Spreading fear so Prime Minister can cancel Christmas.
Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of the general containment theory is again fear-mongering in the British press forecasting up to 5,000 Omicron deaths per day this winter unless restrictions are tightened within a fortnight. This is despite Chris Whitty's assurances that SAGE members don't talk directly to the press about Government policy. Ferguson is softening up the public for the Prime Minister to announce another Lockdown, with reports suggesting that not only will Christmas be banned, but a three month lockdown starting in January will follow it. Ferguson is now doing his best to get set the scene for Johnson and Whitty to implement the Lockdowns. MailOnline reports:
Neil Ferguson and his team at Imperial College London found “no evidence” the variant is less severe than Delta but estimate it is five-and-a-half times more likely to re-infect people and make vaccines significantly weaker. Drawing on data from Omicron’s spread in the UK and South Africa, as well as lab tests on vaccine effectiveness, they concluded: “Omicron poses a major, imminent threat to public health.”
Professor Ferguson – a Government adviser whose modelling has spooked No10 into lockdowns before – said tighter curbs were needed “in a week or two” to have a significant effect on the size of the peak of the new wave. The latest projections will raise fears that Britons could be stung by last-minute festive restrictions once again, with Boris Johnson repeatedly refusing to rule a full lockdown out if hospitalisations start to surge.
Wales has already announced the return of social distancing and closure of nightclubs from Boxing Day, while Scots are urged to limit mixing to three households and people in England are advised to “prioritise” social events.
In a best case scenario, Imperial said without further curbs there could be in the region of 3,000 daily Omicron deaths at the peak in January – significantly higher than the previous record of 1,800 during the second wave.
Professor Azra Ghani, an epidemiologist at the university and one of the researchers behind the modelling, said it was an “illustration of the need to act”. Yesterday, Chris Whitty told MPs yesterday that he was “extremely cautious” about SAGE’s modelling of Omicron because there are still some “really critical things we don’t know” about the variant.
SAGE’s models have been criticised several times in the past for over-egging the UK’s epidemic, most recently projecting 6,000 daily Delta hospital admissions in October.
Last year Ferguson did exactly the same, with the week running up to Boris Johnson cancelling Christmas seeing him constantly on the airways whipping-up fear and panic to soften up the public into accepting house arrest for everyone for months.
Ferguson has a long history of doing this. and NONE of his predictions have ever come true.
It was Ferguson who, in 2001, convinced Prime Minister Tony Blair to have 6 million cattle slaughtered to stop the FMD epidemic (a decision which cost 10 billion pounds and which is today considered aberrant ). In 2002, he calculated that mad cow disease would kill about 50,000 Britons and another 150,000 when it spreads to sheep. There were actually 177 deaths. In 2005, he predicted that bird flu would kill 65,000 Britons. There were a total of 457 deaths. Regardless, he became an advisor to the World Bank and many governments, and maintained an influence like no other statistician has done before.
Ferguson has been the architect of the Generalised Containment Theory which has not only influenced the UK Government but most in Europe. According to French News Outlet voltairenet.org it was Ferguson who sent a confidential note to French President Emmanuel Macron on March 12th announcing half a million deaths in France. Distraught, Macron made the general decision of confinement the same evening. It was also Professor Ferguson who publicly announced on March 16 that if nothing was done, there would be up to 550,000 dead in the United Kingdom and up to 1.2 million in the United States, binding the British government to review its policy.
Ferguson has also been in the pay of Pfizer and other pharmaceutical giants for much of his career. When he used the same trick for Bird Flu in 2009 panicked governments spent billions buying drugs from the very pharmaceutical company that Ferguson was in the pay of at the time.
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