Covid was going, but said that this failure wasn't important for the monitoring or spread of the disease. If they then knew anything about mink order 66 coming, that's some poker face.
- erk__ 6y agoThe director of the center of infectious diseases at SSI Kåre Mølbak was at the press conference, so it is clear I think that while they have not written and published their findings they gave shared them with the government.
- bobthepanda 6y agoIs it alarmist? The article is mostly covering the action of the Danish government, which has decided to cull all the minks. The action may be alarmist but that's another story.
- eznzt 6y agoTo me, the important part of the article is that this strain may have rendered the vaccines useless, thus delaying immunisation of humans. If it says that, and that is not true, then it is alarmist, no?
- bobthepanda 6y agoIt is a statement from the Prime Minister of Denmark in the press conference explaining that the government is culling the minks. The Prime Minister is being alarmist, but quoting people verbatim generally isn’t; they are covering the facts of the event, including the fact that the person in charge and responsible for the newsworthy event said this statement. The AFP is not reporting whether the statement is true or false.
- config_yml 6y agoThis author agrees https://mobile.twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/1324095151984312324 https://mobile.twitter.com/firefoxx66/status/132409515198431...
- erk__ 6y agoIt seems that they may have changed their mind a bit after the newest information have been released. The thread ended up with 58 parts.