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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& #39;d masks to all. #masksnow) Distraction? https://twitter.com/politico/status/1245059559103836163">https://twitter.com/politico/...
59/International investigations: Taiwan (sorry foreign gov& #39;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/katefergu... https://twitter.com/MPWangTingyu/status/1244787278997630977">https://twitter.com/MPWangTin...
60/More int& #39;l investig.: UK TV personaltiy @daivschneider calls 4 investigation NHS& #39; handling of Covid (So far, US trajectory making UK look good). Many agencies w int& #39;l investigative authority eg @WHO @NATO @EU_Commission @ICC @UKParliament (see this TL) https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/1244756974060912640">https://twitter.com/davidschn...
61/Yet more int& #39;l investigations, this one call on @UKParliament to investigate its members in response to US DOJ investigation into Senator& #39;s insider stock market trading following confidential covid briefings in US (and POTUS stock market tweets too): https://twitter.com/ThatTimWalker/status/1244924545187733504">https://twitter.com/ThatTimWa...
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">https://twitter.com/theNAEng/...
64/ @BrookingsInst, one of the most influential US centrist think tanks, says "obvious" "massive" failure of US fed gov& #39;t in run-up to covid, and provides a timeline of the failures (but no rec& #39;d next steps, such as blue-ribbon panel to investigate?) https://twitter.com/BrookingsInst/status/1245162466566438913">https://twitter.com/Brookings...
65/It looks as though many of the options discussed in this TL (maybe not LEGO Robespierre 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Grinning face" aria-label="Emoji: Grinning face">) 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">https://twitter.com/girlsreal...
66/Previously predicted en-masse lawsuits part 2 https://twitter.com/DWUhlfelderLaw/status/1245167993824456706">https://twitter.com/DWUhlfeld...
67/911-style blue-ribbon oversight committee likely coming, thank you @AdamSchiff and @washingtonpost https://twitter.com/tburages/status/1245213569362386945">https://twitter.com/tburages/...
68/US Intelligence already released a report on the failure. (Although given our own super-honest gov& #39;t claimed it was a hoax perpetrated by rival political party & a major broadcaster repeated this obvious mendacity, US hasn& #39;t the credibility it used to). https://twitter.com/20committee/status/1245392282439876608">https://twitter.com/20committ...
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">https://twitter.com/washingto...
70/ @Amy_Siskind calls for "genocide" to be used. Isn& #39;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& #39;l abuses. https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="âčïž" title="Frowning face" aria-label="Emoji: Frowning face"> Accountability? https://twitter.com/Amy_Siskind/status/1245179303484174340">https://twitter.com/Amy_Siski...
71/ @tribelaw seems to agree something must be done in this crisis to achieve accountability https://twitter.com/tribelaw/status/1245536469961277442">https://twitter.com/tribelaw/...
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">https://twitter.com/kylegriff...
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">https://twitter.com/Newsweek/...
74/OK, so is this a call from @CarlBildt or @ecfr perhaps for int& #39;l investigations, expert panels, or other leadership from the likes of @UN-SC or @G7 or similar int& #39;l org, perhaps along the lines discussed in this thread? https://twitter.com/carlbildt/status/1245270549514911744">https://twitter.com/carlbildt...
75/ @RANDCorporation& @WSJ seem to join @CarlBildt (& @ecfr?) in calling on @g20org (& @G7?) in providing covid leadership, but in relatively modest areas like int& #39;l med supply chain coord., vaccine prod coord, & travel health docs standards.... https://twitter.com/RANDCorporation/status/1245445849657769985">https://twitter.com/RANDCorpo...
76/(CON& #39;T)BTW, machine-readable standards 4 int& #39;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& #39;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">https://twitter.com/kyledchen...
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& #39;ts do both simultaneously). https://twitter.com/passantino/status/1245478352779014144">https://twitter.com/passantin...
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">https://twitter.com/daniel_kr...
In case anyone is trying to find the start of this rather long TL: https://twitter.com/Acculation/status/1244322707841351680">https://twitter.com/Acculatio...
This thread continues with 81/ under the replies to 80/ above (it doesn& #39;t always appear in some Twitter threading views).
