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@Johnrashton47

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Independent Consultant,Writer,Inconvenient Witness and Commentator. Middle of the Road Radical. Views my own but shared by many 👍

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@Johnrashton47
John Ashton ( you, us, I)
3 years
Let’s hear it for our Pat who kept the Liverpool Royal Infirmary Vaccine Hub and all its facilities spotless and safe for the last 6 months 👍🙏
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Breaking News. It seems as if the gambling industry placed great pressure on government to go ahead with Cheltenham. If this is true we have really reached the bottom of the pit. Gambling profits before public health . Stop them shredding papers and seize their hard drives now
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Prepare for the worst everybody ; finish shopping as safely as possible ; get your boosters or 1st/2nd jabs;go home and have a lovely quiet Christmas with only the essential family members and prepare for lock down.Only use the NHS if essential We are in for a very rough ride🙏
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Indian variant: because we know so little about it there are no plans to ban travel from India. Brilliant logic from the Eton dummies! Here we go again 🦠😎
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠I need to share something with you because it is causing serious stress. Complaints have been made about me to my professional body . It is hard.🦠John
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Note for posterity. I am declining invitations from Ferrari at LBC as I will only speak to serious journalists. I am delighted to be talkingth James O’Brien on LBC at 10.45. 🦠
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🦠I can’t believe what I am hearing ...
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Sky News
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"The background risk of disease is diminishing all the time" Deputy Chief Medical Director Dr Jenny Harries says the likelihood of a child having #coronavirus in a particular school "is very small and diminishing all the time" Latest on #COVID19 :
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠In 2014 we sent 1200 British clinical volunteers to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone . They all came home alive .So far with COVID -19 between 100-200 front line health and social care workers have died, the victims of criminal negligence.🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
4 years
🦠Many thanks everybody . I am being trolled and bullied by some horrible people. It would be helpful if my followers could report and block them so I can focus on the COVID-19 emergency and helping to deal with it . Many thanks . Peace and love . Shalom/ Inshallah . John 🦠
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@Johnrashton47 It's because you tell the truth.
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🦠Check out Cuba’s performance on COVId. Phenomenal! Each household regularly checked, screened , tested, traced , isolated using their amazing public health and primary care teams together with volunteers . ( What happened to our 759,000 volunteers?). 🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Boris Johnson’s modus operandi is to create a huge mess then move on leaving it for others to clear up both in his personal and political life. He can’t be allowed to get away with it this time.🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠The mad professor sometimes turns out not to be so daft after all ...
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠this Covid virus is very clever. Not only can it tell the difference between weddings, funerals and football matches but it can also distinguish the English from the Scots, Irish and Welsh.Or maybe it’s Darwin’s natural selection at work that produced the English master race🙏
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🦠we are now 30,000 on this twitter feed. If we get to 100, 000 and we all sign a petition we can get a debate on holding an enquiry in the House of Commons🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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With respect the get go was on 12th March on BBCQT when Fiona Bruce shut me up 🙏
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Tom Newton Dunn
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Whatever you think of Tony Blair, he was onto mass testing as a coronavirus containment strategy from the get-go. Here he is on March 29, Week 1 of lockdown. Fast forward to August, and the Govt is now beginning to procure and roll out mass testing machines.
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Another good reason to ban alcohol in the House of Commons ?
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So now we have it. Burying a bad pandemic by crucifying the BBC. I despair of the English education system. So many gullible people 😎
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠It is not a second wave . It is the first wave that hasn’t gone away. Boris Johnson needs to own it as he has failed to squash it🦠Newspaper headlines: PM's 'second wave' fears, and airport test calls
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🦠Tory MP husband of Test and Trace chief Dido Harding linked to anti-NHS group - Mirror Online
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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One day I may receive an apology. Don’t hold your breath. There is far too much sycophancy and far too little independent mindedness in public health today. Truth to power ? John
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Clive Peedell
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It pains me to say it, but the UK public health community (with the exception of Prof John Ashton @Johnrashton47 and a few others) have some very serious questions to answer. They clearly backed the herd immunity stance of the CMO & CSO. (12th March was mid-Cheltenham festival)
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠This amazing young doctor who was on Panorama with me is also now being terrorised and her Wikipedia subverted. Please could our team come to her assistance? Many thanks John 🦠🙏Peace and love .sonia adesara - Google Search
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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I rest my case
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Graham Simpson
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One of the top brains the government had on their SAGE panel
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Friends and followers I am back on twitter after a break of almost one hour during which only several horrible twitter thugs were allowed through. Our democracy and way of life is at risk with intolerance and authoritarianism riding on the coat tails of a public health crisis.
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Yesterday I finished writing my book on the COVID catastrophe . Boris’s Plague. It will be out soon🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Matt Hancock in this morning’s telegraph is backtracking on thevgenocide of the elderly to achieve spurious herd immunity . He is appealing to manufacturers to switch production to ventilators . This shows that they have wasted 6 weeks and have only got round to this now
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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The latest dead cat to distract attention from the failure to act on London last week is to throw into the melee a mutant form of the virus. Give me strength . These have been happening since the summer call to eat, drink and shop🦠
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Watch out for Murdoch’s next move. He wants Gove as PM and his so-called papers will now want rid of Johnson.
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Dont watch the daily propaganda rally from Downing Street. Tune into Sir Dave King from tomorrow 👍🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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The higher the ape climbs the more you see his bare backside 🙏😎
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠This is what it is all about . This is a vendetta to silence me. It is baseless.🦠. BBC urged to stop featuring 'Zionist'-tweet public health expert - The Jewish Chronicle
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🦠Boris Johnson accused of launching broken test and trace system before it was ready to distract from Dominic Cummings scandal | The Independent
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🦠Posted this afternoon by Lee Harpin of the Jewish Chronicle . The timing is suspicious and it is clearly an attempt to smear me . I refute the implications . EXCLUSIVE: Top public health expert blamed 'Jews' for the actions of IDF - The Jewish Chronicle
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🦠This is a triple headed cock up . Political; professional ; and organisational. The Prime Minister; his advisers ; and Public Health England. We need a judicial review.🦠Coronavirus cases in Merseyside three times worse than reported
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠This is the generation that is now being allowed to die from COVID-19 in our care homes. The generation that rebuilt Britain after the war. Shame on us 🦠
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🦠Any journalist worth their salt should boycott the propaganda press conferences until parliament is reconvened. And so should the public health advisers. It is beneath them🦠
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🦠Result! This is a brilliant reversal of the disastrous centralisation of public health by Public Health England. 👍🦠Public health directors in England are asked to take charge of Covid-19 testing | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠As we head into this beautiful sad weekend , prepare for more bad news as chickens come home to roost. We must insist on openness and transparency not least for data , as highlighted by WHO and in the government’s own epidemic planning guidance.🦠
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🦠Urgent breaking news please rt🦠Coronavirus: Government’s test and trace system failing in areas battling major outbreaks, leaked analysis reveals | The Independent
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Just stood down from LBC where I was due to talk about the U.K. being worse than any other country in Europe for COVID deaths . Trumped by Neil Ferguson’s private life. The man does court publicity . Duh! 🦠
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This is a wake up call to the vicious politics that now surround us . Please RT.
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“We’ve got a complacent attitude… & we’ve wasted a month. If this now spreads the way it looks as though it’s likely to spread, there will not be enough hospital beds & people will have to be nursed at home” – Professor @johnrashton47 , former Public Health director #Newsnight
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🦠Now we really have crossed over to the dark side🦠Coronavirus: Milton Keynes Acorn Nursery stays open as 23 test positive - BBC News
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🦠This is sinister. The underreporting far outways any overcounting 🦠UK government to stop publishing daily coronavirus death numbers
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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First the magic money tree Then the new maths way of counting deaths Are we about to see the jiggery pokery testing trick? In parallel is the new coroner wheeze of no proper prisoner or health care inquests. And so it begins ...
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Clive Myrie pulled from BBC News at Ten over Boris Johnson jokes
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🦠This is a disaster and how the epidemic is about to reignite.🦠UK lockdown must not be lifted until Covid-19 transmission is understood, say scientists | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
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🦠A picture is worth 1000 words🦠
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Doctor Ahmed
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On way to #NHS #work where I’ll wear #PPE & have single #patients in waiting room to PROTECT them. its 7.45am & I pass a queue of lads waiting to get into the #pub are you making good choices Prime Minister @BorisJohnson ? #StayAlert ?? @bbchealth @NHSMillion #coronavirusuk #covid
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COP 26: photos from the frontline 🙏
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No, next question.
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Well done Lewis 👍👍👍🙏
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LewisLittleLegs
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Lewis has been working on going up the stairs by himself. If you think he does well please can you give him a like and a RT? #stairs #sdrchangeslives #cpawareness #firsttime #challangeaccepted
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Thank you for your support . It’s lonely out there . What is especially distressing is the undermining and hostility from colleagues and senior colleagues who are more interested in civic honours than the health of the people ! I beg them to reflect 🙏
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠John Ashton , AstraZeneca #1 . 16.1.21 🦠👍🙏
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Simon, your support is greatly valued and appreciated. Keep up the great work you are doing and Stay safe. All best wishes John 👍
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Dr Simon Ashworth
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@Johnrashton47 John I am the Clinical Director of Critical Care at Imperial Events have shown Critical Care would have been overrrun had the lockdown been delayed even a day or two - your intervention saved lives and that was the point wasn’t it? DM me if I can support in any way
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Yes this is a pandemic but it is also a series of overlapping epidemics : in the community, in care homes, in hospitals, in prisons, on the streets, among sex workers, among bus drivers ... the government is treating this as if it was just one outbreak involving London hospitals
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A perfect storm is brewing . A summer of trouble on the streets, no decent political leadership , one third new Chief Constables and half new Police and Crime Commissioners ; a pandemic and a disaffected nation. Gird your loins and pray
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠Opinion | People Are Dying and All Britain Can Talk About Is Boris Johnson - The New York Times
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🦠The silence of the chief scientists is worrying and deeply political
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I am back 🙏
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🦠650 MPs have each been given £10,000 for home working , Total £6.5M. Each bereaved health care workers family will receive £60 ( before tax) . 100 dead , Total £6M. ( less tax returned to the treasury). 🦠
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Remember what happened to the Chinese doctor who blew the whistle . I am now concerned that they are closing me down and trying to discredit me. CMO spoke of ‘Ranting’. When this is over there will be questions of gross negligence .
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That’s the medical expert @johnashton4pcc .
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🦠It’s unravelling but the public still needs leadership and effective action. Who will step up to the mark?🦠
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🦠From Italy and Spain and all those places people came in from by plane , unscreened, untested and untraced , then not isolated . Total disaster 🦠Coronavirus came to UK 'on at least 1,300 separate occasions' - BBC News
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🦠John Ashton on Panorama tonight🦠BBC One - Panorama, Has the Government Failed the NHS?
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🦠# I am the mad professor🦠
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Carol Vorderman: ‘It’s not about politics. It’s about corruption’
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Multiple anonymous ‘updaters’ have been hacking my Wikipedia account. Presumably lacked of you know who. Please keep cleaning it up friends. Goodness will prevail. YNWA. John
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‘🦠This is the corruption at the heart of the pandemic🦠Grim beyond belief’: Serco profits to surge as test and trace records worst ever week | The Independent
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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🦠22 days of dither and delay on coronavirus that cost thousands of British lives | News | The Sunday Times
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Imagine it is New Years Eve 1941 and the Nazis are storming London and the cities with bombs. Imagine Prime Minister Boris Churchill telling the country to get out there and have a good nights knees up to keep the economy vibrant? Well that is where we are 🙏
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🦠JK Rowling offers to pay year’s salary of person behind civil service tweet calling Boris Johnson ‘arrogant and offensive’ | The Independent
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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He is trying the draw a line under the epidemic by pretending there has been a first wave and the public will be responsible for a second. He can’t be allowed to get away with this
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@Johnrashton47 Perhaps Johnson thinks the first wave was not his fault, but he cannot dodge responsibilty for a second wave.
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🦠UK government 'using pandemic to transfer NHS duties to private sector' | KPMG | The Guardian
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🦠We scientists said lock down. But UK politicians refused to listen | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
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🦠Surprise surprise. It’s everybody’s fault except the government🦠Northern England lockdown announced including Manchester
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🦠This is our prime minister! No wonder we are in a mess.
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Stefan Simanowitz
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STORY 7 "Shall I tell you a terrible truth?...You can probably make a good case for almost any course of action.” This 8 minute interview with @borisjohnson from 2013, is chilling to watch in the midst of the #coronavirus crisis & #HerdImmunityScandal .
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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Now I understand how totalitarianism happens. A cynical government manipulates a compliant population . I blame the lack of an effective opposition and the disastrous state of our education system.
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David Dutton1969
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@Johnrashton47 Just one question John, why the hell is nobody listening to you again!!!???? You've been right about everything with the spread of COVID-19, But yet again this shambolic government won't listen to independent sage!!! Money for his cronies peoples health issues last on the list
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🦠This is the beginning of the efforts to discredit my reputation . 🦠Professor John Ashton's Furious Response to Viewers Being Told About Hard Left Views - Guido Fawkes
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Last Friday I was offered the position of interim public health consultant with St Helens Council. Last Saturday morning following the intervention of the Chief Executive the offer was withdrawn. I don’t know whether she consulted the councillors🙏
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🦠Will he turn up this time or will he write a sick note ‘from his mother’? Johnson accused of avoiding scrutiny after postponing committee appearance
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🦠The Beginning of the End of Boris Johnson? | Prof John Ashton Via @DoubleDownNews
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1.Herd immunity is still the government agenda.
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🦠This should happen for each and every frontline NHS staff death whether clinical or not 🦠Hospital investigates death of NHS doctor who pleaded for PPE | Coronavirus outbreak | The Guardian
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John Ashton ( you, us, I)
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So let me get this straight, it’s the BBC political reporters job to unscramble the confusion of the Prime Ministers message and frame it nicely for the Prime Minister. And we call this democracy!
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Laura Kuenssberg
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Recording #CoronavirusNewscast now - thanks for all of your questions , we ll try to answer as many as possible
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