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Jul 3, 2020, 9 tweets

Today, there were 137 #COVID19 deaths

On the day lockdown was introduced, there were 102

Boris Johnson says public should act "safely & sensibly"

But pubs will open tmw at 6am

Are we really ready to celebrate #4thofJuly #MarkFrancois? #IndependenceDay

PM: Give “name & contact details of everyone behind the bar...behind the...to the...er...in the restaurant or wherever”

UK has 2x #COVID deaths as the rest of the EU put together

1 JULY

UK 176
Italy 21
France 18
Sweden 12
Germany 9
Spain 8
Belg 7
Portugal 3
Ire 2
Denm 1
Norw 1

This is a time for sober, well-informed, transparent leadership & for MPs journalists & experts to challenge govt where they go wrong.

An Inquiry in 2021? What for?

We know what went wrong & why.

We know the govt ignored warnings.

We know this not sheer incompetence/bumbling.

“They’re environments whose principle job it is to bring people together. That’s a great thing to do socially. But it’s also a great thing from the virus’s point of view.”

Whitty explaining why...er...[checks notes] pubs shouldn’t be opening.
#PubsOpening

The R rate has gone above 1 in London

Leicester is in lockdown

We had 137 deaths in the UK today which is almost TRIPLE the number we had (55) when lockdown was introduced in March.

Confused?

See #HerdImmunityScandal THREADS👇
#PubsOpening #COVIDー19
https://t.co/UKuPlaa8BN

Correction: 55 people were reported to have died on 23 March bringing the then total of death in the UK after testing positive for coronavirus to 336.

336! Total!

That day, lockdown was imposed.

The decision to lift lockdown tmw is a political decision.
google.co.uk/amp/s/news.sky…

In the last week, @BorisJohnson has compared himself with two mighty orators: Churchill & Roosevelt.

He is neither.
#PubsOpening #SuperSaturday #PubsReopening #HerdImmunity #HerdImmunityScandal #Covid19 #SuperSpreaderSaturday #coronavirus #Covid_19 #covid

A Great British pint in a Great British pub. We will not let some dirty foreign virus come over here & impose their PC madness on our time-honoured & hard-fought traditions. I’d rather die in a ditch...or in an ICU ward or in a care home. #PubsOpening #nigelfarage #SuperSaturday

On 23 March there were 55 deaths.

This 55 brought the entire total of COVID deaths in the UK to 336.

336 deaths altogether(!) & the country was gravely concerned.

In terms of new infections they had 967 in March, around the same as now. PM said “under 1,000”.

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