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Francois Ballou, I don't know if I'm saying his name right too, so I apologize.

I don't know.

You don't need to apologize to them.

I hope we read some.

You really don't.

You don't owe them a correct pronunciation of their names, in my opinion.

But yeah, so he posted on Twitter. I probably should really try to find the exact quote.

But it was essentially that in order to make COVID endemic, young children should be exposed to the virus as early as possible.

Healthy children should be exposed to the virus as early as possible. Healthy children should be exposed to the virus as early as possible. Okay? Here, I'll say it. I'll read it exactly. He tweeted,

I'm not sure how to convey this message in a half acceptable way, but if the objective were to send

SARS-CoV-2 into endemicity, then healthy kids have to be exposed to the virus, ideally, rather than later.

This is not eugenicism. It is bog standard infection disease epidemiology.

I think this is the one that I got blocked for. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And so I said,

I'm going to write an essay about this.

And he said, why are you threatening me?

It's funny, but this is actually, it's funny in one way and it's funny and it's funny and not in another way because it's not funny at all, actually.

Because Wes recognize this for what this is. So he is a. way and it's funny and not in another way because it's not funny at all actually because let's recognize

this for what this is so so he is a senior scientist in the UK who has a very wide media presence

he has advised government officials he has a massive following on Twitter if I was a young

doctor who wasn't sort of secure in my field and sort of a senior scientist

accused me of threatening him, I'd probably back down.

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