Sunday Times published an article this Sunday 17th May that makes a claim to understand the background to the UK Government policy on Corona Virus.
The central claim is that the science advice was focused on influenza. Based on documents released (belatedly) from SAGE meetings. No copy of the documents is produced, no date of the documents is provided, nothing to substantiate the release as genuine or the writers interpretation .as accurate.
The documents may well be genuine.
They might be a late addition.
Do you trust the UK Government?
Who does?
The article tries to portray the decision making process of the UK Government as a similar mistake to one made by pilots who were fixated on one minor issue, who missed a critical issue, leading to the fatal crash of their aeroplane. The UK Science teams were focused on Influenza and did not notice COVID19.
Oh dear!
Blame the Scientists, the Public Health officials. Johnson get out of jail card is played.
"The terminology offers a first hint. The modelling group is called the “scientific pandemic influenza group on modelling”. The key planning document that informed government policy for a decade is called the UK Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Strategy. The review of evidence on whether to shut educational facilities is called the Impact of School Closures on an Influenza Pandemic. A paper on whether to limit public events is called Impact of Mass Gatherings on an Influenza Pandemic."
I don't buy it.
This article is blaming the Scientists. The article does not mention the consistent lies, the deliberate policy decisions that repeatedly allowed spread of the infection, the desire to 'make a profit' or the appalling May 10th speech, or the odious briefing of Gavin Williamson the day before the get out of jail free care article was published. Passive aggressive management tactics, manipulative grooming, emotional blackmail. These are the actions of devious and deceitful people, not the errors of well meaning people.
The article is nothing less than a putrid attempt to give the Government a get out of jail card for the Johnson/Cummings cabal and their supine political appointees posing as Medical Officers and Scientific Advisers.
It does not say what date these minutes are taken from.
They mention March. They mention early documents. No useful information.
On February 3rd, Boris Johnson mentioned Corona Virus in a speech about Brexit in Greenwich.
By February 3rd the whole world KNEW that COVID19 was nothing like an influenza. Wuhan had been in lock-down for three weeks, as had Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore.
WHO had issue pandemic warnings by this stage.
https://youtu.be/baWbWpOtJnc?t=536 - Watch Johnson declare the UK will not panic because of Corona Virus..
This is the official transcript from Johnson's speech on February 3rd.
https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pm-speech-in-greenwich-3-february-2020
Here is the segment pertinent to COVID19.
"And in that context, we are starting to hear some bizarre autarkic rhetoric, when barriers are going up, and when there is a risk that new diseases such as coronavirus will trigger a panic and a desire for market segregation that go beyond what is medically rational to the point of doing real and unnecessary economic damage, then at that moment humanity needs some government somewhere that is willing at least to make the case powerfully for freedom of exchange, some country ready to take off its Clark Kent spectacles and leap into the phone booth and emerge with its cloak flowing as the supercharged champion, of the right of the populations of the earth to buy and sell freely among each other.
And here in Greenwich in the first week of February 2020, I can tell you in all humility that the UK is ready for that role.
We are ready for the great multi-dimensional game of chess in which we engage in more than one negotiation at once and we are limbering up to use nerves and muscles and instincts that this country has not had to use for half a century."
Protect the hoard, let the herd take it on the chin.
Clear as day.
That was and remains the policy of the UK Government. A policy that has led to c.50,000 excess deaths, and is heading for many more than that. Get back to work! Go to school! Be Alert!
Kindest regards
Corneilius
"Do what you love, it is your gift to universe."
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