I'm seeing this fucking article everywhere. Capital loves this so hard.
The asshole didn't publish his findings. There's no link anywhere to the article. I did a good faith search in Google Scholar and Pubmed, and can't find his findings. He's going to present his findings to a fucking conference in a months time. For those of you who don't know, the bar of entry to academic conferences is much lower than an academic journal. ECCMID isn't even a prestigious conference, they'll accept nearly everyone that submits and pays. Conferences are considered just the beginning of the scientific journey, before the research goes further and gets actual peer review in an actual journal.
For those of you who don't know, John Gerrard was brought in as chief health minister to Queensland specifically to transition to open the country up and forget about COVID. Nearly 100% of the COVID cases and deaths happened after his tenure started. Fuck him
Sorry for the pedantic formatting, but this upsets me so hard.
"I mean, who are you going to believe: Tens of millions of people who are struggling just to exist because of this disease, or one dude with an official sounding title whose six-figure salary depends on tricking enough of the peasants back to work to keep us happy?"