This typifies what has happened over the past 2 years; you have been deliberately manipulated, scared and driven to do what you were told and take the actions you were meant to take, without feeling forced.
It makes my heart break at the suffering and harms that resulted. pic.twitter.com/vpHtAoQG66
— Renee Hoenderkamp 💜 (@DrHoenderkamp) February 10, 2022
“In South Africa it is a lighter disease, but in Europe it has been a serious, serious illness, which is what the politicians want me to say. There has been a lot of pressure from European scientists and politicians who have said ‘Please don’t say it is a mild illness‘.
“They are accusing me of lying, of downplaying Omicron because of how it has been in Europe … in their minds, it is impossible for a disease with more than 38 mutations to be mild.”
Dr Angelique Coetzee, who discovered the ‘Omicron strain’.
Omicron pioneer ‘pressured’ to exaggerate seriousness (SA Daily Telegraph)