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Tony McKelvie
@TonyMcKelvie
Just some old hat
May 5, 2020 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
I’ve realised why the UK Government’s handling of the Covid-19 crisis has so unsettled me.
It’s because, rather than approach the crisis as an existential threat to our people and our way of life, they’re treating it like they’re contestants on The Apprentice.
Bear with me here… -So, the Ventilator Task. How did you get on?
-Really well. We delivered 30 new ventilators within six weeks.
-But you needed 30,000. That was the target, yes?
-Eh… Yes.
Mar 13, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
By and for Dummies...
Herd Immunity is the proportion of a given population that requires to be immune from a given illness in order that the illness is restricted from spreading.
1/ We're familiar with vaccination programmes which seek to ensure that a sufficient proportion (the threshold) of the population is immunised against a given disease to prevent outbreaks occurring.
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