Posted on 12/29/2020 5:01:20 PM PST by ebb tide
LONDON (ChurchMilitant.com) - A U.K. scientist notorious for pushing global lockdowns as a response to the Wuhan virus has confessed to receiving his inspiration for the imposition of totalitarian quarantines from communist China.
Anti-lockdown protests in Trafalgar Square, London
In a revealing interview, disgraced professor of mathematical biology Neil Ferguson admits that the draconian lockdown policies adopted by Western countries and endorsed by Pope Francis and top prelates would have been unthinkable even a year ago.
"No European country's pandemic plans seriously entertained the prospect of putting a country on pause" as a solution to bat infections in 2019, Ferguson told The Times on Christmas Day.
It "wasn't clear that the way to stop an infectious disease was to stop a society, and the very idea was horrifying and unimaginable," especially in a world where people "shook hands, met relatives and commuted to work," the epidemiologist said.
"Then, that's what China did," and "people's sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March," Ferguson unapologetically revealed, noting he was initially skeptical about Chinese claims to have flattened the curve by using house arrest.
Ferguson described how the British government's scientific advisory group "watched as China enacted this innovative intervention in pandemic control that was also a medieval intervention."
His Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) colleagues debated whether the authoritarian communist policies could be implemented in Western democracies, explained the 52-year-old Imperial College academic.
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"It's a communist one-party State, we said. We couldn't get away with it in Europe, we thought ... and then Italy did it. And we realized we could," blurted Ferguson.
Distinguished Italian epidemiologist Dr. Paolo Gulisano told Church Militant that "Italy became the first country in the world to introduce the 'lockdown model' in an experimental way after it was first applied and promoted in China and sponsored by Dr. Ferguson."
Anti-lockdown protesters scuffle with police in London
"Despite this, Italy is the European country with more deaths. Which means, of course, that something is not working," Gulisano lamented. "It's useless to blockade the whole population. What is usually done in epidemiology is [to] isolate the sick and their contacts," he explained.
"The Italian lockdown, instead, has not only not stopped the contagion but its only result is a depressed, frightened people. The Chinese lockdown has become the Italian lockdown," observed Gulisano, former professor of history of medicine at the Bicocca State University of Milan.
Gulisano, a celebrated essayist, emphasized to Church Militant that the lockdown measures "come from a totalitarian country: Not surprisingly, they are totalitarian measures."
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"We have had to put up with a police state and a kind of military repression. ... This is a very serious problem: Under pretense of sanitary security, dictatorial methods have been introduced in Europe," Gulisano warned.
The specialist in hygiene and preventive medicine, who is a committed Catholic, slammed the Holy See's capitulation to the tyrannical, communist measures.
"All this while the Vatican has been absolutely silent, if not supportive of repression. The hierarchy has limited religious freedom, closed churches for worship, and this is unprecedented in history," Gulisano bewailed.
He elaborated:
So far, the Church had always opposed dictatorships throughout the world, from the Soviet Union to South America. Even now, it should be in the front line in defending freedom. But everybody knows that this Church is closely connected with the Chinese regime. Therefore, is the Chinese way, a ruthless mixture of unrestrained capitalism and social Marxism, to be exported in the rest of the world without anybody really objecting?
Cartoon mocking the U.K. government's Wuhan virus policy
According to the Bulletin of the World Health Organization (BWHO), "The strictest control measures were applied in Wuhan with a complete lockdown of the population. Starting at 10 a.m. on Jan. 23, 2020, Wuhan city officials prohibited all transport in and out of the city of 9 million residents."
BWHO elaborated:
Within the rest of China, the interventions included nationwide traffic restrictions in the form of increased checkpoints at road junctions to reduce the number of people travelling and self-isolation of the population at home to reduce outside activities. Hundreds of millions of Chinese residents had to reduce or stop their inter-city travel and intra-city activities due to these measures.
Pope Francis commended "most governments" who "acted responsibly, imposing strict measures to contain the outbreak," Church Militant earlier reported.
The pontiff rebuked anti-lockdown protestors for "refusing to keep their distance, marching against travel restrictions — as if measures that governments must impose for the good of their people constitute some kind of political assault on autonomy or personal freedom!"
Japan successfully contained the virus without strict lockdowns. It saw a total of 2,487 deaths or 18 deaths per million people — by far the lowest death rate among industrialized democracies.
It's a communist one-party state, we said. We couldn't get away with it in Europe, we thought ... and then Italy did it. And we realized we could.Tweet
A Church Militant report in May revealed how Ferguson's doomsday models may have bamboozled bishops into closing churches, especially influencing Cdl. Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster and president of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.
Ferguson earned the sobriquet "Professor Pantsdown" after breaking his own lockdown rules to shack up with his 38-year-old lover, Antonia Staats — a left-wing activist living in an open marriage with her husband, Chris, and their two children in a £1.9 million South London house.
Ferguson admits to 'massaging the Staats'
The adulterous academic was forced to resign after the scandal but has now been reinstated by the government and is continuing to push for total lockdowns in the new year.
Ferguson's record of advising the government has been blighted by a series of catastrophic failures.
In 2001, Ferguson advised widespread preemptive culling to halt foot-and-mouth disease, costing £10 billion and leading to the slaughter of over 6 million cattle, sheep and pigs. In 2011, a report slammed his models for making a "serious error" by "ignoring the species composition of farms."
In 2005, Ferguson predicted deaths of 200 million from bird flu. The global death toll between 2003 and 2009 was a mere 292.
In 2009, Ferguson's swine flu modeling forewarned of 65,000 people dying in the United Kingdom. Only 457 people died.
The expert also warned that up to 50,000 people could die from mad cow disease, but the human form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) killed just 177.
Meanwhile, Philip Thomas, professor of risk management at the University of Bristol, has argued that lockdowns in Britain will claim the equivalent of 560,000 lives because of the health impact of the "deep and prolonged recession it will cause."
The specialist in hygiene and preventive medicine, who is a committed Catholic, slammed the Holy See's capitulation to the tyrannical, communist measures.
"All this while the Vatican has been absolutely silent, if not supportive of repression. The hierarchy has limited religious freedom, closed churches for worship, and this is unprecedented in history," Gulisano bewailed.
He elaborated:
So far, the Church had always opposed dictatorships throughout the world, from the Soviet Union to South America. Even now, it should be in the front line in defending freedom. But everybody knows that this Church is closely connected with the Chinese regime.
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29 Dec: Breitbart: European Union Prepares Investment Pact with Communist China
(AFP) — EU member states gave political backing to Brussels’ planned investment pact with China on Monday, clearing the way for a deal between the world’s biggest economic blocs.
At a meeting of ambassadors, the German EU presidency noted that no member had “raised a stop sign and the way for a political endorsement was thus cleared”, a diplomat said...
This came after the Chinese foreign ministry said last week that “negotiations have entered the final stretch” — and a second EU diplomat said an agreement could now be formally announced this week.
“We have to be careful, but as long as China is in agreement, there could be an official announcement from Brussels and Beijing by the end of the week,” the senior envoy told AFP.
No member state intervened at the meeting to block the accord, but afterwards Poland’s ambassador Andrzej Sados said he had “expressed our doubts” after Germany added it to the agenda.
The deal would be a major boost for both sides and strengthen economic ties between the giants before the expected arrival of U.S. president-elect Joe Biden in the White House in January...
The bloc’s leading economic power Germany, which holds the rotating EU presidency until the end of the year, has made securing the deal a priority of its time at the helm...
China’s commitment to labour rights had remained a hurdle, but Europe has long sought greater access to the huge Chinese market for its companies...
The head of the EU chamber of commerce in Beijing Joerg Wuttke told AFP this month that negotiators had “apparently made great strides on market access”...
While Trump’s administration has engaged in a war of words with Beijing, Brussels has taken a balanced approach...
China pushed past the United States in the third quarter of this year to become the EU’s top trade partner, as the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the U.S. economy while Chinese activity rebounded...
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/12/29/european-union-prepares-investment-pact-with-communist-china/
Trust science? Fauci’s admission he misled public puts scrutiny on Biden alliance!
Fauci’s “apparent willingness to mislead the public in support of his preferred policy objective should disqualify him from providing public policy advice in any official capacity,” said Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University.
Joe Biden’s decision to hold over Dr. Anthony Fauci in his administration as his chief medical advisor as a symbol of his commitment to “trust science” is coming under new scrutiny following Fauci’s recent admission that he altered public scientific estimates based on opinion polls.
In a Christmas Eve interview with the New York Times, Fauci acknowledged he had offered a lower estimate of the level of herd immunity necessary to stop the COVID-19 pandemic because he thought Americans would be demoralized by his true thoughts on the issue.
Fauci recently raised his estimate on the herd immunity threshold “partly based on new science,” the newspaper reported, “and partly on his gut feeling that the country is finally ready to hear what he really thinks.”
Fauci had previously admitted that in the spring, during the early phase of the pandemic, he misled the public about the efficacy of face masks in limiting the spread of COVID-19.
Fauci’s admission that he tailored his herd immunity threshold estimate to PR needs drew the ire of Jay Bhattacharya, professor of medicine at Stanford University. Bhattacharya is a co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration, which called for replacing “devastating” coronavirus lockdown policies with a new, less restrictive strategy.
“Dr. Fauci’s apparent willingness to mislead the public in support of his preferred policy objective should disqualify him from providing public policy advice in any official capacity,” Bhattacharya told Just the News on Monday. “Dr. Fauci’s advice throughout the epidemic has ignored the science regarding the devastating physical and psychological harms of the lockdowns, to which he seems utterly blind. For a policy advisor, science should inform policy preference, not the other way around.”
Dr. Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology and public health at Yale University, said Monday that Fauci seems to have ignored the acquired immunity of the 20 million Americans who have tested positive for COVID-19, as well as the estimated 125 million Americans who have had the infection asymptomatically.
“I don’t believe that Fauci has ever provided unvarnished, truthful advice,” Risch told Just the News. “What he really meant is that 90% of the population needs to be immune for the pandemic to more-or-less go away completely. But this is not what he said.”
“Also, you may notice that the WHO removed the fact that having the infection provides immunity,” Risch continued, “now bizarrely stating that immunity only occurs from vaccination. You can guess why WHO (and Dr. Fauci) would manipulate public opinion against scientific knowledge.”
Fauci’s office at the National Institutes of Health did not respond to request for comment from Just the News.
With no vaccination, the pandemic “will be largely over by spring in the Upper Midwest and by summer in a large part of the U.S., with the states that have had the strongest lockdowns continuing their epidemics the longest, perhaps into the fall,” Risch said. “Vaccination may help to make this earlier. The issue is mortality not case counts. Everyone is focused on case counts but that is wrong. Whether by natural immunity or vaccination, we need people to become immune, that is what ends the pandemic.”
Fauci’s New York Times interview drew a scathing rejoinder from Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), who tweeted: “Almost everything Fauci has said this year has been exaggerated, misleading, and/or flat-out wrong. He is not to be trusted under any circumstances. Americans must reject his doctrine of destruction before his fantasies lead to the end of our freedoms.”
op-ed from The Australian is behind paywall, but Sanjeev has posted following link, where you can enlarge text & read in full, with Swedish data:
30 Dec: The Australian: Swedish Covid-19 data exposes our fatal lockdown hysteria
by Sanjeev Sabhlok
Three months ago I resigned as an economist in the Vitorian Department of Treasury and Finance to protest against disproportionate public heath measures by (Victorian Premier) Daniel Andrews that had led to a police state...
As I have written previously, this pandemic is not the Spanish flu. Data is now telling us that is is not even in the league of the Hong Kong flu.
In May, modellers had said Sweden would experience more than 100,000 additional deawths from COVID this year, with 96,000 additional deaths by July if lockdowns were not imposed...
https://sanjeev.sabhlokcity.com/Misc/Op-ed-TheAustralian-30December2020.png
from a summary Sanbyjeev:
1) Sweden’s 2-yr average death rate will likely be the second lowest in ten years. This has been a “bad flu” but less lethal than the Hong Kong flu.
2) Lockdowns have only been used once in 500 years: for Ebola, and were not effective even for it. “When lockdowns are rejected by the science even for a lethal virus such as Ebola, the idea of lockdowns being applied for a flu-like virus does not arise”.
3) Vaccine can be helpful for those >75. Compulsion would amount to the same intellectual and spiritual cowardice that we’ve seen throughout 2020.
FINALLY: when folks compare COVID with earlier diseases/flu etc., please adjust for the world’s population at the time.
for example:
Wikipedia: The Spanish flu infected around 500 million people, about one-third of the world’s population...
death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, and possibly as high as 100 million...
therefore, for all those in FakeNewsMSM/politicians/health officials saying COVID-19 is the worst pandemic in a century/since the Spanish flu, please note:
2.5 billion people would have to be infected by covid; between 100 million and 500 million would have to die from COVID.
Thanks for posting a serious wake up article re the ChiComs and their incestuous relationship with top Catholics, Italy and the UK with the ChiCom WooFlu Lockdowns around the world.
Lockdowns that killed people and caused massive economic and personal losses where the lockdowns were set up.
And Global climate change is the same type of psyop paid for and promoted by China.
China promotes and funds such, so they can become the #1 superpower.
And globalists, like the Democratics, will do all they can to help out...cause they are making bank.
Thanks for posting a serious wake up article re the ChiComs and their incestuous relationship with top Catholics, Italy and the UK with the ChiCom WooFlu Lockdowns around the world.
Lockdowns that killed people and caused massive economic and personal losses where the lockdowns were set up.
Thanks for the data.
It appears that the ChiComs with the help of the Pope, UK idiots, Aussie liars and our liars like Fauci are destroying the economies and structure of our countries.
Well yeah, they were dragging people away in metal boxes on trucks and welding apartment doors shut. Made it look like the plague to the rest of the world.
Will read later. Sounds like they have a better idea of what happened in China than I did watching youtube accounts. How much of that was real and how much of it was fake that I watched?
Mostly good stuff that more should know.
CDC: 1918 Pandemic (H1N1 virus) (Spanish flu)
The number of deaths was estimated to be at least 50 million worldwide with about ***675,000 occurring in the United States...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/pandemic-resources/1918-pandemic-h1n1.html
US population 1918: 103 million
therefore, adjuted for population, equivalent US deaths from COVID for USA would be 2,160,000 deaths.
15 Dec: ABC: US COVID-19 deaths top 300,000 just as vaccinations begin
By ADAM GELLER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH, Associated Press
“The numbers are staggering — the most impactful respiratory pandemic that we have experienced in over 102 years, since the iconic 1918 Spanish flu,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious-disease expert, said days before the milestone...
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/us-covid-19-deaths-top-300000-vaccinations-begin-74723337
why don’t certain people lost their jobs?
Wikipedia: Neil Ferguson
Bird flu – 2005
In 2005, Neil Ferguson said that bird flu could kill as many as 200 million people worldwide. He stated that “Around 40 million people died in 1918 Spanish flu outbreak” and that “There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it [the death toll from bird flu] up to around 200 million people probably.”...
1 Oct 2005: Guardian: Bird flu pandemic ‘could kill 150m’
by James Sturcke
A global influenza pandemic is imminent and will kill up to 150 million people, the UN official in charge of coordinating the worldwide response to an outbreak has warned.
***David Nabarro, one of the most senior public health experts at the World Health Organisation, said outbreaks of bird flu, which have killed at least 65 people in Asia, could mutate into a form transmittable between people.
He told the BBC that the “range of deaths could be anything between five and 150 million”...
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...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/sep/30/birdflu.jamessturcke
13 Feb: 2019: Stat News: What happened to bird flu? How a major threat to human health faded from view
The overall human death toll was low — in the hundreds — but scientists and government officials feared that the virus could ignite a human pandemic reminiscent of the catastrophic 1918 Spanish flu. Emergency plans were drafted, experimental H5N1 vaccines were created and tested, antiviral drugs were stockpiled.
And then … nothing happened...
https://www.statnews.com/2019/02/13/bird-flu-mutations-outlook/
Wikipedia: ***David Nabarro is a person who has made his career in the international civil service, working for either the Secretary-General of the United Nations or the Director-General of the World Health Organization. Most recently from February 2020 he has helped the DGWHO deal with the COVID-19 pandemic...
In 2018 he was appointed Professor at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London and then appointed in 2019 as Co-Director with surgeon Ara Darzi, Baron Darzi of Denham...
On 21 February 2020, he was appointed as one of six Special Envoys from the DGWHO, who were tasked to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Nabarro
Wikipedia: ***Neil Ferguson (epidemiologist) is the director of the Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics (J-IDEA), director of the MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis, and head of the Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in the School of Public Health and Vice-Dean for Academic Development in the Faculty of Medicine, all at Imperial College London...
On 5 May 2020, it emerged that Ferguson had resigned from his position as a government advisor on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) committee after admitting to “undermining” the government’s messages on social distancing by meeting up with a woman...However, throughout this time Ferguson has remained on the List of participants of SAGE and related sub-groups, so it is not clear if his resignation was actually accepted...
In recognition of his policy work on non-pharmaceutical intervention measures to address the COVID-19 pandemic, Ferguson received an Emergent Ventures award and associated grant money from the Koch Brothers-funded Mercatus Center...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Ferguson_(epidemiologist)
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