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@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens This entire article is based on the false assumption that the #Skripals received swift diagnosis/treatment for nerve agent. THEY DID NOT -- for at least 36hrs, according to their doctors. The dose was also considerable, given the state they were found in. politics.co.uk/comment-analys…
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens "It is clear that the #Skripals and the police constable received serious and relevant medical interventions" -- this is a lie of omission, as the medics told the BBC that nerve agent was not suspected until DCI Bailey arrived at Salisbury A&E, more than a day after the Skripals.
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens "NHS ambulance services and hospital A&E services have been worrying about chemical terrorism for decades now" -- this is another lie of omission, which again does not take into account the fact that the medics in this case were not initially worried about nerve agent at all.
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens "People should be happy, not shocked, that training and protocols kicked in." This is a disingenuous deception, as although "training and protocols" most certainly were followed, none of those protocols were initially related to a diagnosis of nerve agent poisoning.
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens "There are... cases where people were exposed to very high doses of nerve agents and survived with aggressive medical interventions." Another lie of omission, as the #Skripals received no aggressive intervention on the basis of a diagnosis of nerve agent poisoning for many hours.
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens The most charitable possible interpretation of this is that Dan Kaszeta did not behave as a journalist would, by asking the medics who treated the #Skripals what happened once they arrived at hospital. Rather, he simply speculated using his "expertise", and ignored the timeline.
@EliotHiggins @rossathome @Agent_Hodgo @bellingcat @DanKaszeta @medialens Source for all the medical testimony about the actual timeline of the diagnosis and treatment of the Skripals comes from the BBC:
