#Lockdown

1/ There were countless theories put forward in 2020 on how we should deal with the #COVID19 pandemic. The most unscientific of them all was #Covidzero. To appreciate why, we
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I suffer from anxiety. Battled depression most of my adult life. Society never gave a damn about it.You know what's really frustrating? People using mental health as an excuse not
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The unconvincing analysis from your Ontario #COVID19 Science Table; a quick thread… Michigan has been used as a reference point by the Science Table since October 9th…. And again, in
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My interview today with @NIAbbot on @LBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WspfNPhWYq8With a short thread below on the points I made in the interview. The vaccine rollout is a great achievement - we are
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100 days of lockdown have completely changed how we live and interact. We’ve all had to adapt how we learn, work, shop, keep fit – and how we connect with
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With respect @MattHancock the timing, the platform, the lack of understanding of local communities, the inconsistency & seemingly contradictory rules re latest #lockdown is eroding faith & trust in government.https://twitter.com/Mat
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Four times we have delayed lockdown measures and so made the problem worse.And up to now we have compounded that by doing nothing to improve our general pandemic management during
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Less a COVID update, more a COVID context lesson:1) When a location gets above ~200 new cases / million / day, the virus has become endemic. Rooting it out requires
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Many thanks to @NickFerrariLBC @LBC for inviting me on this morning to discuss the impact of the new variant on hospitals and the calls for closing schools and a national
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Seen some awfully judgemental things on here tonight.... Same storm different boat.... Remember that!! "Working parents want kids to go back to school because school closures directly impacts them.Teachers don’t
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Ten Things I got wrong in 20201Thought investigation downing of UKR airliner would drag on long time, that US would use it to isolate Iran internationally. But took only few
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Lockdowns- “ lives versus livelihoods” is tackled here. Looked at mobility data in and out of lockdown. “The effectiveness of lockdowns in reducing infection... with the finding that infections can
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As Guardian, BBC, Mirror + many others announce rafts of redundancies, almost alone in UK media, The Spectator is hiring. Here's why: several years ago we decided future lay in
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I don't want to get embroiled in Anglican Twitter Discourse but it's important to note that while a second lockdown is definitely not ideal, it is not the end of
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My final thread of the year - a brief review of the current situation and why I think the govt. is right to resist calls for another national lockdown. Throughout
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What is @PanData19's agenda? It's well framed by our basic tenets on lockdown:1. Lockdowns run contrary to pre-Covid science, which consistently advised against quarantining the healthy under any circumstances, particularly
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