HONESTY from UK politician: Covid 'is a gift that keeps on giving'

Daily Mail ^ | Feb 7 | By GLEN OWEN

[RandFan]

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer is facing a backlash after one of his most senior frontbenchers described the Covid pandemic as a 'gift that keeps on giving' for lawyers.

Lord Falconer, the Shadow Attorney General, used the phrase during a briefing for a top City firm staffed by millionaire lawyers.

The peer insists that he was referring to changes in the law triggered by the crisis, but a source close to the Labour grandee said that he regretted his choice of words.

As well as being a full-time member of the Shadow Cabinet, Lord Falconer – who served as Tony Blair's Lord Chancellor – is a partner at the international law firm Gibson Dunn, where his duties have included leading its Covid-19 UK Task Force.

Labour declined to reveal details of Lord Falconer's pay at the company, although it was reported in 2019 that full partners at the firm took home an average of £2.5 million a year.

[RandFan]

He has let the cat out of the bag here.

[A Formerly Proud Canadian]

What is needed is a vaccine that causes those who are vaccinated, to tell the truth. Start by vaccinating POLITICIANS!

[tbw2]

The London Imperial model predicted 2.2 million dead Americans and 500,000 dead Brits if we didn’t lock down. You can say it was an incorrect computer model, but they have a HISTORY of bad disease models.

2005
Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke

Last month Neil Ferguson, a professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College London, told Guardian Unlimited that up to 200 million people could be killed.

Real death toll? Maybe 200,000. 1000x mistake

2002
‘Mad Cow’ Sheep in Britain Could Increase the Human Death Toll
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/mad-cow-sheep-in-britain/

Neil M. Ferguson and his colleagues at Imperial College, London, considered three possible scenarios. In the best case, BSE does not spread within or between flocks and therefore has a negligable impact on the vCJD epidemic. But at worst, BSE spreads wildly both within and between flocks and raises the vCJD toll from a maximum of 50,000 to 100,000 deaths due to infected cattle alone to a combined total of as many as 150,000 deaths.

Real death toll? 50-ish. 1000x mistake.

This means that liberals in power CHOOSE to use a disease modeler with a HISTORY of being WILDLY wrong.