Odd? Not reviewed by Parliament?
I hate to be the one who says it's just more corrupt political misdirection.
Even the target.
This is about SAGE, data suppression and excusing failed politicians.
So that's odd, your next question is?
EITHER
a) Why are the headlines about Public Health England?
To which the answer is, "great question".
PHE is NOT the body that brings together expertise to help Government, it's a broad body that in this area mostly reacts.
Must I prove messy communications to you? Then
1. You missed the virus
2. You don't know any kids with A-Levels
3. You haven't been trapped abroad
4. You were in Bournemouth on the beach
5. For you a Care Homes is one you'd care to buy
6. Testing what exactly?
CONTEXT - we should be concerned
Scientists helped the credibility and believability of communications*.
Removing them hurt both, albeit we also had the Cummings Effect eye test.
(*I have some severe reservations about the 'science' but the test here is comparative.)
What do YOU do with that experience
We don't have a survey but - anecdotally people say
1. Separate Scientists from Gov
2. Have Scientists report Data and Facts
3. Have Politicians communicate policy and progress
[A bit like how we cracked down on bank insider trading!]
So scientists helped transparency
And transparency helped reduce death.
Can anyone cite any credible data that shows that reducing scientific independence or transparency is good for data openness, accountability, viral research?
I found none, and I looked back to 1945
or that we're now so corrupt, for the first time in our history, we're not in top 10 least corrupt countries?
[transparency.org/en/countries/u…]
Or Freedom of Information rejections from UKGov are at an all-time high. 75% are rejected or doctored [democraticaudit.com/2018/11/08/how…]
Did we go fascist?
I gave the list, so you can see that this isn't a biased representation of the roles of the departments and to see the vast change versus SAGE.
The Government seems to have learned the opposite lesson from #Covid19 to you and me.
Cover Up Everything
But if you've been studying our response to #Covid19 this is significantly more disturbing.
You'll know for example it was only the actions of Prof Ferguson and the availability of public data that stopped UK becoming a US scale disaster. [ ]
You'll know that almost no preparation was undertaken prior to March 11th, that the Government's first significant PPE orders were taken in April and their portal didn't open till May
You'll know that test data was suppressed and then misreported
or simply deleted
And you'll know that international comparisons were suddenly dropped when they showed, inconveniently, how poorly we'd done.
Who could possibly answer than British Democracy and our people then benefit from more suppression of data and secrecy by the people who did that?
But of course, the saddest thing is that same Government spent months doing nothing about #Covid19 despite warnings from scientists and international bodies. And that led to thousands of deaths and billions of pounds spent, all unnecessarily.⏬