1) On 19 March, with the UK still not locked down, I noted that the role of #DavidHalpern & his Nudge Unit is key to
the ever-growing #HerdImmunityScandal

It was widely assumed the Unit had come up with the idea of #LockdownFatigue / #BehaviouralFatigue https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1240591367488897024

2) Ignoring the horrific evidence from Italy & advice of @WHO & their own behavioural scientist group (SPI-B), the govt - supported by Vallance & Whitty - pushed out this absurd idea that if we locked down in early/mid March, people would get bored.

The media didn't question it.

3) On 14 March, 700 behavioural scientists published an open letter calling out #LockdownFatigue as cod science

It would later emerge that earlier in March, Spi-B & SAGE had said there was limited evidence for the idea of #BehaviouralFatigue

Clearly the govt ignored the science

4) It later emerged that, on 21 Feb, NERTAG had warned govt that, without action, there could be 1.3m deaths

4 days later, modelling showed NHS beds would be overwhelmed

Yet on 23 March, Faculty were still proposing to assess the impact of #herdimmunity https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1271526217548693511

5) When questioned on 9 June whether the idea of #LockdownFatigue had come from him & the Nudge Unit, #DavidHalpern couldn't remember with confidence.

“It did not, in my memory, come from SPI-B or us", he says, his eyes darting.

Memory loss is becoming a recurring theme.

6) The investigation into who was responsible for the idea of #LockdownFatigue had hit a dead end

As with all the multiple #COVID19 scandals, no one recalls who made the final decision no proper minutes were kept

But this week, @newsnight aired this previously broadcast clip!

7) This "cry wolf" footage - part of @BBCMarkEaston's interview with #DavidHalpern on 10 March - seems to be the first tentative public outing of the fatigue concept.

It was broadcast as part of a #Newsnight examination of at why the lockdown was so late. https://twitter.com/BBCNewsnight/status/1289576622970925062

8) If we're unable to find out who was behind #LockdownFatigue now, we stand little hope of jogging memories at a Inquiry in 2022

The key take away is that this was not some tragic mistake or fateful miscalculation

The govt had models & science advice.

They chose to ignore it.

9) The other key take away is to recognise that the #LockdownFatigueScandal - like the #TestingScandal, #CareHomeScandal, #AppScandal etc. - are all part of an overarching scandal: the #HerdImmunityScandal

To find out more see THREAD & follow @Under_Covid https://twitter.com/StefSimanowitz/status/1289978728601120773