This is so full of nonsense. As seems to be usual with her, Louisa is picking up on a very sensitive, nuanced issue of public policy and stomping all over it with her great big galoshes.
There are very good, thoughtful and interesting people in the UK considering issues of end-of-life care, assisted dying and voluntary euthanasia, on all sides of the debate. It's not something we will be rushing into, whatever she thinks.
This inflammatory, evidence-free bullshit is just for clicks. And it's the worst kind of social media engagement. There's nothing objectively separating this kind of tweet from one promoting an alt-right view on Covid as a conspiracy. It has the same purpose and effect -- to inflame passions, get people shrieking and wailing and attacking whatever, and colluding with the poster in their worldview. It's dangerous.
If Louisa really cares about this issue, she should educate herself properly and find common cause with one of the serious groups engaging wiith it properly.
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), plus a long thread about the evils of MOT for people with disability.
and not once has she ever asked me to tweet about her work so she get funding. So sorry if you've been patiently waiting for a cure for whatever it is she works on.
