…against the dying of the light.
Millions of families face living under draconian Tier Four restrictions until Easter, according to the scientist whose grim modelling spooked No10 into sending Britain into its first lockdown back in March.
‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson, an Imperial College London epidemiologist who quit his role as a Government adviser after breaking rules to see his married lover, today claimed the harshest curbs could ‘possibly’ have to stay until the spring and admitted Britain was now in a race to vaccinate people.
Yes, that professor Ferguson. The wrong about everything Ferguson, the serial incompetent Ferguson. This man who was wrong about CJD, foot and mouth, swine flu and bird flu as well as ignoring his own advice, is back like that bad smell when the cat drags something in and hides it so you chase around the house trying to find the source and here it is, professor pants-down Ferguson in all his putrid glory.
Rage is the only response frankly. That this charlatan is being listened to instead of having a size twelve delivered firmly to the seat of his pants and told never to darken the doors of civilised society again, is enough to make a reasonable man’s blood boil. Anyone else with such a record of abject incompetence would be hounded out of their jobs long ago, yet our hapless politicos are still listening to him and the media still quote him. And still he talks garbage and still he is capable of doing untold damage.
But, worse, the mad Handjob is not only lying again, he isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. The new strain of covid – which seems to have come as a surprise to Handjob, but not to anyone with a basic understanding of biology – is now 70% more infectious than the previous strains. A lie that is now being challenged. Well, it’s about time someone called him out on his made-up statistics.
But last night one scientist demanded greater transparency over the number that shut down swathes of the UK.
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University’s Nuffield Department of Primary Care, expressed scepticism over the 70 per cent figure.
That’s putting it politely – but at least he is kicking back. I mean, why would someone who specialises in evidence based medicine actually want something as crude as evidence, eh? Handjob doesn’t worry about little niceties such as evidence.
He said: ‘I’ve been doing this job for 25 years and I can tell you can’t establish a quantifiable number in such a short time frame.’
He added ‘every expert is saying it’s too early to draw such an inference’.
Professor Heneghan said there was no doubt this time of the year, the ‘height of the viral season’, was a difficult time for the NHS. But he said failure to put out the basis of the figures was undermining public trust.
Perhaps the most disappointing aspect in all of this is that after nearly a year of catastrophic failure, lies, deceit and wanton disregard for the consequences, there is any trust at all.
Never before have I learned to hate as I have hated this government during the course of this year.
So, yes, rage, rage against the dying of the light.
The 70% number came from Fergusons models.
It is therefore, by definition…. wrong.
Made up bollocks as usual, then.
It’s probably out by a ‘Ferguson’
Not for the first time during this dismal year, when confronted with the noxious lies of Ferguson, Vallance, Whitty, Johnson and Hancock, the aptness of Theodore Dalrymple’s notable observation becomes ever more stark:
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.”
Dear Mr Bishop
A partial quote, I have just discovered. The full(er) version:
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/67950.Theodore_Dalrymple
He seems an all round good egg, filled with a genuine humility. More writings:
https://www.takimag.com/contributor/tonydaniels/314/
DP
I will not be getting the vaccine, nor will I take part in any mass testing. Why not? Because it’s the only legal way of protesting against this catastrophe of public governance. On the balance of probabilities, I don’t think the vaccine is going to be harmful (other than in the small number of cases that is to be expected from any vaccine) – it may even do some good. And I realise there is a risk of catching the virus and that there is also a risk of it being seriously bad for me – I am of an age where this risk may be noticeable.
But taking part in any mass vaccination or mass testing will help these incompetent liars in whatever scheme they have to cover up their horrendous mismanagement, and so, since we are no longer afforded the right of peaceful protest, withholding my cooperation is the only thing I am (for the time being) able legally to do.
Yeah, that’s pretty much where I am. I will legally withhold cooperation at every opportunity.
I’m not sure of the best way to withhold cooperation. On the few times I’ve been asked for contact details for Test and Trace I’ve just given false details, but when I’m offered a jab do I say ‘No way am I having that Pfizer vaccine’ or do I just say OK and not bother turning up?
“On the balance of probabilities, I don’t think the vaccine is going to be harmful”
You might want to download and read the “Open Letter” I linked to on another thread:
https://www.longrider.co.uk/blog/2020/12/20/one-angry-man/#comment-44296
It’s worth noting that Handjob recently referred to Prof Heneghan as an “Outlier”.
We have sunk to the level of our “Health Minister” (who has NO medical qualifications) slagging off someone with 25 years real world experience – simply because his opinion doesn’t fit with the Government narrative…
A thoroughly obnoxious little man.
Plus Heneghan uses common sense as well as expertise. All Corona viruses cause a mild infection in most people who are not seriously ill already.
Is it likely that Fergusson has been invited back in because he is guaranteed to give the government the scientific answer that they have already decided that they want?
Only recently the name ‘Hancock’ brought Tony to mind. Now the first thought is of this hopeless third rate individual who has all the talent needed to run a small insurance office. In a longish life I can’t recall anyone so obviously or so far out of his depth and that, believe me, is saying something.
This “new” strain was first reported in early September. If it was 70% more infectious we’d have seen mass deaths by now.
That we haven’t and Handcock claims it’s a “new” “Dangerous Mutant” strain shows he, Boris, V&W et al are lying. Worse is msm inc all newspapers running “Dangerous Mutant Strain” front page headline
My Conclusion on Wednesday: The ‘Mutant” Strain is a scam to increase fear and state control as now evidenced by:
https://lockdownsceptics.org/2020/12/20/latest-news-229/
I wonder, is banning Christmas to appease RoPers?
The ROPERS seem to be the only ones happy about this decision. I’m livid about it and I’m not a Christian. BTW did anyone see the video of the Brown Dwarf (a star without the fuel or mass to become truly stellar a good analogy for Khan) Sadiq Khan crying crocodile tears over the cancelled christmas celebrations? I saw several of these with Khan in and they all made me want to vomit. As for Khan’s claim that this is the worse Christmas since world war II for London then all I can say is that London was probably better managed during WWII as it was not led by such an awful low life like Sadiq Khan.
What happened to the “4 thousand deaths per day by 1st December”: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-second-lockdown-avoid-death-peak-spike-b1473185.html
Also, from Canada: https://twitter.com/i/status/1338792924969103363
My wife and I have just been tested positive (We got tested in case we could go to France see my relatives). Our kids are negative. I have no fever and a slight cough until yesterday so all of 2 days. Tonsilitis is much worse. I’m 56, not particularly healthy but not a wreck either. I reckon the toll that this year has taken on me keeping my business alive is the reason why I caught it (I’m never sick but this autumn has been a succession of things). I can say with certitude that johnson and co have cost me several months of my life expectancy, as well as lost income which means I’ll have to work well in my 60s, that is if we get out of the other side.
I will never forgive or forget, and God help me if any of them cross my path 1 day.
Monoi
Don’t get mad get even – longer term they will
Need to be dealt with of course. It looks likely the celebrated multi person gallows will be getting use on a par with the guillotine during the French Revolution…
@monoi
You can buy HCQ online from many countries inc Singapore, consider it
In UK Chloroquine is an OTC if labelled for Malaria prophalaxis (see BNF). Tell Pharmacist you’re going to Africa/India for charity work
On MUTANTS – the word MUTANT is a commonplace in sci-fi literature. It summons up images of man-monsters with extra hands growing out of their foreheads, ears on their bellies – back numbers of the ‘2000 AD’ comic will give the general idea. And they are mostly fearsome, treacherous, frequently cannibalistic and all in all pretty vicious … so the word MUTANT will, for many people, carry a heavy cargo of FEAR with it. I’m pretty sure Ferguson IS a mutant – he has that twisted wizened look and probably has scaly legs like a chicken’s, and hooky toenails …
All RNA virus genomes are unstable and mutate easily. Influenza virus is one of the worst offenders for mutating. Of course this is usually referred to as a new strain of ‘flu rather than a mutation. Is the government really evil or just crazy?
Ashmolean you are correct. The use by the media and this disgusting government of the word ‘mutant’ is designed to frighten. If they were not trying to frighten and were instead trying to be honest with the public then they would have used the word ‘evolve’ and ‘evolution’ rather than mutant.
Let me tell you a story. A lawyer sadly had to reclaim his daughter’s body from a hospital. They said she died from covid-19. He said she didn’t have covid-19. He was told unless he signed the paperwork saying she did have it they would not release the body. He is a Muslim and signed (have to bury her within 24 hours). They also hit him with an NDA too. But he was so angry, he broke it. The authorities want to keep the sheep scared as hell over this relatively harmless (for 99%) virus.