I keep coming back to this thread by epidemiologist @dgurdasani1. The gravity of the situation we find ourselves in & the government’s failure to intellectually grasp what is happening...is honestly terrifying. We are on the cusp of a whole new catastrophe. https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1343910098268282880

Independent SAGE published this yesterday. The only option left it says is full lockdown now. What @dgurdasani1 explains so well is why closing schools is so vital. And why failing to do so now will have such a devastating outsized impact

https://www.independentsage.org/29th-december-2020-emergency-statement-and-call-for-immediate-national-lockdown/

‘London now has 5,524 Covid patients in hospital beds, surpassing its April peak’

This is *more* transmissible variant. We are already in a *worse* place than April.

But on Monday we open schools & let it spread completely uncontrolled further. Even as NHS buckles under strain https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1344555658704781314

The gaping chasm between the public perception of what is happening & the danger we are actually in has never been more profound. These are today’s papers. We’re in worse place than even March. That was result of genuine ignorance about exponential growth.This is wilful blindness