I keep coming back to this thread by epidemiologist @dgurdasani1. The gravity of the situation we find ourselves in & the government’s failure to intellectually grasp what is happening...is honestly terrifying. We are on the cusp of a whole new catastrophe.
Independent SAGE published this yesterday. The only option left it says is full lockdown now. What @dgurdasani1 explains so well is why closing schools is so vital. And why failing to do so now will have such a devastating outsized impact

independentsage.org/29th-december-…
‘London now has 5,524 Covid patients in hospital beds, surpassing its April peak’

This is *more* transmissible variant. We are already in a *worse* place than April.

But on Monday we open schools & let it spread completely uncontrolled further. Even as NHS buckles under strain
The gaping chasm between the public perception of what is happening & the danger we are actually in has never been more profound. These are today’s papers. We’re in worse place than even March. That was result of genuine ignorance about exponential growth.This is wilful blindness

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22 Dec 20
This is what’s depressing me this morning. Independent SAGE, NI & Scottish govt all backed calls for #ZeroCOVID strategy. There was a window of opportunity to suppress the virus. It really didn’t have to be this way.
Scotland decided on elimination strategy. @IndependentSage wrote positioning paper on #ZeroCovid & partnered with @bmj_latest to bring together 4 nations to discuss.
On July 28, the Guardian ran an editorial backing #ZeroCovid approach. And urged England to consider it..
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1 Dec 20
For the last 6 months, I’ve been a member of a Signal group called ‘trollhunters’. A small group of people who’d noticed - & been disturbed by - the extreme trolling that happens here & had come together to try & figure it out. To understand how pile-ons were being organised..
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We take so much of what happens on here as ‘normal’. It’s not. That’s not say it’s ‘bots’ - though they come into it. Or Russian trolls - though they’re here too. Often it’s ordinary people. With a greater or less degree of organisation. Who come together to bully & inflame
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It’s been fascinating to eavesdrop on their conversations. And to learn with them. I feed them my trolls - look at this guy, I say, who doesn’t follow me or anyone I know but is on my case calling me a cunt & a criminal within seconds of a post. I have so many of those.
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28 Nov 20
Well, they don’t call it the Orwell Prize for nothing. The dystopian truth twisters are out again: @spectator has taken a verifiably false claim & woven it into ideological talking points from RT & Sputnik. Thank you for this incredible honour, @afneil
spectator.co.uk/article/carole…
Here for the hell of it is George Orwell’s son - an amazing moment. And a funny-not-funny related story. An hour before this, Guardian’s lawyer @ladywell23 rang me in alarm: she’d just found out Banks had reported me to police. 2 days later, we drilled what to do in police raid..
That ploy failed but 2.5 years on, here we are. Where even free speech libertarians line up to take a whack. I’m grateful for support of @RSF_inter @pen_int & others who see the law as one part of changing & worsening threat landscape for journalists

theguardian.com/world/2019/jul…
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25 Nov 20
NEW: the government has privately admitted the combined impact of Covid + pandemic will disrupt multiple essential services including food, medicine & drinking water & risks plunging UK into a ‘systemic financial crisis’. From @_EmmaGH & me

theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
The ‘official sensitive’ briefing of ‘Reasonable Worst Case Scenarios’ has been distributed to multiple govt agencies.

Yesterday, the Cabinet Office refused to comment on both the content of the leaked documents or why these scenarios were being kept secret from the public Image
This document needs to be read by the British public. It’s Operation Yellowhammer updated to reflect situation now with the country preparing to exit Europe in the middle of a pandemic. It depicts a nation under huge pressure without time or capacity to prepare for what’s ahead ImageImage
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13 Nov 20
Okay, hands up who has ever left their job on the actual day they resigned/got the push with a big brown box? It literally doesn’t happen apart from in bottom-of-the-algorithm Netflix movies. I’m sorry but I suspect this is really far nearer the mark
Meanwhile @mikeysmith has a completely different narrative of what happened today. With everyone parting as top pals. The bust-up a fake bust-up

mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…
An account backed by Peston’s deepthroat..
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13 Nov 20
Well, I for one, am sad that Cummings is going. He’s the living link to Vote Leave corruption. The reminder that the same govt that is bringing you Brexit, mass death & billion pound contracts to cronies came to power by deliberately subverting our electoral laws. What a legacy
A reminder of how much attention, BBC’s political team gave Cummings when Vote Leave was accused of electoral fraud (allegations later found & admitted). His claims of innocence & accusations against others were repeated. There was no other mention
And this was how his contempt of parliament was covered
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