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Sheesus, Priti Patel doesn't have a clue, does she?
And if she says "the rules are clear" or "we are in a pandemic" one more fkn time, I'm gonna blow my own head off.
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@LBC #bbcpm
And if she says "the rules are clear" or "we are in a pandemic" one more fkn time, I'm gonna blow my own head off.
#DailyCovidUpdate
#DailyBriefing
@LBC #bbcpm
House #GOP Lawmaker: #Biden Should Be Recognized As President-Elect
"Rep.Ā #TomReed (R-N.Y.), a co-chair of the #bipartisan #ProblemSolversCaucus, said Tuesday thatĀ #JoeBiden should be recognized as the president-elect while many top #Republicans...
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"Rep.Ā #TomReed (R-N.Y.), a co-chair of the #bipartisan #ProblemSolversCaucus, said Tuesday thatĀ #JoeBiden should be recognized as the president-elect while many top #Republicans...
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... are still siding withĀ (Outgoing! š„³) President Trump*Ā in refusing to #concede the #election. Most #Republicans in #Congress are backing #Trump's efforts to challenge his loss to #Biden, despite the lack of evidence of #VoterFraud. Reed issued a statement congratulating... 
āPeople who think they can take responsibility for their own health and their own risk are misunderstanding the situation." @BorisJohnson
Er...try telling that to #DominicCummnings, Prime Minister
#COVID19 #CovidUK #Cummings
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Er...try telling that to #DominicCummnings, Prime Minister
#COVID19 #CovidUK #Cummings
#DailyBriefing #coronavirus
āBarnard Castle!ā
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@BorisJohnson @MattHancock @michaelgove @grantshapps @RobertBuckland @pritipatel @RishiSunak @GavinWilliamson @AlokSharma_RDG @DominicRaab @OliverDowden @BrandonLewis @RobertJenrick @theresecoffey @trussliz @Keir_Starmer @justinmadders
For months, the PM said āwe should should rely on the common sense of the British peopleā.
For months, the British people have struggled make sense of the #COVID crisis, looking to @WHO, @IndependentSage etc. & ignoring inconsistent & garbled govt advice.
For months, the British people have struggled make sense of the #COVID crisis, looking to @WHO, @IndependentSage etc. & ignoring inconsistent & garbled govt advice.
It would be really handy if the government could publish a technical explanation about how they are calculating proximity from the limited data they collect (TX power and RSSI intervals) that is superior to what Apple/Googleās framework does. #NHSX #DailyBriefing
In case youāre curious about exactly what data is captured from an āexposure eventā in the #NHSX app, hereās an example from my own testing - this is taken directly from the file that stores this data locally. #DailyBriefing
Slight correction - whilst the app only captures RSSI data, IIRC, when you report symptoms and this file is uploaded to the server, I think it also captures some information about your device (OS/device model) which could feed in to their algorithm too.
Letās see if the app gets a mention during Hancockās half hour and if so, how they spin it.
Well that was carefully worded to make it sound like Apple were deliberately hindering the government. š¤
āHonestly, itās not our fault, itās all Appleās fault - go and ask them why they wonāt change a fundamental way about the way iOS works that has been the case since year dotā. #DailyBriefing
UK virus-tracing app switches to Apple-Google model.
How many millions, how many months & how may lives will have been lost by the government's obdurate reliance on British exceptionalism & crony corporations run by mates of Dominic Cummings?
bbc.co.uk/news/technologā¦
How many millions, how many months & how may lives will have been lost by the government's obdurate reliance on British exceptionalism & crony corporations run by mates of Dominic Cummings?
bbc.co.uk/news/technologā¦
It was obvious many weeks ago that the govt's approach to its contact tracing app was deeply flawed. I set out the reasons why in this thread on 3 May.
It's worse than mere incompetence. The whole sorry business stinks of corruption at the highest level.
It's worse than mere incompetence. The whole sorry business stinks of corruption at the highest level.
Those world-beating contact-tracing system criteria in full:
āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to Vote Leave cronies
āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to corporations recently found guilty of massive fraud (Serco)
āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to Tory donors (Deloitte)
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āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to Vote Leave cronies
āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to corporations recently found guilty of massive fraud (Serco)
āļø Multi-million Ā£ contracts to Tory donors (Deloitte)
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Exclusive: Chief nurse @CNOEngland was dropped from No.10 coronavirus briefings after refusing to back Dominic Cummings independent.co.uk/news/uk/politiā¦
āA No 10 SPAD [special adviser] asked her directly how she would answer the Dominic Cummings question and she refused to play along and told them she would answer the same way as Jonathan Van-Tam. She was dropped immediately from the press briefing.ā
What this story tells us is what we maybe knew all along - the #dailybriefings have become a charade and we are so far from "following the science" now that perhaps we need to re-think the daily spin session they've become?
In the PM's #DailyBriefing on 11 May, we were presented with this slide.
I understood at that time that in order to move from 'current social distancing measures and restrictions', the Joint Biosecurity Centre had to change the COVID Alert Level to Level 3 - and that changes were dependent on this.
I understand that we are still at COVID Alert Level 4. My question is: how does the PM justify the change to 'gradual releasing of restrictions' such as opening schools when the Joint Biosecurity Centre has not moved to Alert Level 3? Is this overruling the JBC? @instituteforgov
