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31 Oct, 13 tweets, 14 min read
#BREAKING: England to enter second national lockdown for a month from Thursday 5th November

Hear the details from @BorisJohnson here. #CovidUK #Lockdown2 #lockdown #coronavirus #BreakingNews #BorisJohnson
This is terrifying!

#BorisJohnson says even if the NHS had DOUBLE the capacity it still wouldn’t be enough

The NHS has 150,000 beds & with the Nightgale Hospitals there is even greater capacity

Its biggest weakness isn't space, it's staff shortages.
#Lockdown2 #covidbriefing
The reality of “Yo-Yo” #lockdown has been known about since May👇

Govt scientists have modelled for 2nd, 3rd, 4th waves etc. but this modelling was not shared publicly by the secretive #JointBiosecurityCentre running the UK #COVID19 response.
#lockdownUK
The #JointBiosecurityCentre don’t give explanations for decisions such as ignoring SAGE’s call for a “circuit-breaker” on 21 Sept

@BorisJohnson didn’t attend that SAGE meeting

On the same day, he & @RishiSunak were meeting 3 top #HerdImmunity proponents
A #HerdImmunity strategy would also answer the question posed by former WHO Director @globalhlthtwit

“How can we have a press briefing about a national lockdown without a word on reform of the hopeless test, trace & isolate programme?”
#2ndLockdown #COVID
If the govt are attempting #HerdImmunity as a strategy - which I believe they have been since the start - the question is “why”?

The answer may lie in a much bigger strategy, the shape of which is gradually starting to become clear.
#HerdImmunityScandal
A big clue lies with #GenomeUK

Launched very quitely on a Saturday(!) a month ago with zero media coverage, it is a major 10-year strategy not just for transforming healthcare but putting genomics at the heart of this administration’s programme for govt.
When the PM took to the stage at the Tory Conference he said he had a new 10 year plan to transform the UK

#GenomeUK?

No! “Windmills”!

If you didn't opt out before 30 Sept, the govt has had a right to share your NHS health data with Pharma companies!
"It’s the biggest story of the 21st Century in my view" @naomirwolf

THE STORY: The US & UK govts have a joint/parallel #COVID19 strategy allowing the military-backed data-mining company, #Palantir, to access heath data. Could it include our genetic data.
People are realising - just like the late lockdown in March - these are political decisions not scientific ones

As the govt told @Peston on 12 March #HerdImmunity was is their strategy

Yet scientists say herd immunity is an “outcome”, never a “strategy”.
A circuit breaker 5 weeks ago for 2 weeks would likely have contained COVID & perhaps stemmed the wave

A partial lockdown - with places of work & education kept open - looks as if it is intended to stop the NHS being overwhelmed

Don’t lock me down?

Don’t let me down, more like
The @Independent asks why it has taken the PM so bloody long to lockdown

“The course of the virus has changed” the PM said. (It hasn’t)!

“ I make absolutely no apologies” he said. He should apologise to the families who have died: those who wil die”. #Covid19 #GreenwichSpeech
“In the bleak mid-winter”

As Gove hinted, lockdown won’t end on 2 Dec

The public will be blamed again, but it will be down to transmission in
schools, unis & construction sites etc

This Dutch graph from May, predicts lockdowns will continue until 2022.
#bylHerdImmunityScandal

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