Dominic C Covid evidence 2

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New thread for if old fills up.

The same families who were then banned from visiting in case they brought Covid in.

Vindicated!!! I was on the Covid board in 2020 fighting against the tide who was telling us to make masks out of old socks. I cant believe people fell for this shit!!!

Its nice to see that Boris thought that he and his other work shy ministers should do some work for a change rather than malingering at illegal parties.

Some people DID go back to work. e,g they opened up their gyms and hairdressers and got fined for it. You gonna reimburse their fines Boris? Calling people malingering when THEY were the ones who forced them not to work
Fucking gaslighting cunt.

Javid being asked why was there no public health campaign/strategy to raise awareness about long covid.

Javid doesn’t remember one.

I really hope the vaccine mandate for care workers is brought up

Asked about a key senior meeting about Omnicron, Javid says he can't anwer thw question as he wasn't there.

Javid: “Johnson decided to shut the Centre for Pandemic Preparedness [omnicrom wave] but not tell anyone and just see if the public noticed”

Fucking hell.

Sorry, that's probably not a very helpful comment ^^

Javid on what lessons he learnt, 'more available health capacity'

Remind us again which government reduced that capacity

And how can that capacity be increased when 40,000 care workers quit due to his stupid insane vaccine mandate

Dominic Raab up next

Have to catch up later

Thank you everyone for keeping us updated.
I'm having a bugger of a week, so can't watch it live. So your updates are keeping me in the loop.

I'm raging for tomorrow, it's Hancock and I have meetings all day, so won't be able to watch it live.

I've been watching Raab. He's performing 'Mr Reasonable and Credible' so far.

Favourite words are 'hindsight' and 'evidence'.

He takes issue with the KC calling it 'management speak'. 'It's science', shoots back Raab.

He's very tetchy!

He is now! The Polite Assassin #2 KC really got to him with that 'management speak' barb. Raab sees himself as an action man, not a grey man or a wanky man.

Raab's background prior to politics is a brief career in international law (as a qualified solicitor), and this encounter with the KC is testing his ego and pride, I would say. He wants to establish his intellect. He's fascinating (not necessarily in a good way, I hasten to add).

Raab now talking about a 'four point matrix' and 'not enough challenges to groupthink'. Maaate ...

On Devolved Administrations (DAs) - Raab's evidence contradicts that given by the First Ministers and others that they couldn't get a look in at COBR. Raab says joint working was all fine.

Raab talks about the DAs all being able to 'feed in'. [But not being invited. The Metro Mayors made this point as well about not being invited or properly involved.]

Raab uncomfortable talking about how he recognised and how he knew that poor children, esp 'ethic minority' children, would be disproportionately affected.

The FEMHO KC Mr Dayle trying to get him to reconcile his statements in evidence.

Southall Black Sisters allowed a question on Equality Impact Assessments.

Raab remembers little about the detail. He is dismissive [in my view] of EIAs. Pretty much saying it doesn't really matter if one wasn't done at end of April re isolation, because one might not have picked up the issues within families anyway [??]

Interesting back and forth about DV and class correlation.

Jesus. Women and kids at risk of DV described by Raab as 'a caveat' that couldn't be fitted into a press conference. Would have made it 'unwieldy'. Other comms existed, he says. At press conference, we needed to take questions from the press.

Scottish Covid Bereaved KC hitting him hard on his 'irritation' with the Devolved Administrations without having the evidence that would justify his irritation.

It takes a strong and confident leader to allow others to be involved. Johnson was not that person.