Professor @JeremyFarrar says SAGE took the decision that there should be a lockdown on 13 March & they “advised govt to impose a lockdown on 16 March”.
Ystdy, @MattHancock claimed lockdown was imposed on 16th March
They appear to be like other govts, but this govt seems to play by different rules & exist in a parallel dimension where facts & truth have no currency.
On 13/3, the day SAGE called for a lockdown, #C4News reported how boxes of rapid #Covid19 test kits were being exported from UK around the world.
At the same time, frontline #NHS staff & care workers could not get tested or get PPE. #HerdImmunityScandal
On Saturday 14 March, @BorisJohnson hosted a big party / baby shower for @carriesymonds at Chequers, according to reports.
Was this the reason the govt didn’t react to Friday’s advice from SAGE that a lockdown should be imposed until Monday? #BREAKING mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
According to @globalhlthtwit, the 13 March SAGE meeting where the decision was taken to call for lockdown, was attended by 14 govt advisers including #BenWarner, ‘the eyes & ears’ of #DominicCummings.
Vallance, rprtdly a close #Cummings ally, Whitty & Halpern we’re also there.
Ystdy, I asked Profs @JeremyFarrar & @PeterHorby if they’d mentioned the paper published by @TheLancet which showed alarming ICU rates emerging from China, to NERVTAG & SAGE?
On 24 Jan, they’d both responded to @richardhorton1’s tweet on the findings.
They both replied to me.
Jeremy was in touch with Richard on 18/1 about clinical data & the severity of the disease.
As head of @wellcometrust, he’d issued a number of statements clearly setting out the dangers & the need for urgent coordinated action.
.@PeterHorby actually coauthored the accompanying commentary piece in Lancet on 24 Jan & says he mentioned the findings at SAGE even before the publication.
The govt & their scientific committees were therefore aware of the looming dangers at the END OF JANUARY. #COVID19#COVID
If @PeterHorby & @JeremyFarrar were aware of the dangers of #COVID19 in January & they informed the govt & their scientific committees, why was no action taken?
Why are the govt trying to claim they didn’t know much at this stage?
Why didn’t/don’t Hornby & Farrar speak out?
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1/. “It is the greatest mass-killing in recorded history; & it goes on daily, hourly, as regularly as the ticking of your watch”
Arthur Koestler’s 1944 essay expressing frustration at the failure of the world to acknowledge Nazi atrocities resonates today wethescreamers.com
2/ “There are a few of us…yelling at you in newspapers…Now & then we reach your ear…But it only lasts a minute. You shake yourself like puppies who’ve got their fur wet; then the screen again descends & you walk on, protected by the dream-barrier which stifles all sound”
#Gaza
3/ Koestler notes maniacs lose contact with reality so “perhaps it’s we, the screamers, who react in a sound & healthy way to the reality which surrounds us, whereas you are the neurotics who totter about in a screened fantasy world because you lack the faculty to face the facts”
“They got me!” Liz Truss tells far-right kingpin, Steve Bannon, before going on to explain that, to have effectively tackled “the deep state” that runs Britain & its institutions, she would have “needed a bigger bazooka”! #LizTruss #BritanniaUnchained
"I was just saying it like it is & that’s what people respect me for"(!)
Liz Truss’ compares her premiership to a one night stand & says she was just “fattening the pig” for slaughter & that she should have gaslit the public like Rishi Sunak is doing (!)
"I faced the most almighty backlash...from the usual suspects in the media” Liz Truss
“Truss's decline is simultaneously tragic & horrifying but the claim that the media conspired against her can't go unchallenged. There are front pages praising her to the rafters” @mrjamesob
As the 2nd module of the #CovidInquiry begins covering “core UK decision-making & political governance”, comes news that Rishi Sunak - like Boris Johnson - has also fail to fully comply with the order to hand his WhatsApp messages
“The govt needs get professional IT experts to recover these messages”
Charles Persinger who lost his wife & mother to #COVID, echoes the call of @CovidJusticeUK’s lawyers calling on the @covidinquiryuk to commission experts to retrieve Sunak & Johnson’s ‘lost’ WhatsApp messages
Twitter's new privacy policy takes effect on 29 September
It gives X the right to use your posts - including DMs - & all your data - including phone, email, biometrics (e.g. face scans & eye scans) to train their AI & to share with any partner X wants👇 twitter.com/en/privacy
“I do not accept that Twitter has deteriorated in any way since Elon Musk took over”
A week before Twitter’s change in privacy policy, some questions for @elonmusk
1. What biometric information will be collected & what are the intended uses?
How will X ensure that that the data of X’s 530 million users isn’t used for unlawful purposes? mashable.com/article/x-twit…
1/. “I am often asked why the UK doesn’t have a successful far-right populist party. My answer is: because it doesn’t need to” @julie_renbe
Far-right politics are becoming mainstreamed in:
Italy
Finland
Sweden
Greece
France
Hungary
Poland
Germany
Spain
UK theguardian.com/books/2023/jul…
2/. The far right is being increasingly mainstreamed in both European & US politics
Last October, Giorgia Meloni - head of the Brothers of Italy party, which has historical roots in the post-war neo-fascist Italian Social Movement - won Italy’s election nytimes.com/2023/07/31/pod…