Online emergency meeting of British scientists and politicians tomorrow

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JOHN SNOW MEMORANDUM
EMERGENCY SUMMIT AGAINST MASS INFECTION
THURSDAY 8th JULY, 10:00 am

We are holding an emergency summit to outline our concerns about the UK government’s current strategy to abandon most restrictions in England on the 19th July in the midst of a surging pandemic. We have outlined our concerns in a letter to The Lancet (embargoed until 23.30hrs UK time on Wednesday 7 July 2021), now signed by more than 120 of the world's leading scientists. At the summit we will outline our grave concerns about the UK government’s dangerous and reckless strategy, and the urgent steps we need to take to protect the public.

PROGRAMME

Statement from Scientists and Medical Doctors
Professor Trish Greenhalgh, Professor of Primary Care Health Sciences, Medical Sciences Division, University of Oxford
Dr. Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet
Professor Kailash Chand, Honorary Vice President of the British Medical Association and former deputy chair of the BMA
Dr. Deepti Gurdasani, Clinical Epidemiologist and Senior Lecturer in Machine Learning, Queen Mary University of London

Q&A session
Panel will include all speakers and:
Dr. Rachel Clarke, NHS palliative care doctor and author
Sir David King, former Chief Scientific adviser and chair of Independent SAGE
Professor Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology, University College London and member of Independent SAGE
Caroline Lucas, MP, Former Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales
Richard Burgon, MP, Labour MP for Leeds East
Debbie Abrahams, MP, Labour MP for Oldham East and Saddleworth
Philippa Whitford, MP, Scottish National Party MP for Central Ayrshire
Barbara Keeley, MP, Labour MP for Worsley and Eccles South

This event will be livestreamed at: and on Twitter at @allthecitizens.

We will be taking questions from the press and public. Please contact us at [email protected] if you'd like to ask a question.

Please join us at 10am tomorrow

THanks for the notice - have a bump.

Oooh. That' sounds interesting. Thank you.

I will be watching!! Thank you

Its great they will be heard.

I will be watching.

Thank you to these brave scientists and politicians willing to stick their neck out for the good of the country.

I hope they each pledge to donate all of their entire annual salaries to reduce the national debt - or at least pay for hospitality businesses to keep everyone on furlough.

Some big names on there.

Interesting.

You are scientists. Not policy makers. You are not elected. Stick to your lane.

@yeOldeTrout

I hope they each pledge to donate all of their entire annual salaries to reduce the national debt - or at least pay for hospitality businesses to keep everyone on furlough.

Yep.

Well, they can fuck right off

To be fair though we elected boris for brexit - not to give us all long term health issues and refuse to allow us to vax our kids or enforce fines against people reasonably keeping kids home!
I would have expected him to now - or earlier step aside

@WouldBeGood

Well, they can fuck right off

Let’s hope they do.

Yes it's the scientists who have been consistently ignored by our ruthlessly incompetent government who are to blame for the cost of covid to the economy.

Oo-er. It's all a bit polarised between those desperate for the end of restrictions and those worried sick about the end of restrictions. Very unsettling. Probably worth a listen.

@WouldBeGood

Well, they can fuck right off

It's a free county. They are allowed to share their opinion. You just shared yours.

Country even

"You are scientists. Not policy makers. You are not elected. Stick to your lane."

Um the MPs attending are elected.

I'm beginning to hate living in this country with all the hate spewed at people who are respected within their fields. Hate it. So awful.

@HSHorror

To be fair though we elected boris for brexit - not to give us all long term health issues and refuse to allow us to vax our kids or enforce fines against people reasonably keeping kids home! I would have expected him to now - or earlier step aside

We (well I didn’t ) but the British public elected him to lead/ form a government which makes / decides on policy. This is a democracy, not an autocracy by decree of the SAGE scientists/ Mathematical modellers.

I hope they are meeting to outline their alternative proposal which will allow perfectly healthy people to stop being bounced in and out of isolation like tennis balls and let them stay in school/work; that will ensure that the hospitality and entertainment industry is allowed to stay afloat; that will ensure that the NHS, GPs and dentists get properly up and running again to tackle the huge backlog; that will identify a clear exit strategy...

I mean, what are they going to propose instead that recognises the gravity of the financial and social precipice we're on? Or is it really the case that people can now only see Covid, that nothing else matters?

Yes I think one of the particularly important things about this is that it looks to be a coalition of scientist and politicians.

No, the scientists are the ones who's evidence is used to make policy - it is exactly our lane. The issue comes with MPs who are not as scientifically literate as they need to be to make informed decisions about policy.

(Shudders at the though of the very briefly DUP leader who was a Young Earth Creationist)

I will NOT be donating MY salary to fix this mess - how about Murdoch et al donate their vast wealth instead rather than the scientists who are trying to find solutions!

MN reminds me just how much suspicion and how scientifically illiterate most of the general public are.

I’m sick of living in this country with the fucking doom and terror about a virus with a huge survival rate and a very effective vaccine.

It won't change anything, they just want it on the record. The die has been cast