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Dominic Minghella

8 Oct, 8 tweets, 2 min read

Trust me, if you had been in or near a Covid ward, if you had been struggling for breath with no idea whether they'd end up intubating you, or whether you'd see your family, or even a whole human face again, if you had felt that icy fear, the terrifying loneliness of it...

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... you would NEVER spout that "we'll just have to learn to live alongside it" BS. Instead, you'd want, as I do - on behalf of all those who have suffered, who have died, who have nursed and attended - to punch the f*cking lights out of anyone who repeats it...

/2

.. and as for the academics, those few, those happy few, who for reasons of attention or contrariness or stupidity or sponsorship - God knows - who, without submitting to peer review, pronounce with gravitas these same "it's just flu" lies...

/3

... and as for the media, the editors and the journalists who platform this nonsense, even as, daily, the numbers and the bodies pile up (no matter how hard the government tries to bury the figures), offering so-called 'balance' to a need which is as plain as your nose..

/4

... as if pointing out that the costs of lockdown are socially and economically enormous somehow meant that the plague would go away, or that the suffering in our hospitals were not real, or the grieving of families were not real, or that the explosion of mortality which ....

/5

... "letting the virus rip through the community" would WITHOUT DOUBT entail.. as if somehow all of that could be trumped by the oh-so-smart reminder that dramatic action comes at dramatic cost..

/6

To all of those people, I say LISTEN TO YOURSELVES. You are sowing division, you are wilfully preventing cohesion and concerted community action, you are distracting from the real issue (that, until medicine advances, we MUST build effective test track and isolate) ..

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... you are promoting ideological selfishness (aka libertarianism) over society, as if that could POSSIBLY work against a virus...

... and, well, let's talk turkey: you are not just advocating death, but causing it.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

13 Aug

One more thing while I'm venting:

How, HOW, has it been that the politicians destroying the UK have managed to claim to be patriots, and decry their detractors as traitors? HOW?

How can those who have shamed their country on the international stage, who have literally turned their backs on our European neighbours in a show of teenage petulance, how can they be the patriots?

How can those who have kicked their own country out of the market square, like sulking cheats caught leaning on the scales, be the patriots?

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

29 Jul

There's an idea with alarming currency which suggests that young people, who are less likely to suffer and die with Covid, should not have their lives "put on hold", and older and more vulnerable folk should hide away while the young get on and go about their business.

/1

@bbcnickrobinson

That this idea is still given credence - eg @bbcnickrobinson put it to the WHO Europe fella today on R4 - makes me feel sick.

What kind of society needs reminding that we each have a duty to protect our parents, our families, and the wider community?

/2

Because the point isn't that the young are safer; that's only half the story. The other half is that what they might spread is massively, cataclysmically lethal.

In no other circumstance would we defend lethal behaviour on the basis of the individual's own comparative safety.
/3

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

30 May

What the Prosecco-drinking doomster/gloomster/snowflakes who predict 2nd and 3rd surges don't understand is that we hold all the cards in this battle, with our "world-beating" tracing system and our status as "international buyer of choice" for PPE.

The doomsters moaned and cried big tears that it would be "Armageddon" if we didn't lock down early, but look outside? Do you see Armageddon? No! Our brilliant NHS coped, didn't it?

But STILL they moan, inventing "65,000 deaths", etc. You lost, lockdown moaners! Get over it!

Lesser countries can only look at how we've taken back control from the virus and weep (behind their scaredy-cat masks) at their own Johnny-foreigner ineptitude.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

12 Apr

I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to characterise myself as Churchill.

If I wanted people to look outwards, somewhere else, over there, to a conveniently invisible enemy, and rally blindly behind me.

1/7

If I wanted to deflect responsibility for my hollow words, my failure to deliver even basic testing, masks and gloves.

If I wanted to divert attention away from my arrogant denial of the threat, even though it was clearly coming.

2/7

I'd call it a war, too, if I wanted to divert attention away from my murderous, eugenicist, early policy of "herd immunity".

From my lies about being "guided by the science" while ignoring the advice of the WHO and countries already in crisis.

3/7

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

12 Apr

Now is not the time.

Now is not the time to ask Where are the masks and the gowns?
Now is not the time to ask Where are the tests?
Now is not the time to ask Why don't the tests work?
Now is not the time to ask why we've bought millions more tests – and they don't work, either.

Now is not the time to ask Where are the Rolls Royce ventilators?
Now is not the time to ask Where are the Dysons?

Now is not the time to discuss pay rises for nurses.
Now is not the time to ask when the financial support – if it is real – will actually arrive?

Now is not the time to ask why didn't we act earlier when we knew this was coming?
Now is not the time to challenge the government.
Now is not the time for Parliament to be recalled.
Now is not the time for journalists to challenge Ministers.

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Dominic Minghella

@DMinghella

26 Oct 19

Some advice for Tory PMs:

If your regime is found in Contempt of Parliament; if you illegally close down our sovereign Parliament; if you hire advisers found in Contempt of Parliament; if you threaten gleefully to work around our laws, don't be surprised when nobody trusts you.

Don't be waving inordinately complicated and constitution-changing once-in-a-generation documents in front of people and asking them to sign them off, effectively unseen.

Don't be wondering why your attempts to appear statesmanlike fail.

Don't be surprised if your public appearances, forever, are marred by boos and palpable hatred.

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