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Introduction – Dec 18, 2020

The academic who helped formulate the lockdown policy and initially warned that half-a-million Britons could die from Covid-19 has reappeared with new recommendations.

Prof. Ferguson had been forced to resign his position as a scientific advisor to the government after he was found to have contravened the very guidelines he had helped formulate. He had done so to meet his married lover.

Despite such a history the professor is again being given prominence in the MSM and let’s not mince our words: Prof Ferguson has an appalling track record:

In 2001 he predicted 130,000 deaths from Mad Cow Disease. There were in fact 200.

In 2002 Prof. Ferguson predicted 50,000 deaths in the UK from Mad Cow Disease. There were in fact 177 but as a result of his warnings literally millions of cattle and sheep were slaughtered.

In 2005 Prof. Ferguson predicted 150 million deaths from Bird Flu. There were actually 282.

With such a track record we should be asking: why is the media even quoting this guy, let alone featuring him in a headline story? Are they trying to scare us?

Seriously. This is fear-mongering, pure and simple, and the corporate media is an active participant.

Third lockdown may have to be toughest yet, says professor who designed first

Alessio Perrone – The Independent Dec 18, 2020

The third national lockdown may have to be stricter than the second, Imperial College London epidemiologist Professor Neil Ferguson said.

“The concern I have right now is that … (in) the East of England, for instance, case numbers were rising during the last lockdown, so there may be a need for additional controls beyond even what were in place then,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World At One programme on Friday.

Prof Ferguson sat on the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies until May, and his modelling led the UK government to U-turn on its initial “herd immunity” strategy and to design the first national lockdown in March.

His comments came as the prime minister, Boris Johnson, failed to rule out the prospect of a third national lockdown, signalling that one might be needed after Christmas after the rate of infections increased “very much” in the last few weeks.

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