"Those were people at work, talking about work."
Boris Johnson is asked about an image showing his wife and their then-newborn baby, with 17 colleagues drinking wine and cheese in the Downing Street garden on 15 May 2020.
Read more here: trib.al/BgMIDEC
@LucyLoo92982095@peekaboo223@Jim_Jordan No - they're really not. The price of gas has soared everywhere, world-wide. Several UK energy companies have gone bust. European countries are throwing billions at subsidies. Look outside of the US for just *one* minute.
"Covid Doesn't affect children"
723 children dead USA
543 Children South Africa
UK
74 children died
7995 have been admitted to hospital many mechanically ventilated. (.Gov.uk)
34,000 suffer Long Covid (ONS) severely debilitating to some.
1,077,514 cases in Children
Surely the infection rate + the pinging app + Monday's potential free for all = a potentially unfathomable nightmare. Why does it feel like the government is in complete denial about this? It's absolutely bonkers.
@BeeBeeGeeG@bigbluetractor@FPLGareth_@fhayesmccoy@mrjamesob Press conference in Singapore earlier this year:
BBC reporter - "How has Singapore handled the pandemic so well?"
Singapore Health Minister - "The question is, how has the UK handled it so badly? We followed the UK's pandemic protocols - the UK did not."
I think Taiwan did too.
@bigbluetractor@FPLGareth_@fhayesmccoy@mrjamesob At least 30 countries adopted a zero covid policy, you can Google them.
Our pandemic protocols have been in place for decades. Several of those countries followed them, you could Google that too.
My predictions for UK:
NI returns to violence
Scotland Independent
>200K Covid death toll
2M long Covid sufferers
Massive food shortages
Unemployment & repossessions skyrocket
Civil unrest, widespread rioting.
I hope I'm wrong.
@Keir_Starmer Let's be clear, this is the *Delta* variant, not the Johnson variant.
The #JohnsonVariant will be along very soon; the one that UK is brewing right now in a half vaccinated population which will render the entire world's vaccination programme obsolete.
#TheJohnsonVariant
📞"Beating Germany was a huge result for Brexit. Merkel will be spinning in her grave."
🎙️"I thought you were boycotting the tournament because of the players taking the knee?"
📞"I am. They shouldn't bring politics into football."
Colin from Portsmouth is back on the line.
@Northantswhite@BeeBeeGeeG Hardly. I voted 4 Brexit but I know when I've been lied to & conned. You however, carry on with your unicorns & comforting lies. Luckily I have duel nationality, so I'll keep browsing for my holiday home on the med. I have 27 countries to choose from & my kid can work in any.
Acknowledging that COVID-19 is likely going to be endemic and/or with us for a longer period of time is not ”throwing up our hands” and walking away - it’s about establishing sustainable response and mitigation while working against global vaccine inequity (1/2).
@CliveBarker1967@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu Also, even if they didnt use the words 'herd immunity', Bojo, Whitty & Vallance all but admitted it was their strategy. Comments like 'letting it rip thro the population". Grossly unethical, especially with a novel disease.
@missdearyme@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu Not sure they ever made a decision! Maybe if they had a policy it wouldn't have been so bad. We seem to have managed to get the worse of both worlds. Failing to protect the vulnerable was the biggest killer regardless of others. Relying on LD and nothing else was a disaster.
@CliveBarker1967@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu Check out BoJo's speech in Greenwich on 3/2/20.
He basically said while other countries are closing borders, there has to be some country, somewhere, willing to stay open to trade. UK would put on its 'superman cloak'.
He knew the consequences of that. Even I did.
@missdearyme@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu Piss poor effort I'll grant you. But mid February may already have been too late. We hit peek infections just 4 weeks later. By SK do you mean Slovakia? We have as many essential workers as they have population.
@CliveBarker1967@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu I expected closure of borders mid Feb. Assumed logistics for hotel quarantine would ready. Maybe locking down for a month (not much longer needed) to TTI every case we had - less than 100. It was doable. I didn't reckon on gov't doing *nothing* & choosing herd immunity instead.
@missdearyme@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu That's assuming we didn't already have large numbers of infections. As infections peaked before April we would have needed to close our borders in January to have a similar infection rate to Australia. We would also had to keep them closed for months due to lack of testing.
@CliveBarker1967@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu China released the genome for covid 20/1/20, precisely for countries to start producing tests (& vaccines). Our gov't sat on it's hands until March. SK began mass testing (& had fully functioning app) by mid Feb. There's no excuse for not enough tests.
@missdearyme@BeeBeeGeeG@Filmnoir11@SaskiaPopescu We didn't have testing capabilities until half way through 2020 and even then we were only testing symptomatic people. 4 million essential workers 1000's of lorry's entering bringing food from EU ect. No two countries are the same which makes comparisons difficult.
@MockDelbourne@BeeBeeGeeG@SaskiaPopescu And that reply is why you warrant no more of my time.
You're just a nasty Twitter troll who can't form a competent counter argument, so resort to insulting everyone instead.