#Lockdown

Roger Awan-Scully

roger_scully

A few highlights from the latest Welsh Political Barometer poll:Leader ratings (average /10):Johnson 3.7Starmer 4.9Drakeford 4.9Davies 3.4Price 4.5All leaders down since previous poll... % ‘Don’t Know’ responses on leadership question

David Paton

cricketwyvern

It is useful to debate effectiveness of lockdown restrictions but we sometimes need to step back & remember these are unprecedented & draconian restrictions on basic rights & freedoms:to education,

Nick Cohen

NickCohen4

One of the worst examples of wishful thinking masquerading as news I've seen was the right wing claim that the 'Swedish model' could deal with virus. There was no need

Iain Duncan Smith MP

MPIainDS

The PM's announcement of #2ndLockdown is a body blow to the British people. Just as the economy was picking up, even giving cause for optimism, we're now to impersonate the

Malgorzata (Gosia) Gasperowicz

GosiaGasperoPhD

"Reopening schools causes R transmission rate to surge, study suggests""Transmission rises by 24% within a month of children returning to classrooms, models using data from 131 countries show"1/https://www.thelancet.com/

Prof Ellen Townsend #StopMassTesting

ProfETownsend

1/ Updated thread. The impact of lockdown on children/adolescents 2021. Or, why we need to keep schools open. 2/ https://reachwell.org/ ‘.. a group of UK academics who work with children

Sara

indymeansindy

Aside from the fact that our populations, demographics, comorbidities, international connectivity etc are very different to NZ, for us to have done what they achieved we would’ve had to lockdown

prof jenny pickerill

JennyPickerill

I don’t know any academics who are not struggling right now. 11 months in + we are at the point of serious fatigue + stress. Add another UK lockdown +

Another Angry Woman

stavvers

This article will largely be ignored but please, please read and share. It's not "pandemic fatigue" driving spreadhttps://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/07/pandemic-fatigue-how-adherence-to-covid-19-regulations-has-been-misrepresen

Lewis Goodall

lewis_goodall

Questions for ministersThere is a much emphasis being placed on the new strain. Scientists better placed to comment on that. Data is uncertain so precautionary principle should kick in and

Paul Abi Nasr

PaulAbiNasr

I understand the urge to take the extreme option when one in confronted with the anger of a population that holds you responsible for the amount of suffering our country

Moya Lothian-Mclean

mlothianmclean

This is interesting! I'm also interested in the reason why photo dumps are posted *in the first place*. Why is there the compulsion to share these moments online? What does

Jim Grace

mac_puck

Q's for the public inquiry:1. Had you already decided before your 3rd Feb Greenwich speech, to let Covid run its course?2. Did president Xi advise you on 18th February that

Consent Factory

consent_factory

At the end of every year, we normally retweet all our essays for that year, so we're going to go ahead and do that. We'll start with March, because 2020

lines

thatinterlace

Seriously seriously worried about unrest across multiple countries in the West currently. Absolutely some of this stuff is being fanned by external adversaries who dislike the West, and you don't

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Worrisome new data—new B117 variant is not only more infectious, it’s potentially more infectious in children 0-9 (+24%) and 10-19 (+14%), and less among 60-79, compared to common strains. More

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