“Lockdown is a luxury of the rich.. luxury of the affluent. Lockdown harms the disadvantaged. We have given up looking after the vulnerable. I cannot understand how ppl cannot be sensitive to these issues. Much of the world does not have that privilege” -Oxford Prof @SunetraGupta

You can't put a price on human life. Except you can. And we do, or at least we usually do. But during this pandemic, strange as this might sound, we stopped doing that. Here's why this matters. My The Times and The Sunday Times column: thetimes.co.uk/article/322ab0…

Why is nobody bothering to distinguish between the virus and the disease anymore? Everything is meaningless if you don't do this. We need to know who has Covid-19. Not who might, possibly, have fragments of the virus Sars-CoV-2, that can lead to the disease, Covid-19.

Normal is the thing for me: society needs to return to enjoyment, to socialising freely, to freedom and love. That’s what we’re doing this for. Without that, we’re nothing.

A thread. Wellcome kindly funded me for 13 yrs on MH projects. It’s also funded decades of research on social & economic determinants of health, long-term impacts of poverty, unemployment, stress, loneliness & isolation. I’m aghast re the lack of focus on these things 1/

If I'd suggested 18 months ago that magistrates were dishing out £10k fines in private hearings; to defendants without legal representation & sometimes unaware it's happening; in a whole process kept secret from the public, it'd have been laughable. That's now a reality.

There we have it. According to Boris Johnson the UK hasn’t passed the four tests laid out in Feb when the reopening timetable was announced. A pretty clear pass on tests one and two (vaccines) and a pretty clear fail on test four (variants). Test three unclear. Reopening delayed.

PM said today case growth was running ahead of projections laid out with unlocking timetable. What he didn’t point out is that hospitalisations are in line with the best-case scenario from Imperial for SPI-M in Feb. This could still change. But that’s where we are vs expectations

£10,000 fines for Covid-19 offences: It appears that magistrates are not seeing the full picture before passing sentence, in closed-door hearings when no lawyers are present.

Quite a good example of why context matters. UK testing far more than other countries, so all else equal we tend to have comparatively high cases nos. Look at cases as % of tests or hospitalisations or deaths & charts are different. Rising, yes. But nothing like that case chart

It’s just....coercive control. #EnoughIsEnough #NoVaccinePassports

Fair point, well expressed.

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Year 4P are excited to be working with Asda Community Champions and a film crew this morning whilst taking part in a Rethink Food workshop. Rethink Food Asda Community Team Community Champion Oak Trees MAT

Filming is underway! 4P are beyond excited to be part of this workshop to Rethink Food. Watch out Hollywood! We’re on our way! Rethink Food Asda Community Team Community Champion Oak Trees MAT Stanton Road Primary

And that’s a wrap! A massive thank you to Asda Community Team Community Champion Rethink Food and the film crew for this incredible opportunity. Stanton Road Primary Oak Trees MAT

What an exciting morning! Asda Community Champions and the film crew have now moved into 5M to deliver a workshop about Diversity Role Models. Oak Trees MAT Diversity Role Models Asda Community Team Community Champion

Action!🎬 5M can’t wait to put their acting skills to the test by taking part in the Diversity Role Models workshop with Asda Community Team Community Champion Oak Trees MAT Stanton Road Primary

We are creating diversitrees, thinking about different types of families and the things that make families strong🌳🥰 Asda Community Team Community Champion Oak Trees MAT Stanton Road Primary