Care about the future of my children and theirs. Believe politics gets in the way of good government. Retweets don't necessarily indicate agreement.
Apr 5, 2020 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
After setting the scene with communication of economic health warnings, here's what I think the UK Government (and others that have locked down) will be thinking and planning for:
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A- Assume that immunity has been acquired by those who have been infected - whether those people have been tested during infection or not. [I know that it has not been proven yet that all infected will have effective antibodies or that second infection is not possible.]
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I have read the Public Health Guidance and was struck by a couple of things.
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I see that SARS and MERS remain on the list of HCIDs. Neither of those 'penetrated' the UK to the same extent as COVID-19 but, both had lower transmission rates and higher fatality rates than (currently estimated for) COVID-19.
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Mar 29, 2018 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
At least Brexit has got many people thinking more about how democracy works or doesn't. I'll be honest, I never gave it a lot of thought before but I found this definition and have pondered it: 1/
"DEMOCRACY: A system of government by the WHOLE population or ALL the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
That got me thinking about the term 'representative democracy' 2/
