Thread by @PrognosticChats

Masks have been removed from healthcare. Now schools are encouraging parents to send their sick children to class. We didn’t get here by accident. We have been brought here through carefully orchestrated system changes. They have been common in many counties. Few have noticed 🧵

Step one: relabel everything to do with the pandemic, a global emergency that has so far killed est >24.4 million & resulted in est >400 million post Covid-19 syndrome cases, so it all appears benign. This language will soon enter media & common conversation. Use it, use it often

https://twitter.com/prognosticchats/status/1669772738540568595

Step two: stop government press conferences & begin to refer to the ongoing pandemic in its past tense. This begins to create the illusion that it has passed & begins to drip down into common conversation. Never speak about LC or post Covid complications. Don’t mention deaths.

Step three: stop surveillance systems in your country, so there is no way to know how prevalent it is. Continue to use phrases like “during the pandemic”. Now there isn’t any accessible data to prove that wrong. Thank God for private apps like Zoe. Ps it’s not over yet

Step four: get media to stop reporting on Covid. They have already followed your cue to refer to anything Covid related in a past tense to further public perception it’s over. In fact, remove the Covid section entirely in the BBC news page. Yes that really happened.

Step five: remove availability of free lateral flow testing for the public. Now you can’t check if you have it. Like to know if there’s other cases in your area? Too bad, the surveillance system was shut down last month. Oh well; too bad, get back to work.

Step six: we’ve let you believe a leading cause of mortality & morbidity is “mild”, stopped monitoring & removed availability of free testing. The public has decided it must be 2019 again & are ignoring risk. Now is a good time to turn to stripping back healthcare mitigations.

Step seven: now that no one’s looking, let’s remove NHS sick leave for Covid & force staff into disciplinary action if they exceed normal sick leave. Let’s tell them that it’s time to “live with Covid”. They’ll probably think we will upgrade ventilation or adopt new approaches

Step eight: except we won’t. We will just revert to “prepandemic” policy, remove universal masking, stop routine staff testing (asymptomatic transmission? What’s that?), restrict Covid testing even in symptomatic patients & reduce time off from work with covid against the science

https://twitter.com/prognosticchats/status/1686794289324453900

Step nine: now that we’ve fixed Covid in hospitals, it’s time to begin restricting vaccine delivery. Unlike other counties we will only give acute community Covid treatments or vaccines to a select group of the population. No one will care, they all think it’s over, we told them.

Step ten: let’s have a think about banning masks entirely now. I think the public are sufficiently conditioned to go for that. Yeah, they clapped for those healthcare workers in 2020, but I think we will be ok to push this step through still given they all believe covids no issue

Step eleven: let’s force them to send their sick children to school.
Hold on, during a pandemic? When we know the risks of multisystem organ damage & Long Covid even in children? Risking repeat infections over & over?
Yes. Let’s do it. No one will mind, trust me it’s time.

Step twelve: media never mention it, but weekly death totals are still on websites. We need to bury these further. Let’s include the pandemic years as part of our baseline of “normal” for annual deaths, so the excess deaths during those years is “normal” & hides ongoing death

https://twitter.com/prognosticchats/status/1670053828698284032

Step thirteen: hold a ‘Covid Inquiry’ so we can get it on the record how well we did “during the pandemic”, really hammer home the message it must be over & begin talking about “being prepared” for the “next pandemic”. Really important to repeat those messages again & again

So there you have it, a 13 step programme for convincing your population that a global pandemic is nothing to worry about, to ensure the media never mention it or the mounting evidence of excess deaths, L.Covid & post Covid health issues in millions.
It’s quite impressive really.

The worst thing is the longer the Covid Pandemic (yes it’s still here) runs now completely without mitigations, the more it will spread,mutate & more cumulative damage will ensue.
Perhaps it’s too late to make change given societal beliefs, but maybe not.
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#CovidIsNotOver