The social distancing experiment and the Dominic diversion.
A thread on opening primary schools and diverting media attention.
Let's start with the experiment.
For an experiment you need:
* A controlled environment (a school).
* A control group (year 6)
* A participant group (reception & year 1 children)
Apr 19, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Maybe when everyone wanted to #ClapForBoris they should have got the facts first.
1) He is far to slow to react 2) He played down the issue (shaking hands with infected and therefore infecting himself!) 3) After coming into close contact, he continued his daily tasks.
As a result, he infected others (including his pregnant fiancée) 4) He only gave relief to business AFTER public outcry - so a reaction, rather than being proactive 5) The lockdown messages from number 10 have been mixed and confusing