Dominic C Covid evidence 2

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New thread for if old fills up.

People were frazzled because Covid kept coming at us

It wasn’t me, I didn’t do it. A big boy did it and ran away, I can’t remember, that’s not my recollection, things just happened…

All going exactly as everyone expected then.

https://x.com/BestForBritain/status/1732358648632860693?s=20

Johnson caught in an outright inaccuracy. Claims nobody told him directly there was any problem with the working environment in his administration. Is read a WhatsApp telling him directly that nobody wanted to work for him.

Just mutters: "I'm sorry." ~AA #CovidInquiry

Is that when he waffled on about when he was London mayor, his office was 50/50?

I think I might have read more sage minutes than Johnson.

Its terrible how these things happen. Nothing that the boss could have done about it though.

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He is squirming trying to get out of not going to COBR meetings. His excuses are pathetic.

His waffle is really really not cutting through. Hugo Keith is a ⭐

He looks furious at being caught out.

Lol

Just realised my error. I took him at his word when he said once or twice. That’s an obvious lie and he’s never read one. In which case I’ve definitely read more than him when they eventually got round to publishing them.

Oh please let him get really rattled! I am supposed to be working but can't tear myself away, with the hope he will melt down at some point. What an outrageous liar he is. Judge will not be impressed!

Covid "had not yet really broken upon the political world... in my consciousness as something of a real potential national disaster" in February 2020, says Boris Johnson, despite the fact his government had already held five separate COBRA meetings on it without him.

He basically didn't believe the data

Q: Why was your focus then on communications, not on preventing the spread?

Johnson says it was because they assumed it would be like other viruses, like Sars.
The scientific community within Whitehall at that stage was not telling us that this was something that was going to require urgent and immediate action.He says they could see the mathematical implications of the reasonable worst case scenario (RWCS). But they did not think it would happen.

Q: But you were told Covid had a 2% fatality rate – much higher than those other viruses.

Johnson accepts that. But he says that “fallacious, inductive logic” meant they did not take those warnings as seriously as they should have done. He says they thought the RWCS would not materialise, but in this pandemic the outcome was close to the RWCS.

WhatsApp on the “No10 action group” on 6 Feb 2020 describing covid as something would sweep the world.

It’s being described as a “comms exercise” not a/o requiring urgent intervention to suppress it.

My god, he is such a LIAR. It's starkly illustrated he played it down, buggered off to Chevening, didn't attend COBR meetings, thought it would be like swine flu. All despite warnings.

I wish Hugh Keith could say... weren't you sorting out your divorce during that February? (which he was). Course a KC can't say that. One can wish.

OMG 'we have plenty of bad flu pandemics' - er, no, we don't. We have annual flu outbreaks, where most vulnerable people are already vaccinated.

'I just didn't believe it' - what an admission.

The government had all the information they needed. They just didn't believe it, accept it, react to it. Infuriating to hear.

I should have twigged....

I can't remember...

This is where the 'any government would have struggled' defence falls apart IMO.

Because most other PMs would have fucking listened to the information available.

indeed.

Yes. This is it.

Just not up to the job we were paying them to do.

It must be awful being from COVID-19 Bereaved Families for Justice and listening to this.

'I just don't know the answer'

QC: 'That's clear.'

I do think our government is set up to manage BAU and has no idea how to cope with a crisis. Perhaps they should have asked for help from business who I know were planning far ahead of the government or maybe the army who I imagine have to be able to deal with emergencies.