Thread by @AgnesClackett

1/ An example of disgusting sycophancy from the slavish Johnson Pravda

Two damning reports on the pandemic described as ‘a commendable exercise in self-flagellation’

In a nutshell any excuse, anyone but Johnson, everyone else to blame

Sound familiar?🤬
telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/…

2/ Dutch PM blamed for UK herd immunity policy

Here’s Sir Patrick Vallance stating 60% of the population needed to be infected to achieve herd immunity.

Shocked interviewer: ‘half to 1% fatality - that’s an awful lot of people dying in this country’.

3/Sir Patrick 130320
•UK pop 66m
•66m 60%: 39.6m
•0.5% deaths: 198,000

Gov.Uk 131021
Covid Deaths
•138,080 within 28 days of a test
•161,798 Covid on death certificate

•0.4% - 158,400
Almost 1000 pw are still succumbing to Covid🤬
coronavirus.data.gov.uk/details/deaths

4/Johnson told Italian PM he wanted ‘herd immunity’

No.10 fails to deny reports

Italian health minister repeatedly undermined Johnson Govt denials & lies on wanting Covid to spread throughout the population

Denials & lies that cost thousands of lives🤬
independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

5/ Effin sick of Covid? Time to offend the Europeans

Brits love their freedom more, says Johnson as he suggests Italy & Germany’s experiences of totalitarianism are responsible for their lower Covid infection rates rather than better test & trace systems
theguardian.com/world/2020/sep…

6/ 2017, Sir Patrick was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society - eminent fellows incl. Newton, Darwin, Churchill & Hawking

The Royal Society has produced a paper (peer reviewed)

26.11.20 Herd immunity in the epidemiology control of COVID19
A rapid review
royalsociety.org/-/media/policy…

7/The Royal Society rapid review of ‘Herd immunity in the epidemiology & control of COVID19’ was provided as advice to assist SAGE.

Contrast the advice in the summary with Govt actions in the farcical run-up to Xmas 2020

Following the experts? You decide
royalsociety.org/-/media/policy…

8/ When a sufficiently large fraction of people are immune to an infectious disease, the entire population can be protected by “herd immunity.

But…

herd immunity acquired by natural infection has several disadvantages as a means of COVID-19 control…

1) the build-up of herd immunity would be associated with a high burden of illness & death

(2) while infection is spreading through a population, it is not yet clear that the most vulnerable can be protected from severe & fatal COVID-19; and

(3) it may not be possible
to achieve herd immunity by natural infection if protection against reinfection is partial & transient

The route to herd immunity isn’t through natural infection but
by vaccination

Vaccination is the way to achieve ‘population immunity’ eg. Polio MMR

Independent SAGE: Chair, Sir David King, former Chief Scientific Adviser, UK Government

25.09.20 Report 16

A deliberate “population immunity” strategy before a vaccine:
Why it wouldn’t work & why it shouldn’t be tried

Without health there is no economy
independentsage.org/wp-content/upl…

@Telegraph 14.10.21 slams SAGE for UK stumbling into the pandemic under its baneful watch thinking it knew better🤦‍♀️

No criticism of Johnson’s lack of urgency, missed Cobra meetings, confusing messaging

Shame: Scientists criticise slow pandemic response⬇️
researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

@Telegraph 14.10.21 ought to do its homework before launching a revolting attack on the NHS accusing it of -

‘seeding the disease among the most vulnerable by discharging untested patients from hospitals into care homes’

No mention of the life-threatening Tory Govt PPE debacle

19.03.20 DHSC/NHS England - There was no requirement to test everyone who was discharged to see if they were infected

- where applicable, Covid test results should be included in documentation that accompanied people who were discharged

fullfact.org/health/coronav…

2.4.20 Govt REITERATED in new guidance that “any [care home] resident presenting with COVID symptoms should be promptly isolated” but SPECIFIED that “negative tests aren’t required prior to transfers/admissions into the care home”

fullfact.org/health/coronav…

Older people in care homes abandoned to die amid govt failures during the pandemic

Series of “shockingly irresponsible” Govt decisions put tens of thousands of older people’s lives at risk & led to multiple violations of care home residents’ human rights
amnesty.org/en/latest/pres…

@AmnestyUK Investigation
@Telegraph
•Key failings incl. decisions to discharge thousands of untested hospital patients into care homes & imposition of blanket DNARs

•Care home managers/staff say they were left without guidance, PPE, access to testing
amnesty.org/en/latest/pres…

@AmnestyUK 50-page report – As If Expendable: The UK Government’s Failure to Protect Older People in Care Homes during the COVID-19 Pandemic – shows that care home residents were effectively abandoned in the early stages of the pandemic.

amnesty.org/en/latest/pres…

@AmnestyUK Investigation 4.10.20

• Between 2 March & 12 June 2020 28,186 “excess deaths” were recorded in care homes in England, with over 18,500 care home residents confirmed to have died with COVID-19 during this period.

• Repeated concerns about the inappropriate use of ‘Do Not Attempt Resuscitation’ forms have been raised.

Care home managers reported to Amnesty cases of local GP surgeries/CCGs requesting that they should insert DNAR forms into the files of residents as a blanket approach.

@Telegraph Johnson pandemic failures

Care homes have faced severe challenges in accessing adequate testing

Not until 7 June that every care home for those aged 65 & older had finally been offered testing

Introduction of regular testing for homes was not announced until 6 July

@Telegraph Johnson pandemic failures

Insufficient PPE

Whereas the NHS was promised “whatever it needs, whatever it costs” to deal with the Covid outbreak, care homes were left to struggle to find PPE

Care home neglect caused higher infections & disproportionate death rates.

Consequences of Johnson’s pandemic delays & failures

The devastating impact of prolonged isolation on the mental & physical health of older people has become more visible

•reduced movement
•cognitive functions
•loss of appetite
•depression
•loss of will & desire to live

@Telegraph not a fan of the NHS

14/9 NHS is broken – GPs know it & patients are suffering the consequences

18/9 Surgeons vs supermanagers: will NHS money be spent where it's needed most?

17/9 Bad managers ‘never get fired’ in the NHS, complain doctors

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/0…

@Telegraph doesn’t like the NHS

12/10 Further tax hike inevitable to rescue failing NHS, PM is warned.

6/8/21 Doctors’ union reports Telegraph to media regulator over ‘misleading’ GP coverage - inaccurate Allison Pearson articles

pulsetoday.co.uk/news/workload/…

The🌎is against us.

‘Visceral hostility to Johnson’s Govt in part of the British media, picked up in turn & amplified by the global journalistic establishment.’
@Telegraph 14/10

Laughable… but worrisome. Patel’s policing bill & CH4 privatisation - both threats to the truth.