calls, our social media posts, the various white papers. you can google my name, see how many op-eds i have written on this. i literally wrote on the 2nd of april, when collapse comes in kabul it will happen faster than d.c. can respond. given afghanistan s unique position in the world, we are going to need to conduct the largest air lift since 1948. we have been streaming this for months and no one listened. let me bring ben rhodes back. you were in the nsc, i can t imagine you wouldn t take matt s call and try to get to the right place on this. what do you think is going on or do you know what is going on? well, yeah, and i want to add to those powerful remarks that and i mentioned this earlier. in addition to interpreters i ve been hearing a lot from, you know, afghans on the ground who received usaid funding, set up human rights organizations, tried to work for the afghan
the uae brought in extra restrictions on travel from india from the 22nd of april. france was the 24th, the us, the 4th of may. the uk was the 23rd of april. it wasn t out of sync with these countries. here s an american official telling us the delta variant is doubling every two weeks, so it s probably going to become the dominant strain here. more broadly, the who says delta is in over 60 countries, so why is the uk particularly affected? it may be the volume of people who came in. doctorjeffrey barrett is quoted in the independent and says. he also points out denmark had individual cases of delta at the same time as the uk, but not a huge volume of them, and delta s impact
restrictions on the 22nd of april. france was the 24th, the us, the 4th of may. the uk, remember, was the 23rd of april. it wasn t out of sync with these countries. here s an american official telling us the delta variant is doubling every two weeks, so it s probably going to become the dominant strain here. more broadly, the who says delta is in over 60 countries, so why is the uk particularly affected? it may be the volume of people who came in. doctorjeffrey barrett is quoted in the independent and says. he also points out denmark had individual cases of delta at the same time as the uk, but not a huge volume of them, and delta s impact in
vaccinated and we know the vaccine reduces the chances of getting delta and of getting seriously ill because of it. but timing is not the whole story. look at this, united arab emirates brought in restrictions on travel from india on the 22nd of april. france was the 24th, the us the fourth of may. the uk remember was the 23rd of april. it wasn t out of sync with these countries. and here is an american official telling us the delta variant is doubling every two weeks. more broadly, the who says it delta is in over 60 countries. so why is the uk particularly affected? it may be the volume of people who came in. doctor geoffrey barrett, is quoted in the independent.
in other words, to some extent, the timing didn t matter because if delta had been delayed, more people would have been vaccinated and we know the vaccine reduces the chances of getting delta and of getting seriously ill because of it. but timing is that the whole story. look at this. the uae brought in extra restrictions on the 22nd of april. france was the 24th, the us, the 4th of may. the uk was the 23rd of april. it wasn t out of sync with these countries. here s an american official telling us the delta variant is doubling every two weeks, so it s probably going to become the dominant strain here. more broadly, the who says delta is in over 60 countries, so why have the uk particularly affected? it may be the volume of people who came in. doctor jeffrey barrett is quoted in the independent and says.