58/Republican Rick Scott calls for investigation of @WHO on various grounds. (Weirdly, evidence-based approaches have us agreeing with likes of Tucker Carlson that WHO should be recm'd masks to all. #masksnow) Distraction? https://twitter.com/politico/status/1245059559103836163
59/International investigations: Taiwan (sorry foreign gov't censors, we meant Chinese Taipei?!? Typo. So sorry.) and a UK parliament committee are apparently investigating covid fake news: https://twitter.com/kateferguson4/status/1243146444749582336 https://twitter.com/MPWangTingyu/status/1244787278997630977
60/More int'l investig.: UK TV personaltiy @daivschneider calls 4 investigation NHS' handling of Covid (So far, US trajectory making UK look good). Many agencies w int'l investigative authority eg @WHO @NATO @EU_Commission @ICC @UKParliament (see this TL) https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1244756974060912640
61/Yet more int'l investigations, this one call on @UKParliament to investigate its members in response to US DOJ investigation into Senator's insider stock market trading following confidential covid briefings in US (and POTUS stock market tweets too): https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1244924545187733504
62/It therefore it appears there will be many investigations of some sort all over the world. (Not clear how helpful. Already accusations some of these are simply whitewashes). Perhaps some of these investigations could be coordinated internationally?
63/Coming back to citizen engagement (and related blue-ribbon expert committee panels) @theNAEng has created a grassroots platform to share technical solutions to covid, perhaps along the "Taiwan-model" advocated in @ForeignAffairs https://twitter.com/theNAEng/status/1244991280502931457
64/ @BrookingsInst, one of the most influential US centrist think tanks, says "obvious" "massive" failure of US fed gov't in run-up to covid, and provides a timeline of the failures (but no rec'd next steps, such as blue-ribbon panel to investigate?) https://twitter.com/BrookingsInst/status/1245162466566438913
65/It looks as though many of the options discussed in this TL (maybe not LEGO Robespierre 😀) likely 2 happen. We already touched on demands for both @WHO Investigations & investigation of WHO (likely #masksnow more than China). Already lawsuits part 1: https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1245306348037947396
66/Previously predicted en-masse lawsuits part 2 https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1245167993824456706
67/911-style blue-ribbon oversight committee likely coming, thank you @AdamSchiff and @washingtonpost https://twitter.com/tburages/status/1245213569362386945
68/US Intelligence already released a report on the failure. (Although given our own super-honest gov't claimed it was a hoax perpetrated by rival political party & a major broadcaster repeated this obvious mendacity, US hasn't the credibility it used to). https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1245392282439876608
69/ @washingtonpost editorial calls for holding "politicians responsible" for preventable deaths. Sounds good, but the editorial is short on specific recommendations for doing so, and in last few years we have seen a trend of reduced accountability. https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1245469252871761923
70/ @Amy_Siskind calls for "genocide" to be used. Isn't just word games & agitprop (left rather than right)? If reputable fact-based inst. ( @ICC?Major think-tank?) says usual criteria met might be appropriate, but many other int'l abuses. â˜č Accountability? https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1245179303484174340
71/ @tribelaw seems to agree something must be done in this crisis to achieve accountability https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1245536469961277442
72/ @NBCNews reports informal discussions about a 911-style panel have begun, but mostly involve democrats at this point. It was likely a great privilege to serve on the original, bi-partisan 911 committee & seen as unpatriotic for GOP not to serve then. https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1245320003596976130
73/Disturbing. As there is widespread speculation that these threats form a pattern & are somehow organized, perhaps an investigation into this should also tie-in to larger covid investigation? Not helpful to have top WH covid guy distracted right now. https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1245579117182849026
74/OK, so is this a call from @CarlBildt or @ecfr perhaps for int'l investigations, expert panels, or other leadership from the likes of @UN-SC or @G7 or similar int'l org, perhaps along the lines discussed in this thread? https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1245270549514911744
75/ @RANDCorporation& @WSJ seem to join @CarlBildt (& @ecfr?) in calling on @g20org (& @G7?) in providing covid leadership, but in relatively modest areas like int'l med supply chain coord., vaccine prod coord, & travel health docs standards.... https://twitter.com/RANDCorporation/status/1245445849657769985
76/(CON'T)BTW, machine-readable standards 4 int'l travel docs (eg covid health travel doc modernization) have traditionally been handled by the @ICAO at @UN, @isostandards& @IECStandards (maybe @WHO? @interpol db?) per Wikipedia(egISO/IEC7501-1&ICAO9303)rather than @g20org or @g7?
77/(CON'T)Also ping @EULISA_agency (which handles IT 4 EU EES/reg traveler db), @NIST which handles data standards 4 @DHSgov trusted traveler or @CBP ESTA programs) 4 COVID travel doc modernization. Wow, this covid thread eventually circled back to data formats and data science.
78/In other oversight news, @SpeakerPelosi forming select panel to oversee $2T covid relief package (so slightly more focused select oversight committee than one we originally envisioned -- probably many oversight committees forming all over world). https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1245739780626944002
79/And then coming back to disinfo and how it kills (which started 1/ in this long thread), we have @NTSB of all folks now likely investigating disinfo: weird story (probably far-left rather RW disinfo -- of course foreign gov'ts do both simultaneously). https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1245478352779014144
80/ @nytimes piece on international collaboration among pandemic scientists (in contrast to calls for greater nationalism and isolationism as a naive covid response from some political leaders) seems to echo our call for greater civic engagement by experts. https://twitter.com/daniel_kraft/status/1245617694847557632
In case anyone is trying to find the start of this rather long TL: https://twitter.com/Acculation/status/1244322707841351680
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