Helen hunt waterdance

Original Prompt

Chapter 26
"Okay, what about...that one. The five stars about...two handspans above that dune?" Cass asked.
Kher looked where Cass was pointing, holding his torch aside so he could get a clear view of the stars.
"That is one of the Twins," Kher said, "See the three stars to the right? That is her brother, fleeing the Serpent."
"Weird." Cass had unbraided her hair earlier in the night because of the chill. Now she was trying to hold it out of her face so she could see the stars clearly. "In Sammos they're the Mother and her child, running to embrace each other after being parted over the winter season."
"Or reaching for each when the winter floods wash the boy away," Charis added. They were riding on Cass's other side, holding their torch down low over the side of their camel to keep the light off of Cass's left arm. She appreciated the gesture.
"In Chol they don't' have a name for those stars," Cass continued, "but they do have a Serpent. I don't think it's visible this time of year though. And in Harenae it's the 'Father and Son'. The father's teaching his son how to hunt."
"Do they have a story in Desheret?" Kher asked.
"I haven't heard one." Cass turned in her saddle to look back along the short caravan. Kebb was nowhere to be seen, probably keeping vigil in the rear. Anatu was attached to one of the carts, which only left Nuu as someone she could see to ask.
"Nuu!" She called, waving. They looked her way, eventually approaching. "What do you call those stars?"
"Is there a tale to them?" Kher asked.
"The three bright ones?" They looked skyward vacuously for a moment. "That is Sobek, a large crocodile that follows the flood waters of the Great River. Those stars are his open maw."
"What about the five stars to the left of them?"
"The two lower ones," Nuu said while pointing, "are his body. The upper three are his tail curled around."
"Ah yes, I can see it!" Kher said excitedly. "A more creative tale, I think. I wonder how it is yours is so different from our tales. We call them the-"
"Hey, Cass," Charis whispered, leaning closer, "you mentioned I could see your arm after dark?"
She looked down at her bandaged limb and flexed her fingers uncomfortably. The wrappings were much tighter now that she'd had ample time out of the sun.
"Okay, but keep your torch away." She tugged on the knot holding the bandages in place, let them loosen, and unwrapped her arm. Charis gasped as her skin showed in the starlight with thin motes of light of its own.
Under the light of the sun or flame, Cass's arm was thin and the skin looked brittle and burnt. The comparison to burnt wood was not uncommon. But under the stars and moon it looked wholly different.
"Beautiful," Charis whispered, gazing at the black abyss. The colors and patterns within it were similar yet very different from the sky above. As Cass moved the lights moved as well, as though flowing through her limb. Never the same pattern twice.
"Thanks." People were always mesmerized by her arm at night. The ones who weren't convinced it was a blight of some sort, at least. She extended her hand to Charis. They looked up at her briefly for permission, then took her hand in theirs. Unlike during the day, there was no pain. Their skin didn't feel uncomfortably warm either. In fact it was rather cool and pleasant.
Charis tucked their long curls behind one ear as they laced their fingers with hers. She lifted her hand closer to their face so they could take a closer look.
"It's strange," they said softly, "your hand looks so different, so..."
"Weird?" Cass offered.
They shook their head. "No...magical. But if I close my eyes I would be unable to tell this hand from your other."
Weird, odd, cursed, strange, these were what Cass was used to hearing her arm called. The only person who'd ever complimented her on it like that - who'd called it magical - before was Helen. Back before the war, before she'd killed the King of Sammos. When their encounters were furtive and hidden at night.
"Oh?" Cass looked away and tried to change the subject. "Can't tell your left from right?"
Charis chuckled and gave her hand a squeeze.
"What's going on here?" Nuu asked while riding closer. Their torch illuminated Cass's arm and the pain instantly came back. It wasn't as bad as if she were caught out in sunlight, but the entwined fingers became sore. She only barely got her hand out of Charis's before her hand clenched reflexively.
"Damnit!" Cass swore.
"You need to back away, Nuu." Charis said hotly.
"Calm, everyone, calm." Kher spoke up. "No need for such vehemence. Nuu, I believe they want some...alone time?" He gave Cass a big smile through his braided beard.
Nuu narrowed his eyes at her. "I thought I saw her changing."
"I wasn't. You'd know if I was." She felt bad enough every time she saw their sister's brass leg. Being reminded that they were survivors of one of her attacks was not a pleasant vortex of emotions.
"If you lose control-"
"I don't lose control! I've never lost control. It's not something I'm not in control of." Cass clenched her left fist, reminding herself it wasn't worth hurting them. "Put your torch out and I'll show you."
"I've already seen it."
"You've seen it as an enemy. How about I show you what it actually looks like?" Cass turned in her saddle and extended the black and burnt-looking hand. Nuu recoiled, but there was a curiosity behind their eyes. They gave a quick glance at Charis who lowered their torch behind their camel again. Nuu did the same, and Kher followed suit. Bathed in darkness again, they all looked at the starry field of Cass's arm.

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Spoilers for The Magnus Archives S4!!
BG info for those who don't know about either HS TMA: TMA is a horror podcast and a big central point are 'The Fourteen (Fifteen) Fears' which essentially are 14 catalysts of fear, they feed on the fear of people and animals.
E.G of The Slaughter from Google: It is the fear of pure, unpredictable, unmotivated violence, with strong ties to war. It is the fear of not knowing where, how, or when pain will come but that it will, and can be violent like a frenzied killer or calm, cold and regimented like soldiers firing on the battlefield.
HSR (Honkai Star Rail) is a turn based story game, in which the playable characters follow a 'path' in their life. Those who follow a path are: Those who believe in and practice the concepts behind a certain path become Pathstriders, and the path that they happen to follow will change in accordance with their own philosophies and opinions.
HERES WHERE THE AU COMES IN!! Some Fears/ Paths have cool correlations. and I love that. so lets assign them!! some are easier than others, but im trying :3
(there are only 7 paths playable in HSR right now, so not all 14 fears from TMA will be assigned, obviously) (HSR on the left, TMA on the right)
Destruction = The Extinction or The Desolation (The Extinction is not a fully fledged fear, so The Desolation may work too. The Extinction is the fear of catastrophic change, and The Desolation is the fear of cruelty, pain and destruction. The Destruction is described as reckless, wrathful, and destructive actions.)
The Hunt = The Hunt (The Hunt [TMA] is the fear of hunted or being prey. It doesn't fit great, but to be fair none of the other fears fit in my opinion. The Hunt [HSR] are usually determined, ruthless and tenacious people)
Erudition = The Eye (People who fear The Eye fear being watched or exposed. This doesn't really fit Erudition, BUT most people who are touched by The Eye or an Avatar of The Eye, hold many similarities to a Pathstrider of Erudition (I'm looking at you Jon) Erudition Pathstriders are usually logical and strategic, always thinking (Just like The Eye avatars))
Harmony = The Spiral, The Web or The Vast (None of the fears really fit this one. As Harmony is all about understanding, support and cooperation, which basically none of The Fears are, lmao. The Spiral is the fear of insanity or deception, which could fit as the most prevalent entity of The Spiral (The Distortions (Michael and Helen)) like to pretend to be nice sometimes, Helen liked to help the MC and then also try to kill him lol The Web is the is the fear of being controlled or manipulated, which could fit for how Harmony is cooperative The Vast doesn't have any real correlation, asthe fear of being insignificant or lost, HOWEVER the main entitiy of The Vast, Simon Fairchild, IS SO CHILL. Hes great honeslty, great old man who loves the sky. kinda nice, not tryna kill people!!)
Nihility = The Corruption or The Lonely (Possibly The Stranger) (Again, its hard to fit again. but i think these work. Nihility is people who admire laziness, exhaustion, and meaningless behavior, which could fit The Corruption (fear of disease or pestilence) as a lot of Corruption statements come from lazy people who don't care for their home or themselves (mold, insects etc). Or The Lonely (fear of being isolated or disconnected) as many effected by it may be lazy or done with life, exhausted physically and mentally The Stranger (fear of the uncanny and of change, mainly depicted through a circus ringleader mannequin brought to life) is possible if you take into account the playable characters who follow Nihility, Sparkle, Sampo etc, who all share some traits with The Stranger or even The Spiral, but I'm trying to focus in the path as a whole not the characters)
Preservation = no clue!! (Those who follow this path admire patience, sacrifice, and defensive behavior, and i don't think any fears fit this.)
Abundance = also no clue :/ (Abundance is selflessness, altruism, and healing, which doesn't really fit any fears)
Input welcome!! Though please give credit, just a link to this post, if you do anything with this! (I want to in the future :3)
essayge

Spoilers for The Magnus Archives S4!!
BG info for those who don't know about either HS TMA: TMA is a horror podcast and a big central point are 'The Fourteen (Fifteen) Fears' which essentially are 14 catalysts of fear, they feed on the fear of people and animals.
E.G of The Slaughter from Google: It is the fear of pure, unpredictable, unmotivated violence, with strong ties to war. It is the fear of not knowing where, how, or when pain will come but that it will, and can be violent like a frenzied killer or calm, cold and regimented like soldiers firing on the battlefield.
HSR is a turn based story game, in which the playable characters follow a 'path' in their life. Those who follow a path are: Those who believe in and practice the concepts behind a certain path become Pathstriders, and the path that they happen to follow will change in accordance with their own philosophies and opinions.
HERES WHERE THE AU COMES IN!! Some Fears/ Paths have cool correlations. and I love that. so lets assign them!! some are easier than others, but im trying :3
(there are only 7 paths playable in HSR right now, so not all 14 fears from TMA will be assigned, obviously) (HSR on the left, TMA on the right)
Destruction = The Extinction or The Desolation (The Extinction is not a fully fledged fear, so The Desolation may work too. The Extinction is the fear of catastrophic change, and The Desolation is the fear of cruelty, pain and destruction. The Destruction is described as reckless, wrathful, and destructive actions.)
The Hunt = The Hunt (The Hunt [TMA] is the fear of hunted or being prey. It doesn't fit great, but to be fair none of the other fears fit in my opinion. The Hunt [HSR] are usually determined, ruthless and tenacious people)
Erudition = The Eye (People who fear The Eye fear being watched or exposed. This doesn't really fit Erudition, BUT most people who are touched by The Eye or an Avatar of The Eye, hold many similarities to a Pathstrider of Erudition (I'm looking at you Jon) Erudition Pathstriders are usually logical and strategic, always thinking (Just like The Eye avatars))
Harmony = The Spiral, The Web or The Vast (None of the fears really fit this one. As Harmony is all about understanding, support and cooperation, which basically none of The Fears are, lmao. The Spiral is the fear of insanity or deception, which could fit as the most prevalent entity of The Spiral (The Distortions (Michael and Helen)) like to pretend to be nice sometimes, Helen liked to help the MC and then also try to kill him lol The Web is the is the fear of being controlled or manipulated, which could fit for how Harmony is cooperative The Vast doesn't have any real correlation, asthe fear of being insignificant or lost, HOWEVER the main entitiy of The Vast, Simon Fairchild, IS SO CHILL. Hes great honeslty, great old man who loves the sky. kinda nice, not tryna kill people!!)
Nihility = The Corruption or The Lonely (Possibly The Stranger) (Again, its hard to fit again. but i think these work. Nihility is people who admire laziness, exhaustion, and meaningless behavior, which could fit The Corruption (fear of disease or pestilence) as a lot of Corruption statements come from lazy people who don't care for their home or themselves (mold, insects etc). Or The Lonely (fear of being isolated or disconnected) as many effected by it may be lazy or done with life, exhausted physically and mentally The Stranger (fear of the uncanny and of change, mainly depicted through a circus ringleader mannequin brought to life) is possible if you take into account the playable characters who follow Nihility, Sparkle, Sampo etc, who all share some traits with The Stranger or even The Spiral, but I'm trying to focus in the path as a whole not the characters)
Preservation = no clue!! (Those who follow this path admire patience, sacrifice, and defensive behavior, and i don't think any fears fit this.)
Abundance = also no clue :/ (Abundance is selflessness, altruism, and healing, which doesn't really fit any fears)
Input welcome!! Though please give credit, just a link to this post, if you do anything with this! (I want to in the future :3)
essayge

PART ONE THOUSAND AND EIGHT
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Sunday
We materialised in a shop-front alcove, with a solid concrete wall to my right and a panelled wooden display wall behind glass to my left.
“Keep going,” Rubin said in my ear.
Not sure why he was being so insistent, I nevertheless strode forward as if I knew where I was going, and in just a few steps, the presence of multiple lanes of New York City traffic swept over me. Four lanes, all facing the same way, meant we were on one of the main arterial streets like Fifth Ave or Park Ave. ‘Zara’, a clothes boutique on the other side of the street did nothing to narrow the field any for me.
Not that it mattered. My point with this deductive reasoning was that neither of those streets had curbside parking.
Yet, sure enough, Dad's SUV was on the other side of the sidewalk in the closest lane of traffic, waiting for the lights to change. “Get in, quick!” Rubin ordered.
This wouldn’t be the first time I jumped into an illegal ‘traffic-light-parked’ car, and I raced for the back door, swinging it open and diving inside just as the lights changed. The door ‘magically’ shut itself behind me as I straightened up in my seat and took in Kulon behind the wheel and Gerry in the seat to my right.
“Hey, Angel,” I said, leaning forward to give her a quick kiss. “Missed you.”
“How’d it go with—er—your uncle?” Gerry asked, struggling with the normality of me having met with her god.
“Wanna put your seatbelt on back there, Sam?” Kulon chuckled, glancing at me in the rearview mirror as we moved forward across the intersection.
“It went better than I thought,” I admitted, then grinned. “I even got a really cool old-school bomber jacket out of it.” I saw her cringe and giggled evilly. “And you can’t hate on it, because it was literally a present from God himself.”
She clenched her hands into loose fists and pressed the heels of her palms to her temple. “I-I can’t even…” she finally stammered, and my giggle morphed into a full-blown cackle.
“I’ll show you when we get home. I don’t think you’ll hate it. It’s really nice and super authentic.” I then turned my attention to Kulon. “And dude! That has got to be soooo handy,” I said, gesturing back to where I’d jumped in the car. I was blown away by how easily it would be to catch people like that, just by realm-stepping the second a car was held up at lights. No guesswork. Not even coordinates. Just knowing.
“It has its moments,” Kulon agreed. “So, are we heading home?”
“Yes, please. The guys want to go out to Angus’ place to play some more ball this afternoon, but if I don’t get some home time in with Gerry between now and then, I won’t be going anywhere.”
The trip back to the apartment was quick, with Rubin vanishing as fast as he appeared once we had the building in sight. And with him on hand to pull back the guys any time we needed them, Kulon and Quent both stayed with the car and drove away together once Gerry and I were inside.
Of course, my luck just wasn’t playing nice with me today, for I knew the second I set foot in the apartment and saw Dad rise purposefully from his chair just inside the living room that having fun-time with Gerry wasn’t in my immediate future.
“I need a word with you, Sam,” he said, stepping between the sofa and the coffee table to give Gerry access to the rest of the apartment (with Dad standing in the doorway, it was as if it had been walled off).
“Daaaad,” I moaned, not really caring at this point what he wanted. After the morning I’d had, I needed some real Robbie-food and an hour or four in bed with my girl … minimum!
“Now, Sam.” His tone changed when he looked at Gerry and added, “We won’t be long, sweetheart.”
Not that it mattered. His initial bark had taken all my attention, and I felt my heart clench in my chest, wondering what else I’d done wrong. Not even Uncle YHWH had yelled at me, and I’d accidentally screwed with a couple of his worshippers. I couldn’t think of anything to warrant that, and as I processed the possibilities and came up blank, I barely felt Geraldine’s kiss to my cheek. “I’ll go and do some light reading in the bedroom,” she said, slipping out of my arms and making her way past Dad with a nod.
A few seconds later, I heard our bedroom door open and close, and I looked at Dad like he’d kicked a puppy. “Was that really necessary?”
“Would I have done it if it wasn’t?” Dad countered, and I had to remember who I was talking to. Between my run-in with Tucker’s people and my conversation with Uncle YHWH, I was being bolder than I had any right to be.
I forced myself to relax. “Sorry. It’s been a rough morning already.” I rubbed my chest again because, contrary to what anyone says, being tasered sucked, even if I did heal from it almost instantly.
Dad immediately frowned. “What happened? I thought you were visiting Gerry’s father for breakfast.”
“We were … I mean we did.” So much else had happened, and I didn’t feel like going into all of it. And since he was standing to one side, I headed into the kitchen, dropping my shoulder low to avoid his half-hearted grab on my way through.
I stopped at the plate warmer and was miffed at its empty state. My next port of call was the divine box Robbie called Voila. I remembered him telling me how I had to know what was in there for it to work (that, and how Charlie had scared the crap out of him yesterday morning when she’d told him the box was empty), but this was also Robbie, and he always had what we wanted ready to go. I brought to mind the one thing that would tide me over until lunch. The same thing that had been missing from Tucker’s table.
Just as I’d hoped, when I lifted the lid, an egg-filled baguette with bacon and cheese was waiting for me on a single sandwich plate. “Ye-essss,” I hissed in victory, lifting out the plate and taking the biggest bite I could manage without choking myself. “Thank you, Robbie, wherever you are! I love you!” My words were utterly muffled, but he wasn’t here, so it didn’t matter.
“Their food not to your liking?” Dad asked with an amused smirk.
“The company was challenging,” I answered evasively once I’d chewed enough to swallow. I then went over to the fridge and dug out the jug of freshly squeezed mango juice that I could never get enough of. With both items in my hands now, I was happy.
“Don’t even,” Dad warned when I instinctually lifted the jug to my lips.
“Hmmh?” The sound would’ve been an innocent ‘huh’, except I’d clamped my lips closed like that had never been my plan and put the jug on the island on the way to get a cup. With the dishwasher closer, I opened the door and grabbed one of the glasses from the second shelf. I then nudged the door shut with my shin and slid into Boyd’s seat, dragging the rest of my prizes over to me.
“So, what’s the family crisis?” I asked, pouring myself a drink but keeping the jug within easy reach. Wow, I really do use that word a lot, don’t I? I took a deep swallow to clear my throat, sighed, and then returned for another huge bite of my baguette.
“My youngest brother, Barris, our Mystallian God of the Hunt, has learned about you.”
Oh, for frig’s sake! I lowered the baguette and sat back in Boyd’s chair, my full focus once more on Dad. “Okay,” I answered cautiously, torn between frustration and annoyance. The other word choice that sprang to mind was a sarcastic ‘really’, which would probably require someone picking out an urn for my remains.
Dad shook his head and raised one hand with flared fingers. “It’s nothing bad.” He then pointed at my plate. “Finish your sandwich first.”
My next mouthfuls were maybe a third of the first two, and I might as well have been eating tyre rubber for all the enjoyment I was getting out of it. “How much does he know about me?” I asked between bites.
Dad moved to stand beside me at the corner of the island. “He knows you’ve almost graduated college. He knows there was animosity between your mother and me that’s since been resolved, and he knows about the pregnancy now.”
Now, the baguette felt like a rock in my gut. “Great.”
He slid into Lucas’ seat and curled a hand around my forearm near the elbow, anchoring me in place. “Sam, I said it’s okay. He’s on our side.”
I squinted. A lot of people were making that claim lately and I wasn’t sure I believed it anymore. “What does that mean, exactly?”
Dad met my stare squarely, and I was always amazed at how easily he could do that. “He knows the dangers to your mother, so he’s going to run interference on the family for us until after the babies are born. Despite the fact that it’ll put him in the same crosshairs with the rest of our family as us when they find out he knew, he’s going to do it anyway. He only asks one thing in return.”
I barely restrained my eye-roll. “Of course he does.”
Dad’s face morphed into a dark scowl, and his grip tightened painfully. “You will show your uncle the respect he deserves,” he warned.
I dropped my eyes to his waist; so not up for this. “Yes, sir.”
Dad’s intake for breath was both loud and frustrated. He kicked the leg of the chair I was sitting on for good measure, and when my gaze snapped to his, he was pointing two fingers of his free hand at his own eyes. “That’s right, boy. Right here. Nowhere else. Not there … not there … not way over there.” He pointed to three random locations in the apartment before returning to their original spot before his eyes. “Right here. Always. You get me?”
For some reason, Dr Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham started rolling through my brain, and I was quite proud of myself that I didn’t smirk or even blink. “Yessir.”
He didn’t get any calmer. “Okay …” he finally said, after a few seconds that was—who knew how long for him if he internalised to settle down— “I know we’ve only touched lightly on this before, but I need you to lift your game before we meet with your uncle, starting with stripping the words ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ from your vocabulary. I know your stance on human manners, and I’ve accepted your decision and will support it when it comes up with the others. That said, even the humans hardly ever use those two servitude titles anymore, and you can’t afford to appear weak in front of our family. Okay?”
Dad was compromising. I knew the family wouldn’t agree with my use of manners, but Dad was willing to back that, and to me, it was the more important of the two. “I’ll try,” I said because I couldn’t say for sure if I’d succeed without premonition, and that one wasn’t in my wheelhouse.
Ha, I made a divine funny.
So, why aren’t I laughing?
Probably because I still hadn’t heard what Uncle Barris wanted in exchange for his cooperation. It couldn’t be my head on a pike, as neither of my parents would go for that. But what?
“He wants to meet you, Sam, at a destination of your choosing and he’s agreed not to come here looking for you so long as that request is met. He hasn’t even asked for this address.”
“He’s the god of hunting, Dad. Hunting me down would be a cakewalk for someone like him.”
“True, except he’s promised not to go there unless it’s an emergency. You’re his nephew, Sam. A nephew he knew nothing about until last night. All he wants to do is meet you, and given the circumstances, I don’t think that’s too much to ask, do you?”
“How did he find out?” I asked instead of answering.
Dad’s expression soured. “Helen Portsmith. Apparently, she turned up at his gym last night with her usual spiel; only this time, your uncle put it together correctly and came looking for me for real answers. I told him about you and your mother. I told him our secrets.”
Something about the way he worded that… “As opposed to what?”
“I still haven’t mentioned Robbie or his connection to Yitzak. Nor have I mentioned the true gryps living with us, except for Tiacor, who’s there for your mother.”
I was starting to put this together. “Okay, so when we meet, no mention of Robbie as a cousin, or that he has a food innate, or that Yitzak and Collette know about him.” I got the feeling learning that we had true gryps in the household wouldn’t really amount to much, as they could be anywhere they wanted to be all over the world. It was their world as much as ours.
“Exactly.”
“What about Clefton and Nick? They’ve been here and met us too.”
“Mention them only if you want to get them into trouble for not outing you from the very beginning. Same with Nuncio.”
Well, that’s a hard ‘no’. “Maybe Cuschler?”
Dad scowled again. “There’s no bad blood between us anymore, right?” he asked, cocking an eyebrow warningly.
I sighed. Spoilsport. “Fine. But what about Fisk and the girls … and Najma?” It wasn’t that I’d forgotten my nephew, just that my brother and sisters rolled off the tongue first. “Danika’s been here, and Najma tracked me down at school before everyone else had met me. Even Fisk has popped in from time to time to touch base.”
“Barris knows they knew, and he understands why they’ve kept it quiet. Nothing’s going to happen until the reunion, and even then, maybe nothing if your mother still hasn’t given birth.”
I pushed my half-eaten baguette away and pressed my forehead to the island. “Everybody knows a little bit,” I griped. “How in the world am I meant to keep tabs on who knows what?”
Dad’s grin made me want to kick him the way he’d kicked my chair. “What do you think internalising is for? Remembering whatever we want is literally our jam.”
“I s’pose.” But combing through the details at every turn still seemed like an awful lot of effort, even if that process did seem instantaneous to everyone else. It wasn’t to us.
Dad reached past me and brought back my baguette. “Finish your sandwich. You can go as you are. Your uncle runs a gym downtown, so he’s not exactly at his best either.”
I stared at him in horror. “We’re going right now?”
“Why not now?”
Because I just got back from seeing Uncle YHWH! “I dunno. I mean, it’s too soon, don’t you think?”
I don’t know how else to describe it, but Dad’s expression turned … parental. “And when would a good time be for you with your hugely busy schedule now that school has wrapped up?” he asked like I was an idiot.
I gave a nervous, shrugging roll of my shoulders. “I understand there’s this get-together happening at the end of the year…”
I kinda expected the cuff to the back of my head and tried not to snicker when it happened.
“Don’t be a smartass. Finish your sandwich, and we’ll go. This won’t take long.”
With nothing else for it, I did as I was told, leaving the empty plate and cup on the sink since the dishwasher hadn’t been emptied. “I’m so glad I got a say in this…” I muttered quietly under my breath.
“What was that?”
“Nothing.”
I have no idea why I thought we’d at least use the front door to leave. Probably because most people did. But this was Dad, and we were going to meet his brother, and he clearly didn’t want me to have the chance of wriggling out of it.
So without warning, he slapped his hand on my right shoulder and shoved me forward, realm-stepping away with me as I stumbled to keep my footing.
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This is part 2 of my list for Virginia's post Furman execution roster. As mentioned in part 1's opening paragraph, character count limitations forced me into splitting my Virginia's execution roster into two separate posts. For the link to part 1, please click here.
59. Kevin Cardwell (1991-1998, lethal injection): Cardwell intercepted Anthony Brown, a 15 year old drug carrier, while he was at a bus stop. He lured Brown into his apartment and searched his belongings for any drugs. Brown was then dragged into the woods, shot to death, and stripped of the cocaine strapped to his legs.
60. Mark Sheppard (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Sheppard and his accomplice Andre Graham were invited by their dealers, 40 year old Richard and 35 year old Rebecca Rosenbluth, over to their home to buy cocaine. However, an argument broke out during the transaction, and Sheppard shot the couple to death. The pair then drove away from the scene with the couple's car and a few undisclosed stolen items. Sheppard had a long history of violence that dated back to when he was 9 years old.
61. Tony Fry (1994-1999, lethal injection): Fry and his partner shot Leeland Jacobs, a 42 year old car salesman, while robbing his Ford Dealership. The pair tied Jacobs to a car they stole while he was still alive, and dragged him to death.
62. George Quesinberry Jr. (1989-1999, lethal injection): Quesinberry shot 63 year old Thomas Haynes while breaking into his office with an accomplice. When Haynes survived the initial shooting, Quesinberry hit him in the head with the gun and fractured his skull. The pair stole a total of $200 in the robbery.
63. David Fisher (~1970s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Fisher was paid $7,000 by an associate to kill 18 year old David Wilkey in retaliation for abandoning a murder scheme. Originally, Wilkey was part of a conspiracy to seduce and marry a young woman in order to kill her for an insurance policy, but backed out when he genuinely fell in love with the would be victim. He was tricked into going on a hunting trip with Fisher and shot to death by him. Fisher had 25 previous criminal convictions and was involved with organized crime. He was in the witness protection program at the time of Wilkey’s murder.
64. Carl Chichester (1991-1999, lethal injection): During a holdup of a Little Caesars, Chichester shot and killed the manager, 30 year old Timothy Rigney, for refusing to open the cash register. He and his two accomplices ran off with a total of $110.
65. Arthur Jenkins III (1991-1999, lethal injection): Jenkins and his teenage brother shot and killed their uncle, 72 year old Floyd, and their uncle's friend, 69 year old Lee Brinklow. They then stole their wallets and sacked Floyd's home for any money and valuables.
66. Eric Payne (~1980s-1999, lethal injection): Payne broke into the residences of two women, 61 year old Ruth Parham and 57 year old Sally Fazio, and raped them. Both women were beaten to death with a hammer, and he took money from their drawers and pocket books. He had a history of drug possessions and exposing himself to women.
67. Ronald Yeatts (1989-1999, lethal injection): Yeatts and an accomplice invaded 70 year old Ruby Dodson's home and stabbed her to death. The pair grabbed her purse during the burglary and divided up the money they found in it.
68. Tommy Strickler (1989-1999, lethal injection): Strickler and his partner kidnapped 19 year old Leann Whitlock from a mall and crushed her head with a 70 pound boulder. Whitlock's car and credit cards were stolen during the attack.
69. Marlon Williams (~1980s(?)-1999, lethal injection): Williams was paid $4,000 to murder 44 year old Helen Bedsole by his dealer, who was also her estranged husband. The couple were in the midst of a bitter divorce at the time, and the dealer wanted to both collect a life insurance policy and prevent Helen from dividing up their assets. He suck into the couple’s home, and shot and killed Helen in the kitchen. Williams had an extensive criminal history, which included cutting the throat of his ex girlfriend’s grandmother, 71 year old Virgina Parker, during a bungled attempt on her life.
70. Everett Mueller (1990-1999, lethal injection): 10 year old Charity Powers was dropped off at a skating ring by her mother. She was supposed to be picked up by her mother's friend, but they didn't show up due to failing asleep in their home. While Powers was waiting outside the ring in vain for her ride, she was abducted by Mueller. He raped the girl, slashed her throat, and dumped the body in a nearby forest.
71. Jason Joseph (1992-1999, lethal injection): While robbing a Subway with an accomplice, Joseph shot and killed one of the clerks, 22 year old Jeffrey Anderson.
72. Thomas Royal Jr. (~1991-1999, lethal injection): Royal and 3 other gang members fatally shot a police officer, 29 year old Kenneth Wallace, while he was sitting in his patrol car. Wallace was killed as part of the gang's campaign to target law enforcement agents. Royal and his fellow gang members were also suspected in the shooting of James Smith Jr. (age unknown), a Vietnam veteran, outside his trailer, but the charges were dropped from the lack of sufficient evidence.
73. Andre Graham (~1993-1999, lethal injection): Graham assisted the above mentioned Mark Sheppard in the Rosenbluth murders. He also shot and killed a waitress, 20 year old Sheryl Stack, and injured a 23 year old man while robbing a restaurant on his own, and is suspected in a total of 10 murders.
74. Douglas Thomas (1990-2000, lethal injection): The parents of Thomas' 14 year old girlfriend, 33 year old James and 33 year Kathy Wiseman, barred her from seeing him. In a bid to continue their relationship, Thomas and his girlfriend shot them to death in their home.
75. Steve Roach (1993-2000, lethal injection): Roach shot and killed 70 year old Mary Hughes on her doorstep and stole her credit card. He was caught on tape trying to use Hughes' stolen cards to pull money out of an ATM machine in North Carolina.
76. Lonnie Weeks Jr. (1993-2000, lethal injection): Weeks was pulled over by a state trooper, 50 year old Jose Cavazos, for speeding while driving a stolen car. In the confrontation that followed, he shot Cavazos dead after climbing out of the car, and fled the scene. He was captured hiding in a nearby motel after an hour long manhunt.
77. Michael Clagett (1994-2000, electric chair): Clagett's girlfriend was fired from her job as a hotel waitress by the management, and the couple decided to retaliate by robing the establishment. They shot and killed the owner Lam Van Son, a 41 year old Vietnamese refugee, a waitress, 31 year old Karen Rounds, two other employees, 31 year old Karen Rounds and 32 year old Wendell Parish Jr., and a customer Abdelaziz Gren, a 34 year old Moroccan immigrant, and took $400 in cash from the register. Van Son’s 3 year old son was sleeping in the backroom during the attack, but the couple left him unharmed.
78. Russel Burket (1993-2000, lethal injection): Burket snuck into the home of 30 year old Katherine Tafelski while her Navy SEALs husband was deployed overseas, and sexually assaulted her. Katherine and her 5 year old daughter Ashley were both beaten to death with a "rusty" crowbar.
79. Derek Barnabei (1993-2000, lethal injection): Barnabei seduced a fellow Old Dominion University student, 17 year old Sarah Wisnosky, into a relationship with him and kidnapped her. She was raped, partially strangled, beaten to death with a hammer, and dumped into a river near campus grounds. Due to him being of Italian ancestry, his death sentence and execution sparked outrage in Italy.
80. Bobby Ramdass (1992-2000, lethal injection): Ramdass was condemned for the shooting death of Mohammed Kayani, a 34 year old Pakistani immigrant working as a clerk, during a convenience store robbery. He also shot dead 19 year old Darrell Ferguson in an alley and wounded a cab driver in other robberies.
81. Christopher Goins (1994-2000, lethal injection): Goins broke into the home of his 14 year old girlfriend (who was 7 months pregnant with his child). He shot and killed her parents, 35 year old James and 29 year old Daphne Jones, and her siblings, 9 year old Nicole and 4 year old David. The girlfriend and her youngest sibling, 21 month old Kenya, were also shot in the attack. Both of them survived, but the unborn child was lost in the shooting.
82. Thomas Akers (1998-2001, lethal injection): Akers and his accomplice were driving with their friend, 24 year old Wesley Smith. When they pulled over on a road to urinate, they pounced on Smith. In the attack, he was strangled with a belt and beaten to death with a baseball bat. They pair then grabbed $200 from his wallet and dumped his body in a creek. While on death row, Akers demanded his execution and made threats against the judge who sentenced him if it wasn't carried out.
83. Christopher Beck (1995-2001, lethal injection): Out of anger for being fired, Beck invaded the house of his former employer, 52 year old William Miller. He waited for him and his two roommates, 54 year old Florence Marks and 34 year old David Kaplan, to return home and shot and stabbed them all to death. Marks was also raped in the attack. Although Beck claimed that he "only" staged a sexual assault on her, a medical examination confirmed that she was abused in that manner. Beck stole several guns, bicycles, and money in the robbery.
84. James Patterson (1987-2002, lethal injection): Patterson held his friend's mother, 56 year old Joyce Aldridge, in her home at knifepoint. Enraged that she only had a few coins in her purse, he raped Aldridge, stabbed her 3 times, and left her to die. When Aldridge managed to crawl to a phone to call her son for help, Patterson returned and stabbed her 14 more times. Although Aldridge's murder was left unsolved for years, Patterson was later imprisoned for raping an 18 year old girl, and DNA found at the murder was traced to his samples filed in the inmate database in 2000.
85. Daniel Zirkle (1999-2002, lethal injection): Zirkle's girlfriend broke off their relationship due to his violent behavior and filed protective orders against him. He was arrested for violating them and sentenced to a few months in jail. After his release, Zirkle went to his ex girlfriend's home without her permission to visit their daughter, 4 year old Christina. However, the ex girlfriend's other daughter, 14 year old Jessica Shifflett, blocked him from coming inside. He stabbed her to death and kidnapped Christina. He then drove Christina to the George Washington National Forest, slit her throat, and stabbed himself in a failed suicide attempt.
86. Walter Mickens Jr. (~1974-2002, lethal injection): Mickens ambushed and sodomized 17 year old Timothy Hall, and stabbed him 143 times. He stripped the boy of nearly all of his clothing, and left him to die in an abandoned apartment. A long time sexual predator and career criminal, Mickens had several robbery and sodomy convictions dating back to the 70s. One of his previous incidents involved breaking into an elementary school, and coercing a teacher of her purse by threatening the life of a 7 year old student. He also had a conviction for sexually assaulting a cellmate.
87. Aimal Kasi (1993-2002, lethal injection): In his efforts to fight against American foreign policy regarding Islamic nations, Kasi attacked the Langley CIA headquarters with a Type 56 assault rifle. He shot dead 2 CIA employees, 66 year old Lansing Bennett and 28 year old Frank Darling, and wounded 3 others. Kasi then fled to Afghanistan, but was lured into his native Pakistan to be captured in a joint FBI-CIA led operation, and extradited back to the United States to face trial.
88. Earl Bramblett (~1970s(?)-2003, electric chair): Bramblett had molested 11 year old Winter Hodges and feared that her parents, 41 year old William and 37 year old Teresa, were planning on reporting him to the police. In an attempt to prevent that from happening, he attacked the family in their home. Teresa was strangled, while William, Winter, and another daughter, 3 year old Anah, were shot dead. Bramblett then set the house on fire to destroy any evidence of the murders. He had several abuse allegations and was also suspected in the 1977 disappearances of two 14 year old girls, Tammy Akers and Angela Rader, that worked for him, but was never charged for any of them.
89. Bobby Swisher (1997-2003, lethal injection): Swisher abducted 22 year old Dawn Snyder from her flower shop at knife point and raped her. He slashed Snyder's throat and dumped her into a nearby river. Despite managing to swim back to shore, Snyder succumbed to her injuries on the river bank.
90. Brian Cherrix (1994-2004, lethal injection): Cherrix ambushed 23 year old Tessa Van Hart while she was trying to deliver a pizza. He sodomized and shot Van Hart twice in the head, and left the body in her car. The crime was left unsolved until Cherrix was arrested for shooting and wounded his brother two years later. In an attempt to secure leniency, Cherrix disclosed some details of Van Hart's murder, but tried pinning it on a deceased cousin. He only confessed when investigators learned that the cousin couldn't have possibly done it.
91. Dennis Orbe (1998-2004, lethal injection): Orbe fatally shot Richard Burnett, a 39 year old clerk, while robbing a grocery store, and seized $90 from the register.
92. Mark Bailey (1998-2004, lethal injection): Bailey shot and killed his wife, 22 year old Katherine, and their 2 year old son, Nathan, while they were laying in bed. He claimed to investigators that the murders were done out of anger for Katherine's alleged infidelity.
93. James Hudson (2002-2004, lethal injection): In a feud over a driveway, Hudson broke into the home of the Cole family (consisting of brothers, 64 year old Thomas and 56 year old Walter, and Thomas' wife, 64 year old Patsy) to confront them with a shotgun. He shot all three of the Coles dead and drove away from the scene. Hudson was captured after nearly a day long manhunt.
94. James Reid (1996-2004, lethal injection): Reid stabbed 87 year old Annie Lester 22 times with a pair of scissors, beat her with a can of milk, and strangled her with the cord of a heating pad. He left the body in her bedroom and fled her house. Although the evidence for his guilt was overwhelming (which included the blood on his clothes matched Lester's DNA, several of his fingerprints were discovered on the murder weapons, samples of his saliva were found on a cigarette butt in her house, and his handwriting was identical to the writing of a death threat sent to Lester), Reid's death sentence and execution was contested on the grounds of him allegedly having brain damage from a car accident, seizures, and alcoholism. The motivations behind Lester's murder remain unknown, but prosecutors suspected that it might have been part of a bungled robbery or rape attempt.
95. Dexter Vinson (1997-2006, lethal injection): Vinson attacked his ex girlfriend, 25 year old Angela Felton, near her home. Felton tried to escape by driving away, but he rammed her car with his, and forced her inside it. She was then dragged into a vacant house, raped, beaten, and stabbed in the face, neck, arms, buttocks, stomach, and vagina. The body was left in the house as Vinson fled the scene.
96. Brandon Hedrick (1997-2006, electric chair): Hendrick kidnapped a sex worker, 23 year old Lisa Crider, while he was cruising for prostitutes. Initially, Crider and Hendrick had engaged in paid consensual relations, but the situation turned violent when he robbed her of $50 at gunpoint. She was then raped, shot in the face, and dumped into a river.
97. Michael Lenz (~1990s-2006, lethal injection): While serving 29 years for a burglary and weapons possession conviction, Lenz stabbed a fellow inmate, 41 year old Brent Parker, to death. Both were part of a Nordic Neopaganism sect, and the killing was committed over Parker allegedly not expressing enough devotion to their deities. Parker was serving a life sentence for killing a friend during a drunken rage at the time of his own murder.
98. John Schmitt (1999-2006, lethal injection): During a holdup of a bank, Schmitt shot and killed the guard, 39 year old Shelton Dunning, and took $35,000 from the vaults.
99. Kevin Green (1998-2008, lethal injection): Green and his teenage nephew stormed a convenience store, and forced the owners, 68 year old Lawrence Vaughan and his wife, 53 year old Patricia, to hand over $9,000 in cash. They then shot the couple, killing Patricia and wounding Lawrence.
100. Robert Yarbrough (1997-2008, lethal injection): Yarbrough and his accomplice tied up 77 year old Cyril Hamby while robbing his grocery store. They subjected Hamby to beatings and nearly decapitated him with a pocket knife. The pair then stole beer, wine, cigarettes, and an undisclosed amount of money.
101. Kent Jackson (2000-2008, lethal injection): Jackson and an accomplice attacked 79 year old Beulah Kaiser in her apartment, and raped her. She was stabbed several times in the neck, beaten, and her cane was shoved down her throat after she was anally penetrated with it. A cigarette butt found at the crime scene was traced to the pair.
102. Christopher Emmett (2001-2008, lethal injection): Emmett was staying at a motel room with a coworker, 43 year old John Langley, while they were working on an out of town roofing job. The pair played cards until Langley went to bed. As he slept, Emmett bludgeoned him to death with a lamp, and stole $100 from his wallet. He used the stolen money to buy crack cocaine.
103. Edward Bell (~1990s-2008, lethal injection): While running away from officers trying to arrest him for a parole violation, Bell shot and killed one of his pursers, 32 year old Sergeant Ricky Timbrook. Bell had a long criminal record, which included several felony and misdemeanor convictions of assault, burglary, carrying conceal weapons, and was found to have stolen a car during the investigations of Timbrook's murder.
104. John Muhammad (~1999-2008, lethal injection): The so called “D.C. Sniper”, Muhammad shot and killed 17 random people between the ages of 21-76 with the help of a teenage accomplice in mostly sniper attacks. The killings took place in the national capital, hence the epithet, and across several states. Due to his affiliation with the Nation of Islam and the accomplice’s accounts of planning terrorist attacks and training camps, Muhammad’s murder spree are often considered to be acts of Islamic extremism in the media. However, experts believe that his real intentions was to kill his estranged wife using the sniper attacks as a mask. Muhammad had a long history of domestic violence, and had abducted his children from his estranged wife on numerous occasions. His accomplice had also accused him of sexual abuse a few years after his execution.
105. Larry Elliott (2001-2008, electric chair): Elliott, a former military counterintelligence agent, was in an online "sugar daddy" relationship with a much younger woman. At the woman's request, Elliott sent her over $450,000, which she used to pay for a home, credit card, car, breast enhancement surgery, and enrolling her children in a private school. The woman was also involved with a bitter custody dispute with her children's father, 30 year old Robert Finch. In an attempt to win the woman's devotion, Elliott shot and killed Finch in his home, and beat Finch's girlfriend, 25 year old Dana Thrall, to death with the butt of his gun.
106. Paul Powell (1999-2010, electric chair): Angry that his friend, 16 year old Stacie Reed, was in an interracial relationship, Powell made an attempt to rape her in her home. When she fought back, Powell stabbed her to death. He also tied up Stacie's 14 year old sister to be raped, stabbed, and strangled, and left the girl to die in the family's basement. The sister managed to survive with the timely arrival of their stepfather, who called the police and the paramedics to the scene. On the mistaken belief that the death penalty was off the table, Powell sent letters flaunting the lewd details of the murder to taunt the prosecutors, judge, and the victims’ family.
107. Darick Walker (~1996-2010, lethal injection): In 1996, Walker walked up to the door of 36 year old Stanley Beale, and angrily accused him of showing up at his home despite the fact that they were complete strangers. He then shot Beale dead in front of his children and girlfriend, and ran away from the scene. A year later, Walker forced himself into an apartment, and shot 34 year old Clarence Threat seven times while he was laying in bed with his girlfriend. Walker had a history of violence and frequently stole from his friends and family. In one reported incident, he kicked the stomach of a pregnant woman in an act of rage.
108. Teresa Lewis (2002-2010, lethal injection): Lewis conspired with two men that she had a sexual relationship with to kill her husband, 51 year old Julian, and her stepson, 25 year old Charles. Charles was about to be deployed to participate in the then upcoming invasion of Iraq, which gave him a $250,000 life insurance policy that Lewis wanted to collect from both him and his father. She let her accomplices inside their trailer, and shot Julian and Charles while they were sleeping. Charles was killed immediately, while Julian, who witnessed Lewis pay the attackers, survived long enough to notify the responders of his wife's involvement.
109. Jerry Jackson (2001-2011, lethal injection): Jackson broke into the apartment of 88 year old Ruth Phillips, and woke her up while he was rummaging through her room. Despite Phillips' pleas for her life, Jackson raped her and suffocated her to death with a pillow. He stole her car and a total of $60 in the break in, and spent the stolen money on marijuana.
110. Robert Gleason (2007+(?)-2013, electric chair): In 2007, Gleason shot and killed 54 year old Michael Jamerson, in order to prevent him from testifying about his drug trafficking activities, and was given a life sentence for the murder. While incarcerated, he tied up and strangled his cellmate, 63 year old Harvey Watson (who serving a life sentence for a mass shooting). Prison officials then transferred him to a high security prison to await trial for Watson’s murder, but he managed to strangle another inmate, 26 year old Aaron Cooper (who was serving 34 years for robbery), to death with the wire that separated their cages. Gleason demanded the death penalty, which was given to him by the courts. He also claimed that he committed several other killings before Jamerson, but his additional confessions currently remain unverifiable.
111. Alfredo Prieto (~1984-2015, lethal injection): Prieto was both a serial killer of young women and a member of the Pomona Northside street gang. His sexual crimes involved the abductions, rapes, and shooting deaths of at least 4 females, 24 year old Tina Jefferson, 22 year old Rachael Raver, 19 year old Stacey Siegrist, and 15 year old Yvette Woodruff. Raver and Siegrist’s partners, 22 year old Warren Fulton III and 21 year old Anthony Gianuzzi, were also murdered during their kidnappings. The other known victims, 27 year old Manuel Sermeno, and couple, 71 year old Lula and 65 year old Herbert Farley, were shot dead during robberies. In the home invasion that killed Woodruff, Prieto and his fellow gang members also abducted her 17 year old friend and the friend’s 33 year old mother. The mother and daughter pair were gang-raped, shot and stabbed together, but they managed to escape with their lives. Prieto was sentenced to death in both California and Virginia, but stayed in California’s San Quentin until his death warrant was signed in Virginia. He had also shot and injured 3 gang members over his suspicions of them sleeping with his wife, but was lightly sentenced due to the victims' gang affiliations.
112. Ricky Gray (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Gray and his similarly aged nephew murdered at least 9 people, which composed of a lone woman, 35 year old Treva Gray, and two entire families, the Harveys (consisting of parents, 49 year old Bryan and 39 year old Kathryn, and their daughters, 9 year old Stella and 4 year old Ruby), and the Baskerville-Tuckers (consisting of 21 year old Ashley, her 46 year old mother Mary, and Mary’s 55 year old husband Percyell) in a week long burglary spree. Almost all of the victims were tied up and gagged in their homes, and beaten to death with hammers or had their throats slit. Before she was killed by them with her parents, victim Ashley Baskerville had assisted Gray and his nephew in several of their robberies. The pair stole any items and valuables they could carry, and were reported to have taken money, computers, television sets, wedding rings, and even cookies. They were also linked to several non fatal assaults, one of which involved a 26 year old man being beaten into a coma.
113. William Morva (~2005-2017, lethal injection): Morva, a son of Hungarian immigrants, and an accomplice were arrested while trying rob a grocery store at gunpoint. While awaiting trial, he badly sprained his ankle and wrist in prison, and was transferred to the Montgomery Regional Hospital for treatment. He overpowered a deputy guarding him with a metal toilet-paper container, stole his gun, fatally shot Derrick McFarland, a 25 year old hospital security guard, and escaped. Morva then fled to Virginia Tech’s campus, and shot and killed 40 year old Eric Sutphin, one of the police officers chasing him.

A polar bear in the Arctic, red foxes in Europe, penguins in Antarctica and a wide range of other wild animals have been infected with the flu virus strain currently spreading in dairy cattle in the U.S.
Why it matters: Up to 75% of new and emerging infectious diseases in people come from animals, and most of those can be traced back to wildlife. Monitoring wild animals for diseases can help scientists identify emerging health threats.

• Government agencies in the U.S. and around the world monitor wild birds for avian influenza, which spreads in bird populations without causing symptoms, and select animals for other pathogens.
• But on the whole, there is "very little surveillance of wildlife for any diseases," says Thomas Gillespie, a disease ecologist at Emory University. An exception is animals that are commercially important — like deer that people pay to hunt.

Catch up quick: Outbreaks of avian flu in farmed poultry and wild birds started to increase around the world in 2020.

• Soon after, the virus started to kill mammals — seals from Chile to Russia to Maine, red foxes in Europe and the U.S,. sea lions in Peru and other species.
• Bird flu has affected nearly 20 wild mammal species in the U.S. since 2022, including brown bears, skunks, mountain lions and a bottlenose dolphin in Florida.

Now cows are being infected. (They become ill but recover with treatment).

• There's been one mild human infection detected so far, in a person exposed to dairy cattle, but some researchers suspect not all cases in workers are being spotted.
• A report published Friday suggests that may be "the first detected case of the H5N1 virus transmitting from a mammal to a person," STAT's Helen Branswell reported.
• The CDC has said the risk to the general public is low.

The intrigue: "We’ve been seeing bird-to-mammal transmission events in a diversity of wild and domestic animals for about the last 4-5 years," Gillespie says.

• Scientists are watching for evidence of the virus being transmitted from one mammal to another, which increases the risk of the virus for humans.
• The USDA has confirmed this version of influenza is being transmitted between different cows in the same herd — and between herds when they are moved — but exactly how is still an open question.
• There is also some evidence the virus was transmitted from mammal-to-mammal in farmed minks.

Wild animals are in general thought to get the virus by eating an infected bird or being exposed to its feces.
But, "with wildlife it is really hard to know if mammal-to-mammal spread or individual events" because there is little surveillance, Gillespie says.
Full article:
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/04/bird-flu-wildlife-mammals

"新冠調查：正在調查什麼以及如何運作？
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英國新冠疫情調查繼在愛丁堡、卡迪夫和倫敦舉行首次公開聽證會後，將於貝爾法斯特舉行首次公開聽證會。
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該調查已經聽取了主要政治家、政府顧問、公務員、科學和醫學專家以及死者家屬代表的意見。
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什麼是公開質詢？
公眾詢問回應了對事件的「公眾關注」。它們由政府設立和資助，並由獨立主席領導。
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調查可以要求提供證據並強迫證人出庭。
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沒有人被判有罪或無罪，但結論已公佈。政府沒有義務接受任何建議。
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Coved 調查最初由前首相鮑里斯·約翰遜宣布，涵蓋英國政府以及蘇格蘭、威爾斯和北愛爾蘭在疫情期間的決策。
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當時，約翰遜表示政府的反應將「在顯微鏡下」。
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Covid 調查：英國大流行的數字
英國各地的新冠死亡率比較如何？
誰在領導新冠調查？
Covid 調查於 2022 年 6 月 28 日開始。
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該委員會由前法官、中立議員哈利特男爵夫人 (Baroness Hallett) 擔任主席，她曾領導 7 月 7 日倫敦爆炸案的調查。
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希瑟·哈利特男爵夫人將主持新冠疫情公開調查
圖片來源，食人魚攝影
圖片說明，
哈利特男爵夫人承諾調查將“徹底且公平”
查詢分為不同的部分。多個領域的工作已經開始：
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復原力和準備
威斯敏斯特、蘇格蘭、威爾斯和北愛爾蘭的決策和政治治理
新冠疫情對英國醫療保健系統的影響
疫苗、療法和抗病毒治療
政府採購及個人防護裝備
護理部門
測試和追蹤
未來的股線將考慮：
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政府的商業和財務應對措施
健康不平等
教育、兒童與青少年
其他公共服務
調查將持續多長時間沒有具體時間表，但截至 2025 年夏季的公開聽證會的詳細資訊已經公佈。
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關於調查第一個工作領域的報告預計將於 2024 年夏季發布。
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公開聽證會也在審查蘇格蘭、威爾斯和北愛爾蘭的政府決策。
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蘇格蘭也進行了一項單獨的調查，將從許多相同的專家和政治家那裡獲取證據。
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新冠調查的核心是損失和痛苦
兩個截然不同的新冠調查的故事
誰將在北愛爾蘭的聽證會上提供證據？
4月30日至5月16日期間將舉行為期12天的聽證會。
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調查尚未公佈所有將出庭證人的詳細資料。
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預計將從高級政界人士那裡獲取證據，包括前首席部長阿琳·福斯特女士和前副首席部長米歇爾·奧尼爾，兩人都被列為「核心參與者」。
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其他證人包括公務員、公共衛生主管以及代表死者家屬、老年人和殘疾人的團體。
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在聽證會之前，調查秘書本·康納在貝爾法斯特阿爾斯特博物館舉行的活動上發表講話，敦促當地人講述他們的故事並幫助制定最終報告的建議。
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“Covid Inquiry 需要聽取像我這樣的人的意見”
誰在威爾斯聽證會上提供了證據？
大多數聽證會都集中在第一波疫情。
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調查聽取了 34 名證人的證詞，其中包括前首席部長馬克·德雷克福德 (Mark Drakeford)，他將危機期間的時任首相鮑里斯·約翰遜 (Boris Johnson) 比作“缺席”的足球經理
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首席部長馬克德雷克福德 (Mark Drakeford) 於 2024 年 3 月向新冠調查提供證據
圖片來源，英國 COVID-19 查詢
圖片說明，
首席部長馬克·德雷克福德批評鮑里斯·約翰遜在大流行期間的領導力
許多證人指責威爾斯政府發布了相互矛盾、矛盾和令人困惑的指導意見，並批評：
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個人防護裝備 (PPE) 的方法
療養院居民的待遇
關閉學校的決定
2020 年 3 月，距離原定開賽 24 小時的威爾斯對蘇格蘭六國橄欖球賽被取消，這一消息多次被提及。
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Kirsten Heaven，Covid-19 失去親人家庭的顧問 Cymru：
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表示對這一流行病的早期反應是“被動、緩慢和脫節的”
批評部長們的反應“懶惰般的緊迫”
呼籲公佈所有相關政府 WhatsApp 訊息
代表威爾斯政府的安德魯·金尼爾·KC (Andrew Kinnier KC) 表示，部長們承認一些政策沒有達到他們希望的效果，但他們的決定是「對公民社會面臨的前所未有的挑戰的合理回應」。
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我們從 Covid 調查中了解到的五件事
誰在蘇格蘭聽證會上提供了證據？
蘇格蘭政府顧問和部長使用 WhatsApp 是一個關鍵問題。
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首席大臣胡姆扎·優素福對蘇格蘭政府未能交出相關WhatsApp消息毫無保留地表示歉意。
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尼古拉·斯特金
圖片來源，新冠肺炎查詢
圖片說明，
尼古拉·斯特金在調查中表示，她和她的政府是“公開、透明和負責任的”
前首席部長尼古拉·斯特金承認她刪除了這段時期的消息。
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但她堅稱，她沒有使用這些非正式管道做出決定或進行實質討論，所有相關內容都可以在公共記錄中找到。
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史特金女士在提供一些證據時情緒激動，在接受調查時似乎強忍著淚水，「我內心希望自己沒有擔任[大流行期間的首席部長]」。
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尼古拉·斯特金面臨的尷尬的新冠問題
英國在蘇格蘭進行的新冠調查：我們學到的五件事
總理里希·蘇納克（Rishi Sunak）對調查說了什麼？
蘇納克在倫敦舉行的第二輪公開聽證會上提供了證據，聽證會重點關注英國決策和政治治理。
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他向「所有因採取的行動而遭受痛苦的人」道歉，但否認他的「外出就餐幫助計劃」增加了新冠感染和死亡人數。
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Rishi Sunak 在 Wagamama 外出用餐時幫忙
圖片來源，英國財政部
圖片說明，
Rishi Sunak 在 Wagamama 提供食物，作為 Eat Out to Help Out 促銷活動的一部分
他還否認了政府首席醫療官克里斯·惠蒂教授爵士和前首席科學顧問帕特里克·瓦蘭斯爵士早些時候提出的證據，即沒有就該政策徵求他們的意見。
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蘇納克的外食計畫是否有助於傳播新冠病毒？
鮑里斯·約翰遜對調查說了什麼？
這位前總理在兩天內提供了證據。
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調查已經聽取了政府官員和顧問、學術專家和死者家屬代表的意見，其中許多人對他的行為極為批評。
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約翰遜首先對大流行期間經歷的「痛苦、損失和磨難」表示歉意。
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他的言論被抗議者打斷，抗議者被勒令離開房間。一些死者家屬舉著牌子，上面寫著：“死者聽不到你的道歉。”
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媒體標題，
巴納德城堡、重症監護室和質疑：約翰遜在新冠調查中受到盤問
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他承認犯了錯誤，並且「毫無疑問，我們應該採取不同的做法」。他表示，他“對所做的所有決定承擔個人責任”，但堅稱部長們在困難的情況下已盡了“最大努力”。
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悔悟，不做作－約翰遜接受質詢的第一天
約翰遜在新冠調查中的五個要點
還有誰在第二輪公開聽證會上提供了證據？
前衛生大臣馬特·漢考克（Matt Hancock）此前曾告訴調查，英國的流行病策略是完全錯誤的，他否認自己在任職期間對同事撒了謊。
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但他承認英國應該更早實施封鎖，並批評政府中的“有毒文化”，他將此歸咎於約翰遜的前顧問多米尼克·卡明斯。
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內閣部長邁克爾·戈夫也向「遭受如此巨大損失的受害者和家屬」道歉，但否認約翰遜無法做出決定。
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克里斯爵士、他的前副教授喬納森·範塔姆爵士和帕特里克爵士透露，他們向政府提供的建議與其政治優先事項（例如外出就餐以提供幫助）之間存在著嚴重的緊張關係。
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鮑里斯·約翰遜、克里斯·惠蒂爵士和帕特里克·瓦蘭斯爵士
圖片來源PA MEDIA
圖片說明，
約翰遜先生、克里斯爵士和帕特里克爵士在大流行期間在唐寧街與記者交談
喬納森爵士透露，他和他的家人收到了死亡威脅，而帕特里克爵士則表示，他也曾考慮因虐待而辭職。
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前內閣副秘書長海倫·麥克納馬拉(Helen MacNamara) 在調查中表示，她很難“選擇有一天”在一輛“充滿男子氣概”且“有毒”的10 號車內正確遵守新冠病毒規定。
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多明尼克·卡明斯
圖片來源，EPA
圖片說明，
多明尼克·卡明斯強烈批評前議員鮑里斯·約翰遜的做法
卡明斯在他的證據中描述了一個「功能失調」的政府，沒有計劃封鎖國家或保護弱勢群體。
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調查聽到了他發送的嚴厲短信，其中許多包含對部長和官員的攻擊性描述。
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他表示，他對第一次封鎖期間他臭名昭著的巴納德城堡之行的災難性處理感到遺憾，但否認他的行為損害了公眾的信任。
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Covid 調查 WhatsApp 描繪了混亂的景象
調查如何揭露新冠決策中的深層缺陷
誰在第一輪公開聽證會上提供了證據？
首次公開聽證會考慮了英國的復原力和準備情況，聽取了 69 名獨立專家以及前任和現任政府官員和部長的證據。
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媒體標題，
莎莉戴維斯教授告訴新冠調查，「問題不僅僅是死亡，還有他們的死亡方式」。
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其中包括前衛生部長傑里米·亨特和馬特·漢考克、前首相大衛·卡梅倫和前蘇格蘭首席部長尼古拉·斯特金。
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克里斯爵士、他的前任莎莉戴維斯教授和派崔克爵士也在第一次聽證會上提供了證據。
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Covid 調查：到目前為止我們學到了什麼？
公眾如何參與？
任何人都可以透過調查的「每個故事都很重要」項目分享他們的經驗。
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice 運動團體批評政府對這場流行病的處理方式，敦促進行調查，以確保這些聲音得到傾聽。
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公開聽證會在 BBC 新聞網站和調查的 YouTube 頻道上進行直播，證人筆錄也在調查網站上發布。
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公眾人士也可申請親自出席。
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"新冠调查：正在调查什么以及如何运作？
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英国新冠疫情调查继在爱丁堡、卡迪夫和伦敦举行首次公开​​听证会后，将于贝尔法斯特举行首次公开​​听证会。
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该调查已经听取了主要政治家、政府顾问、公务员、科学和医学专家以及死者家属代表的意见。
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什么是公开质询？
公众询问回应了对事件的“公众关注”。它们由政府设立和资助，由独立主席领导。
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调查可以要求提供证据并强迫证人出庭。
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没有人被判有罪或无罪，但结论已公布。政府没有义务接受任何建议。
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Coved 调查最初由前首相鲍里斯·约翰逊宣布，涵盖英国政府以及苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰在疫情期间的决策。
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当时，约翰逊表示政府的反应将“在显微镜下”。
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Covid 调查：英国疫情大流行的数字
英国各地的新冠死亡率比较如何？
谁在领导新冠调查？调查如何运作？
Covid 调查于 2022 年 6 月 28 日开始。
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该委员会由前法官、中立议员哈利特男爵夫人 (Baroness Hallett) 担任主席，她曾领导过 7 月 7 日伦敦爆炸案的调查。
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希瑟·哈利特男爵夫人将主持新冠疫情公开调查
图片来源，食人鱼摄影
图片说明，
哈利特男爵夫人承诺调查将“彻底且公平”
查询分为不同的部分。多个领域的工作已经开始：
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复原力和准备
威斯敏斯特、苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的决策和政治治理
新冠疫情对英国医疗保健系统的影响
疫苗、疗法和抗病毒治疗
政府采购和个人防护装备
护理部门
测试和追踪
未来的股线将考虑：
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政府的商业和财务应对措施
健康不平等
教育、儿童和青少年
其他公共服务
调查将持续多长时间没有具体时间表，但截至 2025 年夏季的公开听证会的详细信息已经公布。
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关于调查第一个工作领域的报告预计将于 2024 年夏季发布。
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公开听证会也在审查苏格兰、威尔士和北爱尔兰的政府决策。
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苏格兰还进行了一项单独的调查，将从许多相同的专家和政治家那里获取证据。
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新冠调查的核心是损失和痛苦
两个截然不同的新冠调查的故事
谁将在北爱尔兰的听证会上提供证据？
4月30日至5月16日期间将举行为期12天的听证会。
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调查尚未公布所有将出庭证人的详细信息。
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预计将从高级政界人士那里获取证据，包括前首席部长阿琳·福斯特女士和前副首席部长米歇尔·奥尼尔，两人都被列为“核心参与者”。
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其他证人包括公务员、公共卫生主管以及代表死者家属、老年人和残疾人的团体。
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在听证会之前，调查秘书本·康纳在贝尔法斯特阿尔斯特博物馆举行的一次活动上发表讲话，敦促当地人讲述他们的故事并帮助制定最终报告的建议。
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“Covid Inquiry 需要听取像我这样的人的意见”
谁在威尔士听证会上提供了证据？
大多数听证会都集中在第一波大流行上。
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调查听取了 34 名证人的证词，其中包括前首席部长马克·德雷克福德 (Mark Drakeford)，他将危机期间的时任首相鲍里斯·约翰逊 (Boris Johnson) 比作“缺席”的足球经理
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首席部长马克·德雷克福德 (Mark Drakeford) 于 2024 年 3 月向新冠调查提供证据
图片来源，英国 COVID-19 查询
图片说明，
首席部长马克·德雷克福德批评鲍里斯·约翰逊在大流行期间的领导力
许多证人指责威尔士政府发布了相互矛盾、矛盾和令人困惑的指导意见，并批评：
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个人防护装备 (PPE) 的方法
疗养院居民的待遇
关闭学校的决定
2020 年 3 月，距离原定开赛 24 小时的威尔士对苏格兰六国橄榄球赛被取消，这一消息多次被提及。
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Kirsten Heaven，Covid-19 失去亲人家庭的顾问 Cymru：
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表示对这一流行病的早期反应是“被动、缓慢和脱节的”
批评部长们的反应“懒惰般的紧迫”
呼吁公布所有相关政府 WhatsApp 消息
代表威尔士政府的安德鲁·金尼尔·KC (Andrew Kinnier KC) 表示，部长们承认一些政策没有达到他们希望的效果，但他们的决定是“对公民社会面临的前所未有的挑战的合理回应”。
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我们从 Covid 调查中了解到的五件事
谁在苏格兰听证会上提供了证据？
苏格兰政府顾问和部长使用 WhatsApp 是一个关键问题。
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首席大臣胡姆扎·优素福对苏格兰政府未能交出相关WhatsApp消息毫无保留地表示歉意。
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尼古拉·斯特金
图片来源，新冠肺炎查询
图片说明，
尼古拉·斯特金在调查中表示，她和她的政府是“公开、透明和负责任的”
前首席部长尼古拉·斯特金承认她删除了这段时期的消息。
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但她坚称，她没有使用这些非正式渠道做出决定或进行实质性讨论，所有相关内容都可以在公共记录中找到。
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斯特金女士在提供一些证据时情绪激动，在接受调查时似乎强忍着泪水，“我内心希望自己没有担任[大流行期间的首席部长]”。
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尼古拉·斯特金面临的尴尬的新冠问题
英国在苏格兰进行的新冠调查：我们学到的五件事
总理里希·苏纳克（Rishi Sunak）对调查说了什么？
苏纳克在伦敦举行的第二轮公开听证会上提供了证据，听证会重点关注英国决策和政治治理。
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他向“所有因采取的行动而遭受痛苦的人”道歉，但否认他的“外出就餐帮助计划”增加了新冠感染和死亡人数。
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Rishi Sunak 在 Wagamama 外出就餐时帮忙
图片来源，英国财政部
图片说明，
Rishi Sunak 在 Wagamama 提供食物，作为 Eat Out to Help Out 促销活动的一部分
他还否认了政府首席医疗官克里斯·惠蒂教授爵士和前首席科学顾问帕特里克·瓦兰斯爵士早些时候提出的证据，即没有就该政策征求他们的意见。
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苏纳克的外出就餐计划是否有助于传播新冠病毒？
鲍里斯·约翰逊对调查说了什么？
这位前总理在两天内提供了证据。
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调查已经听取了政府官员和顾问、学术专家和死者家属代表的意见，其中许多人对他的行为极为批评。
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约翰逊首先对大流行期间经历的“痛苦、损失和磨难”表示歉意。
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他的言论被抗议者打断，抗议者被勒令离开房间。一些死者家属举着牌子，上面写着：“死者听不到你的道歉。”
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媒体标题，
巴纳德城堡、重症监护室和质问：约翰逊在新冠调查中受到盘问
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他承认犯了错误，并且“毫无疑问，我们应该采取不同的做法”。他表示，他“对所做的所有决定承担个人责任”，但坚称部长们在困难的情况下已尽了“最大努力”。
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悔悟，不做作——约翰逊接受质询的第一天
约翰逊在新冠调查中的五个要点
还有谁在第二轮公开听证会上提供了证据？
前卫生大臣马特·汉考克（Matt Hancock）此前曾告诉调查，英国的流行病策略是完全错误的，他否认自己在任职期间对同事撒了谎。
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但他承认英国应该更早实施封锁，并批评政府中的“有毒文化”，他将此归咎于约翰逊的前顾问多米尼克·卡明斯。
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内阁部长迈克尔·戈夫也向“遭受如此巨大损失的受害者和家属”道歉，但否认约翰逊无法做出决定。
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克里斯爵士、他的前副教授乔纳森·范塔姆爵士和帕特里克爵士透露，他们向政府提供的建议与其政治优先事项（例如外出就餐以提供帮助）之间存在着严重的紧张关系。
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鲍里斯·约翰逊、克里斯·惠蒂爵士和帕特里克·瓦兰斯爵士
图片来源PA MEDIA
图片说明，
约翰逊先生、克里斯爵士和帕特里克爵士在大流行期间在唐宁街与记者交谈
乔纳森爵士透露，他和他的家人收到了死亡威胁，而帕特里克爵士则表示，他也曾考虑因虐待而辞职。
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前内阁副秘书长海伦·麦克纳马拉 (Helen MacNamara) 在调查中表示，她很难“选择有一天”在一辆“充满男子气概”且“有毒”的 10 号车内正确遵守新冠病毒规定。
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多米尼克·卡明斯
图片来源，EPA
图片说明，
多米尼克·卡明斯强烈批评前议员鲍里斯·约翰逊的做法
卡明斯在他的证据中描述了一个“功能失调”的政府，没有计划封锁国家或保护弱势群体。
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调查听到了他发送的严厉短信，其中许多包含对部长和官员的攻击性描述。
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他表示，他对第一次封锁期间他臭名昭著的巴纳德城堡之行的灾难性处理感到遗憾，但否认他的行为损害了公众的信任。
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Covid 调查 WhatsApp 描绘了混乱的景象
调查如何暴露新冠决策中的深层缺陷
谁在第一轮公开听证会上提供了证据？
首次公开听证会考虑了英国的复原力和准备情况，听取了 69 名独立专家以及前任和现任政府官员和部长的证据。
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媒体标题，
莎莉·戴维斯教授告诉新冠调查，“问题不仅仅是死亡，还有他们的死亡方式”。
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其中包括前卫生部长杰里米·亨特和马特·汉考克、前首相大卫·卡梅伦和前苏格兰首席部长尼古拉·斯特金。
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克里斯爵士、他的前任莎莉·戴维斯教授和帕特里克爵士也在第一次听证会上提供了证据。
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Covid 调查：到目前为止我们学到了什么？
公众如何参与？
任何人都可以通过调查的“每个故事都很重要”项目分享他们的经验。
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Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice 运动团体批评政府对这一流行病的处理方式，敦促进行调查，以确保这些声音得到倾听。
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公开听证会在 BBC 新闻网站和调查的 YouTube 频道上进行直播，证人笔录也在调查网站上发布。
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公众人士也可申请亲自出席。
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"Inkjesta Covid: X'qed tinvestiga u kif taħdem?
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L-inkjesta dwar il-Covid tar-Renju Unit qed torganizza l-ewwel smigħ pubbliku tagħha f'Belfast, wara sessjonijiet preċedenti f'Edinburgh, Cardiff u Londra.
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L-inkjesta diġà semgħet minn politiċi ewlenin, konsulenti tal-gvern, impjegati taċ-ċivil, esperti xjentifiċi u mediċi u rappreżentanti ta’ familji mnikkta.
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X'inhi inkjesta pubblika?
L-inkjesti pubbliċi jirrispondu għal ""tħassib pubbliku"" dwar l-avvenimenti. Stabbiliti u ffinanzjati mill-gvern, huma mmexxija minn president indipendenti.
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L-inkjesti jistgħu jitolbu evidenza u jġiegħlu lix-xhieda jattendu.
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Ħadd ma jinstab ħati jew innoċenti, iżda l-konklużjonijiet huma ppubblikati. Il-gvern mhu obbligat jaċċetta l-ebda rakkomandazzjoni.
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L-inkjesta Coved, oriġinarjament imħabbra mill-eks Prim Ministru Boris Johnson, tkopri t-teħid ta 'deċiżjonijiet matul il-pandemija mill-gvern tar-Renju Unit u fl-Iskozja, Wales u l-Irlanda ta' Fuq.
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Dak iż-żmien, is-Sur Johnson qal li r-rispons tal-gvern ikun ""taħt il-mikroskopju"".
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Inkjesta Covid: Il-pandemija tar-Renju Unit f'numri
Kif iqabblu r-rati tal-imwiet tal-Covid madwar ir-Renju Unit?
Min qed imexxi l-inkjesta dwar il-Covid u kif taħdem?
L-inkjesta dwar il-Covid bdiet fit-28 ta’ Ġunju 2022.
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Huwa ppresedut mill-ex imħallef u sħabi ta' crossbench Baroness Hallett, li preċedentement mexxiet l-inkjesti dwar il-bombi tas-7 ta' Lulju f'Londra.
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Il-Barunessa Heather Hallett li se tippresjedi l-inkjesta pubblika dwar il-pandemija tal-Covid
SORS TA' L-IMMAĠNI, FOTOGRAFIJA PIRANHA
Titlu tal-immaġni,
Il-Barunessa Hallett wiegħdet li l-inkjesta kienet se tkun ""kompleta u ġusta""
L-inkjesta hija maqsuma f'partijiet differenti. Ix-xogħol f'diversi oqsma beda:
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reżiljenza u tħejjija
teħid ta’ deċiżjonijiet u governanza politika f’Westminster, l-Iskozja, Wales u l-Irlanda ta’ Fuq
l-impatt tal-Covid fuq is-sistemi tal-kura tas-saħħa madwar ir-Renju Unit
vaċċini, terapewtiċi u trattament antivirali
akkwist tal-gvern u PPE
is-settur tal-kura
test-u-traċċa
Fergħat futuri ser jikkunsidraw:
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in-negozju u r-reazzjonijiet finanzjarji tal-gvern
inugwaljanzi fis-saħħa
edukazzjoni, tfal u żgħażagħ
servizzi pubbliċi oħra
M'hemm l-ebda skadenza speċifika għal kemm se ddum l-inkjesta - iżda d-dettalji tas-seduti pubbliċi sas-sajf tal-2025 ġew ippubblikati.
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Rapport dwar l-ewwel qasam ta’ ħidma tal-inkjesta huwa mistenni fis-sajf tal-2024.
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Is-seduti pubbliċi qed jeżaminaw ukoll it-teħid ta’ deċiżjonijiet tal-gvern fl-Iskozja, Wales u l-Irlanda ta’ Fuq.
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L-Iskozja qed torganizza wkoll inkjesta separata, li se tieħu evidenza minn ħafna mill-istess esperti u politiċi.
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Telf u tbatija fil-qalba tal-inkjesta dwar il-Covid
Storja ta’ żewġ inkjesti differenti ħafna dwar il-Covid
Min se jagħti xhieda waqt is-seduti fl-Irlanda ta' Fuq?
Se jkun hemm 12-il jum ta’ seduti bejn it-30 ta’ April u s-16 ta’ Mejju.
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L-inkjesta għadha ma ppubblikatx dettalji tax-xhieda kollha li se jidhru.
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Huwa mistenni li jieħu evidenza minn politiċi anzjani, inklużi l-eks Ewwel Ministru Dame Arlene Foster u l-eks Deputat Ewwel Ministru Michelle O'Neill, it-tnejn li huma elenkati bħala ""parteċipanti ewlenin"".
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Xhieda oħra se jinkludu ħaddiema taċ-ċivil, id-direttur tas-saħħa pubblika, u gruppi li jirrappreżentaw familji batuti, anzjani u dawk b’diżabilità.
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Meta tkellem waqt avveniment fil-Mużew tal-Ulster, f’Belfast, qabel is-seduti ta’ smigħ, is-segretarju tal-inkjesta Ben Connah ħeġġeġ lin-nies lokali biex jirrakkontaw l-istejjer tagħhom u jgħinu biex jiffurmaw ir-rakkomandazzjonijiet tar-rapport finali.
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'Covid Inquiry jeħtieġ li tisma' minn nies bħali'
Min xehed waqt is-seduti f'Wales?
Ħafna mis-seduti ffukaw fuq l-ewwel mewġa tal-pandemija.
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L-inkjesta semgħet mingħand 34 xhud, inkluż l-eks-Ewwel Ministru Mark Drakeford, li qabbel lill-Prim Ministru ta’ dak iż-żmien Boris Johnson matul il-kriżi ma’ maniġer tal-futbol “assenti”
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L-Ewwel Ministru Mark Drakeford qed jagħti xhieda għall-inkjesta Covid f'Marzu 2024
SORS TA' L-IMMAĠNI, INKJESTA dwar il-COVID-19 tar-Renju Unit
Titlu tal-immaġni,
L-Ewwel Ministru Mark Drakeford ikkritika t-tmexxija ta’ Boris Johnson waqt il-pandemija
Għadd ta’ xhieda akkużaw lill-gvern ta’ Wales li ħareġ gwida konfliġġenti, kontradittorja u konfuża u kkritika:
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approċċ għal tagħmir ta' protezzjoni personali (PPE)
trattament ta’ residenti fid-dar tal-kura
deċiżjoni li jagħlqu l-iskejjel
Il-kanċellazzjoni tal-partita tar-rugby Wales vs Scotland Six Nations, f'Marzu 2020, 24 siegħa qabel ma kellha tibda, ġiet imsemmija bosta drabi.
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Kirsten Heaven, avukat għall-Familji Imweġġa mill-Covid-19 Cymru:
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qal li kien hemm reazzjoni bikrija ""passiva, bil-mod u diskonnessa"" għall-pandemija
ikkritika l-""urġenza bħal naża"" tar-rispons tal-ministri
talab għall-pubblikazzjoni tal-messaġġi kollha rilevanti tal-gvern WhatsApp
Andrew Kinnier KC, li jirrappreżenta lill-gvern ta’ Wales, qal li l-ministri aċċettaw li xi politiki ma ħadmux kif ittamaw iżda d-deċiżjonijiet tagħhom kienu “rispons raġonevoli għall-isfida bla preċedent għas-soċjetà ċivili”.
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Ħames affarijiet li tgħallimna mill-inkjesta dwar il-Covid
Min xehed waqt is-seduti fl-Iskozja?
L-użu ta' WhatsApp mill-konsulenti u l-ministri tal-gvern Skoċċiż kien kwistjoni ewlenija.
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L-Ewwel Ministru Humza Yousaf skuża ruħu mingħajr riżervi għan-nuqqas tal-gvern Skoċċiż li jgħaddi messaġġi rilevanti WhatsApp.
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Nicola Sturgeon
SORS TA' L-IMMAĠNI, INKJESTA TAL-COVID
Titlu tal-immaġni,
Nicola Sturgeon qalet lill-inkjesta li hi u l-gvern tagħha kienu ""miftuħa, trasparenti u responsabbli""
L-eks Prim Ministru Nicola Sturgeon ammettiet li ħassret messaġġi mill-perjodu.
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Iżda insistiet li ma użatx dawn il-kanali informali biex tasal għal deċiżjonijiet jew biex ikollha diskussjonijiet sostanzjali, u li dak kollu ta’ rilevanza kien disponibbli fuq ir-rekord pubbliku.
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Is-Sinjura Sturgeon kienet emozzjonata waqt xi wħud mill-evidenza tagħha, u dehret tiġġieled id-dmugħ hekk kif qalet lill-inkjesta li ""parti minni tixtieq li ma kontx [l-Ewwel Ministru matul il-pandemija]"".
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Il-mistoqsijiet skomdi tal-Covid li ffaċċjat Nicola Sturgeon
Inkjesta dwar il-Covid tar-Renju Unit fl-Iskozja: Ħames affarijiet li tgħallimna
X'qal il-PM Rishi Sunak għall-inkjesta?
Is-Sur Sunak ta xhieda waqt it-tieni rawnd ta’ seduti pubbliċi f’Londra, li ffokaw fuq it-teħid ta’ deċiżjonijiet tar-Renju Unit u l-governanza politika.
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Huwa skuża ruħu ma’ “dawk kollha li sofrew... bħala riżultat tal-azzjonijiet li ttieħdu”, iżda ċaħad li l-Iskema tiegħu Eat Out to Help Out żiedet l-infezzjonijiet u l-imwiet tal-Covid.
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Rishi Sunak f'Wagamama waqt Eat Out To Help Out
SORS TA' L-IMMAĠNI, HM TEŻOR
Titlu tal-immaġni,
Rishi Sunak serva l-ikel f’Wagamama bħala parti minn avveniment promozzjonali għal Eat Out to Help Out
Huwa ċaħad ukoll evidenza preċedenti mill-uffiċjal mediku kap tal-gvern, Prof Sir Chris Whitty, u l-eks konsulent xjentifiku ewlieni Sir Patrick Vallance li ma ġewx ikkonsultati dwar il-politika.
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L-iskema Eat Out ta’ Sunak għenet biex ixerred il-Covid?
X'qal Boris Johnson għall-inkjesta?
L-eks Prim Ministru ta xhieda fuq jumejn.
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L-inkjesta kienet diġà semgħet mingħand uffiċjali u konsulenti tal-gvern, esperti akkademiċi u rappreżentanti ta’ familji mnebbħa, li ħafna minnhom kienu kritiċi ħafna għall-azzjonijiet tiegħu.
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Is-Sur Johnson beda billi skuża ruħu għall-""uġigħ u t-telf u t-tbatija"" esperjenzati matul il-pandemija.
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Il-kummenti tiegħu ġew interrotti minn dimostranti, li ġew ordnati joħorġu mill-kamra. Xi membri ta’ familji mnikktin żammew tabelli li kienu jgħidu: “Il-mejtin ma jistgħux jisimgħu l-apoloġiji tiegħek.”
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Titlu tal-midja,
Barnard Castle, ICU u heckling: Johnson grilled fuq inkjesta Covid
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Huwa ammetta li saru żbalji, u li ""mingħajr dubju kien hemm affarijiet li kellna għamilna differenti"". Huwa qal li ħa “responsabbiltà personali għad-deċiżjonijiet kollha li ttieħdu”, iżda insista li l-ministri għamlu l-“livell tagħhom minn kollox” f’ċirkostanzi diffiċli.
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Kontrit, imqaxxar mit-teatriċi - l-ewwel jum ta' Johnson fl-inkjesta
Ħames takeaways mingħand Johnson fl-inkjesta dwar il-Covid
Min aktar ta xhieda waqt it-tieni rawnd ta' seduti pubbliċi?
L-eks Segretarju tas-Saħħa Matt Hancock - li qabel qal lill-inkjesta li l-istrateġija pandemika tar-Renju Unit kienet kompletament żbaljata - ċaħad li gideb lill-kollegi matul il-perjodu tiegħu fil-kariga.
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Iżda huwa ammetta li r-Renju Unit kellu jissakkar ħafna qabel u kkritika l-""kultura tossika"" fil-gvern, li għaliha twaħħal lill-eks konsulent tas-Sur Johnson, Dominic Cummings.
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Il-Ministru tal-Kabinett Michael Gove skuża wkoll lil ""vittmi u familji li ġarrbu tant telf"", iżda ċaħad li s-Sur Johnson ma setax jieħu deċiżjonijiet.
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Sir Chris, l-eks deputat tiegħu Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam u Sir Patrick żvelaw tensjonijiet sinifikanti bejn il-pariri tagħhom lill-gvern u l-prijoritajiet politiċi tiegħu, bħal fuq Eat Out to Help Out.
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Boris Johnson, Sir Chris Whitty u Sir Patrick Vallance
SORS TAL-IMMAĠNI, PA MEDIA
Titlu tal-immaġni,
Is-Sur Johnson, Sir Chris u Sir Patrick tkellmu mal-ġurnalisti f'Downing St matul il-pandemija
Sir Jonathan żvela li hu u l-familja tiegħu kienu rċevew theddid ta’ mewt, filwaqt li Sir Patrick qal li kien ikkunsidra wkoll li jirriżenja minħabba abbuż.
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L-eks deputat segretarju tal-kabinett Helen MacNamara qalet lill-inkjesta li hi tħabtu ""biex tagħżel ġurnata waħda"" meta r-regoli tal-Covid ġew segwiti kif suppost ġewwa Nru 10 ""macho"" u ""tossiku"".
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Duminku Cummings
SORS TA' L-IMMAĠNI, EPA
Titlu tal-immaġni,
Dominic Cummings kien kritiku ħafna għall-approċċ tal-eks MP Boris Johnson
Fl-evidenza tiegħu, is-Sur Cummings iddeskriva gvern ""ma jiffunzjonax"" mingħajr pjanijiet biex jissakkar il-pajjiż jew jipproteġi lil dawk vulnerabbli.
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L-inkjesta semgħet messaġġi ħarxa li bagħat, li ħafna minnhom kien fihom deskrizzjonijiet offensivi ta’ ministri u uffiċjali.
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Huwa qal li ddispjaċih mill-immaniġġjar diżastruż tal-vjaġġ infami tiegħu lejn Barnard Castle matul l-ewwel lockdown, iżda ċaħad li l-azzjonijiet tiegħu għamlu ħsara lill-fiduċja pubblika.
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L-inkjesta dwar il-Covid WhatsApps ipinġu stampa tal-kaos
Kif l-inkjesta qed tesponi difetti profondi fit-teħid tad-deċiżjonijiet dwar il-Covid
Min ta xhieda waqt l-ewwel rawnd ta’ seduti pubbliċi?
L-ewwel seduti pubbliċi, li kkunsidraw ir-reżiljenza u t-tħejjija tar-Renju Unit, ħadu evidenza minn 69 espert indipendenti u uffiċjali u ministri tal-gvern preċedenti u attwali.
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Titlu tal-midja,
Prof Dame Sally Davies tgħid lill-inkjesta Covid li ""mhux biss l-imwiet, kien il-mod kif mietu"".
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Dawn kienu jinkludu l-eks segretarji tas-saħħa Jeremy Hunt u Matt Hancock, l-eks Prim Ministru David Cameron u l-eks-ewwel ministru tal-Iskozja, Nicola Sturgeon.
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Sir Chris, il-predeċessur tiegħu Prof Dame Sally Davies, u Sir Patrick xehdu wkoll waqt l-ewwel seduti.
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Inkjesta Covid: X'tgħallimna s'issa?
Kif jista’ jinvolvi ruħu l-pubbliku?
Kulħadd jista’ jaqsam l-esperjenza tiegħu permezz tal-proġett tal-inkjesta Every Story Matters.
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Il-grupp tal-kampanja Familji fil-Beluta għall-Ġustizzja tal-Covid-19 - li kkritika l-immaniġġjar tal-pandemija mill-gvern - ħeġġeġ l-inkjesta biex tiżgura li dawn il-vuċijiet jinstemgħu.
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Is-seduti ta' smigħ pubbliċi huma streamed fuq il-websajt tal-BBC News u l-kanal YouTube tal-inkjesta, u t-traskrizzjonijiet tax-xhieda huma ppubblikati fuq il-websajt tal-inkjesta.
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Il-membri tal-pubbliku jistgħu japplikaw ukoll biex jattendu personalment.
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Twister (1996) was far better than it had any right to be. There just are movies where, if you were to make them 100 times in alternate universes, they would fail 98 times. Here's why Twisters (2024), with a larger budget (adjusted), will fail to replicate that success:

1. Likeable main characters: There was almost no one more likeable than 1990s Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt. As a movie producer, if you had that, it would feel like a free win. Almost no effort was needed to make those characters relatable or likeable. Twisters (2024) doesn't have this free pass. It's possible they do it, but unlikely.
   
2. Novel ideas: This was before the mainstream internet. Unless you were lucky enough to catch a news segment, or a Discovery channel special on storm chasers, you didn't know they existed. That added mystery and real adventure to the movie. Twisters (2024) doesn't have this.
   
3. Special effects: The 1990s were a dividing line in the history of movies. There have always been special effects, but the game was taken to a whole new level in the 90s with the availability of good computers and software. I remember watching Jurassic Park (1993) in the theater. It wasn't impressive from a special effects angle just because they were great, it was also impressive because the idea of effects that good was a novel idea to theater goers. Twisters (2024) will likely have better effects, but they won't be new. You've seen it before.
   
4. Quality acting: The level of talent on Twister (1996) was higher than you would expect. It wasn't just names you recognize, it was genuinely capable and experienced actors. Twisters (2024) may end up having good performances, but it just won't be comparable.
   

I listened to the Q&A of season 3 is always good to get somethings close to right. It is also nice to learn about things I didn’t notice on my first round. Glad I am not the only one obsessed with Elias voice 😂

• Season 4 Trailer

How am I in season 4 already? Also that trailer my sweet Martin. I am glad despite all he is still sweet.
I don’t know how many days/weeks have been since the mission. Have any of them tried reading statements aloud to him to make him better? Interesting that the non neutral record turned on.

• MAG 121: Far Away

OMG the dream guy! The one that predicted Gertrude’s death. And at the end of that episode John said that he hoped he would be warned beforehand. Also that sentient tape recorder.
He is fucking death? OMG 😱 JOHN NEEDS TO CHOOSE? 😭😭😭😭 but what will he become if he chooses to not give in to the end. Like what does it mean to give in fully to the eye?
Oh no spiders 😭😭😭 is this the season of the web isn’t it? 😭😭😭😭 but also why can the spider request something of someone related to the end?
How does this show just keep getting better and better

• MAG 122: Zombie

I love how much Georgie cares about John without it being implied she still has feelings for him. Just pure friendship, you only get angry at people you really care about
So we know Georgie has seen death. But maybe she is touched somehow. And that is why she can identify the avatar?
SIX MONTHS!!!???
Ohhhhh… is this about the lonely?
“Dusty old white men thinking about existence” 😂☠️ best definition of philosophy
Love how sutil it is how John changes as reading the statement is curing him almost.
“WHAT DID HE DO TO MARTIN?” The tone change in John!!!! I am sure many people in the fandom squealed at that

• MAG 123: Web Development

Yeah this is not just an emotional breakdown… there has to be something more going on
When Gerry talked about the Lucase’s he mentioned something about the lonely. If the other entities have taken notice of the beholding… and are attacking why would Elias appoint someone related to another entity? Now that I think about it on season 1 they mentioned they were patrons… why would they support the institute?
He said “THE ARCHIVIST” not “head archivist” subtle but probably important change
“Spindly” and website… spiders isn’t?
“Welcome to tory Britain” I love how they make obvious their social justice beliefs but in very subtle ways.

• MAG 124: Left Hanging

Omg that interaction with Martin was heartbreaking 😭

• MAG 125: Civilian Casualties

Leg surgery in the institute to save Melanie of a potential slaughter infected bullet was not on my bingo card

• MAG 126: Sculptor's Tool

Martin talking to the tape recorders like they are pets 😭
LMAO the shade towards the archive having archivists with no knowledge how to archive. Though it is by now clear Gertrude disorganized on purpose.
Whatever Lukas told Martin must have been heavy to convince him isolating himself would be for the best
Also of course Elias wanted a ritual and the lonely said something about “FIRST” Lukas doesn’t seem to be referring to the Lonely ritual but more like winning against someone on this race. And I don’t know does it mean because Lukas thinks Elias was wrong he then is trying to make the lonely one happen quickly to beat someone else?
This thing about Lukas not being good with technology will be important later I think

• MAG 127: Remains to be Seen

WHAT IS HAPPENING
Lol the recorder did just appear put of nowhere 😂
They never found Daisy’s body… is that perchance the way Elias thinks he can help defend the institute?

• MAG 128: Heavy Goods

“statement extracted from subject” ☠️
Is very interesting how this statement went through hundreds of years. And of course it did the had much detail because it most feel like that to someone who has lived that long.

• MAG 129: Submerged

Remember when in episode 1 John said he couldn’t stand Martin and he should be fired 😭 and now he is like “I miss you”
The thing about anchors is they seem to be tied to something sentimental. That italy episode the girl thought of her mother. The knife belonging to the grandfather. I am not saying it needs to be a romantic thing just saying it needs to matter. So what is John going to use?
The thing about the buried ritual sounds like the episode with the pit… is that the same?
John entering his pining emo era

• MAG 130: Meat

I keep wondering how far had Gertrude gone into not being “human” or letting the beholding in… or was Gertrude like Bezira, someone that was able to stop all this because she was very resourceful and cold? Like this woman has stopped what…. 4 apocalypses? The buried, the spiral, flesh, also desolation???
Has John not noticed every time he tries to go at it alone it doesn’t go well? But this does show how different he is from Gertrude. Gertrude even sacrificed his own assistants. I am not sure John likes Daisy that much and he here he goes on his way of doing something incredibly stupid
Also don’t trust the web

• MAG 131: Flesh

The sound effects are so disturbing. Which I know is the point.
“the only way was to betray my trust and destroy any other sense of safety” ☠️
It was so hard to understand this episode because I am an ESL
Is all weird how now they are not friends with the spiral but less antagonistic? Lol 😂 apparently allies?
There was this mention that both Melanie and Martin fled. Melanie came back with the knife. Is this where Martin made the deal with the devil?

• MAG 132: Entombed

The static noise increased… and then John said “no need for that I am willing”
OBVIOUSLY SHE IS NOT OK JOHN FOR FUCKS SAKE
“Is this like all your other plans” ☠️☠️☠️☠️
Is very sort of precious when John asks for consent to use his powers
Another thing that will need some explaining is… once they started at the archives they couldn’t be fired or like leave for extended periods of time. But Melanie was being claimed by the slaughter and Daisy by the hunt. But they are connected to the beholding. So how does having connections with more than one work?
Specially both were claimed before getting to the institute but Martin started his connection to the lonely after
I need the archivist team to start bonding on therapy sessions not under traumatic circumstances 😂
But maybe John doing this will win some trust back from Bazira and Melanie
The tape recorders seem to have helped bring John back. Maybe the rib was not necessary 😂 at this stage the recorders are more meaningful to him than a rib so it makes sense

• MAG 133: Dead Horse

“police brutality lawsuit?” The way I laughed 🤣☠️ as someone who lives in the US I lived for that comment. John should be allowed to be funny more often
It is low key hilarious that the hunt loves the chase so much it won’t let it’s own ritual end
I love when John brings real history into the episodes
I will give Bazira a point. John was not there when they were attacked by the flesh. And now she is in charge of protecting everyone from another possible siege

• MAG 134: Time of Revelation

“The future without us” new fear has entered the chat. I find this interesting because “the end” is almost like God like ending. Like God will end our world. And this is described as someone else will come to replace us. Less godlike I guess. Interesting critique of the hubris of humanity actually.
I said on my notes earlier that was not sure what people meant when they said John was a better archivist. Gertrude did have powers like this stament says but unclear then why John is allegedly better. Specially given Adelar just said she was gifted at the dream thing.
I love how Lukas has this static surrounding everytime he speaks. Is that because Martin is not fully allowing him in? Because the static happens with John when he resists his powers
GERTRUDE ALSO FREAKING STOPPED THE LONELY LOL That woman kept herself busy.
Also I WAS RIGHT MARTIN SOLD HIS SOUL FOR HELP
This is not a contradiction more like different information between two people
Basira said that she thought the Beholding was the only one that had not attempted the ritual and that is why the are being attacked.
Lukas said the web and then end, but didn’t mention the beholding
My guess is the discrepancy will become important later.
If the web doesn’t care about her ritual maybe that is why she wanted to help John wake up. But I don’t trust spiders
“Bullheaded archivist hell bent on self destruction” ☠️☠️☠️☠️
“Thankfully I did not agree to protect your friends from their own idiocy” ☠️☠️☠️☠️
OMG LUKAS HAS ME CACKLING “grubby jesus” “pet murderer” “this little soap opera you call an archive” ☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️
OMG MARTIN IS THE ONE WHO PILED THE TAPE RECORDERS I AM GOING TO CRY

• MAG 135: Dark Matter

FINALLY MANUELA’S SIDE OF THE WHOLE DAEDALUS
Reyna and Elias were FRIENDS WTF
This is a delightful way of merging the fear of dark with the way dark matter works scientifically. Like it did create a super philosophically interesting episode
Like again why should we trust Lucas when he was helping the dark before? So financed the darks attempts, finance the institute. A lot of cooperation from the lonely
I mean yes John was not great during the unknowing. Still why does the archivist have to do this and not Elias. Why didn’t Elias become the archivist then if he is so good at the beholding thing
Also why does Elias insists on Basira being a detective? Nothing Elias does seems to be random. Also I know he is so evil but still find his voice so sexy 😂

• MAG 136: The Puppeteer

OMG the layers on this episode. Trying to put my thoughts in order.
Ohhh Anabelle Caine I had to go through my notes but she is the girl from the crazy psych experiment. Shivers spiders
Are John and Daisy becoming friends? 🥹
Looool calling him out and telling him to get over himself.
He really needed that though. Someone to show him some friendship. He used to he so insufferable at the beginning of the series and I have such a soft spot for him now
OMG Melanie she is so traumatized but the exchange with the therapist was funny.
“So tell me Melanie, what brings this irrational fear or recorders”

• MAG 137: Nemesis

Something I just noticed… Gertrude never calla herself the archivist or head archivist. WHYYYY and yes took me too long to realize this. This woman puzzles me so much.
The 13 entities fighting each other to fonosh the ritual and destroying each other’s chances like petty siblings. Though the eye has stopped at least 4-5 of them. So is the eye just better at stopping them because it “can see”
The only other mention of someone else stopping one is the slaughter stopping the stranger.
Let’s go through the list and who has attempted a ritual based on what WE HAVE HEARD AS RECORD ON THE ARCHIVES

1. The Beholding ❌
2. The Desolation ✅ (Gertrude stopped)
3. The Lonely ✅ (Gertrude stopped, also is the lonely ritual the one in the spaceship?)
4. The Dark ✅ (or at least so far keeps trying)
5. The Buried ✅ (Gertrude stopped)
6. The Stranger ✅ (Team Archives stopped)
7. The hunt ✅
8. The end ❌
9. The web❌
10. The vast (I don’t remember this ritual mentioned yet) ❌
11. The flesh ✅ (Gertrude stopped)
12. The spiral ✅ (Gertrude stopped)
13. The corruption (still unclear to me if what happened at the institute in S1 was the attempt at a ritual or we just know it has been attempted per Lucas’ comment)
14. Extinction ⁉️

This bit of info about Gerry’s father is weird. I may have missed some info but ok so connection to the eye… maybe worked for the institute? How did he ended up partnering with with crazy Mary. Mary did say her mother worked for the institute though

• MAG 138: The Architecture of Fear

This interaction was so interesting for many reasons.

1. Elias is such a punchable asshole
2. Elias speaking of the apocalypse like if it were an ex
3. Seems like there is some sort of consent? That is expected when joining an entity. He said he cannot play mind games just hope Martin makes the right decision
4. That also tells me that even though he says Lukas is saying the truth he doesn’t agree with how he wants to stop it
5. Interesting that someone like the beholding took so long to accept extinction exists as their currency is knowledge
6. Martin is trying to protect John and is being such an idiot about it but omg my queer heart
7. Elias did give Lukas control of the institute, seems like they sort of respect each other. They certainly have an interesting dynamic and for sure there has to be more history behind them

Reyna has been alive for a long time… no reason why Magnus wouldn’t be right?
The institute built over the prison in an attempt to control the powers? Maybe that is what Lukas wants to do
There is a fanfic here about John listening to tapes made by Martin pouring his heart out to him

• MAG 139: Chosen

Sure let’s just DIY a prophet… like lmao
OK the hilltop road story now makes more sense. Seems partly Gertrude is to blame for binding Agnes to the tree if I understood correctly.
Their description of the hell that is raising a child is so accurate 😂
But also this side of the story is missing the tree being torn and how that affected all. But also what did Gertrude do besides the tree.
Also some mention about Gertrude having some protection?
You cannot convince me the answer is something about the feelings outside of fear. More than once empathy, or love or love coded anchors have saved the day.
“Every other avatar gets their feelings burned out of them but I need to sit in mine” talking about Martin AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH 😍😍😍

• MAG 140: The Movement of the Heavens

I loooooove when they include the history bits. This episode leaves me with more questions than answers though
Also the shade towards Newton ☠️

• MAG 141: Doomed Voyage

I really love John’s character development. In many ways he is a softer better person. But I love they are not shying away about how these powers corrupt or hurt others

• MAG 142: Scrutiny

Must be so frustrating to Martin that he sacrificed so much for John to make stupid decisions he cannot protect him from 😂

• MAG 143: Heart of Darkness

Something still missing here because, when they tried the ritual it was not the right eclipse according to Basira. In a past recording Gertrude said something about being more proactive. Did that meant maybe giving them bad intel about the eclipse and do something that triggered even if she was death? But I mean they had a literal astrophysicist in their team it doesn’t make sense they got the date wrong.
So the way John sees Helen has been interesting to me for sometime. He didn’t know her, it was just a woman that came to give a statement.
But I think in some way John took it personally that Michael took her from the Institute. Like an affront. Because he was always so angry when Michal said anything about her or after she became the spiral.
I also love how the spiral is chaotic af and was like maybe Michael was TOO CHAOTIC 😂 so now Helen is like a coworker? I mean I guess if the spiral cannot retry their ritual in many hundreds of years, it is in their best interest to stop the other entities from winning?

• MAG 144: Decrypted

“leave me alone for good” the lonely is getting to him 😭😭😭 Martin
But Martin is choosing the lonely to protect others out of love because he has the biggest heart
BUT I DON’T WANT THE LONELY TO TAKE MARTIN. MARTIN ❤️ JOHN FOREVER

• MAG 145: Infectious Doubts

Gertrude is such a terrible person lol I am starting to feel Elias was justified
I know on the end of season 3 they were saying John was disappointing and Elias said so to. But John has been at this for barely 3 years I mean Gertrude must have been also maybe a little bit (not as much) of a mess at the beginning?
This is how you can tell I write and pause and write again 😂 Gertrude is 100% jaded
There is no way you can convince me to stop thinking that the web is like the most villanous of all

• MAG 146: Threshold

If does seems that John has only fed like that at his weakest.
Going to hilltop road is an incredibly stupid idea. I should go to sleep. Ir I end up doing one more I will keep continuing lol and I have to teach tomorrow

• MAG 147: Weaver

SHE SAID TO KEEP THINGS “ON TRACK” THE WEB HAS A MASTER PLAN THAT HAS NOT BEEN REVEALED. If they are trying to stop extinction this season does this make the web the big villain of the series?
Also Anabelle was a sociopath way before the web got to her. the worst villians are the parents that hate their children
“I don’t want to stop” did that she say addiction is one of the strongest forms of control?

• MAG 148: Extended Surveillance

Bazira kicking and punching Elias was so satisfying 😂
Daisy is still human though
“Talk to him” I am 100% sure wanted to cry because that felt like a knife to the heart
I feel a little called out 😂 I was like yeah yeah spooky statement BUT WHAT ABOUT METAPLOT AND THE NEXT EPISODE

• MAG 149: Concrete Jungle

Wait wait… are the medical students from season one related to the extinction?
John talked a lot about Martin to Melanie 🥹

• MAG 150: Cul-De-Sac

If you know it is a risk everyone can have WHY DONT YOU GO AND KISS MARTIN YOU IDIOT
Something my brain just realized… some episodes ago Elias said Gertrude was very good at obfuscating things (or was it Lukas) not the spiral is confusion but without rhyme or reason. Obfuscation is purposeful, she even bought different types of labeling systems to make the archives disorganized. Leitner said that Elias killed her because she wanted to destroy the archives. But Arthur talked about her as if she really was super into the beholding. WHAT IF SHE CHANGED SIDES TO THE WEB AND THAT IS WHY ELIAS KILLED HER. That is why she was making a mess of things etc
Also I feel everyone is being so unfair to John (how I have come around)

• MAG 151: Big Picture

Simon Fairchild! The awful dude of the vast
“I lost a bet” 😂☠️
I really like this guys voice and how he is characterizing Fairchild.
“Apocalyptic midwifery” 😂☠️
Ngl Fairchild makes some solid points
LMAO 🤣 Martin being like ARE YOU TELLING NONE OF YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING 😂 “grand cosmic joke” indeed
“John found the tapes you made for him” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 and he is just waiting for Martin to come to him! 😭😭😭😭😭

• MAG 152: A Gravedigger's Envy

The entities feed on fear but also interesting how their servants/cultists are not afraid of that fear. They even sound loving of the harm they cause
Ok John just said exactly what I wrote above lol
John still sounds rational and like himself-ish. But one can say the same about Lukas, Fairchild or Elias. even Helen feels humanish (though less each time)
This convo with Helen got so philosophical lol

• MAG 153: Love Bombing

So before this podcast i never saw myself as a horror girly. I think is because I had just been exposed only to jump scare horror. But I have always been fascinated by cults. So I love how this is intersecting here
Yep I mean we all knew Julia and crazy vampire hunter would comeback eventually. If only the eye had warned John a little sooner
Daisy 😭😭 I don’t want to lose Daisy to the hunt.
John has become so caring to everyone his little monster heart has grown so much
I love the critique of the police and how they protect the bad ones

• MAG 154: Bloody Mary

Ohhhh such an interesting twist. The eye trying hard to keep John away from some tapes. And John having strength to defy that
Now that I think about it what did John study at university?
We know the taperecorders are not neutral. Like if the archives really didn’t want this knowledge to be known eventually then why they didn’t stop recording? Because the eye couldn’t help itself on having such a good meal?
“Fuck” is the only way to react to the information about blinding yourself.
A way for “us to leave” “you and me… escape” 😭😭😭 this is the closest thing to confession of his love to Martin on tape.
I AM NOT OK! I AM NOT OK AFTER THIS EPISODE
If this is the rest of the season I won’t be able to take meaningful notes

• MAG 155: Cost of Living

Very hypocritical of Bazira to let Daisy hunt to keep her alive but being super angry at John for feeding
I knew where this was going but hope it wasn’t. As a mom this episode will haunt me
Good for you Melanie! I am guessing Georgie will take care of her

• MAG 156: Reflection

“I think I still care that he hears my voice” 😭😭 why is that breaking me
Has Martin really gone on the deep end or he is playing Lukas
I AM NOT DOING OK I am glad my teaching duties are over for the semester to have the time to binge finish this

• MAG 157: Rotten Core

A fucking pandemic? I just looked at the release date “October 10, 2019” ☠️☠️☠️☠️ no comments
“And no eyes may see you slumber”
I cannot believe I am saying this but he needs to go find Elias

• MAG 158: Panopticon

How is Lukas saying stuff like “very good” to Martin sound so web like
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
“Watching over my institute” HOLY SHIT ELIAS IS MAGNUS
Gertrude chose to stay human that explains a lot actually
OMG OMG He cannot let John die Martin wont
Daisy 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Bazira and Daisy love each other so much
“John came back so suddenly I had a reason” 🥹🥹🥹🥹
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS HAPPENING
John opening himself to follow the lonely is playing directly into what Elias wants
This cliffhanger should be illegal

• MAG 159: The Last

“Tell me your story Peter Lukas” OH MY FUCKING GOD
A FUCKING BET A MOTHERFUCKING BET
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH 🥹🥹🥹😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️❤️

• MAG 160: The Eye Opens

OMG The banter between Martin and John ❤️❤️❤️
He sounds so fucking healthy and happy when starting to read the statement. With a smile on his face
I AM NOT OK! I AM NOT OK!