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24 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
When you think of all the disruption to school life the kids have endured, to tell them now that we're happy for them to catch it - when we have approved vaccines we could give them - seems like something of a hard boot in the teeth.
And to suggest, as one member of the vaccines committee has publicly done, that long Covid is "in the mind" when the evidence is the opposite is yet another insult. And speaking of mind, the cognitive harms even to those who feel recovered are worse than a stroke! Lord help us.
#ProtectOurKids
Here's more on "worse than a stroke" - whole thread worth reading too.

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22 Jul
Apart from failure to secure food supply, failure to control the pandemic, failure to get us working, failure to get us travelling, stealing our money on an epic scale, dividing us bitterly, and killing 150k of us, it's been a top government so far.
Apart from alienating the Scots, alienating the Irish, alienating all of Europe, making buying from Europe a costly nightmare, making selling to Europe a costly nightmare, and establishing the UK as a bad-faith actor on the world stage, it's been a great show so far.
Apart from abandoning the norms of the unwritten British constitution, lying to the Queen, thwarting our sovereign parliament, overtly breaking laws, clamping down on protest, brushing away legal and electoral scrutiny - oh and lying all day long - it's been a decent govt so far.
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5 Jul
Johnson has made a terrible, terrible decision today. Here's my summary of why:

1 (of 10) - Cases are surging. The first 19 days of July alone will produce *one million* new cases.
2 - Of these 1 million cases, 10-20% will develop long covid. This is a serious, multi-organ problem with unknown long-term impacts. That's 100,000 to 200,000 more sufferers, by the way. Created in the first 19 days of July alone.
3 - But aren't deaths, at least, low? Yep, but remember the lag. Victims take a while to die, especially as our treatments are better. Public Health England's Technical Briefing 17 suggests 0.3% of Delta cases will die. With a million new cases, that means 3,000 new deaths.
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22 Jun
Didn't love the covid coverage on @bbcwato
today, saying ONS numbers show the rise in cases is not producing deaths. Week to 11th June: 93 deaths. Hooray? No. Too early to say. Today alone: 27 deaths (38 if you include those who took longer to die).
Matt Hancock "has grounds", they said, "to say the data looks encouraging." Ach. Also heard on Radio 4 today: "Eight in ten people" have antibodies to Covid. No. Eight in ten adults.
What happened to precision, and the gold standard of reporting?
(I mentioned PM, and not World at One, in the first version of this - duh. And there's me pleading for precision!)
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8 Jun
At this rate, confirmed cases will be running at 8-12k per day on "decision day" of 14 June. If we do nothing, they will be at 13-19k on 21 June. If we do not unlock further then, they will hit 21-30k the week after. And if we DO unlock further....? 😳
What are we waiting for?
And if you're hoping the vaccines will save us, you need to know 1) well under half the UK population has had two doses; 2) one dose gives MUCH less protection against the Delta variant; and 3) the Delta variant is much more infectious, and more likely to trigger serious illness.
Why one dose is NOT enough:
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4 Jun
In recent days I've noticed the BBC improving its game in clearly, and now properly, quoting vaccination numbers as proportions of the whole (or just adult) population. Thanks. Now how about quoting total deaths using the full ONS death-certificate number (152,183)?
Not quoting the full number of Covid deaths, apart from being extraordinary propaganda, insults the dead and their bereaved families. And it insults your intelligence and mine. I don't know why we put up with it.
Ask yourself which number YOU want to know: the one on the left, or the one on the right? ImageImage
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1 Jun
21 THINGS ABOUT DAD: 1
Born in '21, and on 21 June, my Dad, Edward, will be 100 years old in 21 days' time. I thought I'd write 21 things about him between now and then.
/1 Private Edward Minghella, R...
10 Jan, 1940. Edward was alone on fire duty outside Portsmouth's Guildhall when the Luftwaffe bombed it to smithereens. He tried, but, equipped only with a broom, there was nothing he could do. Eighty years on, you can still see the fear in his eyes when he remembers that day.
/2 Churchill surveys the ruins...
21 THINGS ABOUT DAD: 2
Dad was born in Glasgow, but the family moved to Paris where his father, Antonio, had work as an electrician. Sadly Antonio died of a mysterious fever when Edward was only five, leaving his widow with four mouths to feed and no breadwinner.
/3
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