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Delingpole: Lockdowns Were Inspired by the CCP, admits Professor Pantsdown
Breitbart ^ | December 27, 2020 | James Delingpole

Posted on 12/27/2020, 10:30:55 AM by CheshireTheCat

Professor Neil Ferguson, the discredited Imperial College computer modeller behind Britain’s draconian lockdown policies, has come clean about his inspiration: none of it would have been possible without the shining example of the Chinese Communist Party.

In an extraordinary interview with the Times (of London), Ferguson admits that if it hadn’t been for China’s example, no Western country would ever have dreamed of putting its populace under house arrest.

Back in 2019, about the time someone was getting infected by a bat, no European country’s pandemic plans seriously entertained the prospect of putting a country on pause.

Then, that’s what China did. “I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” Professor Ferguson says.

Ferguson appears to find the idea of emulating a totalitarian state exciting rather than embarrassing or shaming because he boasts about it again later in the interview....

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

164 posted on 12/27/2020 2:17:44 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
Well, it's a compliment when Jake Tapper refuses to book you:

https://politicalwire.com/2020/12/27/cnn-anchor-wont-book-trump-spokespeople/
December 27, 2020 at 4:15 pm EST By
"SNIP.....

CNN’s Jake Tapper said he won’t interview certain pro-Donald Trump people because they’ve established themselves as liars for the president with “no value” being aired on TV, Mediaite reports.

Said Tapper: “Well, there are some people that are so mendacious, I just wouldn’t put them on air. Kayleigh McEnany, I never booked her. Jason Miller from the Trump campaign, I would never book him. These are just people who tell lies the way that most people breathe. There was no value in that.”

167 posted on 12/27/2020 2:20:31 PM PST by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

And then the Chinese let up on the lockdown but the West just kept chugging merrily along.


172 posted on 12/27/2020 2:26:38 PM PST by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB)
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To: ransomnote
Back in 2019, about the time someone was getting infected by a bat

A bat. Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

This guy's a riot.


177 posted on 12/27/2020 2:31:52 PM PST by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas.")
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To: ransomnote

Professor Neil Ferguson

*******************

A betrayer of and traitor to freedom.


183 posted on 12/27/2020 2:51:17 PM PST by lyby ("Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe." ~ Galileo Galilei)
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