Thread by @atatimelikethis

So you think you can judge Right Vs Wrong as well as the next person? And Moral Vs Immoral?

Very well.

The next few tweets place you as Prime Minister facing the worst crisis of all our lives. #Covid19.

Will you be saviour? or slaughterer?

#Covid19 Part 1 "A Stitch in Time"

Concerning reports are coming out of China, as bloomin always. So ignorant they don't even clean their pans.

A non entity from a "science" group yabbers at you. What's this? He single handedly stopped MERS and SARS by "acting early".

Does this revelation wake you?

🟦 = points

You delete the tedious "SAGE" meetings, Dom can stand in.

Your assistant annoys you adding them back, "it's standard practice, sir". You learn WHO fear mongers have declared the virus a Pandemic.

"Let Dom handle it", he's the scientist after all

You use rarest of windows to

Some asshole at SAGE tells YOU to close air and seaports, apparently that cow in New Zealand's doing the same.

You MUST! THIS is the best time.

Lamenting you can't fire him, What of NZ? They have longer borders, fewer ships, and lots of SARS experience. Therefore they are

As January slips into February you wonder if it's worth talking to Cabinet.

But there are more important things than an exaggerated plague. Plus you're Churchillian, not some Public Health sick mop.

So when you're nagged about preparing the NHS, or stocking up on PPE you

"Those fooking lefties", you rage at Channel 4 News' Feb report saying NHS and borders aren't ready, how would they know?.

You've got plenty of PPE, even after the sale
And airports? Priti will handle that very very soon. Any day. soon.

You reflect on C4 News' prescience?

As February slips slowly towards March you realise this plague is turning out to be exactly what you predicted, an exaggerated SARs. Hysterics.

Reports of the UKs first cases begin to come in, in drips and drabs. You take this as a sign of

Exactly as you predicted: serious demanding action
With the first deaths you spend some time reflecting on why Labour must be to blame.

Media noticed. Airports. Erm

So Dom uses public money to brief a PR campaign rubbishing anyone saying Airports would STOP (not SLOW) it, you

As mid-march approaches, you realise it's time to tell people they're going to die. Naturally it's unprecedented and you're not responsible.

So as you begin to tell them the containment phase which contained nothing and was not phased, is ending, theses words fill you head

Out of a total of 80 points, how did you do?

71 - 80 You demonstrate the values admired by the top of society. Well done
11 - 70 Read a newspaper with fewer lies
10 - 0 You do not have the spine to make the really wrong decisions, you'll find no friends in the Reich.