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This is interesting. Confirms Sedwill had CV around the same time as the PM who tested positive on 26 March.
Gold Cup week ended 13 March. Who was he with?

The PM claims to have “followed the Science” in allowing three big events to go ahead.

This is quite wrong.
By 2/3/2020 scientists from Imperial, including Ferguson had told them that a series of measures were needed to prevent escalation, otherwise 250,000 deaths possible.

That individual measures such as closing schools, Social distance, cancelling events insufficient in their own.
A combination of measures needed to be effective but Johnson dithered, gave messages that the situation was not serious, that it was business as usual.

Meanwhile this is the consequence of Cheltenham going ahead. MY TOWN.

And plenty who lived here were socially isolating because we were anxious about the impact of the races on the town. Prime conditions for passing it on.

Yet this is the PM’s response and Sedwill sets an example to the whole of the civil service.

Imagine KNOWING that the rate of progression was doubling quickly and in the community, WHO. making it cclear that a pandemic was high risk.

People in the U.K. dying of COVID & the head of the Civil Service swanning off to Cheltenham.
I saw various people saying they “got” COVID at Cheltenham.

Much more likely that Londoners where it was already multiplying (including in Parl) dragged COVID to Cheltenham and back again.

Cheltenham and SW had a low incidence beforehand.
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