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The silence out of Japan is deafening.

I think that Japan, like the UK, is pursuing a strategy of madness with #DontTestDontTell and #HerdImmunity.

BOJ is AWOL.
Japan, a country of 130 million, has tested 13,000 people for CV-19. If you don't see that Japan is one of the foremost proponents of #DontTestDontTell, you're just not paying attention.
There is no country in the world where I am more curious to see stats on hospitalizations for viral pneumonia over past 2 months than Japan.
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From an ER doc. He's been issued ONE disposable N95 mask, so he's saving it until he has to intubate someone and "goes naked for all the minor flu like cases".

Here's his close: "our leaders are failing us."

He's right.

Every RT counts. Every @ counts. It's time to howl.
Thank you to everyone who has offered to send masks to this doc's ER dept. We now have a lot of masks heading his way!

Instead of sending more to this hospital, asking you to please give your N95 masks to *your* local ER. It *really* makes a difference!
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Ben Hunt
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Please read and RT.

I’m going to relay this correspondence with an Alabama radiologist as a Twitter thread.

It’s a crowded field, but no state gov’t has handled CV-19 more pathetically than my home state of Alabama. It's been total #DontTestDontTell.

epsilontheory.com/tick-tock/
"Ben, XY here. Radiologist at [hospital] in [small AL town] and [medical center] between B'ham and Montgomery. I could write a tome but neither of us has time! Thought I would share a few anecdotes.”
“Monday March 9. 50 yo patient smoker, recent travel, copd, coughing, was intubated, classic ground glass and consolidation changes on CT. State (ADPH) came out the next day and told hospital administration, "No need to test, didn't meet criteria." WTF. Who the heck is then?”
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Western Government's lax attitudes to public health & safety, as a secondary consideration to market integrity is being brutally exposed by effectiveness of response in Asia #COVIDー19 #CoronavirusOutbreak #Korea
Look at the trend of #Coronavirus spread in S Korea (everyone with symptoms gets #Covid19 testing) vs UK where only the v sick, footballers, CEOs & MPs get tested.
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@peterjukes @BorisJohnson 1/. It was actually TEN days ago that @BorisJohnson first mentioned the ‘take in on the chin’ theory.

He told it to @Schofe & @hollywills on #ThisMorning on Thursday, 5 March.

A clip of him saying this was tweeted by @mvdct on the same day.

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@peterjukes @BorisJohnson @Schofe @hollywills @mvdct On Sunday evening, after a tip off from @CereinynOrd (follow her for #coronavirus), I tracked down the clip of the interview.

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The second far more chilling than the first.
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#HerdImmunity
After sending this tweet, I got a few "herdimmunitysplaining" replies.
Let's talk about it, shall we?

First stop: "Let's just infect the young to build immunity"
Correct me if I'm wrong, but there isn't an Old&Sick county & a Young-Only county in the UK, is there?
So how exactly is the spread of the virus supposed to be contained to the "young population"?
Where are the measures to make that happen?
Said young population doesn't live in a bubble.
Vulnerable people do not either.
Oh, BTW - 2nd stop: Who are the "others to protect"?
People, that's roughly 30% of the population.
+65: 12.5 m
5.4 m with asthma, 1m w/ chronic lung disease
2,3m diagnosed or recovering from cancer
This 👇
20 m people seems to be a low estimate.
20 m people to protect by infecting the others.
Again -how?
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Hey everyone! @emilyjmayo here with another thread on the female emperors! If you tuned into my last thread (which you can check out below), you may be wondering why I use the term “female emperors” instead of “empresses.” Read on to find out why. #Japan
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