Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Alas , the busy Mr .@dellannaluca is always otherwise engaged or absent when asked specific questions. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@leo17parda. I just felt that, if he had only joined me, it might have turned the scales. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@thelivingvote. Tag me in a quote tweet, then. Because I have seen nothing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

The mismatch between the two participants here is actually funny. Prof Livermore's response to the 'what about condoms?' argument is a joy to behold — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

What is, .@richservant? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannaluca. I do not know. I make no claim to knowledge on the subject. I have not heard of any testable, objective falsifiable experimental work which shows it to be the case. If you have, please direct me to it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

A silly thing to say .@dellannaluca. If you wish to cite a scientific paper in support of a claim, it is up to *you* to say precisely which paper you are citing. In my view it is generally helpful to say why you think the paper cited is decisive on the issue. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannaluca Who cares what I believe ( or what you believe) about such a thing? Is there testable, falsifiable hard experimental evidence that this is so? Where can it be found? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @NxlAnglo: The recent Rishi maths policy had me thinking of that time in the early 2010s when Michael Gove as Education Minister propose… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@dellannalucaAs I keep saying the article is not about masks but about how the campaign to make them mandatory was political in origin. When you get round to reading it, you will see that it adduces much evidence for this proposition. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 Anything can be misrepresented as anything, .@dellannaluca. , provided the person doing the misrepresenting is swimming with the tide. You are turning a general point about A into a specific statement about B, which the headline does not in fact make. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Fire hydrant, .@dellannaluca. Please tell us which study you rely on, why you do so and point to the section of it you refer to. Or we might think you were just hoping for the best. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@jaxstoneart My article says: ' I would fiercely defend your freedom to wear one if you want to. If covering your face with a piece of cloth makes you feel safer or kinder, far be it from me to stop you. It is none of my business' You should read it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 2/2 .@dellannaluca. the reasons for this are simple. Cost, and practicability. How many face-covering users abided by thes… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Next week at the University of Buckingham https://t.co/AtmKGELOBm — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@dellannaluca. the reasons for this are simple. Cost, and practicability. How many face-covering users abided by these rules? Or ever would or could have done? https://t.co/snscb3eoX1 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@dellannaluca. I t may be that you ahve not left your home since March 2020. But if you had, you would have observed that the face coverings worn by the great preponderance of those using them were *not* N95s. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I have no trouble at all in following it .@dellannaluca. You misrepresented me. Couldn't be clearer . I even gave you the opportunity to back away from doing so, but you insisted. People who lose arguments with me always eventually make this empty complaint. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But, .@dellannalucca. It simply does not say that. You made that up. Isn't it irresponsible and a bit naughty of you to go around misrepresenting what other people say? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannaluca By whom? Will an army of nurses fan out across the country ensuring that all masks are changed regularly, that nobody ever touches them or re-uses them? Or will the invisible police burst into homes and workplaces to enforce it? Perhaps the Army could tackle this. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @daytonaplatinum: @ClarkeMicah "Although there is a perception that the wearing of facemasks by the public in the community and househol… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@DellAnnaLuca Which headline are you referring to? Please p[rovide referenced direct quotation. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

But .@abigailinthedel, WHO until summer 2020 was explicitly against a mask mandate. The article which caused you to be rude to mask opponents explains that the WHO changed its position on political, not medical grounds.Please point to a *specific* paper which backs your posish. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Yes, @mlilleker I recall this very interesting letter to, I think, The Daily Telegraph. I don't recall any rebuttal or refutation. Was there one? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannaluca. Who can say. For all I know wearing a face mask protects its wearers against all kinds of things. It just has not been shown to be so. It says the health benefits of wearing such a mask have not been established, and the mask mandate's origins were political. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@abigailinthedel. Actually this too is disputed . Please see https://t.co/60BjfFgL6I — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@janinethechef1. Not really. Remember, I used to do mobs myslef when I was a Trot. If people stood up to us, we melted away. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

I don't think people should exaggerate, .@taylorcolumnist. A sense of proportion is a precious possession, and I am blessed to have one, but it is not the same as courage. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@dellannaluca. Straw man. The proposition is not that 'masks don't work' . It is that they do not work *in certain circumstances*. And as these circumstances are the ones achieved (and in reality achievable) by the mask mandate, that's kind of important. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@pelliott1954, Actually, I believe the necessity of wearing masks in operating theatres (done for quite different reasons than those advanced for Covid masks) is not universally accepted in the medical profession. You might find this interesting: https://t.co/60BjfFhiWg — PolitiTweet.org