First Brexit Now Covid19

As if Brexit wasn’t enough to damage the U.K. and the EU. Now we have Covid19 brought to you by the people who gave you Brexit.

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We need to learn from this for the future and never forget what happened.

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Diving into Data & Decision making | Christina Pagel | Substack

Prof Christina Pagel on using data to inform decisions. What does data tell you? What can't it tell you? What do you need to know to make go

Covid is still here, the waves of infection have not gone away.

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Dying too young: Maps show little has changed in 170 years

Why do areas with high Covid death rates match places with the worst health in Victorian times?

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‘She sacrificed care home residents’: health chief Jenny Harries under fire after UK Covid inquiry revelations

Email suggesting discharging hospital patients into residential care as Covid unfolded has prompted furious response

“On 19 March 2020, DHSC issued guidance to discharge people, regardless of testing status, into social care settings without ensuring that the necessary PPE, infection prevention control and clinical support was in place to keep everyone safe. Among the devastating revelations was confirmation that PPE paid for by social care providers was requisitioned by the NHS. The inquiry has laid bare that there was no ring of protection around care homes – instead decisions seemingly taken in abstraction of the reality of social care or available evidence were implemented with unforgettable consequences.”

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‘People will die anyway’: Pressure on Boris Johnson over Covid messages

Inquiry told of comments made by former prime minister during meeting discussing pandemic response

“After Monday’s hearing, trade unions slammed the Johnson government’s handling of the pandemic after another WhatsApp message, written by Case, stated that the then education minister, Gavin Williamson, and Johnson rejected calls for masks in schools because they were in “no surrender mode towards unions”.”

Johnson should never have been allowed into Downing Street as a guest let alone as PM.

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Farrukh (@implausibleblog) on Threads

Prof John Edmunds, "As I explained to Prime Minister Boris Johnson, we either lockdown now and control the epidemic, or it will force you in

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Covid Inquiry: 6 Shocking Moments You May Have Missed

From re-written advice to ignored official warnings, the findings will shock you.

Government failures. Ignoring advice from experts. Typical of Johnson the liar.

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UK's top pandemic scientist delivers damning verdict on Johnson and Sunak's handling of Covid

Sir Patrick Vallance tells Covid Inquiry Boris Johnson 'flip-flopped' and 'panicked' over pandemic response while Rishi Sunak did not consul

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Manufacturing Discontent: The 15-Minute City Conspiracy – Byline Times

Otto English takes a deep dive into the chilling world of a big new theory that has caught the eye of libertarian influencers, extremists an

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Thread by @danielgoyal on Thread Reader App

@danielgoyal: Most people are aware of the main reason Nightingales were a calamity - there were no people to staff them - , but Nightingale

Weaken the NHS during Covid. Money to the wrong places. Great thread

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UK Covid inquiry: what we learned from the first week of the hearings

Government’s readiness for pandemic, health inequalities and testimonies of bereaved families featured at opening of inquiry

Government caught unawares as it was totally distracted by Brexit planning after years of a damaging austerity policy. No planning, no strategy, no ideas.

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No wonder the gov doesn’t want us to view their WhatsApp communications, or know who they were phoning.

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Boris Johnson scrapped pandemic team six months before coronavirus hit

Boris Johnson scrapped the government's Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee (THRCC) six months before the coronavirus arr

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