“The spread of coronavirus could have been slowed with earlier quarantine restrictions on arrivals, & lack of border measures earlier in the pandemic was a "serious mistake”.
This was obvious from Day 1.
Were this another political decision dressed-up in science? @piersmorgan👇
Was it scientific advice:
* not to screen flight arrivals?
* to transfer people from hospitals to care homes without testing?
* not to ban big gatherings?
* to ignore modelling that warned of huge fatalities?
The answer lies in the SAGE minutes from 5 March - the first attended by Cummings.
In that meeting, the advice from previous meetings: e.g. “sustained community transmission was underway” & the need for "early measures" to protect vulnerable were ignored.
We know the govt ignored the advice of their own behavioural scientist group (SPI-B), when it came to the concept of #LockdownFatigue
The idea - supported by Halpern, Edmunds, Vallance & Whitty - was if we locked down in mid-March, people would get bored. undercovid.org/articles/nudgi…
Almost 5 months on, we are no closer to getting the truth about who came up with & pushed the concept of #LockdownFatigue
When asked on 9 June, #DavidHalpern says he can’t remember
This is a familiar pattern when trying to to find out how absurd ‘scientific decisions’ were made
Memory loss seems to be becoming increasingly common & it will blight any Public Inquiry.
But we don’t need to wait for an Inquiry.
We have the key answers already.
Each of the many scandals are part of an overarching scandal: the #HerdImmunityScandal
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…