As far as I can tell, almost every strategy for worsening the COVID PANDEMIC has been deployed in the UK.

1. Delaying a national response for months at the outset

2. Failing to purchase and distribute basic PPE

3. Treating a deadly airborne virus as though it was flue...

4. Relying on an unscientific HERD IMMUNITY via wild infection / MASS INFECTION / MASS DEATH strategy from the outset

5. Ignoring the PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE which has been used to tackle other serious epidemics

6. Focusing on hand washing instead of the use of FACE MASKS

7. Diverting ATTENTION, RESOURCES, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY and DATA to private companies instead of to the state owned and controlled NHS

8. Assigning TEST, TRACK and TRACE tasks for private contractors with minimal or no experience in depth

9. Optimising INFECTION RATES to fill hospital capacity, rather than focusing on the elimination of COVID from within our borders, as much as possible, so TRACK and TRACE can work.

10. Not VACCINATING FRONT LINE or HIGH RISKS professionals and workers first

11. Sending CHILDREN, PARENTS, TEACHERS and SUPPORT STATE into unsafe schools by failing to invest in basic and consistent MITIGATION MEASURES

12. Reopening SCHOOLS prematurely in order to satisfy other agenda

13. Not classifying LONG COVID as a serious risk to be avoided

14. Not funding permanent ONLINE or TV BASED SCHOOLS which can support and engage children throughout the pandemic and be scaled up when needed during SPIKES.

15. Not ensuring that EVERY CHILD has a COMPUTER and INTERNET ACCESS at home, if necessary

16. Repeated MIXED MESSAGING

17. Setting DATES as deadlines for changes to LOCKDOWNS instead of relying on predetermined SCIENTIFIC DATA thresholds.

18. Manipulating DATA COLLECTION to satisfy political imperatives and hide problems

19. A lack of truly independent SCIENTIFIC and MEDICAL ADVICE

20. The tolerance and spreading of DISINFORMATION and MISINFORMATION by the MEDIA and regulators

21. Overt CORRUPTION and CRONYISM in relation to critically important PPE and other PUBLIC PROCUREMENT CONTRACTS.

22. The removal of COMPETITIVE TENDERING and proper oversight

23. A SYSTEMIC FAILURE to LISTEN to others, LEARN what works and to ADAPT. An insistence on ideologically driven exceptionalism.

24. A genocidal willingness to let the "BODIES PILE HIGH"

25. The IMPORT and EXPORT of deadly new variants of COVID.

26. The failure to mandate the use of FACE MASKS in public places, especially INDOORS and in SCHOOLS.

27. The failure to ensure that QUARANTINE PERIODS are enforced and under controlled conditions.

28. The under-funding and under-provision of SOCIAL CARE during the pandemic

29. The collapse in the BBC'S impartiality and reporting standards

30. The reliance on LATERAL FLOW TESTS which were always liable to false negatives and should not have been relied upon

31. The failure to provide low cost and quick PCR tests for everyone

32. The silencing of NHS STAFF and EXPERTS during the pandemic.

33. The failure to ensure THAT VACCINES used in the UK meet EU standards, with quality assurance potentially suffering as a result

34. The cutting of REGULATORY REQUIREMENTS to provide bragging rights

35. The reliance on SLOGANS to form and drive public opinion rather than clear, open, accurate and independent scientific INFORMATION and principled POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, which consistently puts PUBLIC HEALTH first.

* You know I meant flu, right?

36. Allow major SPORTING EVENTS to take place during the pandemic including the CHELTENHAM GOLD CUP, ROYAL ASCOT [see JOCKEY CLUB], FORMULA 1, GOODWOOD, WIMBLEDON and the EUROS [see FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION]

37. Allowing RAVES to happen and calling them "experiments"

38. Chopping and changing LOCKDOWN RULES and not dismissing all GOVERNMENT politicians and special advisors who flout the rules

39. Extending the INTERVAL between the FIRST + SECOND JABS for the COVID VACCINES, so that INDIVIDUALS only have partial protection for longer + more of the POPULATION remains partially protected, meaning that COVID has longer + more chances to adapt + escape our immune responses

40. The failure to provide FINANCIAL SUPPORT to millions of self-employed or freelance workers, so that they are forced to work and accept high risk jobs

41. The SPECIAL TREATMENT afforded to POLITICIANS so that they do not work under the same conditions as those forced to work

42. The undermining of the RULE OF LAW and the RIGHT TO PROTEST, so that normal, peaceful democratic means and institutions are denied to the CITIZENS

43. The use of ARBITRARY and SELECTIVE use of POLICE VIOLENCE against protestors and/or public critics.

44. The use of FIRE & REHIRE employment strategies during a DEADLY PANDEMIC so that legal and financial responsibilities are placed on intermediary EMPLOYERS, rather than the GOVERNMENT who controls the terms of FURLOUGH PAYMENTS and NATIONAL COVID POLICIES.

45. The failure to maintain the application of HEALTH & SAFETY LAWS at work and frame Government policies based on a DUTY OF CARE to customers or the users of public and commercial services.

46. The reliance on POLITICIANS with little or no SCIENTIFIC TRAINING and a predisposition towards short-term, dogmatic and selfish economic thinking.

47. The break down of PARLIAMENTARY STANDARDS so that lies go unchallenged by the SPEAKER and are not dealt with on the spot.

48. Making spurious and unscientific ASSUMPTIONS about how COVID could subsequently harm asymptomatic carriers children and others, despite evidence of brains being infected and altered.

49. NOT VACCINATING CHILDREN despite them being at risk and able to infect their families.

50. BULLYING PARENTS to send their CHILDREN back to school even if they are CLINICALLY EXTREMELY VULNERABLE and have compromised or weak immune systems.

51. Using SCHOOLS and HEADMASTERS to determine and enforce rules, and thus breaking down TRUST between SCHOOLS + PARENTS.

52. The use of special COVID / BREXIT laws to limit ACCOUNTABILITY and TRANSPARENCY.

53. The use of SOPHISTRY, DECEPTION and LIES to obscure or suppress the FACTS and TRUTH, so the public cannot make INFORMED CHOICES.

54. Sharing PRIVATE HEALTH DATA with unknown THIRD PARTIES

55. Undermining the CONFIDENTIALITY of MEDICAL CONSULTATIONS, so harming TRUST between patients and medical staff.

56. Undermining the HYPOCRATIC OATH, to do no harm, by sending recovering PATIENTS back into CARE HOMES lacking the necessary equipment, space and training to cope

57. Using official STATISTICS that count deaths which occur up to 28 DAYS but not having STATISTICS for DEATHS that take longer to occur.

58. Downplaying the number of people likely to have had fleeting contact with COVID by tinkering with the criteria used to alert CONTACTS

59. Mainstreaming the use of FOOD BANKS, often by FAITH-BASED GROUPS and CHURCHES, so that people are not afforded the dignity of securing their own food without relying on charity or being exposed to religious evangelizers while they are vulnerable.

60. Securing the bulk of VACCINE SUPPLIES from a single supplier (who happens to be a national champion) and not having sufficient DOMESTIC PRODUCTION CAPACITY to meet all VACCINES needs.

61. Cutting REGULATORY CORNERS in order to brag about the number of people vaccinated.

62. Stacking MEDICAL ADVISORY GROUPS with political appointees and allowing commercial lobbyists and/or political advisors to participant in the meetings of ADVISORY GROUPS.

63. The PRIME MINISTER failing to attend and chair COBRA MEETINGS on multiple occasions.

64. The founding of the JOINT BIOSECURITY CENTRE under the control of a SPY / member of MILITARY INTELLIGENCE, rather than a medic or related scientific expert.

65. Our POLITICIANS have consistently FAILED TO LEAD BY EXAMPLE. For example, by failing to WEAR FACE MASKS in public, and by advocating that people book foreign holidays during a DEADLY GLOBAL PANDEMIC. They have repeatedly raised false hopes and wasted achievements.

66. The achievements of the NHS in terms of the VACCINE ROLL OUT have been squandered by not maximising the elimination of the virus within our BORDERS and the efficient application of TESTING and TRACING when mopping up cases was possible.

67. Courageous NHS STAFF have been shamefully under-protected + not backed up by POLITICIANS capable of taking equally hard, principled, skilled or brave decisions.

68. They've been allowed to feel under-appreciated by LOW PAY RISES + fobbed off with medals, claps + platitudes

69. ACCOUNTABILITY and RESPONSIBILITY has often been inaccurately attributed, through loose language, with politicians referring to NHS TRACK & TRACE when really these tasks have been outsourced to PARTY DONORS, such as SERCO + DELOITTE.

70. CONFLICTS OF INTEREST have multiplied

71. OPPOSITION POLITICIANS have failed to hold the GOVERNMENT to ACCOUNT on a daily, point-by-point or proportionate basis and tended to rely upon SCRIPTED, SET PIECE CRITICISMS of the PM and MINISTERS via weekly questions in PARLIAMENT... rather than sustained or daily points.

72. The recommendations + insights provided by recent EXERCISES + REPORTS in relations to PANDEMIC PREPARATIONS + RESPONSES were ignored + hidden. For example, those related to EXERCISE CYGNUS.

73. COVID has been repeatedly treated like FLU rather than as a DEADLY AIRBORNE VIRUS

74. The main warehouse for PPE STOCKPILES was sold to new owners near the start of the COVID PANDEMIC.

75. PPE CONTRACTS appear to have been given to PARTY DONORS, FRIENDS and FAMILY MEMBERS, to have lacked rigourous PERFORMANCE CRITERIA and to purchase UNUSABLE equipment.

76. Failing to consider and implement BACK UP STRATEGIES which take into account the 5% of the population that cannot be vaccinated... or what happens if a SUPER-VARIANT of COVID evolves which cannot be protected against with VACCINES

77. Allowing millions of people to be infected so new variants are more likely to EVOLVE and potentially SHARE harmful mutations.

78. Allowing MULTIPLE VARIANTS to evolve, so that it becomes harder for people to develop LASTING IMMUNITY + they start suffering REPEAT INFECTIONS

79. The hiring of a EUGENICIST by the GOVERNMENT

80. The deliberate breaking of the first LOCKDOWN, and social solidarity, by Dominic CUMMINGS - the PRIME MINISTER'S SPECIAL ADVISOR

81. The use of RHETORIC about FREEDOM, LIBERTY, CHOICE to justify GOVERNMENT POLICIES which oppress the freedom, liberty and choices of others.

82. The CYNICAL use of changes in LOCKDOWNS to alter EMPLOYMENT and BENEFIT terms and conditions

83. The consistent failure to make public the DATA and MODELS used to justify policy decisions.

84. A sustained move away from EVIDENCE-BASED DECISION MAKING and the use of EXPERT ADVICE, towards FAITH-BASED assertions and unsubstantiated PSEUDO-SCIENTIFIC THEORIES / EXPERIMENTS

85. The refusal to emphasise the importance of good VENTILATION as a mitigation for COVID, because it would highlight the RISK OF AIRBORNE INFECTION and the need to avoid high density, unmitigated settings in SCHOOLS.

86. The use of selective + disingenuous arguments about MENTAL HEALTH to justify sending children back to school, when the mental health of CHILDREN, FAMILIES + TEACHERS may also suffer.

87. The use of BOTS, TROLLS, ASTROTURF GROUPS / LOBBYISTS to contradict and dilute experts

88. An apparent predisposition to EXTEND the COVID EPIDEMIC in the UK in order to provide political cover for the policy failures and economic harms associated with BREXIT.

89. The nagging suspicion that the UK GOVERNMENT is determined to weaken, overwhelm and privatise the NHS.

90. The removal of SAR-COV-2 as as a HIGH CONSEQUENCE INFECTIOUS DISEASE (HCID) at the start of the pandemic, so that less protective PPE could be used.

91. The repeated prioritisation of TRADE DEALS and COMMERCIAL INTERESTS over PUBLIC HEALTH and LIVES.

92. A tendency to propose FALSE CHOICES and ECONOMIC ARGUMENTS which manipulate emotions and undermine PUBLIC HEALTH. For example the headline about SAVING CHRISTMAS versus EXPERTS

93. A tendency to back half-baked / corrupt MOONSHOTS over slow, steady and effective work.

94. The mysterious proposal and fascistic introduction of DO NOT RESUSCITATE NOTICES, which dehumanised patients and introduced a callousness to the treatment of HUMAN LIVES by POLITICIANS.

95. The failure to SUPPORT CARERS, especially the carers of the elderly and the disabled.

96. The premature + bodged introduction of EAT OUT TO HELP OUT vouchers, which contradicted public health messaging and potentially assisted transmission in unsuitable settings.

97. A recurring obsession with FOREIGN TRAVEL despite 57% of the population normally not going abroad

98. An ideological reluctance to collaborate with INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS and to accept the epidemiology advice from FOREIGN or INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

99. Cuts in FOREIGN AID which could make it harder to tackle international OUTBREAKS + prevent RESERVOIRS for COVID .

100. Not promptly and conclusively stopping all AIR TRAVEL to and from INDIA, as soon as it emerged that a new and more dangerous COVID variant (DELTA) had evolved there. This DELTA variant is now the dominant variant in the UK.

* this list is not definitive + could probably be doubled in size without breaking a sweat. This GOVERNMENT and those who have enabled it will need to be held to account for their actions in the fullness of time. 150,000+ people cannot be allowed to have died in vain...

BTW this JULY 2021 thread is a follow up to the thread I wrote in MAY 2020 about the "mistakes", misjudgements and unscientific decision making I had observed by that stage. https://twitter.com/mattprescott/status/1266978005429161984?s=19