Oh my word!🤦♂️
If you haven't already, you most watch yesterday's 5pm government press conference, and read the gaslighting BBC article from Nick Triggle below (end of thread)
The government approach now is like in March 2020. Herd immunity by infection (which we ...
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If you haven't already, you most watch yesterday's 5pm government press conference, and read the gaslighting BBC article from Nick Triggle below (end of thread)
The government approach now is like in March 2020. Herd immunity by infection (which we ...
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...already know is dangerous and doesn't provide durable immunity), difference this time however is that he isn't advocating to flatten the curve and protect the NHS
@Peston and @bbclaurak asked the PM yesterday with exasperation about how the immunity from the booster will
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@Peston and @bbclaurak asked the PM yesterday with exasperation about how the immunity from the booster will
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...come too late, and why wasn't the Government taking tough action immediately. The answer was telling. The points were accepted, but vaccination is still the only game in town. We should be shutting indoor hospitality immediately, and mandating the use of effective masks, ..3/n
... particularly in the NHS where even now they STILL do not all get effective PPE. This is murderously negligent.
This is a recipe for NHS crisis, moral hazard, excess deaths, and letting the bodies pile up to "get it over with".
Only it won't get it over with, it will ... 4/n
This is a recipe for NHS crisis, moral hazard, excess deaths, and letting the bodies pile up to "get it over with".
Only it won't get it over with, it will ... 4/n
... just accelerate the emergence of new variants of concern 🤦♂️
"Prof Hunter says this combined level of vaccine-induced and infection-induced immunity means the case for extra restrictions beyond what has been announced is much weaker than it was previously...
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"Prof Hunter says this combined level of vaccine-induced and infection-induced immunity means the case for extra restrictions beyond what has been announced is much weaker than it was previously...
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... Tougher measures, he says, will not stop the epidemic, they will just extend it. "If you are waiting for vaccines or better treatments, suppressing the virus could be an advantage - but it's hard to see the argument for that now" ...
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Time to start praying, because on this showing, we're on our own, which to me is what Prof Whitty was hinting at in the press conference yesterday when he said people are going to need to prioritise social activity that is important to them over the next few weeks ... 7/n
... and minimise all other social activity, to protect what it is importanve to us.
This reads to me as a coded message that we should behave like we are in lockdown, because the Government isn't riding to the rescue this time with lockdown, or furlough or "flatten the ... 8/n
This reads to me as a coded message that we should behave like we are in lockdown, because the Government isn't riding to the rescue this time with lockdown, or furlough or "flatten the ... 8/n
... curve"
Get boosted. Stay home, keep safe, minimise social contact. If you do have to go out, wear an effective mask. Shop online where you can. Try to avoid getting sick, because the NHS is likely to be under so much pressure it may not be able to help you.
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Get boosted. Stay home, keep safe, minimise social contact. If you do have to go out, wear an effective mask. Shop online where you can. Try to avoid getting sick, because the NHS is likely to be under so much pressure it may not be able to help you.
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And here, for those who have been looking forward to it, is the gaslighting post from Nick Triggle of the BBC, just to top it all off.
Stay safe. 10/end
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Stay safe. 10/end
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https://twitter.com/NickTriggle/status/1471032534456745989?t=DM84XObBfWFhgCOfquwXBg&s=03
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