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    1. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      Cummings today: “Last year I wrote about the possible threat of coronaviruses and the urgent need for planning”.. appears to be reference to this blog... actually about biolab accidents and giving a “Red Team” £1m to test security including honey traps ..https://dominiccummings.com/2019/03/04/the-most-secure-bio-labs-routinely-make-errors-that-could-cause-a-global-pandemic-are-about-to-re-start-experiments-on-pathogens-engineered-to-make-them-mammalian-airborne-transmissible/ …

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    2. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      blog does reference coronavirus, in relation to an accident at a Chinese lab that led to 1 SARS death in 2004 ... not sure what message he is sending here. If he is saying that the blog was prescient, does he think the pandemic has something to do with a leak from a biolab?pic.twitter.com/GcEulZlseq

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    3. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      Listening to him, he seemed to be saying that there was no way he would have backed herd immunity because he had warned of pandemic threat in particular from coronaviruses [ie with no vaccines and treatments] which would have been impressively prescient, but cant see it there...

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    4. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      Faisal Islam Retweeted Jonas Whichall

      I’m genuinely very interested in what exactly he was warning about - I’ve searched his blog for coronavirus - only 1 thing comes up - that biolab thing. SARS same, MERS, nothing. Please show me the warnings, I want to read them, will link to them herehttps://twitter.com/lankland/status/1265013125939712000?s=21 …

      Faisal Islam added,

      Jonas Whichall @lankland
      Replying to @faisalislam
      Actually Faisal he said he’s been writing and warning of it for years. But go on put media spin on it.
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    5. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      Again - he literally told us to read his blog about his warnings on this topic - but the only warning on his blog I can find is re protecting biolabs from attack, not eg wet markets, or a virus with no vaccine or treatments - so what exactly is he asking us to infer here?

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    6. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      Faisal Islam Retweeted ⬡ Jens Wiechers

      Weirder and weirder... @jwiechers put blog through Internet archive machine and reference to coronavirus, quote on coronavirus was not in the version of blog saved on Way Back MAchine on Apr 9 2020 ... but is there this month...https://twitter.com/jwiechers/status/1264953956758884354?s=20 …

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      ⬡ Jens Wiechers @jwiechers
      Cummings said he warned about i.a. corona virus in 2019. Thing is, he didn't. References to SARS and corona virus were added to his blog post on pandemic risks sometime between April and May of this year. pic.twitter.com/NneonooLoj
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    7. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      And the account of the internet archive does check out - see the history here: why would a reference to coronavirus be added in the last month?... https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://dominiccummings.com/2019/03/04/the-most-secure-bio-labs-routinely-make-errors-that-could-cause-a-global-pandemic-are-about-to-re-start-experiments-on-pathogens-engineered-to-make-them-mammalian-airborne-transmissible/ …

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    8. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      change in April that appears to be shown on internet archive is quote from below article is expanded to include that reference to coronavirus I quoted at the top of the thread... so perhaps he thought he was warning about coronavirus by linking to this:https://thebulletin.org/2019/02/human-error-in-high-biocontainment-labs-a-likely-pandemic-threat/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Twitter%20Post&utm_campaign=DavidKim_02252019 …

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    9. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      MORE: info on Way Bank machine internet archive corroborated by info on actual blog sitemap -hat tip @martbrow @exactlyaron and @jonwilliams80 edit that added “coronavirus” quote made “2020-04-14 T20:55:20” So same day he returned to work, after Durham https://dominiccummings.com/sitemap.xml pic.twitter.com/dwwjjp2mxs

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    10. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 25

      To be clear - I was genuinely interested in how prescient he had been on coronaviruses, and expected to be impressed. Perhaps that writing is elsewhere... I’d be interested in reading it and happy to link to it, if anyone can show it me. But...

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      Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 26

      NEW: No 10 source acknowledges blog was indeed updated, but says the original version from last year linked to an article [in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists] which did discuss coronaviruses [in the bits not quoted from originally but subsequently added].

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        2. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 26

          The actual quote from yesterday’s press conference is actually stronger than the one from a transcript at top of thread: “Only last year I wrote explicitly about the danger of coronaviruses”...

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        3. Faisal Islam‏Verified account @faisalislam May 26

          Blog: searching for PM’s top adviser’s coronavirus warnings made “only last year”, as mentioned in Rose Garden yday. All very strange. fundamental underlying issue in early response to this pandemic of being coronavirus not flu (as everyone modelled)...https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52808059 …

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        2. Adrian Norris‏ @adriannorris May 26
          Replying to @faisalislam

          But he said yesterday: "only last year I wrote specifically about the danger of coronaviruses". He didn't. He was lying, and trying to make people think his "superforecaster" skills had predicted what has happened this year.pic.twitter.com/XTZzE1U3IW

          27 replies 185 retweets 508 likes
        3. kosmatih‏ @kosmatih1 May 26
          Replying to @adriannorris @faisalislam

          even more reason to stockpile PPE

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        2. Steve Peers‏Verified account @StevePeers May 26
          Replying to @faisalislam @Philip_Redhair

          Is this true @jwiechers ? But it still means that the express mention of coronavirus in the blog post was added, doesn't it?

          6 replies 22 retweets 105 likes
        3. ⬡ Jens Wiechers‏ @jwiechers May 26
          Replying to @StevePeers @faisalislam @Philip_Redhair

          Well, in the same sense that saying if you wrote an article on the subprime markets and CDFs, mentioning dozens of banks, not particularly singling out AIG & Lehman Brothers, you specifically predicted AIG & Lehman Brothers would fold two years later.

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        2. Carrie B  🕷 😷 😰 🇬🇧 🇪🇺#FBPE‏ @cbtwittle May 26
          Replying to @faisalislam

          I’m just imagining how much time they’re spending on all this arse covering and time he spends on building his brand image? Time they should be spending helping this country. Astonished we’re paying for all this.

          3 replies 25 retweets 107 likes
        3. A-Verifex FBPE‏ @VerifxA May 26
          Replying to @cbtwittle @faisalislam

          Quite. "I decided I needed to drive back to London to carry on working" Cue us all picturing tough decisions of national importance about the lockdown... ...When in fact he was editing year-old blog posts so he might look more intelligent.

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        2. A better Wales is Possible‏ @hr_darren May 26
          Replying to @faisalislam

          After 5 days Cummings, Boris et al cant even conjure up a story that cant be pulled apart in hours... what chance to we have to get through a pandemic with this level of incompetence. They attack the media- but its not media its them who think we should swallow whatever they say

          2 replies 33 retweets 157 likes
        3. Whitty‏ @andrewwhitty May 26
          Replying to @hr_darren @faisalislam

          More than five days. The police spoke to hus family at the end of March. They have had two months to concoct and corroborate this story and it’s all bullshit.

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