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The @Conservatives were warned for years about the risk of a novel virus yet did nothing to prepare the UK for what was known to be a high national security risk. This Thread brings together the documents and exercise's that no10 had at their disposal.
#OperationWinterWillow
In 2007 the UK held a pandemic exercise that predated #OperationCygnus code named Winter willow, which put in place everything needed for a #coronavirusuk outbreak! Austerity depleted #PPE EX, Cygnus only exposed how badly!
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1/6 The figures are indeed devastating Mr Hunt & #ventilation in healthcare settings MUST be improved.

BUT you fail to comment on the INADEQUATE LEVEL of #PPE STILL worn by so many HCWs which undoubtedly resulted in many patients becoming infected as well as HCW illness & death.
2/HCWs are justified in being angry & patients have a right to be angry too.
The failings of UK Gvmt & @PHE_uk on #PPE are significant.

#OperationCygnus results ignored.

Downgrading #COVID19 from the list of HCIDs.

#VIP lane for contracts but known #PPE suppliers ignored.
3/Would you feel SAFE caring for patients w/ known or suspected #COVID19 in a FRSM😷& plastic apron?

We know that those working in A+E, acute medical units & primary care are particularly vulnerable, seeing patients when they are likely to be highly infectious.
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1/. The PM claims that the govt “stuck to the science like glue”

But this is not true

At crucial times they ignored the science or concocted pseudo-scientific justifications for their actions & inaction

This thread, & the embedded threads, set them out
2/. “BEHAVIOURAL FATIGUE”

A key justification for delaying lockdown was that “if we do it too early people will get bored”

The paper-thin reasoning of this claim was apparent at the time

But it was repeated by the PM, Ministers, @uksciencechief & Whitty
3/. The concept of "lockdown fatigue" had no basis in behavioural science

On 14 March, 700 behavioural scientists published an open letter stating this

So where had the idea come from?

How had it been allowed to shape govt policy at this crucial time?
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“This was completely foreseeable,” a
self-isolating student tells @KayBurley

So were the tens of thousands of deaths due to late lockdown

Much of the chaos & death in the UK was foreseeable

#OperationCygnus warned us

WHO warned us

Italy warned us
The claims that #COVID was “an invisible mugger”, that lockdown was delayed for fear that people would get “bored”, that no one knew about asymptomatic spread etc. - do not fit the facts

Is this pure incompetence or might there be something else going on?
In May, @SteveBakerHW tweeted that the “genius” of Cummings’ strategy was to create controversies for the media to chase so as to distract from bigger things

It’s a deception technique that magicans call “misdirection”

Could the chaos be a misdirection?
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