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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted New York Times World

      The United Kingdom is taking a huge gamble with a counterintuitive coronavirus strategy of letting the virus spread quickly among less vulnerable groups, in no small part because the Prime Minister has a contrarian hot take on a classic movie.https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1238818486568321025 …

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      New York Times WorldVerified account @nytimesworld
      Boris Johnson once said his political hero was the mayor in “Jaws,” praising him for defying mass hysteria to keep the beaches open after a constituent is eaten by a shark. As the coronavirus now stampedes across the world, he's heeding the same principle. https://nyti.ms/38PbHBd 
      122 replies 626 retweets 2,241 likes
    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      It is amazing that they’re doing this. There’s some logic but really counter to what virtually every public health expert recommends

      21 replies 12 retweets 142 likes
    3. Neera Tanden 🌻‏Verified account @neeratanden 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

      He reversed course today -- no need to spread this anymore.

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 14 Mar 2020
      Replying to @neeratanden @joshtpm

      The Times makes clear that the reversal is only very partial. There has been no repudiation on the underlying goal of achieving herd immunity (no school closures & large gatherings still allowed).pic.twitter.com/C6vYg8SYc3

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        2. Dean Dettloff‏ @DeanDettloff 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden @joshtpm

          Also even if it was reversed it would be absolutely worth spreading that this was ever a real proposed option. Political leaders should be held to account for what they're willing to entertain when it comes to rolling the dice with people's lives.

          1 reply 3 retweets 37 likes
        3. Kevin O Reilly‏ @blandatious 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @DeanDettloff @HeerJeet and

          Stance was made to look nuts when soccer bodies cancelled all games themselves

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        1. allequash (Black Lives Matter to us AntiFascists)‏ @allequash 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden @joshtpm

          well at least we had the sense to ban travel from England to US.

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        1. Putin's communist oligarchy‏ @jocanib 14 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @neeratanden @joshtpm

          This isn't reversing course at all, it's doing what they've claimed to be trying to do all along ("delay"). They haven't previously done anything to delay it beyond routine contract-tracing which is of little value when testing is so restricted they don't know about 90% of cases.

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