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    1. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      NEW: Britons should get ready for “changes to our way of life and what our country looks like” — ministers say measures will be extended for months rather than weeks — lasting from the end of March until at least the summer and “perhaps a lot longer”https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    2. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Home-working will become the norm for millions of people for months — likely that many companies will extend home-working until June at least — Govt thinks it is difficult to see how football fans will be able to return to stadiums in April and Mayhttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    3. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Foreign travel will become extremely difficult from next month, senior ministers believe — stricter FCO advice — other nations imposing blanket, unpredictable restrictions — contingency plans for insurance industry as 100,000s face cancelled holidayshttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    4. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      No10 internally scathing at Trump response / travel ban — they think it is irresponsible and based on anti-immigrant politics rather than science, since virus is already widespread through US — say UK strategy is far more similar to Germany than Americahttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    5. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Ministers urging Boris Johnson to pass laws to radically extend the government’s emergency powers beyond the 30 day time-limit Civil Contingencies Act limits suspension of rule of law to 30 days Ministers worried Commons could shut for longer than thathttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    6. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      One senior minister admitted that the prime minister could be forced to delay the Brexit transition period and said the UK was “almost certain” to enter recession (yes this was relegated to bullet point *four* of the story)https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    7. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Supermarkets absolutely key to UK response — Ministers considering suspending competition law and waiving carrier bag charges — and even use army to deliver food to shops — sixth formers, students & other volunteers enlisted for national campaign to helphttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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    8. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Govt experts fear in worst-case scenario the UK death toll could be much higher than 100,000 — entire strategy is based on avoiding a much worse second wave — concerns that if there is a sudden spike the NHS simply doesn't have enough beds or ventilatorshttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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      Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

      Tories are publicly united behind the government approach but ministers admit there is no scientific consensus on what is the right thing to do — some have doubts about herd immunity — and fear a “political shitstorm" if they've got it wronghttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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        2. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

          Johnson allies think the Whitty / Vallance press conferences are good at communicating info to the media — but have concerns the wider public does not understand herd immunity strategy — fears that people are either not taking it seriously or panickinghttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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        3. Alex Wickham‏Verified account @alexwickham 14 Mar 2020

          One particular area of frustration is NHS 111 — it is severely underperforming, Whitehall officials believe — No10 exploring how the public can better receive healthcare advice — including potentially via private tech companieshttps://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-boris-johnson-tougher-restrictions …

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        2. münchhausen by robert prosky‏ @AneeceColt 14 Mar 2020

          omg come on

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        1.  🇬🇧 🇬🇧Dawn 🇬🇧ProudtobeBritish 🇬🇧 🇬🇧‏ @DawnieR2 14 Mar 2020
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          Thank you for this thread

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        2. Total Equality‏ @TEFSinfo 14 Mar 2020
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          This is central to the problem. See ‘Science vs Government: The ultimate game of chess’ https://studentequality.tefs.info/2020/02/science-vs-government-ultimate-game-of.html …pic.twitter.com/g4sa2Hsmga

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        1. NW Nature Lover‏ @uk8qnzl 14 Mar 2020
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          The UK government's approach is informed by Eugenics and Pseudoscience. The World Health Organisation has explicitly criticised the British approach.

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        2. Alistair McGregor  🐝  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿  🇰🇪‏ @gregalach 14 Mar 2020
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          If herd immunity worked why did we end up having to produce a vaccination against polio and smallpox? You do realise there is no herd immunity until you can produce a vaccine and vaccinate the population. Why are the media not challenging the Gov and Johnson on this lie?

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        3. Sue Fewster  💙‏ @suefew 14 Mar 2020
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          And flu jabs! Viruses mutate... are we all immune to colds yet? Stupidity knows no bounds!

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