Coronavirus - Take two - Action!

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Some time ago, my wife was chatting about the poor continuity displayed by UK politicians when being interviewed by the
lame-stream media. The easy manner they talked and the confusing noises left a viewer with the idea that the eugenic-cheering
plague might not be as lethal as the television-people constantly spewed out.

I responded that when all of this silliness -because that's what it's really been, when all of this fear-mongering begins to lose ratings,
there'll be a reckoning because there's always someone hunting for your position of power and of course, the media will need to feed.
People of trust lied for financial gain. People who worked beneath such positions of power were coerced into promoting the terrible
disease's lethality and the 'trickle-down' effect brought about the imagined crisis we're in now.

I think we in the UK are just beginning to set out on such a journey for the truth. We won't get there -though, these guys know how to
mask their trails and the amounts of money involved will certainly grease the tracks of escape.

(Dominic Cummings is the guy who worked PM Boris Johnson from behind to win the 'Brexit' situation and steer
his career at being... well, basically a 'John Bull'-type of leader. Then they fell-out and Cummings was thrown to
the media-dogs.)
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Dominic Cummings: Matt Hancock should have been sacked for lying and Boris Johnson thought
COVID was a scare story, PM's former adviser claims.

'Dominic Cummings has claimed that the health secretary should have been sacked for lying, and that Boris Johnson
thought COVID was a "scare story" like swine flu in the early days of the pandemic. In an explosive Commons hearing
on coronavirus, the PM's former chief adviser has told MPs the government failed the public in the early months of 2020.

Explaining why Mr Johnson did not attend the COBRA meetings at the start of last year, he said: "The prime minister
described it as the new swine flu, I certainly told him it wasn't.
"The view from No 10 was if the PM chairs COBRA and says it's just swine flu that would not help."

He added that the PM wanted to be injected with the coronavirus live on TV by chief medical officer Chris Whitty to show
it was not harmful. Lashing out at Matt Hancock, Mr Cummings claimed that he, the cabinet secretary and other senior
officials called for the PM to fire the health secretary for "at least 15-20 things, including lying".


Dominic Cummings, Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock.

Mr Cummings said the PM "was close" to firing Mr Hancock in April 2020 "but wouldn't do it".
He added that Mr Hancock took too long to get test and trace set up and told the PM: "If we don't fire the secretary of state
and we don't get testing into someone's hands, we are going to kill lots of people."

The PM's former chief aide also said:

• It is "crackers" that people like Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn were the only two options at the last general election

• Chancellor Rishi Sunak supported locking down, it was the PM who did not think the pandemic "was the big danger"

• "It is crazy I should have been in such a senior position, I'm not smart, I've not built great things in the world - neither is the
PM" - and he said he and the PM let down brilliant junior colleagues

• Plan A was herd immunity by September after one peak but after it was modelled 260,000 would die, or more, that was changed

• There was no plan for financial help for people and the Chancellor and his team had to create the whole scheme in a few days

• There was no plan for shielding in the pandemic plan but some "brilliant" officials in the Department of Health hacked together
a plan in two all-nighters

• "Groupthink" prevented ministers and officials from realising how severe the situation was going to get

• When the PM got COVID, Mr Cummings said: "In lots of ways, the whole core of government fundamentally fell apart."

• Mr Cummings said there were claims it would be "racist" to close the borders because it would be tantamount to "blaming China"

• On telling the PM he was going to resign in December 2020, Mr Cummings claimed the PM told him: "I am more frightened that you
have the power to stop the chaos, when everyone's in chaos they have to look to me."

• On Mr Hancock saying people would be tested before they returned to care homes and there was a shield around care homes,
Mr Cummings said: "Quite the opposite, complete nonsense - we sent people with COVID back to care homes"

• He would rate the government's response: "Some individual brilliant responses - overall system, total failure."

• Mr Cummings revealed he made the trip to Durham to get his family out of London following death threats and a gang outside his
house where his wife and son, aged three, were threatening them

• He said it was logical at the time to go for a 30 mile drive to Barnard Castle to see if he could cope with driving 300 miles to
Westminster, and had been writing his will in bed a few days before because he thought he was going to die.

"I wish I'd never heard of Barnard Castle and I'd never have gone, and I can only apologise," he added

• Mr Cummings said: "Tens of thousands of people died who didn't need to die."

• Patrick Vallance was instrumental in getting the early vaccine contracts and "deserves absolutely enormous credit for his role in
the vaccine taskforce"

• After March, the PM thought the UK should not have gone into lockdown and should have focused on the economy - "I thought that
perspective was completely mad".

• Mr Cummings said: "Fundamentally the prime minister and I do not agree about COVID. I had very little influence on COVID stuff,
I mean I tried, I made arguments, but as you can see on pretty much all the major arguments basically lost."

• He said he heard the PM say he would rather see "bodies pile high" than go into a third lockdown

• Asked if he is surprised about the chaos over the current travel traffic light system, he said: "No, it's deja vu all over again."

At the start of the session, Mr Cummings said the government failed the public when they needed them most and apologised
to the families of those who died in the early days of the pandemic. Taking some of the blame himself, he said: "The truth is,
senior minister, officials, advisers like me fell disastrously short of standards required by the public.

"When the public needed us the most, the government failed. I want to apologise to all those families who had people that died.
"I did think oh my god, is this what people have been warning about all this time?
"However, PHE, WHO, CDC, organisations across the western world were not ringing the alarm bells about it then.
"In retrospect, it's completely obvious that many institutions failed."...'

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