Dido Harding claims nobody could have predicted Covid variants – 14 predictably brutal responses

8.

Really Dido? Really? Nobody could have predicted a virus might mutate?

*swanee whistle* https://t.co/ipWuTu5Yil

— Emma Kennedy💙 (@EmmaKennedy) February 3, 2021

9.

*stares in GCSE Biology*
I could have predicted that, Baroness Harding. https://t.co/WmLB6k5XYv

— badly-drawn bee 🐝 (@soapachu) February 3, 2021

10.

Except everyone with any knowledge of the science of epidemiology who was able to predict variants and did predict variants.

I guess this is what happens when you put the failed boss of telecoms company in charge of a complex medical project, because she’s a mate. https://t.co/GuGAHbJ6GG

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) February 3, 2021

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To be fair to Dido she couldn't have known. When Contagion came out she tried to loan it from Blockbuster but Hancock already had it. And anyway, she was still barred for not rewinding tapes so she had no chance. https://t.co/9MQhVaYvlC

— Michael Govern Ready (@mikegove12) February 3, 2021

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BREAKING: Virus behaving like virus amazes person responsible for virus response. https://t.co/Km2ekSxvtk

— Adrian Schiller (@Grumbletwat) February 3, 2021

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As Dido Harding’s adviser for sciencey things I can confirm this. https://t.co/hpYX378Ah7

— Mr Roger Quimbly (@RogerQuimbly) February 3, 2021

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I reckon Dido the pop star would have been able to predict this, and she would have done it in a way suitable for playing in Starbuck’s branches or dentists’ waiting rooms. https://t.co/BstPq74JHS

— Mark Watson, author of Contacts, a novel which… (@watsoncomedian) February 3, 2021

Boris Johnson‘s funnier representative on Twitter had this to add.

In the long list of things Dido Harding failed to predict, the latest one is the fact that everyone is saying she's an incompetent, overpaid Tory crony, given a job she is spectacularly ill qualified to do. https://t.co/FNw7d82d46

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) February 3, 2021

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