A huge number of scientists, journalists & politicians are completely silent on govt’s plans for July 19.

Remember how wise everyone was *after* Johnson failed to lock down in mid March? If you don’t speak up now, I hope to God you shut the fuck up later
In March, a lot of people desperate to believe our leaders had this. Entire news orgs took view they had to back PM in national crisis *even though he ignored all @WHO advice*.

Exact same thing happening all over again. @WHO couldn’t be more clear
Another senior @WHO leader speaks out. ‘Immoral, unethical & unscientific’
122 scientists & doctors:

thelancet.com/journals/lance…
Yes 🙏 to many scientists speaking up now. But so many people I like & respect silent in March 2020 or actively hostile. And silent again now. As are ‘leaders’ of opposition. Suspect Labour intends to ride populist football wave then reconsider. Too little. Too late. Too cowardly
Also this. All power to those who keep speaking up regardless esp @SusanMichie @Zubhaque & @dgurdasani1 who’ve all been relentlessly attacked & trolled
And this. This is what is motivating many of the people who have a platform & are speaking up now. Because so many people are voiceless & terrified

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11 Jul
NEW: Boris Johnson keeps denying it so we're going to keep saying it: the strategy is herd immunity.

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Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity.
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No less than Dominic Lawson is 100% in agreement with me on this point. It's patently ludicrous that Boris Johnson is denying it's following a herd immunity strategy. And yet, he's created such a reality-warping forcefield that the words have been banished from public debate Image
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NEW: more than 100 international scientists & doctors have signed letter in @TheLancet saying UK govt’s plans to lift all restrictions are ‘dangerous & premature’

theguardian.com/world/2021/jul…
‘Scientists & doctors from more than a dozen countries signed the letter, which states: “We believe the government is embarking on a dangerous & unethical experiment”
‘Signatories of the letter include Dr Chaand Naipaul, chair of BMA, prof Eric Topol of Scripps Research Translational Institute in California & Sir David King, former govt chief scientific adviser’
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5 Jul
Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity. Herd immunity.

Can we please now call it by its name? A reckless deliberate population infection strategy with unknown consequences not being contemplated by any other country in the world
I really hope @SadiqKhan is immune from ridiculous ideological rhetoric around masks. The idea that ‘personal responsibility’ is going to ensure mask usage is something only an Old Etonian who never uses the Tube could dream up. Has he ever met the British public?
The plan, to be clear, is that your children catch Covid now because Johnson thinks it’s less disruptive than in autumn…

To understand what this means, see this week’s @allthecitizens newsletter on the literally fatal flaw of this master plan
keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/herd-immunit…
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4 Jul
NEW: Herd immunity isn't a plan. It's a dangerous, unethical medical experiment being conducted on living subjects: children.

I don't know why anyone thinks this is okay. It isn't.

keepingthereceipts.substack.com/p/herd-immunit…
Who do you trust? Sajid Javid? Or @chrischirp? This was from @IndependentSage’s Friday briefing & she couldn’t have put it any clearer. The government’s plan is ‘a terrible plan’
The government has given up pretending it’s following the science. Today’s announcements are pure ideology. The decision to remove all mitigations even while cases are increasing exponentially is inexplicable. The only way it makes sense is if you believe masks inhibit ‘freedom’
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4 Jul
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Health is the deliberate mass infection of an entire nation’s children with a novel & mutating virus with unknown long term consequences
This man is an active danger to public health.
It is likely we will be at almost 100k cases/day when Sajid Javid will remove the mandate on masks.
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3 Jul
More from yesterday’s Independent SAGE session. @Zubhaque saying it like it is
To understand the colossal gamble the government is taking, I highly recommend watching whole thing. Months from full vaccination, the government is throwing in the towel & letting the virus rip.
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