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May 25 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
This is a very good book ⁦@KlassMyleene⁩ - thank you!
It was also much more physically robust and bigger than I was expecting which is very pleasing!
Those working with schools, scouting groups and @SJAEPRR cadets etc will find this useful @TheEPS1 @AfterDisasters
#epbookclub #therecoveryshelf

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May 27
I have come to know that cruel phrase that its time to move on well. I have seen the air sucked out of a room when civil servants have used it on grieving mothers and still injured survivors. I've seen it said to flooded communities still living in caravans and back bedrooms.
To veterans re-learning how to walk again. To responders who are not eating or sleeping properly yet or ever, whose marriages are falling apart day by day, because they can’t find the words to say what they have seen. To school mates.
In the aftermath of disaster, you learn that they are quite capable of saying it to people – even as tears run down faces or the recipients of this advice ball up little bits of tissue into their hands until they are confetti. A junior civil servant just moves the tissue to a bin
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May 26
The idea that this was "emergency" law for "emergency" times is wrong. The idea that it had to be rushed through without proper democratic scrutiny is wrong. You always have more time than you think to get this right and here they had months. They wasted that time.
Parts of Corona Act are clearly response to learning by gov departments (that Ministers may never have seen) of Cygnus, Alice and others but which lessons were identified as important and which were ignored. MPs never queried it, nor asked where the CCA 04 was in all this.
11 weeks between December 19 - early March 20 when some of the most important and draconian legislation ever passed could have been reviewed, scrutinised, risk assessed from all sides of House. Instead Labour were focusing on yet another leadership campaign.
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May 24
The laws were never really designed to protect lives from the virus. They were designed to mitigate the most substantial risk we had identified in a pandemic - civil disobedience/ break down of order as supply crises hit and the extent of any disaster became clear
As it turned out - one thing we had never been able to properly test before - exceeded our expectations. The private sector performed better and quicker than any prior exercise. From funeral directing to supermarkets to Netflix meant that we did not see disruptions
By 2019 rioting and disobedience was an overwhelming bias in all U.K. planning
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Apr 13
The Corona Act was bad law. My experience was that by Summer 20 ministers knew that and felt failed by Cabinet Office And DHSC for poor briefings and uninformed, unimaginative forecasting. How that then influenced their own behaviour is a matter for the inquiry
There are also big Qs about the police and security briefings that were going into COBR at this time. Civil unrest planned for alongside pandemic and my instinct is that the findings of Cygnus were used to draft LD legislation that exceeded what was needed to keep people IN
Key reading: The first written almost immediately is here
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Jan 26
We are about to be collectively gaslit about the Spring of 2020 and what really happened. It will be implied that your memory was the problem, not the rules. This is a common experience dealt out from governments to both disaster and conflict survivors and responders. A few tips:
Tip 1. Don't get angry. We are in the middle of a hard, deep Winter. Anger produces adrenaline and cortisol and you have produced enough of them already over the last 24 months. They make you ill. Instead, get informed [see below].
Tip 2. Understand why weak governments (and more often Dictatorships) have to rely on these tactics. When something is built up through personality and bluster and fear, it can only be deconstructed in a similar way.
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Jan 25
Good coroners have always been braver than many realise. It’s powerful to see many of them daring to go there and critiquing the role of the Lockdowns in the decline of an individual’s mental health ⁦@NCISH_UK⁩ ⁦@RealDeniseWelch⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
As I have said before - hospital data is useful - but it is no replacement for waiting for inquest @ProfLAppleby
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