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[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

COVID AND DEMENTIA

Have spent the last few days looking into the situation with care, cover and dementia.

Dementia sufferers are dying at an alarming rate in this epidemic, one of the worst affected groups.

These are the reasons why and what could change it. (thread)

[Justin Madders @justinmadders]

By my reckoning at least half a dozen Cabinet Ministers, including the Prime Minister himself didn’t join the farcical queues to vote yesterday- it really is one rule for them and another for everyone else.

[Tom Dolphin🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @thomasdolphin]

I think it's probably not right to claim the NHS "coped with the first wave of covid".
Yes, we avoided a triage situation of choosing between covid patients for the last ICU bed.
But that was bought at the cost of stopping everything else. That's not coping, it's redistributing.

[Paul Brand @PaulBrandITV]

BREAKING: Latest ONS data shows the number of deaths involving #covid19 up to 22nd May was 43,837 in England and Wales.

That's around 10,000 higher than government data suggested at the time.

[Secret Headteacher @secretHT1]

We went back today, and it was joyous to be back with the kids again.

https://t.co/QJRrIkd0ib

[Dr Matt Prescott @mattprescott]

SPOT THE PATTERN: A lockdown that was weeks late, unhindered international air travel, a reliance on self-isolation, chaotic and empty emergency stockpiles, healthcare professionals without basic PPE, a lack of public health expertise on SAGE, modelling full of big assumptions...

[Peter Henley @Peter_Henley]

It is so FRUSTRATING that we cannot be on BBC1 this morning to talk about how this lockdown crisis is being handled locally in Ox, Berks, Bucks, Wilts, Hants, Surrey, Sussex and Dorset .. aaaargh! .. so much to say .... https://t.co/gwbmDq2KkT

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@thosethatcan That headteacher is going to be busy talking to all those parents!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Boris Johnson's unwillingness or inability to do the right thing has left the Government looking untrustworthy and unprincipled.

Worst of all he's undermined the public health advice that keeps us all safe, just to keep one aide in his job.

Our nation’s health must come first.

[Jonathan Lis @jonlis1]

‘He made those who struggled to keep to the rules feel like fools and has allowed many more to assume they can now flout them. The prime minister knows all this and has chosen to ignore it.’

Savage brilliance from @maitlis #newsnight

[Cathy Newman @cathynewman]

Para 14 of the spads’ code of conduct: “Special advisers must not take public part in political controversy...They must observe discretion and express comment with moderation, avoiding personal attacks, and would not normally speak in public for their Minister or the Department.”

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

The Prime Minister has treated the British people with contempt.

One rule for Dominic Cummings, another for everybody else.

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@robertcourts What about all the parents in our constituency who have been in exactly the same position and followed the rules and stayed at home to protect our community? As a Witney resident I’m very disappointed in you supporting the hypocritical behaviour of Dominic Cummings.

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@beckybeckyfish @trishgreenhalgh Love it

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@DoctorTommmy @trishgreenhalgh Who knew!!!

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@Dirkpilat @trishgreenhalgh He’s 7 not born in the 70’s :))

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@NursingNotesUK Right please

[John Simpson @JohnSimpsonNews]

@VolkerUlllrich sums up in his magisterial biog of Hitler: ‘If his life and career teach us anything, it is how quickly democracy can be prised from its hinges when political institutions fail and civilising forces in society are too weak to combat the lure of authoritarianism.'

[lizjoly @lizjoly1]

@trishgreenhalgh Go Trisha