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Sep 16, 2020 11 tweets 11 min read Read on X
#BREAKING: Trump claims even without a vaccine, #COVID19 will go away through “herd mentality”.

What he means is “herd immunity”.

"Sure, with time it goes away you'll develop, you'll develop herd - like a herd mentality. It's going to be herd developed.”
It’s clear that - like UK - America has been following a ‘#HerdImmunity strategy’ whereby #COVID19 is allowed to spread through the population

The UK/US #COVID responses have followed v similar paths

Could this be because of the centrality of #Palantir? https://t.co/lCmrjwCAeS
What is #HerdImmunity?

It is an outcome NOT a strategy

Every virologist & epidemiologist will tell you this

To slow down the spread = mitigation = going for herd immunity

To stop the spread = suppression = not going for herd immunity

See my #HerdImmunityScandal investigation Image
To achieve #HerdImmunity about 60% of the population need to catch #coronavirus

In the US, that would mean about 200 million Americans & approx 3 million deaths

The US has had the most #COVID19 cases in the world

The UK has had the highest death rate in the world

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I started tugging on a lose thread - @BorisJohnson’s #TakeItOnTheChin comments - 6 months ago

It led me to the #HerdImmunityScandal - the overarching scandal linked to most of the UK’s #COVID19 failures

If #HerdImmunity is the strategy, what is the goal? Image
In the UK & US #HerdImmunity is “the strategy that dare not speak its name”.

To achieve it, both nations delayed lockdown, were v slow on test, ‘track & trace’ & put out unclear messaging (e.g. on masks) to create confusion. #COVID19 #HerdImmunityScandal
The UK & US were given the greatest gift any country could have wished for in the circumstances: a two-month head start

And yet, they squandered it

Two of the wealthiest, most advanced nations both following an almost identical deadly trajectory #COVID19
https://t.co/1iBy3Hg07Y
"He covers up crime with scandal & covers up malice with incompetence. They want to project an image of being inept, instead of as having a cruel & well-defined plan.”

@sarahkendzior on #Trump’s admin, could have been writing about #BorisJohnson’s govt.
https://t.co/ay0znLMMS3
So the Trump & Johnson admins would prefer be seen as incompetent rather than expose what they are really up to.

This explains why, at a time when public trust is crucial, ex-WHO Director, @GabrielScally, says govt measures “seem to be designed to undermine public confidence.”
Because the idea that a govt would deliberately seek to undermine public confidence at a time of national crisis is so unthinkable, very few people would dare to think it, let alone say it aloud (or tweet it🥴!)

They govts know this.
#COVID19 #COVID #coronavirus #HerdImmunity
Taped interviews with journalist, @realBobWoodward, show #Trump knowingly misled Americans on the severity of #COVID19

Trump knew in early Feb how bad the impact of #coronavirus would be

Woodward - who had a book deal - sat on the information for months.

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Mar 9
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”
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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” Image
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Feb 23
“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



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Nov 6, 2023
Despite previous denials, Michelle Mone finally admits her involvement in failed PPE supplier Medpro

There should be a criminal investigation into possible intentional breach of beneficial ownership disclosure rules

The govt VIP Lane needs investigating

Something about the #MichelleMone interview doesn’t pass the smell test

Why are Mone & her husband - currently under criminal investigation in UK & Spain - being given a prime time slot to tell ‘their side of the story’?

5 questions @bbclaurak should ask

@bbclaurak “I don’t honestly think there’s a case to answer. I can’t see what we’ve done wrong” @MichelleMone

Wow! #MichelleMone & #DougBarrowman on @bbclaurak’s programme, this morning

Read 13 tweets
Oct 3, 2023
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

Both claim they can’t access key messages
#COVID
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“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
“It was like watching his death approach & seeing every mistake that was made”

@LoreleiKing describes listening to the timeline of govt inaction in the months leading to her husband’s death of #COVID19

Bereaved families want accountability #Covidinquiry
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Sep 9, 2023
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



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“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…
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Aug 7, 2023
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…

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3/. “The far right don’t need to win elections to spread their malign ideas” @kenanmalik

Last month, a coalition of the centre-right PP & the far-right Vox failed to win Spain’s election

Ystdy, Vox pledged it wouldn’t impede PP’s efforts to form a govt
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…




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