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EDIT to add:
For those on the 365 day nonsense Happy New year.
For those on the natural 360 sun up calendar Happy 11th January.
This is not being put into quotes as it is worth reading in full a couple of times and where better to read it than this haven of sanity within the lunatic asylum we are meant to call civilisation.
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Coronavirus and the CCP: what Prof Neil Ferguson told The Times
Yesterday’s post introduced Neil Ferguson’s interview with
The Times, which the paper published on the evening of Christmas Day.
This was the biggest statement he made:
The words "see what we could get away with" when talking about locking up a nation, send a shiver down the spine!
Surely justice will catch up with these evil ideologues?
— Real Fat Shady (@Real_Fat_Shady)
December 29, 2020
How Ferguson, he of the hopelessly outlandish — and false — predictions, could enter the fray on a worldwide pandemic using CCP methods beggars belief:
NF serial economy killer why does anyone trust him?
— johnbeatty (@johnbeatty111)
December 29, 2020
Clearly sage psyops has worked better on our leaders. It takes a special level of ignorant to take anything the man says seriously. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so frightening.
— _shrapnel_ (@stiffenking)
December 27, 2020
I'd not trust him with organising the sandwiches at the latest SAGE meeting
— Nick Keable (@cholas71)
December 29, 2020
The other chilling statement made in the article was that lockdowns will be employed in future pandemics. That’s because they worked so well, we had to have one long lockdown — under various guises — for the better part of nine months, not the promised two or three weeks:
Lockdown works eh…so why do we continue to have them & tiers? Surely the first lockdown would've been the one that would've dealt with 'the virus'.
— SevenAndy1 (@Andy1Seven)
December 28, 2020
Yet, Matt Hancock relies on what this man and SAGE members regurgitate every couple of weeks:
Exactly, he's exaggerated every prediction. Just remember we went into lockdown based on 500k additional deaths.
— Nicholas Turgeon #KBF (@Nikolas_Turgeon)
December 28, 2020
My prayer for 2021 is that divine providence shines a light on the evil that Ferguson, a
NERVTAG member, SAGE and Matt Hancock have been perpetrating on the British people:
The kind of deficit we’ve come to associate with poor decisions.
Biological plausibility, broad knowledge especially of immune responses, & a detective’s mindset are all ESSENTIAL on SAGE. Not optional extras.
Ferguson is a theoretical physicist without even a biology O-level.
https://t.co/wTe38L4hEe
— Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3)
December 27, 2020
Thank heaven that Bosnia and Herzegovina ruled against an inhumane coronavirus programme. I hope that we do the same:
I have a feeling we’re gonna see more and more rulings such as this one
— Corine (@cp000100)
December 28, 2020
Someone also needs to have the guts to investigate Ferguson and the rest of them:
Somewhere between the CCP, UN, WEF, WHO you’ll find the answers.
— The Mood 2020 (@themood2020)
December 28, 2020
Let’s look at
The Times‘s article, which Science Editor Tom Whipple wrote:
‘Professor Neil Ferguson: People don’t agree with lockdown and try to undermine the scientists’.
Tom Whipple was absolutely gushing in his reporting, overlooking Ferguson’s previous bogus predictions over the past 20 years of notional pandemics. Some of those predictions put a severe dent into British farming (emphases mine):
He moved from Oxford to Imperial as part of the country’s leading infectious disease modelling group.
They modelled the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, as well as the 2009 swine flu outbreak, in which at one point, before better data came in, they estimated a “reasonable worst case scenario” of 65,000 deaths.
When he returned to advise the government once again,
this projection, two orders of magnitude above the real total, was cited by his critics.
So too was foot and mouth, where the cull of millions of cattle and sheep, partly on the basis of predictions about the disease,
still causes deep bitterness among farmers.
Whipple at least calls lockdown ‘a medieval intervention’. However, I would posit that, even in the Middle Ages, there were policies of sequestering the vulnerable and quarantining the sick, leaving the rest to work. People needed food and goods. Anyway, Ferguson describes how he embraced the CCP policy of overall lockdown:
In January, members of Sage, the government’s scientific advisory group, had watched as China enacted this innovative intervention in pandemic control that was
also a medieval intervention.
“They claimed to have flattened the curve. I was sceptical at first. I thought it was a massive cover-up by the Chinese.
But as the data accrued it became clear it was an effective policy.”
Then, as infections seeded across the world, springing up like angry boils on the map,
Sage debated whether, nevertheless, it would be effective here. “It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought.” In February one of those boils raged just below the Alps.
“And then Italy did it. And we realised we could.”
Whipple gushed:
That realisation was a fulcrum in British history, and in the life of Professor Ferguson.
That ‘fulcrum’ meant poor health and/or imminent penury for millions of the rest of us.
This was Ferguson’s outrageously erroneous prediction that prompted Britain’s continuing lockdowns:
a quarter of a million Britons would die.
If we wanted to stop that, he also projected, it would require extreme social distancing measures until a vaccine arrived.
Whipple’s next sentence reads:
That was when he went from unknown epidemiologist to academic superstar.
That is incredibly disingenuous. Millions of Britons knew who he was from his previous predictions. Our celebrity astrologer
Mystic Meg could have done better by staring into her crystal ball. She would not have advocated lockdown or masks, either.
Ferguson expressed his surprise that people would criticise him:
“It’s bizarre,” he says. “Particularly given that I’ve never been a public servant. We volunteer for scientific committees, we don’t get paid anything.” He says he has not read most of the coverage, but can’t help hearing some of the criticism.
“Where it’s been disappointing is if people start out from a viewpoint that they don’t agree with lockdown, then try to undermine the science and scientists behind it. That hasn’t been a pleasant experience.”
Those statements puzzle me greatly.
His own track record speaks for itself, yet, his and SAGE’s policies have been ruling all our lives for the better part of a year. He doesn’t think people should criticise him because they are losing their livelihoods? Pure bunkum.
Whipple then goes into the assignation that Ferguson and his married mistress had during the springtime lockdown. The rest of us were holed up in our homes and she travelled across London for an afternoon’s pleasure. My account of it is below. The title expressed my hope that this charlatan would be exposed and that we would be liberated. Alas, no:
Prof Neil Ferguson resigns: will coronavirus lockdown start ending in the UK now? (May 5)
Ferguson told Whipple that he had expected some sort of mercy, at least to be ignored. Why, oh why, did the media start digging into his private life? Oh, woe:
“I made some mistakes. I’ve been completely open in terms of saying they were mistakes. But, nevertheless,
the fact that journalists were digging into my private life at that level of detail was not something I could ever imagine.
That’s not something you want to be on the end of.
“
My wife and son and my partner had journalists on the doorstep.
I was actually in my flat in London, they didn’t know where I was.
It was a very difficult time.”
He and Sir Patrick Vallance, the present chief scientific adviser, agreed he should step back from Sage work.
Unfortunately, NERVTAG — New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group — allowed him to stay, hence, his continuing participation in these illiberal restrictions upon our lives.
Returning to lockdown, this is a curious statement:
These days, lockdown feels inevitable. It was, he reminds me, anything but.
“If China had not done it,” he says, “the year would have been very different.”
Yes, it would have gone on as normal, with Rishi Sunak’s fantastic budget putting an end to austerity and giving us a better economy and hope for our post-Brexit transition future.
This month, the new variant — B.1.1.7, or B117, as it often appears — has caused more panic. Ferguson and his ilk have determined it is more infectious. However, it might also be less damaging to COVID-17 patients in hospital:
That’s a rather important observation that those infected by the ‘new mutant’ (been around fur months) is not associated with requiring supplementary oxygen. I wonder why that might be
https://t.co/gxDyFyeZ7p
— Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3)
December 29, 2020
Nevertheless,
Ferguson now wants even harsher measures:
he strongly implies that schools will have to shut in January, and even then the virus might evade lockdown.
Goodness knows what ‘the virus might evade lockdown’ might mean for Britons.
Whipple actually believes that Ferguson is some sort of scientific saviour.
Good grief:
This is, I say, petrifying. It is also extremely interesting.
Nowadays, it is orthodoxy that lockdown was right.
In the next pandemic, we won’t hesitate to use it. But as this new variant shows, lockdown does not always work.
However, it also seems as if our first lockdown, sold to us as ‘flattening the sombrero’, to borrow Boris Johnson’s term, was done so on a false premise:
It was never guaranteed that lockdown would crush the curve.
He is all too aware of this. “During late March, early April, we kept looking at the data as it came in. Was there any sign of hospital admissions and deaths hitting a peak? It was a very, very anxious time.” We now know that when we got it to its lowest, R, the reproduction rate of the virus, hit 0.6. Lockdown worked. If the professor’s modelling of the new variant is correct, it won’t be so easy to control. In the same circumstances it could have a rate just over 1 and the pandemic would not have retreated.
Ferguson says to his critics:
It’s clearly unfortunate that a minority of people almost don’t like the idea that you can just have random bad things happen in the world, and want to attribute it to some malign plan.
Ferguson and his family are largely unscathed from the policies he helped to develop.
Two other sites that reported on this interview had pertinent insights.
NewsWars noted:
In the Christmas interview, the epidemiologist admitted “there is an enormous cost associated with” lockdowns, specifically the erosion of civil liberties.
However,
thanks to the Chinese Communist Party’s authoritarian measures, he said, “people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed.”
And how! A year ago, who could have imagined that the CCP would be indirectly controlling our health policy?
At
UnHerd, Freddie Sayers wrote similarly (italics in the original):
He almost seems at pains to emphasise the Chinese derivation of the lockdown concept, returning to it later in the interview:
“These days, lockdown feels inevitable. It was, he reminds me, anything but. “If China had not done it,” he says, “the year would have been very different.””
To those people who, still now, object to lockdowns on civil liberties principles,
this will be a chilling reminder of the centrality of the authoritarian Chinese model in influencing global policy in this historic year.
Let us look at what Laura Perrins, ex-barrister and co-editor of
Conservative Woman, a haven of common sense, has to say about said policies. Let’s start with testing of schoolchildren, something likely to come in January, along with the current hue and cry to close schools again:
They haven't even completed the 'catch up classes' in schools, before they threaten to close them again.
It is not just incompetent, it's evil.
— Laura Perrins (@LPerrins)
December 29, 2020
The Government, advised by SAGE, NERVTAG and other
quangos — quasi-NGOs — have lied and lied and lied this year, culminating with Christmas:
3 weeks to flatten the curve.
No second lockdown.
We need a second lockdown to save Christmas.
Cancel Christmas.
Tier 3 not enough.
Bring in Tier 4.
Close schools.
Lockdown for January.
— Laura Perrins (@LPerrins)
December 29, 2020
We had the second lockdown 'to save Christmas.'
They cancelled Christmas anyway.
They said if we had Christmas we would need a lockdown for January.
Having cancelled Christmas they'll lockdown January anyway.
DO YOU GET IT YET?
— Laura Perrins (@LPerrins)
December 29, 2020
In conclusion:
Every single small act you do now counts.
You collaborate or resist this Covid fascism.
Wearing a mask, taking a test, forcing children to take a test, administering tests, signing death certs with covid when it isn't a covid related death is collaborating with a Facsist State.
— Laura Perrins (@LPerrins)
December 29, 2020
It's only your job, it's only your child's education, it's only your dad's cancer treatment, it's only your immigration status (if it depends on you being in work), it's only your holiday, it's only all joy, it's only democracy, it's only your right to breath freely ….
— Sabrina Sullivan (@Sabrina96966140)
December 29, 2020
I could not agree more.
Pray that this scourge leaves us and other Western countries in 2021.
Freedom is never free.
Happy New Year.