Thread by @Francis_Hoar

My questions for Her Majesty's 'Opposition':
1. Did you consider the pandemic plan prepared by Lucy & others & the WHO (explained here:

https://twitter.com/Francis_Hoar/status/1329380025427243019?s=20

)?
2. Did you ask for analysis of what the Diamond Princess and other examples of transmission showed us about the IFR?

https://twitter.com/LucyGoBag/status/1481912839568769026

3. Did you question the use of such an incredibly discredited figure as Neil Ferguson and did you investigate his credentials, in particular his history of using his 'reasonable worst case scenario' models to exaggerate mortality by between 1,000 and 500,000 times?

4. Did you consider the evidence in the said pandemic plans about the ineffectiveness of: (a) quarantining infected people after considerable spread;(b) quarantining contacts;(c) closing businesses; (d) closing schools-ALL recommended against even for much more serious pandemics?

5. Did you demand that the government publish its risk assessment of the harms caused by various measures but particular the Chinese Communist inspired 'lockdown'?
6. Did you commission your own risk assessment?

7. Did you question the extent to which the Chinese government were promoting lockdowns?
8. Did you consider the evidence of the Chinese government's influence over the WHO in circumstances where the latter abandoned all its considered recommendations I highlighted above?

9. Why did you not demand that the government impose any extraordinary measures under the Civil Contingencies Act 2004, which would have required Parliamentary approval of any regulation within 7 days irrespective of whether Parliament was sitting?

10. Why did you not question the use of the Public Health 1984 (as amended in 2008), when on its face it regulates only infected people and when not Minister or MP had even considered, when debating its amendment, that it could allow the government to impose sweeping regulations?

11. Why did you not oppose Parliament going into recess?
12. Why did you not insist that statements about all new regulations were made in the House of Commons?

13. Why did you not question the fact that advisers were making demands about policy that impacted upon the entire functioning of society rather than advising within their limited area?

14. Why did you not question the fact that Dominic Raab's '5 tests' failed to consider the wider proportionality of the restrictions *at all* and fettered the government's discretion by requiring it to consider only factors relating to the spread of this one virus?

15. Why did you not question the fact that doctors were required to name the virus as a causative factor on a death certificate if there was evidence that a person had been infected irrespective of an independent medical opinion of cause of death?

16. In the light of the above, why did you not question the use of statistics that failed to take into account the true cause of death and that referred to deaths from *any* cause within 28 days of a positive PCR test?

17. Why did you not question the same statistical approach to hospitalisation-including anyone who had tested positive up to 14 days before admission, on admission or after admission irrespective of whether they were being treated for Covid 19 or even had symptoms of SARS-CoV-2?

There are many more. To be continued.

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