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For those of you that like simple things (I do) this works - wearing a face covering is easy and is effective at keeping people safe
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It’s not a good time to be losing our sense of humour - I liked this
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This is my prime advice to you today. This is not a bank holiday, life is being lost
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This is a table that the whole of Gwent has been waiting for. ZERO COVID19 cases reported yesterday in the 5 civic areas and a 6th day without a notified death - no room for complacency though
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A good day - no COVID19 related deaths reported for the
@AneurinBevanUHB
area today - we have travelled a distance from being a U.K. hotspot but we need to keep it up - it’s about the disciplines and the rules
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Always a delight to share ZERO new cases in Monmouthshire, ZERO new cases in Gwent and only 8 new cases in 🏴- the best news however is ZERO deaths in 🏴 reported yesterday - we’ve been waiting for months for a day like today 😁
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Drive thru’s are now opening up and I bet the roadsides start to change - there must be a simple technology for printing car reg’s on food boxes so we can track and fine the inconsiderate’s. Road verges are meant to look like this 👇
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It’s been fascinating to learn from
@goldstone_tony
how the NHS pension system is driving waves of doctors in their mid 40’s + abroad or into part-time roles because they can’t afford unpredictable annual personal tax bills (£20k-£30k common). This talent drain needs addressing.
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A good lesson right here for anyone in a leadership position or aspiring to lead - always lend a hand when you are in a place / position to help
It is a measure of the sport and the man that after securing the Triple Crown, here is Wales’s captain helping the ground staff clear the presentation stand.
#SixNations
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This is a pretty powerful visualisation of comparative international performance on COVID 1st jabs - a fair distance travelled but the journey has a way to go yet
#keeponkeepingon
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6 of 627 Covid cases in 🏴 today in Monmouthshire-they are a ‘good’ 6-why?
All were identified as contacts of earlier cases & had self-isolated through incubation & now infectious period - no onward transmission - great contact tracing & following the rules will beat the virus
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What a magical shot of the Brecon Beacons taken from Mynydd Llangorse by photographer IG WillDaviesphotography
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I think the role that
@apnoeaboy
has played throughout COVID19 has been amazing. He saves lives where possible with his colleagues in ITU and finds time to share the up close reality with all of us. You are a credit to
@AneurinBevanUHB
and your profession David
@JudithPagetCEO
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The standout global political leader this year? If not, who am I missing? Rewarded with another term of office.
Combination of clear message, determination, consistency and humanity (and an 83% turnout to boot!!)
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A local
@MonmouthshireCC
message . If you are intent (against advice) to walk up Sugar Loaf Mountain, then walk up it. There was carnage all day yesterday on the single track access road to the
@nationaltrust
car park including anger / fights. If this continues I will close road
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I think we need to correct the perspective that schools are closed. They really aren’t. The buildings are shut but teachers and other staff have reinvented almost everything and are in their new virtual classroom every day supporting learners 👏👏
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Just the 9 cases in M’shire today (lowest in ages) with rate per 100,000 population falling to 266
First day of operation for Mass Vaccination Centre in Abergavenny so this will speed up the roll-out - thanks to all staff/officers of
@AneurinBevanUHB
@BritishArmy
and volunteers
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I cannot have a view on the politics of today but I do have a duty of care for the hundreds of teachers that work for me. I was deeply concerned for their welfare throughout the pandemic but they just kept turning up. To denigrate them in this way is just not on
"I don't think at any time he thought he was breaking the law... he thought just like many teachers and nurses who after a very long shift would go back to the staff room and have a quiet drink"
Tory MP Michael Fabricant urges Boris Johnson to apologise
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Interesting time to be the chief executive of (in my view) the most beautiful welsh border county with the biggest major transportation links into England 🙄😱
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Lovely to welcome
@KensingtonRoyal
as our guests today
@LoveYFenni
- smiling faces everywhere in a big turnout for the town - think it’s fair to say the children from
@CantrefPrimary
and the little ones from Flying Start were big hits along with our fantastic market traders 👏👏
It’s great to see the benefits first-hand that local businesses receive through their communities here in Wales this
#StDavidsDay
🏴
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Another good day in Gwent:
👉no new COVID cases again
👉no COVID deaths again (closing in on a month now since last one)
On contact tracing, running 98% success for
@AneurinBevanUHB
area since standing up service at start of June.Thanks
@LloydCymru
for stats help
#vigilance
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I just wanted to say
@LloydCymru
that I am finding your work on analysis / presentation of COVID19 very useful. I circulated some of it to colleagues as part of my daily update yesterday - it saved me time and was really informative - keep going, I sense a public servant emerging
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We understand that you want to visit the beautiful places this weekend but you just can’t - we are still in Lockdown in🏴 - please respect people’s desire to stay safe and remain well.
We have contingencies in place😁👇
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On the last day of the most challenging Term, to every headteacher,teacher,teaching assistant,cleaner,caretaker, administrator,technician,bus driver, parent and student - you’ve risen to the challenge, stayed on the wave & found very grateful friends along the way - THANK YOU
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I think these two complement each other extraordinarily well👇
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I had several conversations with colleagues yesterday who were feeling a bit ‘guilty’ for self-isolating. Please don’t. We will be ready to pass the baton onto you on Day 8 or Day 15 - we need you fit and well to receive it. This relay will be a long one.
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🔥break day 3 in 🏴- these thoughts should apply as much today as they did in March 👇
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If zero is your favourite number and green is your favourite colour then this will be your favourite chart of the weekend
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If we all lived our lives as this man lived his last year, the world would be a better place and we would have good reason to be proud of ourselves and each other
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So today let’s hear it for the CARERS!! The UK’s secret army. The COVID19 effort falls without them. There’s little glory, no limelight, many tears but so much passion, courage and perseverance
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For those keen to see a COVID map, this is Monmouthshire over the last 7 days. We will put this up a couple of times each week.
✅we do not have active clusters
✅we do not have community transmission
❌this can change ridiculously quickly if discipline is lost
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SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
We will not be re-opening libraries in Monmouthshire yet
❌introduces avoidable risk
❌encourages non-essential journeys
❌takes staff away from supporting ‘shielded people’ and volunteer efforts
Sorry to disappoint but choices have to be made
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The floods earlier this year were hard going, COVID has been really tough.Many public servants have been outside the ‘ideal zone’ for too long. Recharge is necessary before the winter & whatever that brings. Burnout is not where we want key-workers / good people to be
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Think it’s time to clean up some messaging around the UK unless we are content for 100’s to die each day. Unless for exercise, essential shopping, for medical reasons or if you have to travel for work 👇
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Credit where it’s due - the CEO of
@DwrCymru
phoned me today and said that supplying Monmouth with water would be a ‘money no object’ exercise and they have thrown resource at it 👏👏
@NatResWales
@SWFireandRescue
@gwentpolice
@WelshAmbulance
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Brilliant news hearing that an entire Intensive Care Ward at Neville Hall Hospital
@AneurinBevanUHB
is now empty. Well done clinicians, well done public, well done all key workers - that’s tangible progress😁
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Just had a lovely ‘self isolating’ older gentleman on - he was very excited to tell me he was WhatsApping me - his grandson had showed him how. He wanted to know if I knew about COVID19 - after a chat he instructed me to ‘carry on, Mr CEO you are doing fine’ - A RAY OF 🌞 SHINE
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I apologise to any of you I’m boring but I’m going to keep doing it until M’shire is all green and the only number we see daily is a ZERO
Through the barrier of 200 / 100,000 population today. I’m confident Chepstow North will go 7 day orange in next 48 hours & Monmouth yellow
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This is how contact tracing is meant to be (localised solutions delivering) - 99% success rate so far for
@MonmouthshireCC
@torfaencouncil
@PublicHealthW
@AneurinBevanUHB
- we’ve got great adaptable people who have just worked it out and are relentless
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COVID Update
👉766 cases for 🏴 today
👉3 in Monmouthshire - I’ll take that any day of the week
👉Evidence tells us we don’t have COVID issues in pubs/shops/hospitality here(well done publicans/traders)
👉Most cases in 50-59 age bracket,not younger people
Have a safe weekend😁
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I was asked a great question today
“When did you know you had arrived as a CEO inside rather than outside your Council”
My answer
“When the cleaners (who are lovely and vital) said I could use their milk whenever I liked and started calling me Paul”
That felt like a moment😁
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Big shout out to
@sainsburys
Cwmbran - my wife is an
@NHSuk
worker and letting her shop at 7:30 makes a big difference and the free bouquet of flowers was a lovely unexpected touch
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COVID update for GWENT area
👉no
@PublicHealthW
reported deaths in 30 days
👉no new cases today
👉no cases in ITU in any
@AneurinBevanUHB
hospital
👉current infection running rate less than 1 in 100,000 people
Keep washing your hands & following the rules
#vigilancekeepsyousafe
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I can go anywhere I like in 🏴today as often as I like.
I choose
@TorfaenLeisureT
Cwmbran Stadium for my 1st jabaroony 💉😁
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3 days ago 65 cases, 2 days ago 38 cases, yesterday 28 cases, today 25 cases ✅
An improving pattern. There will be bumps but M’shire starting to look better (there’s even some green on the table)🤞
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You may need to double take this but it’s true - M’shire now stands at a COVID 7 day rate per 100,000 population of just 2, that’s TWO!! Not sure anywhere in 🏴has been here in a very long time - we need a deeper shade of GREEN
@foxy_michael
@LloydCymru
@statsjamie
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How does garbage like this get so much attention!! Nevill Hall Hospital which is in Monmouthshire so I know something about it, is flat out and has a worrying (and growing) number of frail COVID + patients. Can we just get a grip people
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Note of personal thanks to
@AneurinBevanUHB
@JudithPagetCEO
. My Dad had his Covid vaccination on Saturday afternoon in what I can only describe as a very efficient operation and when I decide to break my elbow yesterday your Minor Injuries team at Nevill Hall were excellent 👏
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If anyone asks is there a place for the Arts or Poetry in modern day life, I think we have a reference point
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Tintern Abbey in the mist - what a fantastic shot. Carol Service by torchlight tomorrow evening in the Abbey (3rd December) - thanks
@visit_mon
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Social media will go nuts around 8:10 tonight after
@10DowningStreet
&
@fmwales
address the nation. Look to your trusted sources - ignore the rubbish (this is important). I will provide
@MonmouthshireCC
analysis on / around 8:15 - coffee will be ready for a night of questions 😁
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I’ve had several conversations over the last 10 days with good people who are being totally unreasonable with themselves. We are not Marvel’s Avengers - take a minute, take a big breath
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When we started publishing these maps there wasn’t much statistical information out there - this has changed so is this still useful?We’ll gauge by impressions /likes/retweets.
34 Monmouthshire residents in hospital/entering hospital this week tested COVID+. Many are 80 years+
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In the madness of yesterday there is a group of people that I failed to acknowledge - our community meals service. They got to every single customer (not sure how!!) and delivered a meal, a conversation and some company 👏👏
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My wife is doing a 12 hour shift
@CV_UHB
today and she will do the same tomorrow. I reckon I (and you) should be able to 👇
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So:
✅a 9th day in a row without a reported COVID death in Gwent
✅just 91 new cases in whole of 🏴
✅only 9 new cases in Gwent
✅0 new cases in M’shire, Blaenau Gwent and Torfaen
The 🌞 is out and it’s a very good day in our part of the 🌍
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Today Major Tom Matthews MBE TD (aka my father)makes it to 90 years.Husband,father,grandfather, forester,solider,civil servant, councillor,sportsman,marksman, friend are a few of the labels. Re-take your guard as any good opener knows and push on for the century
@TMatthews70
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To every council, care home, care, emergency service, & utility worker rota’d on today we send thanks. To every volunteer & member of HM Armed Forces deployed at home / abroad we see you & send thanks. Our world never stops and you keep us safe-thanks for today and every day
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These pictures aren’t from a commercial enterprise - they show the skill of my colleagues
@chepstowschool
and
@Caldicot_Sch
in producing PPE to support key workers in the
@AneurinBevanUHB
area - you must be very proud of your people
@ChepstowHead
@marc_belli
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A notable day for M’shire today. ZERO new cases for 5th day in a row but of greater significance is the 7 day rate per 100,000 population falling to just 8 and the 21 day rate down to a 2021 low of 40.
No hospital admissions and most importantly, no deaths to report
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This fella and the team he heads
@AneurinBevanUHB
have earned our respect and gratitude. When he speaks we should listen!
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This is a stunning view. Joe Biden is really sounding like (in my view) a President of the USA 🇺🇸 - it’s 4 minutes, we don’t get a vote in 🇬🇧 but this matters
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I was asked this week by a big national recruiter how we keep getting great people & holding them without using agencies or paying big salaries
We only employ adults,we care about them,we invest in them & we want them to do well. Every day is a recruitment day-simple really
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ZERO COVID cases reported for a second consecutive day in M’shire. Being realistic this isn’t going to hold so let’s all enjoy it while it lasts and re-commit to the hard work that has got us here
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So Mr
@POTUS
can you share with the citizens of Monmouthshire 🏴the exact number of reported new COVID cases today please (and you’re allowed to smile it’s been a long time)👏😁
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Just 15 new cases today in M’shire with the 7 day rate / 100,000 population falling still further to 141.7 which is now the lowest in 🏴A good start to another week
Great effort by everyone to keep some parts of the vaccination programme moving today in some challenging weather
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I’ve learnt over my years in public service that people are, on the whole, quite lovely, very understanding and will forgive any mistake than carries an apology
UNLESS
You miss their bin collection - don’t do that - it’s a step too far - it’s a very evil thing to do
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We will pay your company invoices every day rather than once each week. It may help your liquidity. Little things but we will keep finding them
@MonmouthshireCC
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I like this.
@MonmouthshireCC
has recently adopted ‘kindness’ as a fifth organisation wide value alongside openness, fairness, teamwork and flexibility
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I didn’t think it was going to cost £1 million+ to refurbish Abergavenny Theatre when we started out but hey ho!!Nevertheless I’m delighted
@MonmouthshireCC
Cabinet agreed to underwrite the investment in full this week. Culture & the arts matter in special towns like
@LoveYFenni
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I posted this yesterday morning and 24 hours on it’s even more important. If you need support on anything - food, medicine, gifts, a chat, we have loads of our people and community volunteers ready to help plus a network of partners. Don’t care if you live in or out of county
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As we turn the year a few words of thanks for the information, challenge&support offered on this platform through 2020. COVID response is not a popularity contest & I know some of my messaging has been hard to hear.I have been overwhelmed by the humanity/spirit of everyone in🏴🇬🇧
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We are staying home to keep ourselves and others safe. Work is important (if you are well) but these insights from New Zealand are worth reminding yourself of every day
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This is a very important statement from the most CREDIBLE of sources. Set aside the school debate for a moment and take some reassurance as a parent or as a young person
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As we enter 🔥break day 2, remember to exercise as much as you like on your own or with your household as long as you stay close to home (walk/cycle don’t drive)Parks are open &some lucky people have this on the doorstep so get out there. Skin is ☔️ proof
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So the plan of having 24 hours off thinking about COVID got junked - it’s always a joy being on the 🏴 🏴 border with 000’s living their lives seamlessly across both!
As per usual we’ll listen carefully and message clearly so there are no surprises for
@MonmouthshireCC
citizens
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It’s another ZERO COVID day in M’shire - enough said 👇
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Wouldn’t mind being in the Wye Valley today - one day soon - sound on and something to look forward too
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15 years ago today I was offered the position of CEO
@MonmouthshireCC
-feels like 15 minutes.I didn’t plan to stay so long,sometimes you find home. Still making mistakes,still learning,still trying to be better.The challenges are out in front,the fire still burns inside-onwards😁
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Two important M’shire Cabinet decisions today
👉we will continue to invest in an Outdoor Education offer at Gilwern - will grow in importance in years ahead
👉all apprentices will be paid the National Living Wage Foundation rate from 1 April
Young people will need more support
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A 12 hour shift in A&E is HARD; being a carer is HARD; a loved one dying alone is the ultimate HARD. Staying home is inconvenient but it isn’t HARD - we can all do this today
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The first town ever built in 🏴is Caerwent (Venta Silurum) in Monmouthshire AD75 - 80. It boasts some of the best Roman remains anywhere in the 🇬🇧-it’s free, nothing is roped off, the little ones can climb all over it and let their imaginations run wild
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The very best COVID update - ZERO DEATHS recorded in 🏴today 🙏
Adding to that, M’shire has smashed through the 30’s at speed
👉just 2 new cases today
👉just 28 cases in the last 7 days
👉just 29 cases/100000 pop. in the last 7 days
Lots of GREEN and very low numbers now😁
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COVID will be a risk management exercise until we get a vaccine. At times action will need to be intense & public consent / compliance will be essential. We have solid plans in place in Gwent to keep you safe - only listen to voices you trust on social media
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Very important to have the Bridges & Offa’s Dyke prepped for the weeks ahead (just a bit of fun 😁)
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Really grateful for all kind comments about my fabulous colleagues today. We have months of recovery in front of us supporting
@MonmouthshireCC
citizens who lost a lot today. We’ll judge ourselves at the end of the course - there are more difficult days ahead
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It’s repetitive I know but can you really have too much of a good thing? Enjoy the green pasture 😁
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This thread is MONMOUTHSHIRE specific:
Today -281 new cases in 🏴 with a running 32.1 cases/100,000 population & 3.3% infection rate. 3 new cases here, 10.6 cases / 100,000 & 1.6% infection rate
👉NO LOCAL LOCKDOWN HERE
👉WELL DONE YOU
👉IT CAN CHANGE QUICKLY
👉KEEP THIS 👇UP
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This isn’t what we want in 🏴 - this is not how we do things in 🏴 - let’s nip it in the bud and allow our politicians to continue to live easily and safely with the people that have asked them to be their representative
Absolutely appalling to see this outside the home of Mark Drakeford
You can have strongly held different political views for sure but being outside someone’s home shouting is not the way to express them!
My thoughts and support with Mark and his family
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COVID UPDATE
3 more 🏴 counties going into lockdown tomorrow (11 areas now) it is NOT INEVITABLE that
@MonmouthshireCC
will join this club. Do the right things to:
👉maintain travel freedoms
👉see family members indoors
Stay vigilant everywhere but particularly around Abergavenny
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