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Dominic Cummings

So now we understand from Dominic Cummings that he was willing to put his wife, his small child, other motorists, cyclists and pedestrians at risk while driving his car 30 miles to test his eyesight. And yet he drove his family from London to Durham because he was concerned about their safety. Risible  hypocrisy. Rules …

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After the PM’s appalling briefing in defence of Cummings

BMJ: The UK’s public health response to covid-19

https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1932

Good government and incompetent government

This superb video has now clocked past 3 million views. It’s a brutal 3-minute summary of New Zealand’s success vs the UK’s failure. Keep sharing it.pic.twitter.com/ABZ6sXbI96 — Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) May 13, 2020

Do politicians get any more stupid than Priti Patel?

The woman who thought it would help the Brexit negotiations to emphasise that Ireland could encounter food shortages revealed that she didn’t know the difference between terrorism and  counterterrorism as brilliantly exposed by Michael Spicer the room next door – Priti Patel pic.twitter.com/kwgEdJKGLr — Michael Spicer (@MrMichaelSpicer) February 4, 2020 On the 11 April during …

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Coronavirus: lack of preparedness

Following an investigation by the Times newspaper it would seem that the lazy lying coward missed five Cobra meetings. This on top of the failure to join the EU in an effort to obtain essential PPE and ventilators shows how crminally negligent the uk government has been.  Lives have been lost because the government failed …

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Coronavirus: test, test, test says the WHO

and what does the uk do?

Coronavirus one month on

So here we are one month on since my last post and the UK is heading for in the region of 40,000 deaths. The Tory government is trying to  put the blame on the public for not following instructions, doctors and nurses for negligent use of PPE, Public Health England and one of the goats …

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Coronavirus

Since the government won’t tell us the methodology behind the forecasts for coronavirus I’ve used a simple Gaussian distribution to estimate the number of people infected and the percentage of the population based on a peak in 12 weeks and a starting number of 10,000 as stated in the PMs broadcast on 12th March 2020. …

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Prostate cancer treatment and politics

It would seem that the three amigos, the lying coward Boris Johnson and his two medical advisors have thrown the elderly and vulnerable under a bus. I’m midway through six chemotherapy sessions which will end in May. Without chemo I have a life expectancy of about three years. The chemo may give me an extra …

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