No more Tiers? (Thread 1/11)
We've all seen the latest #COVID19 graphs showing the rate of infection spiralling upwards. The hospital admissions chart is the most scary, the level is now as high as the start of pandemic. So, it's clear the Tiers system isn't working..
We've all seen the latest #COVID19 graphs showing the rate of infection spiralling upwards. The hospital admissions chart is the most scary, the level is now as high as the start of pandemic. So, it's clear the Tiers system isn't working..
2/ The Tiers haven't slowed the spread let alone cut it the way the first lockdown effectively did. Yet the government is still carrying on with Tiers despite it being obvious they're not working as Prof @chrischirp explains here..
3/ There urgently needs to be another, different approach, something that makes the graphs go down. It will be months at best, a year at worst before the vaccination programme will make an impact. Until then a growing infection rate risks more deaths and an overloading of..
4/ the NHS.
I don't know what the exact answer is on an alternative, be it a modified version of full lockdown, schools closure etc. The important thing is this debate needs to be had and had quickly in Parliament and on the mainstream media..
I don't know what the exact answer is on an alternative, be it a modified version of full lockdown, schools closure etc. The important thing is this debate needs to be had and had quickly in Parliament and on the mainstream media..
5/ The mainstream media have a crucial role in making sure this debate gets aired. Ministers need to be quizzed on why they think Tiers still works and what alternatives they're looking at. Soft answers like the one below aren't good enough..
6/ Experts like Independent SAGE need to be given airtime to share their alternatives. We need to move away form this "waiting for the white smoke" from No.10 approach. It hasn't worked. Left to their own devices they've made mistake after mistake from..
7/ ..from the beginning of the pandemic. It's not a coincidence we have one of the highest relative death rates in the developed world.
The Opposition need to step up too. Waiting for the Government to come up with an approach and then to simply ask questions of it and then..
The Opposition need to step up too. Waiting for the Government to come up with an approach and then to simply ask questions of it and then..
8/..back it whatever it is, is simply not good enough. This approach has failed. If the Government is failing us by not having the right thinking, the Opposition MUST develop and put forward an alternative. If Starmer wants to be PM..
9/ he needs to start acting like one. That is something John Smith and then Tony Blair did well before the 1997 victory. They acted like the government in waiting with clear alternatives to what the Tories were doing. Starmer's follow Boris strategy doesn't make political..
10/ ..sense and is also damaging the country. It lets the Tories do again what they just done on Brexit, leave their plan as the only game in town versus the alternative of no plan.
So the media and Opposition need too step up, we need to pressure them to do that.
So the media and Opposition need too step up, we need to pressure them to do that.
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