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Professor Neil Ferguson, tasked with forecasting Covid-style scenarios about bird flu in the UK, made the dire prediction in 2005 when fears of an avian influenza crisis were similarly high.
This is an article in three layers. I’ve already spelled out the first layer in my current series on the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 (archive: Omicron). In a nutshell, there is no Omicron because there is no SARS-CoV-2. The “pandemic virus” doesn’t exist. A variation of nothing equals nothing. However, I often make forays into the bubble-world where most people, including “the experts,” believe the virus is real. I do this to show that, within their world, the experts are constantly lying in their own terms and contradicting themselves. Within their world, you would think the pro...
Test for new Omicron variant? We don't need no stinkin' test, Ferguson, instigator of LOCKDOWNS. Stripping away of basic liberties. Economic devastation, Fauci, Neil Ferguson is the ghost in the machine. The machine is the World Health Organization and the CDC. The man behind the ghost is Bill Gates.
Modelling has driven much of the pandemic response. The initial reaction in the UK, the US and other European countries was shaped by the dramatic headlines in March last year, suggesting 550,000 deaths in the UK and 2.2 million in the US if mitigation measures were not put in place. Dr Thomas House, who sits on SPI-M - the group that models the pandemic for the government - said while models were an essential tool they were far from foolproof. Speaking in a personal capacity, Dr House said: “The thing that worries me most is when people expect too much accuracy from models of a complex sys...
“However, the models are only as good as the assumptions that they are based upon. They may not account for many things such as seasonality, details of vaccine rollout individual behaviour. “Nor can they account for our values and culture for example that people have different tolerances of risk. There are always values in politics and these need to be explained and it needs to be clear how the government has made their decisions.” Dr House, a reader in applied mathematics at the University of Manchester added: “It’s no good waving curves and graphs at people - if these only show co...