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Good to see @Marthakearney on @BBCr4today taking @pritipatel to task over the numbers of lorries in Dover - now 1,500 in Stack (M20) and Manston airfield combined - rather more than 170 that @BorisJohnson said yesterday, baffling haulage groups /1

@BBCr4today @pritipatel @BorisJohnson She won't say whether lorry drivers will have to take a PCR test (long-winded, requires RNA extraction etc. 24-48hrs) rather than much faster (and less sensitive) lateral flow test. Short Strait will struggle to operates with PCR tests. You'd need one yesterday for tomorrow! /2

@BBCr4today @pritipatel @BorisJohnson Because of the delays that have empty lorries already stuck in the queues, in an earlier interview British Retail Consortium @the_brc Andrew Opie said fresh food shortages would occur within days because lorries couldn't get back to Spain etc to reload /3

@BBCr4today @pritipatel @BorisJohnson @the_brc Haulage experts like @RHADuncanB are always at pains to explain that the lorries at Dover (and GB-IE, for that matter) are flowing in a continuous cycle. More than 85% are from EU countries. So if you block one side, or artery the whole system starts to grind to a halt/4

@BBCr4today @pritipatel @BorisJohnson @the_brc @RHADuncanB This episode has been a bit of a teaching moment, exposing the canard that the UK can unilaterally "take back control of its borders". It can't. Borders are membranes. Traffic flows in both directions. Actions by one side impact the other - as French move has demonstrated. /5
🚨PA Absentee Ballot(AB) Irregularities Deep-dive🚨

ABs in PA - even if Biden received:
-95% of returned Democrat votes
-21% of returned Republican votes
-80% of returned Independent votes

He wouldn't have as many votes as he actually received

🕵️Investigation Needed🕵️

Read on


I've been consistent on this issue since Nov 4th

I just didn't know what the final vote breakdown of absentee ballots was until now

Biden's final total of 1,995,591 is virtually impossible to explain given the party affiliation of absentee ballot


Don't believe me, let's look at exit polls from election day (Washington Post)

Exit polls show Biden +85% among Democrats meaning

Democrat Voters in PA:
92.50% Biden vs 7.5% others

Let's say this is within the margin of error and 95% is

The same exit polls show Trump +83% among Republicans meaning

Republican Voters in PA:
91.50% Trump vs 8.5% other

so 21% of Republicans voting for Trump is out of the question

Let's give Biden 11% of Republican ABs in case there was a margin of error in Trump's favor

The same exit poll on Independents

Biden by 51 percent to 43 percent for Trump

So there is no way Biden gets 80% of the Independent vote

Let's be nice and bump it up (😉) to 55% of Independents voting for Biden
The US immigration act of 1907 signed by Teddy Roosevelt: ableist as hell. https://t.co/ficeXOImo5


One theory for why the Spanish flu was so unusually lethal for young people:

They hadn't lived through the previous flu pandemic of 1889-1890 (https://t.co/OiDZYtdbWx) that killed about 1 million people. And thus had no carryover immunity.

It's suspected that the 1889 pandemic was not influenza, but a coronavirus.

The 1889 virus spread rapidly, killing mostly the elderly.

The 1889 virus was the first truly modern pandemic: people knew about germs, it spread via trains, it spread at the speed of modern transportation and commerce