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Been thinking a lot about this evidence overnight. It lays some uncomfortable and bruising ground for Whitty and Vallance… bbc.com/news/uk-politi…
As I discuss in #WhenTheDustSettles good scientific advice in emergencies also needs to listen to Wild Cards and weigh up longer term recovery consequences of certain actions. By 2016/7 I was worried that we were going backwards.
Lots of focus on Chemical and Nuclear threats in mid 2000s and they tell us a lot about the harms that responders can do to a society with poorly misunderstood quick fixes. The advice by 2020 seemed to exclude so many voices.
There can be a lot of snobbery in Disaster Victim Identification with incorrect assumptions abounding that India will struggle this scale of tragedy - but U.K., Europe and USA would be ready. Trust me - this would challenge the U.K. just as much…. news.sky.com/story/india-tr…
Wherever the incident is in the world, affected relatives respond in the same way. Desperate for information and then desperate for access to their loved ones’s body or to visit a survivor in the hospital. The response can never be quick enough and if authorities try to use….
..the Interpol standards and science such as DNA they will take too long in the eyes of both the relatives and the communities and often the uniformed politicians and media.
Reading @LucyGoBag’s wonderful book #WhenTheDustSettles. It’s so good because Lucy connects narrative and analysis to show how broad policy lessons can emerge not through stats and data (I thought Lucy’s discussion of her dyspraxia was relevant here)…perspectivemag.co.uk/the-interview-… 1/8
but from very individual experiences, which she narrates through personal stories which will have resonances with most of her readers (I’m not with my copy now but it is full of underlinings, YESes and exclamation marks). 2/8
There so much to learn from this book, but two things came out for me reading it *now*: I’m not thinking about Covid here, but about momkeypox 3/8
We are about to be collectively gaslit about the Spring of 2020 and what really happened. It will be implied that your memory was the problem, not the rules. This is a common experience dealt out from governments to both disaster and conflict survivors and responders. A few tips:
Tip 1. Don't get angry. We are in the middle of a hard, deep Winter. Anger produces adrenaline and cortisol and you have produced enough of them already over the last 24 months. They make you ill. Instead, get informed [see below].
Tip 2. Understand why weak governments (and more often Dictatorships) have to rely on these tactics. When something is built up through personality and bluster and fear, it can only be deconstructed in a similar way.
**Introducing the IMAs 2021**
The Inaugural Moralee Awards - that no-one asked for or needed!
Just some of my highlights of the people & accounts that in PY2 (Pandemic Year 2) have informed & educated, made me laugh & (good) cry & made this 'scrolling hellsite' bearable
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The Inaugural Moralee Awards - that no-one asked for or needed!
Just some of my highlights of the people & accounts that in PY2 (Pandemic Year 2) have informed & educated, made me laugh & (good) cry & made this 'scrolling hellsite' bearable
1/13
Starting with...
SCIENTIST (Covid Special) part 1, jointly awarded to:
@trishgreenhalgh for relentless pursuit of evidence-based masking in the face of persistent trolling
@chrischirp for communicating clever stuff about C19 in a really accessible way
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SCIENTIST (Covid Special) part 1, jointly awarded to:
@trishgreenhalgh for relentless pursuit of evidence-based masking in the face of persistent trolling
@chrischirp for communicating clever stuff about C19 in a really accessible way
2/13
SCIENTIST (Covid Special) part 2:
@devisridhar for remaining assured & balanced when explaining govt policy & for being positive on social media
@dgurdasani1 for all the above, also in the face of unjust criticism for talking science
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@devisridhar for remaining assured & balanced when explaining govt policy & for being positive on social media
@dgurdasani1 for all the above, also in the face of unjust criticism for talking science
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