Posted on 12/27/2020 10:30:55 AM PST 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 ...
-Because for a narcissistic, totalitarian sociopath, this could very well be fun.
“about the time someone was getting infected by a bat”
False.
Never demonstrated, regularly disproved.
“about the time someone was getting infected by a bat”
False.
Never demonstrated, regularly disproved.
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Yes. Never demonstrated anyone got infected by a bat to start this.
In fact it’s probably doubtful.
I don’t see it as disproved though. If it is is be thankful to you for a reference.
I come down on fun. No one’s giving a computer modeler anything like serious money. They’ll just take his koo-koo analysis and figure out a way to monetize it for themselves.
...And how!
Created in a lab, by Fauci’s minions. Bat virus was subjected to gain of function testing that was illegal in the USA. Chinese low quality allowed their unethical frankenvirus to escape.
It’s all about the power. Read 1984 again. We are living it today. Our politicians just want more and more power.
Beyond the article, I automatically distrust anything that advantages the CCP.
Interesting question.
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Communist Coercive Methods by cheshirethecat
He said what they wanted to hear. Instant expert.
Quite a lot of people, many who I didn't expect, agree with him - it's an exciting new tool to use in the cause of social reform. In China there is no effective difference between "conform or the virus will kill you" and "conform or the government will". That has not escaped the notice of totalitarians everywhere. I just didn't realize there were quite that many of them.
“I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” Professor Ferguson says..." "We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought."
"We" thought. Who thought? Add this one to David Brooks' arrogant but revealing comments on the Expert Class and you'll realize who - journalists, academics such as Professor Pantsdown, and politicians. "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." (Daniel Webster). That's who.
And yet, with all the draconian policies put into place in China, with the mountains of ‘deactivated’ cell phones attesting to casualties, they have never stopped the spread and are locking down again in Beijing.
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