“Is it blue side in or blue side out?”

For the first 4 months the UK & US govts told us we didn’t need to use face masks, despite of evidence to the contrary

Then they became mandatory but there’s been no public information about how to even wear a mask.
https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1283046929337929729

The govt - & media - spent months arguing whether we should wear #facemasks

Based on the science & the precautionary principle, face masks should have been introduced early as they reduce the spread of #COVID19

They were mandatory in 120 countries before UK & US introduced them https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1251215129796059139

After 4 months of prevarication on masks, the UK & US shifted

Trump & Johnson were both photographed wearing a mask for the first time on the SAME DAY

Like delaying lockdown & testing, this is just one of many parallels btw UK & US #COVID19 strategy. Are these coincidental? https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1282713957862723584

It wasn’t just actions & inactions that are mirrored in the UK & US

Death rates are too

#COVID19 death rates in UK & US follow the same trajectory as Sweden, a country that said from the start its #COVID strategy was #HerdImmunity

#Trump has admitted this is US strategy too.

It appears that the UK has also been attempting a #HerdImmunity ‘strategy’ just as Vallance & Halpern said at the start

The govt even briefed @Peston about this

Virtually every epidemiologist/virologist/expert will tell you that herd immunity is an “outcome”, never a “strategy” https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1254371457498521600

In May, threat of legal challenge forced US & UK govts to reveal details of their contracts with #Palantir, the CIA-backed data firm, which has links w #CambridgeAnalytica

They revealed that Palantir ‘won’ contracts at the same time to run #COVID data stores for the NHS & HHS. https://twitter.com/stefsimanowitz/status/1330489040387366914