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the clown is already taking back the control of your lives
While some papers are out there, New Scientist reported that all "the science" (or "the magisterium" as I prefer to call the secretive SAGE cabal) won't be released until the pandemic's over. Draw conclusions as appropriate ...Azrael I was wondering if the papers referred to in the Private Eye article are publicly available somewhere or are still unreleased.
Screw up again and may be time to activate men in grey suits, "Boris" with greatest regret to step down for sake of health and family/ies, etc.
While some papers are out there, New Scientist reported that all "the science" (or "the magisterium" as I prefer to call the secretive SAGE cabal) won't be released until the pandemic's over. Draw conclusions as appropriate ...
Hits like a punch to the gut, but it's even worse: according to Reuters, the government's advisors knew the likely death toll of pursuing controlled spread and "herd immunity" at least two weeks before the Imperial paper errupted onto the scene. All it did was let the public in on their dirty little secret.This piece by Dominic Minghella seems to have the perfect title for a documentary about Johnson's criminal negligence.
Among all the emergency planning officers, civil protection officers, civil contingencies officers, resilience officers, or risk manager did no one ever add up the amount of PPE needed for a virulent epidemic.
Devastating piece, from which emerges two striking conclusions:-Pretty much nailed it
How did Britain get its coronavirus response so wrong?
As the warnings grew louder, the government was distracted by Brexit. On testing, contact tracing and equipment supply, there was a failure to preparewww.theguardian.com
Seriously, why do you think this follows?we know they wanted to avoid a lockdown. Several strategies compatible with doing that, and if they chose the most politically costly one, must've come with strong backing from their scientific advisors.
Getting the affected party tested may not have been his idea.He managed to get the affected party tested, (which irritated some) the test was negative and he was later photographed out running. So he hasn't been isolating for some time.
it abso-fucking-lutely kills them!The Times putting Johnson and crew on blast
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster | News | …
archived 18 Apr 2020 18:20:37 UTCt.co
Because if only for reasons of self-interest, not even the most evil elected politician wants hundreds of thousands of their own voters to die needlessly and indiscriminately from disease. As shown from the hostile reporting in their media allies, they can't hide this calamity as they have the horrific human cost of austerity.Seriously, why do you think this follows?
The Times putting Johnson and crew on blast
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster | News | …
archived 18 Apr 2020 18:20:37 UTCt.co
This is actually real. Good to see No.10 focusing on the important issues facing the country.
They presumably know that flour is like hen’s teeth at the moment? I mean, they are on top of things and have half an idea what’s actually going on I imagine?
Thank you for putting this up gawkrodger - it is a damning indictment of Hancock and Johnson, Whitty and Valance appear to have been useless as well.The Times putting Johnson and crew on blast
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster | News | …
archived 18 Apr 2020 18:20:37 UTCt.co
The Times putting Johnson and crew on blast
Coronavirus: 38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster | News | …
archived 18 Apr 2020 18:20:37 UTCt.co
This is where the ST report starts to go wrong, because it states that "a central part of any pandemic plan is to identify anyone who becomes ill, vigorously pursue all their recent contacts and put them into quarantine".
That, it says, "involves testing and the UK initially seemed to be ahead of the game". In early, it adds, "February Hancock proudly told the Commons the UK was one of the first countries to develop a new test for the coronavirus", declaring, "Testing worldwide is being done on equipment designed in Oxford".
The error here is in asserting that the "test, track and trace" programme is a central part of a pandemic plan. It certainly should have been but, as we have seen by reference to the influenza plan on which the government relied, contact tracing was confined to the initial stages, with a view to demonstrating that community spread had become established.
At that point, it was always planned that contact tracing would be abandoned, as indeed it was, as the government ramped up the NHS "surge" capability to deal with the expected torrent of cases.
But what seems to elude so many commenters is that, having established a faulty paradigm for dealing with a Sars pandemic, there was very little the government could do in the short-term to remedy matters.
To change strategy, the government would have had to call upon a resource to track down contacts which simply did not exist. While, even a decade ago, it could have relied on a network of 10,000 local authority environmental health staff for the purpose, operating from 342 local council offices, transfer of the function to Public Health England presaged a savage contraction of the service, now entrusted to 226 staff in public health protection teams operating out of nine offices.
Thus, even if the government had decided to change tack and major on contact tracing, the infrastructure no longer existed and, even now, months into the epidemic, provision is still not in place and there are plans to develop a completely new and untried system.
And then, since there was going to be no systemic contract tracing, there was going to be only minimal testing, so it was never thought necessary to build up a capability for mass testing. And again, as we are seeing, it is not easy from a standing start, to ramp up testing from the low base with which we entered this crisis.
In other words, trying to change the machinery for dealing with a pandemic is the classic example of trying to change the direction of a supertanker. You can spin the wheel, but it takes an awful long time before anything happens. Governments are unwieldy things and cannot turn on a sixpence.
While we can applaud the enthusiasm of the Sunday Times team for their work, like so many others they are missing the point. In looking at the sequence of failures that led to this current debacle, we cannot start in late January as this narrative does.
Bit apprehensive about that. Bit more snooping. But the qs seem fair. And yeah can see that the info could be really useful regarding working out the next stages of what to do. Be interesting to see the sickness numbers for those who tick the last category - leave the house regularly - compared to the rest.The COVID research app from KCL has been updated this morning asking further questions about how often you’ve left the house in the past week. Be interesting to see how this influences the outcomes.
I don't think it does. It uses some of the language of hard-hitting piece whilst providing all of the excuses that will be used to let the government and Johnson off.it abso-fucking-lutely kills them!