"The better and more comprehensive the data is the more informed the policy will be. A complete overhaul of the current reporting of Covid data is urgently needed. Meanwhile, let’s leave Mr Burnham alone" .
Carl Heneghan 👍
Quite unbelievable that people like him and epidemiologists like Francois Balloux were not seconded onto groups like SAGE - they are people who are really strong on the importance of the science being evidence based and that scientists
should be there to give scientific advice to politicians who then make the decisions - unfortunately science and politics have been become intermingled in the sense how the science is interpreted is tending to be done from a political viewpoint as opposed to a scientific one.
Sadly Independent Sage full of good scientists are letting their views be affected by the divide entering politics.
Don't be like Independent Sage or Devi and let politics drive you, let the evidence.
Even the experts have picked sides based on their politics not evidence.
Drakeford as usual trying to be clever. Yesterday he was tweeting that Wales test and trace system was contacting 94% of contacts. Yet Starmer was saying one of the reasons for a circuit breaker was to get a grip on the failing test and trace system. 😉
Which is it guys?
Unfortunately the way the Welsh create their figures for hospitalisations is similar to what they were doing in Scotland till a few weeks ago when scottish figures were reduced by 2/3's. I think off the top of my head they include
anyone who has ever had a positive covid test irrelevant if it was x months ago and they are in for cancer - which would seem to fit with them having 3 x figs for England.
Tiers of Clown - The Brains Trust in charge of all this have no other weapons. Certainly not their intellect or vision.
The short notice at which they are shifting through these tiers is a bit ridiculous. Not giving the hospitality sector a chance to prepare. As if they didn't have it tough enough already.
They are going through the regions bit by bit, executing the beating heart of business in each of them as they go, but didn't anticipate the level of resistance that Manchester, in particular is putting up.
The three tier system was only ever a thinly veiled attempt to
Actually, our current economic system and all actors profiting from it need a scapegoat to explain the collapse of the system.
The same politicians who now express their worries about the well-being of their population have been advocating the dismantlement
of the health care in the recent years.
If people continue to watch by keeping silent, the whole thing will result in a reset which will be detrimental to the great majority of the population.
This crisis is like nothing we have seen in history.
We have an average-sized
pandemic. However, there have never been so strong reactions to a pandemic in the whole history of mankind.
Reactions of this kind are only known in fascist regimes.