{"id":57216,"date":"2021-06-01T07:43:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=57216"},"modified":"2021-06-01T07:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:43:30","slug":"the-covid-third-wave-is-coming-its-time-to-stop-pretending-otherwise-and-to-face-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2021\/06\/01\/the-covid-third-wave-is-coming-its-time-to-stop-pretending-otherwise-and-to-face-the-questions-that-need-to-be-asked\/","title":{"rendered":"The Covid third wave is coming. It’s time to stop pretending otherwise and to face the questions that need to be asked."},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been going on for weeks about the fact that the Covid crisis is not over yet, and I am well aware that I have upset some here and on Twitter by doing also. I could pretty much guarantee the loss of 100 Twitter followers every time I mentioned it there. So I know how people feel about the issue. This is something they do not want to think about. Unfortunately, it seems that my hunch to back the work of those I think the most critical thinkers in epidemiology was right.\u00a0 We are going to have another wave of Covid. The media is waking up to the fact.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

The best thread on this that I have seen is by Deepti Gurdasani:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/twitter.com\/dgurdasani1\/status\/1399451396546695169?s=27<\/p>\n

Because I know many here do not look at Twitter this is what she had to say:<\/p>\n

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I post this because this may be the best reasoning and argument that there is available today on this issue - and to publish it is, I think, a considerable act of courage on the part of Dr Gurdasani. I am aware that she is suffering considerable abuse for posting.<\/p>\n

I can't add to what she has to say. She and Prof Christina Pagel stand out in their field now as the leading thinkers on what is going on.<\/p>\n

What I can suggest is that there will be massive economic and political consequences of this. This is what I will be doing in blogs over the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been going on for weeks about the fact that the Covid crisis is not over yet, and I am well aware that I
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