An Imperial College professor whose discredited computer modeling led Britain to lock up earlier this year finally admits where the inspiration behind the draconian measure came from. Hint: it is the same place where the virus originated.
In a Saturday interview with the Times of London, Professor Neil Ferguson said the inspiration for the lockdown measure came from communist China. Ferguson said he had doubts at first, then was surprised that lockdowns were being implemented in Europe and then the UK.
(Via The Times of London)
In 2019, around the time someone was infected by a bat, no European country’s pandemic plans had the prospect of putting a country on hold.
That’s what China did. “I think people’s perception of what’s possible in terms of control changed quite drastically between January and March,” says Professor Ferguson.
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“They claimed to have flattened the curve. I was skeptical at first. I thought it was a huge cover-up of the Chinese. But as the data accumulated, it became clear that it was an effective policy. “
As infections spread around the world and showed up like angry boils on the map, Sage discussed whether it would be effective here nonetheless. “It’s a one-party communist state,” we said. We thought we couldn’t get away with it in Europe. “In February, one of those boils raged just below the Alps. ‘And then Italy did it. And we realized we could do it.”
They saw the opportunity to seize power and they seized it.
Ferguson released a report in mid-March using models predicting that 2.2 million Americans and half a million Britons would die if the two countries didn’t implement strict lockdowns. The flawed models played a vital role in the two countries’ decision to introduce lockdowns earlier this year.