1/ I see a lot of the Flu-tards and "muh economy" Republicans are out today going, "AH HA!" about Prof Neil Ferguson's revised "coulds". It's really disheartening to see so many fail to grasp the Imperial study, revisions, and the impact of social distancing in the reviews.
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2/ Let's get something very, very clear. The 15 days we are being asked to take to stay at home are a MASSIVE contributing factor to the revisions of NHS preparedness, and were ORIGINALLY FACTORED IN *AND* FORECAST. Example follows:
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3/ Over 10 days ago (basically at the beginning of this for Britain), the 20k number was established as a better case scenario. In other words, there is no "BACKTRACK" and folks pretending this is the case should hang their heads in shame.pic.twitter.com/IIAHnV9wbY
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4/ That article, screengrabbed above, is from modelling presented March 16th. Which means it was worked on and established over 10 days ago. These "muh economy" types are not paying attention to the detail, or have flawed motives or faulty comprehension. In some cases all three
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5/ But now we are supposedly in much better shape because of the social distancing actions taken (which, let's also remind ourselves, countries that didn't do it fast enough now wish they did) – the market extremists are coming out asking us to prove we saved lives. WTH?
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