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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Julian Assange is scheduled to appear in a federal court in Saipan, a US commonwealth in the Pacific, where he’s expected to plead guilty to one charge under the Espionage Act & be sentenced to 5yrs
Given he’s already served this time, he should walk free
The public have a right to know what their govts do in their name
Julian #Assange’s prosecution represented a grave threat to press freedom, undermining the key role of journalists & publishers in scrutinizing govts misdeeds & creating a chilling effect
2/. From the start of the pandemic the govt had given #Palantir, a US spyware company with reported links to #CambridgeAnalytica, access to NHS health data
3/. Palantir worked on the NHS data store with #FacultyAI - a company with ties to Cummings
In 2020, @amnesty warned that Big Tech firms might use the COVID crisis to hoover up genomic data, obliterating the last frontier of privacy: our biological selves
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
2/. It’s clear that the bomb blasts in Kerman on the 4th anniversary of #Soleimani's assassination by the US, could lead to a quick ratcheting up of dangerous tensions
After Oct 7, the US sent two aircraft carrier groups to the region
3/. Three US soldiers were killed & two dozen injured in an unmanned aerial drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern #Jordan near the Syrian border, President @JoeBiden said