Professor Mark Woolhouse, a member of SPI-M, the modelling group on SAGE, has written a book – The Year the World Went Mad – in which he expresses deep regret about the fact that he and the Government’s other scientific advisors got almost everything completely wrong. The lockdown sceptics were right, in other words, particularly those who favoured ‘focused protection’ over universal restrictions. Harry de Quetteville in the Telegraph has more
“We knew from February [2020], never mind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem. It would simply delay it,” Woolhouse says, a note of enduring disbelief in his voice. And yet in government, “there was no attention paid to that rather obvious drawback of the strategy”.
Instead, lockdowns – which “only made sense in the context of eradication” – became the tool of choice to control Covid. The die was cast in China, which instituted ultra-strict measures and, unforgivably in Woolhouse’s book, was praised by the World Health Organisation for its “bold approach”. “The WHO,” he suggests, “got the biggest calls completely wrong in 2020. The early global response to the pandemic was woefully inadequate.”
Watching on, the rest of the world found itself following the same template, even though no work had been done to assess the costs of lockdowns. After swine flu, modellers had studied the knock-on consequences of many elements of infection control, but they had never envisaged “an instruction for most of the population to stay at home”.
So in March 2020, Britain issued the most dramatic civilian order since the war, with no idea what the harms might be. Why?
Even today, Woolhouse says, from his office at the University of Edinburgh: “I don’t have a good answer for you. It was a frustration from the beginning.” What he does know is that while extremely detailed modelling was being done “on what the epidemic itself might look like and the harms that novel coronavirus would cause… on the other side of the scales, we had pretty much nothing at all. There was never at any stage, even by the following year, any form of analysis of the harms caused by lockdowns. Were they even considered? I haven’t seen any evidence that they were and that is very, very troubling.”
All this despite a report on lockdown’s wider consequences sent to SAGE by the Office for National Statistics as early as April 2020, assessing how many years of quality life would be lost to lockdowns. The best guess was that suppressing the virus would cost three times more years than the disease itself.
In part, this finding emerged because the ONS report reflected on the relative costs of lockdown to different parts of society – in this case, to the young as well as to the old. In retrospect, this seems like an uncontroversial thing to do. But Woolhouse, from his position on the inside as government policy was formed, saw something very different: the disease being described as a universal killer, when it was clear from the beginning some were very much more at risk than others.
“The first good data on this started to emerge in late February 2020,” he says. And as Britain endured the first Covid wave, this data was borne out in the facts. Those over 70 had at least 10,000 times the risk of dying as those under 15 years old. “This is a highly discriminatory virus,” Woolhouse says, still exasperated today. “It’s ageist, it’s sexist, it’s racist. And we certainly knew [that] before we went into lockdown.”
Yet the Government decided that telling half the population that they were at extremely low risk would dilute adherence to the harsh rules it was imposing, and instead ramped up the threat warnings. “We are all at risk,” noted Michael Gove in March 2020. “The virus does not discriminate.” But it did then, and it does now.
“I heard [the official] argument caricatured as: everyone died, but at least no one was saved unfairly,” notes Woolhouse. Policy became a form of epidemiological communism, with imposed equality, even if it was equality of misery. “BBC News backed up this misperception by regularly reporting rare tragedies involving low-risk individuals as if they were the norm,” notes Woolhouse.
As usual when a sinner recants, there is much rejoicing in the Daily Sceptic’s editorial offices. But it is hard not to say at the same time: “We f***ing told you so.”
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When you look at Canada, you can see very clearly it’s not over yet. If the world’s ”leaders” were all banding together (as they so ably did to lock us all down) to condemn the Turdeau regime, then we might have some optimism. As it is…….
But spot the opportunism. I wonder if his book will make a profit? That said, he’s correct by the look of it.
So lets be clear here this onanist is still employed on the taxpayers purse?
But then as the bible says one repentant sinner is better than any amount of us who were right all along – or something.
We must not allow these people to get away with saying “oh well, we got it wrong.” Maybe that would be excusable if those speaking against such damaging and clearly hysterical directives had not been censored and slandered but we were. The censors need to be called out, punished and measures put in place to ensure this is NEVER repeated. I am not going to let it go until that happens and we have a full, grovelling apology from those responsible and a pledge that they will never work in public life again.
The cost of the measures (mistakes!) has been catastrophic and entirely predictable. We know of two student suicides in our personal networks with a serious attempt by one of our teenage children who was fortunate to survive. And that is tip of the iceberg in the full scope of the damage to peoples’ lives and health. ‘We got it wrong’ doesn’t cut it to put it mildly.
Never was the public given any empirical evidence to support policy. In the hierarchy of scientific evidence the lowest form of evidence is, in fact, ‘expert opinion’ and ‘modelling’ which is what the whole policy disaster was predicated on.
I am so sorry to hear about the young people. How terrible that they felt so despairing, at a time when life should be opening up for them, with interesting and exciting things to come. Instead they have been locked down and closed down for 2 years.
I’m sorry to say it but the elderly have failed their children and their grandchildren. They could have stopped this. They could have said “not in my name” but on the whole they demanded even tougher restrictions without a thought for the consequences. History will not remember them kindly.
Well I as an elderly was never asked my opinion. i don’t want to say ‘so don’t blame me’ but I know plenty of elderly who would have been happy to shield themselves if they felt at risk and let everyone else get on with life. I wonder how many of any age group would have complied back in March 2020 if they’d known it would still be going on in Feb 2022?
My family supported a few elderly friends and family throughout lockdowns – not one of them approved of the Government’s actions. They just did/do not have a voice. The essence of this is the propaganda and lies perpetrated by the Government and the MSM. We told you so! Simple bleeding common sense. We know the reality here and it’s as explicit as it could be. The human race is fundamentally flawed and self-destructive; tyrants and bullies lurk everywhere..
The human race is fundamentally flawed and self-destructive; tyrants and bullies lurk everywhere..
Yes they do – far more than I suspected. But those who detest bullying and tyranny have had their eyes well and truly opened by the events of the last two years.
We will not let them get away with it.
We need a solid Written Constitution to protect our rights from the power grans of the powerful.
Johnson’s devious ” Bill of Rights” which plots the exact opposite!
We now know for certain that we simply cannot trust our politicians to look after our best interests…or indeed our lives.
Not sure that it would help – there are multiple laws which they have flouted and misused so a constitution is likely to have been treated with the same contempt. Countries which do have written constitutions have by and large not fared any better. Laws and constitutions are of little use if governments ignore them and the judiciary won’t hold them to account.
Totally agree – e.g. more mandates have been applied in the US than the UK, despite the US written constitution. But we still need to make sure we tell the government what we think about the cuts they want to make to the Human Rights Act (we have until 8 March): The proposed removal of Human Rights in the UK for the Greater Good (substack.com)
Indeed, just look at little JustCastro in Canada.
Yes because a written Constitution worked so well in USA, Canada, Germany, Austria, France, etc during this didn’t it?
Britain has a Constitution, Bill of Rights and the Common Law, but none of this works when the institutions supposedly to safeguard it… the Constitutional Monarch, judiciary, Political Opposition, Parliament.. fail in their duties and responsibilities and stand by and cheer on tyranny.
Well Alter Ego, Great as your optimism is, I have to disagree with you.
“We will not let them get away with it ” really? I bet you sixpence that if this nonsense was to start tomorrow up to 90% of the sheeple would lie down and obey.
I think ‘protecting the vulnerable’ was little more than a smoke screen for an agenda of power and control.
“I wonder how many of any age group would have complied back in March 2020 if they’d known it would still be going on in Feb 2022?”
Hence the unctious lie about “3 weeks to flatten the curve” which turned out to be shorthand for “any excuse we can think of to keep the scam going until our Big Pharma mates got their act together so we could jab as many as possible as quickly as possible, all the while troughing in PPE / testing loot”
Presumably, your ire is directed at those of the elderly who weren’t confined to care homes (AKA Covid concentration camps) or the unfortunates who were DNR-ed or caught a lethal dose when in hospital for something unconnected with ‘the virus’?
“…the elderly have failed their children and their grandchildren.”
I know that an awful lot of words have been redefined these past two years, but I don’t think Fergusson, Whitty, Vallance, Johnson, Hancock and Javid can be described as elderly in anyone’s book. FYI, I’m 67 and I have been opposed to lockdowns from the beginning;I have never worn a mask and I have not been jabbed, so please stop collectivising us.
I doubt history will remember me at all, but if it does, and does so unkindly, then it will the sort of revisionist history beloved by the left.
Lumping people together by category is always intellectually lazy at best – and deeply offensive to the whole idea of the individuality of human beings.
However we look to others, each one of us is unique. That includes those we categorise as “the elderly”, “the left”, “the right” and “the sheeple”.
Not guilty. I begged my son not to take the jabs. I’m 72 and have never worn a mask, taken a test or been jabbed. Definitely NOT IN MY NAME
That is a very unfair and sweeping generalisation. None of the oldies in my family have been taken in by any of this. The younger ones, on the other hand, went for it without a thought so they coud get on with their foreign travel.One of my nephews became paralysed after the booster, which gave pause for thought to his brother, at least.
Many of us said ‘not in my name’, and were particularly incensed by the ‘don’t kill granny’ mantra! You cannot tar an entire generation with the same brush. Study those still masking up in shops and even outside – an astonishing number are women in their 20 – 40s. I particularly remember two women – in their 30s – who came to collect some of my paintings they’d bought and paid for online. Fully masked, they wouldn’t even approach my front door, and I had to place the paintings against a far wall and then retreat. My offer of a cup of tea was met with horror. They picked up the paintings wearing gloves, and I watched with disbelief from my window as they got out cloths and thoroughly cleaned them with some sort of mucky substance. I came close to demanding my work back.
We remain unjabbed, and I take umbrage at your suggestion that ‘history will not remember them kindly’. Being old does not automatically make us stupid, you know
i have noticed it’s more the young, middle aged ones that are the ones who wear masks everywhere at least around my area .or maybe i t’s just
almost everyone i know regardless of age ! who has been brainwashed or just never think for themselves
I still haven’t seen a definitive study showing any spike in suicides and attempted suicides from past March 2020 compared to previous years. This spike in suicides and attempted suicides no doubt is continuing.
Drug overdoses would be the same. Mental health consultations the same …
Definitely a rise in drug overdoses in the US. Look at Indiviors FY2021 results presentation last week. I can’t remember the increase but it was significant. 100k or something.
Fatal ones
One thing is clear: too many stupid and arrogant people have far too much power over others in our country. We need to look to it!
We need to stop voting. Full stop. Doesn’t matter who is elected, they are all either useless, corrupt or both. With a few honourable exceptions.
No matter who you vote for, government always wins.
Jeremy,
That really brought a smile.
Many moons age when we lived in the lovely town of Colchester, I remember a bbc ponce asking a wizened local who are you voting for.
The lovely (real) Essex man said I’m not voting because the bloody government always gets in.
“Oh well! We got it wrong” ( better luck next time!)
( A. Hitler April 1945.)
I wholeheartedly agree with you FNU. I have continuously berated my young Tory MP every week for a year from March 2020 about the very things that this member of SAGE is now ‘apologising’ for.
However, my greatest anger is about an equally young friend and colleague of my MP – Neil O’Brien MP – who set up a particularly nasty website to attack anybody who was against the lockdown policy. His victims included the saintly Professor Sunetra Gupta who he called a Covid denier when she is one of the world’s leading infectious disease epidemiologists. This MP – Neil O’Brien – should be charged with treason at the very least.
Quite agree. Useless idiot. He’s my MP and he certainly won’t get my vote.
Well, I agree in principle. But who, exactly, are we going to hold responsible?
You can point fingers at Neil Ferguson, for example. But alarmist, and totally wrong, as his figures and models were, they weren’t the only ones that were wrong. We’d still have had lockdown and all the other rubbish if Neil Ferguson and Imperial College never existed. Ditto with Boris Johnson and Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty.
Why do I say this? Because pretty much every other country that could do lockdown, did lockdown.
Covid was the first pandemic in the social media age. Whatever country A did was going to be instantly compared with what was going on in country B. And so national, regional, and local governments, along with businesses, schools, and other institutions began an unstoppable race to the bottom for who could institute the harshest, “toughest” lockdown possible. And who was going to stop them?
I can remember, very clearly, pointing out to people the well-known epidemiological fact that lockdowns and other NPIs only delay the spread of disease.
Thank you, BTW, Your Majesty the Queen, for getting a mild covid infection two years into the pandemic. Possibly the most protected, masked, isolated, person in the world. Catches it from her tripled jabbed, previously infected son.
Lockdown was inevitable. A colossal waste of trillions of dollars and tens of billions of years of people’s lives.
Who to hold responsible? Ministers, their advisors, MPs of all Parties, civil servants, those in local authorities, collaborating doctors, nurses, teachers, the judiciary, drug regulatory authorities, executives of pharmaceutical industries, Governors, editors and journalist at the BBC.
That will do for a start. When can we start the trials?
Boris is responsible. He is running the agenda for Klaus Shwab.
Indeed Fraser,
But this plonker is employed by you and I as a gold plated “Professor” at Edinburgh University.
Not a chance that he or any of his fellow gangsters in academia, the governments, church leaders or the stinkin’ media ever face any retribution.
Just look to the greatest scientific fraud in world history – the global warming scam.
Have you seen any blow back against that? Just wait and see what’s coming down the turnpike with that.
His suggestions are still way off the mark.
Prof Mark Woolhouse outlines nine things that should have happened
The idea closing the borders would have made any difference, when we need 10000 lorries a day to sustain ourselves, is absolute nonsense. Czechia managed to “stop” covid in the spring of 2020; how did that end up?
Yep
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8529295/
“Table 1 reports anti-SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibody detection according to the time of sample collection in Italy. In the first 2 months, September–October 2019, 23/162 (14.2%) patients in September and 27/166 (16.3%) in October displayed IgG or IgM antibodies, or both.”
So people in Europe mast have been infected sometime in the summer of 2019
I was.
And I haven’t been since
Australia could and did close the borders: at terrible cost to our universities, key industries and countless individuals.
How about this for an alternative list of what we should have done:
NOTHING AT ALL.
The way we would have done in years gone by when there was flu or a virus in circulation
Indeed. Or at most told people particularly at risk that there was a bug going round so they could choose whether or not they wished to go out and about less.
Damage control mode. Nobody needs COVID-safe protocols. What is needed is effective treatment for those who need it. And a realization that people die. This cannot be prevented and thus, all talking about saving lifes is just idle nonsense. Not a single life was saved by anyone. At best, deaths were postponed and even this is very dubious except insofar it happened in hospitals. COVID-survival rates even for the most vulnerable groups are in excess of 95%. Instead of saving anything, these people ruined lives on an enormous scale.
So he still recommended measures that do work e.g. face coverings…..not quite the wholly recanted nazi, then.
If he thought/thinks face coverings work he is low IQ recanted Nazi
Even item 6 is out of order. The belief in many of them is for the birds, but have been made use of by various organisations for their own benefit. Unless someone fully understands the real risks versus benefits of something of that nature, they should not do it at all.
I hope these types took the vaccine and all the boosters.
You need to ask why after all that has passed?
It was not, is not and never will be about a virus.
It’s all about TRPTB using fear to achieve digital ID of everyone on the bloody planet, with bigpharma and bigtec criminal accomplices.
And if you think we’ve stopped them then you’re a little naive.
To be fair to him he was saying this back in August 2020
“Lockdown was a panic measure,” Woolhouse said. “And I believe history will say trying to control COVID-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease.”
https://caldronpool.com/lockdown-was-a-monumental-mistake-on-a-global-scale-says-top-scientist-and-government-adviser/
Fair enough.
Did he publicly resign at the time or did he continue taking the money?
He is still on the SPI-M committee; paid or unpaid is not mentioned.
I doubt they’re paid if they already have an academic post.
I’ve been saying that since March 2020. Pity nobody ever listens to me.
You and me both, we’re nowt but a pair of Cassandras.
And we have a right to point that out.
My best prediction (March 2020): This is going to be springtime for authoritarians and busy-bodies.
Here’s my best contrarian prediction (published no less): Covid poses ZERO risk to healthy young athletes.
With this one, I went against every “expert” on all the Medical Advisory Panels that were telling colleges and pro leagues to cancel all their games.
FWIW, my science education ended with an 11th grade chemistry class. Eighteen months after writing this, I wouldn’t change a word.
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/31/covid-19-poses-virtually-no-health-risk-to-athletes/
I told my wife in March 2020 that we would never get all our freedoms back, because they never give back what they have taken. She rolled her eyes….
February 2022. Freedom to travel without being ‘vaxxed’ has still not been given back.
You will only get your freedoms back by fighting for them – but all we have is people signing on-line petitions, sending an e-mail to their MP, and meeting in parks on a Sunday morning to have a chat with friends.
Sad to say that if you are referring to the EU, they are several stages backwards in the Dark Ages and the level of fear induced compliance with “regulations” is awful.
Watch the excellent Cristian Terhes (MEP) trying to talk some sense to those with cloth ears (including Frau Fond o’Lying):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhe20QRG_Rw
So what’s the remedy you’d suggest? How to ”fight”? Who to ”fight”?
There is another area where there has been an appalling lack of analysis, both pre- and post-roll-out: the vaxx.
They knew it was novel technology with little testing of the vaxx itself; they knew the mRNA tech had been considered too dangerous to use in humans. They knew the spike protein on which all vaxxes were based was implicated in causing disease in those who became severely ill, as well as that the S-antibodies were also implicated in severity of disease.
So where was the modelling for potential, expected adverse events from the vaxx, to determine whether it should have been rolled out at all, and particularly rolled out to the entire population with such extraordinary haste? Didn’t England have some tender out for a super-duper software program to record the expected high level of AEs?
Oh, indeed. The vax scandal is surely going to dwarf talk of lockdowns when the truth comes out.
My first question would be: why the hell did you launch a mass experiment with untested drugs on the whole population when other established technologies existed?
And after that, they kept on digging.
”When” the truth comes out. Surely ”if” the truth comes out.
Yes, Genpact U.K. got the contract.
https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:506291-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML&src=0
edit to add:
’II.2.4)
Description of the procurement:
The MHRA urgently seeks an Artificial Intelligence (AI) software tool to process the expected high volume of Covid-19 vaccine Adverse Drug Reaction (ADRs) and ensure that no details from the ADRs’ reaction text are missed.’
Yeah a bit bloody late though!!
The contract award was dated 23 October 2020. What they’ve been doing since then is anyone’s guess.
It’s almost as if the cost of lockdowns is only now emerging – as totally unexpected, unpredictable and astonishing. “Who knew?”
A bit off topic… sort of… but it makes you wonder how the Buffoon and co. would have reacted to such a demonstration….
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trampling-truckers-great-reset-becomes-great-awakening
Thanks.
The zero hedge article is a good read. I hope the analysis is correct.
Scroll down to the comments below it and one of them posts this:
“They just ran a 10-country simulation of a major cyberattack on the global financial system in December 2021 called “Collective strength” in Israel:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/exclusive-imf-10-countries-simulate-cyber-attack-global-financial-system-2021-12-09/
So if it only took 2 months from “Event 201” till “Covid” surfaced then it seems probable that “Russia” will be blamed for a cyber attack planned for February/March 2022:
https://seemorerocks.is/international-bankers-simulate-the-collapse-of-global-financial-system/
We are already at stage 5 of this Pfizer ex-chief science advisor’s 7 stage timeline up to September 2022 and even if half of his final stages are correct it proves we have indeed entered the tribulation on October 31st of 2021:
https://carter-heavy-industries.com/2021/12/07/dr-mike-yeadons-timeline-to-tyranny/
It is all just too eerily close to what is happening at the moment. Read Mike Yeadon’s “stages to the Reset” and see how close we are to having everything confiscated.
And why he, and those of Swab’s pupils (and people wondered why they were in ”lockstep” with ”lockdowns”) haven’t raised a howl of protest, or even a mild squeak of condemnation, against Turdo’s regime and methods.
Perhaps watching carefully for helpful hints?
Buy his book!!! You are having a laugh.
I’m still waiting for my copy of Robert Kennedy Jnr’s. book on Anthony Fauci, but it has been delayed because there is a paper shortage, or so I’m told.
Beowulf: I just got mine on Kindle – no paper needed. What a fascinating and horrifying story he tells.
Gates has bought up all the World’s paper!
It will be worth the wait…
Ha ha – me too. I waited ages with Amacon (the “due date” kept getting moved back a month at a time, from mid Jan to mid March). So I used this link and got the hard copy book delivered within a week! BookFinder.com: Search Results
That’s sad because it’s a damn good book.
There’s absolutely no difference between these half-baked mea culpas, self-justifications and unmeant “sorrys” and the “I was following orders” excuses beloved of war criminals and others, caught bang to rights in their nefarious activities.
They might have sneered at the idea of “herd immunity”, but these modellers, unethical medicine men, “scientists”, psyops specialists, politicians and the rest of the trash know a lot about “herd instinct”. Charitably, that’s about the only reason, other than barrowloads of cash, that might explain their disgusting conduct.
Grovel as they may, but I’m afraid that my new life view is now that of a Manichaean; “TN, BN” for ever more.
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#PrettyMuchSumsItUp …
#Gates #Schwab & their #WEF #YoungGlobalLeaders
#HaveALOT #ToAnswerFor …
You can buy Mark Woolhouse’s book here.
That’s funny!
I have just read the mail article about the ghost children. My gears are grinding!!! The teaching unions, aided and abetted by the modellers have blood on their hands. The article doesn’t even mention the explosion of eating disorders we have seen in the last two years, eating disorders that kill.
And now we have heads of school dictating all children are to eat a vegetarian diet!!
Green Fascism (enabled by Covid) is here! Get used to it1
Can he sing us a song..? ‘Sorry seems to be the hardest word’ might be appropriate.
Unsurprisingly I suppose, as the scales fall from his eyes and he realised the catastrophe they have wrought upon us, the biggest realisation of all, was that it was someone else’s fault.
Cnut… I wont be buying his book and putting money in his pocket..
The question is whether Piers Morgan will claim he was always opposed to lockdown? There was a particularly unpleasant corner of hell, reserved for that monster, before covid, but he really does deserve everything he gets.
Scum….
I would be more impressed by his ‘apology’ if he did the following:
This man has deliberately and wilfully caused real impoverishment, mental health damage, physical damage to billions of people throughout the world.
Those who have profited from these crimes, such as ALL politicians and civil servants need to make substantial restitution in the form of donating their ENTIRE salary for the past two years to the charity mentioned above.
And ensure none of these creatures have any fingers in the charity.
He didn’t bloody say any of this at the time, did he? Toby did. Others did. We did.
Too bloody late now, isn’t it?
He said this in August 2020
Did he resign and publish an open letter of resignation from SAGE, or whatever other learned government advisory bodies he was a member of?
Maybe resignation would have been the best course, if public enough (but remember the partisanship/censorship of the press now – he’d just have disappeared silently, like the guy from the JCVI, leaving SAGE even more weighted towards the lockdowns.)
My suspicion is that SAGE operates on the time-honoured leftist infiltration methods those of us at university when the New Left was in the ascendant discovered.
Get a diverse body of a dozen experts or less, and there’s a fair chance of shared wisdom. But appoint a body of 60 of “the nation’s best experts” and it will reach the conclusions of the small clique knowing how to control it, whether they are the official leaders or just the ideologues who know how to silence the polite or timid disagreers.
You can see that situation working out in Trump’s COVID task force – a troika of Fauci, Birx and Redfield, in bed with each other and whatever the corrupt agenda was; a bunch of bureaucrats, politicos and non-scientists who knew no better or were cowards, and someone like Scott Atlas might as well not be on the team for all the real influence he had. Instead, if he speaks out he’s hatcheted by a controlled media, and eventually he looks to try and change things despite, not through, the advisory body.
But me – I’d have resigned loudly and become one of the champions of the opposition, and damn the career.
What’s a learned government advisory body?
This shower of excrement certainly aint
Toby started Lockdown sceptics in April 2020 when it was a genuinely controversial position to take. I seem to recall there was a brief window in August 2020 when mild lockdown sceptism was popular…..
But did……nothing; guilty as charged in the CoPO
Took him two years to figure this out and then admit it? Colour me skeptical (again).
He said this in August 2020.
He still “can’t give an answer” to the question of why this happened – ergo he can’t say now, so if he can’t say now he couldn’t say why it should happen back then, but still went along with it for 2 years anyway.
And this is the calibre of the person/scientist making decisions which are going to affect 50m+ people for over 2 years.
Still the money was worth his angst I’m sure. How much does he get for spouting rubbish?
By saying you were wrong you’re kinda saying you are now right.
Just keep control of the narrative, and affect humble reasonableness. Perfect gaslighting.
Fucking hell!…. Meanwhile in Trudeau’s fascist Canada they trample disabled old ladies with police horses.
It’s all about a contrived plandemic with a 99.8% survival rate init bruv!
So this t**t is trying to promote his book?
Shame on you, Daily Sceptic, for aiding and abetting.
I wouldn’t put any money in the pocket of anyone who a) is a mask believer and b) who contributed to stealing two years of our quality of life for nothing but conjecture and misery for us mere mortals in return.
“We knew from February [2020], never mind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem. It would simply delay it,”
Yes I understood the ‘2 weeks to flatten the curve’ which disappeared without trace before it became a mantra, because it was clearly a postponement strategy to take the pressure off the NHS. Sadly the subsequent alternate strategy to take pressure off meant locking down the entire NHS. Which the NHS embraced with great gusto, running up a huge backlog of undiagnosed disease which they appear to have no intention of clearing, to the extent that they still haven’t fully reopened. I haven’t seen my taxes reducing much though in view of the reduced service. So much for socialised medicine, or socialism if you prefer. As an early (non healthcare) signer of the Great Barrington Declaration which was discredited by the establishment I personally feel vindicated, but that will not help the thousands of people with undiagnosed cancer, the businesses that have have gone broke or the debt mountain that the younger generation have been saddled with.
Well this was obvious to me from the start and it is not 20 20 vision with hindsight. I annoyed virtually everyone I knew by pointing it out at the time. I am sick to the pit of my stomach at what happened to my country as a result. I heard we signed up some time ago to blindly follow WHO pronouncements. Whatever happened to the Britain I knew ?
Tell me about it….
Like you I was never taken in by this nonsense and when I said so I received nothing but criticism.
Has anyone seriously considered how deep the woke “equity” ethic runs? If “Thou shalt not have unequal outcomes” is a core principle now amongst politicians, advisers and civil servants in Whitehall, then ministers saying that targeted protection is anathema makes sense. They think that “equality of outcome” is more sacrosanct than human life.
On a larger scale, trashing the economy by lockdowns to make us more equal to the undeveloped world would also be a feature, not a bug, of COVID policy – and is even an overt one in the WEF Great Reset agenda.
There may be scientific incompetence at the highest levels, and there may be profiteering – but there is also a dark ideology in the mix.
I didn’t think you were allowed to keep the proceeds of a crime once you are caught (or hand yourself in). On that basis where will this crook be donating the income from his book?
A world now run by spivs.
Bliar was the archetypal spiv.
Maybe he’s pre-empting the Plebs’ anger by saying sorry to avoid being arrested and charged with crimes against humanity, or worse still, being lynched…
“It was all Boris’ / my dog’s / the CCP / the media’s fault”
The time will come soon when the Piper will need paying. And we Plebs won’t be paying the bill.
I expect this is going to be a lot like France in May 1945, when it turned out that nobody had collaborated, and everybody was secretly in la résistance all along.
Worse than that, they will claim they were all in the resistance, they won the war, and we were still wrong. Others will claim they were not in the resistance, but still won the war.
Does it matter what the content of the lie is?
A friend of mine has just written this song for the truckers. Listen and share!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAFk5T4eqQM&t=56s
This is brilliant I love it!
Never forgive and never forget. A time of reckoning will come. Keep all these people’s names at the forefront of your mind, until due process and justice is served.
When everybody wears the Emperor’s New Clothes, there is little hope that those who didn’t and pointed out the bare-faced-lies, will be allowed to win.
This is not a good faith apology – it’s good cop/bad cop. “Of course we don’t want any more of those nasty lockdowns, we understand, and you don’t want more lockdowns, do you? Of course you don’t and we can put an end to it now if you just…….”
The tell-tale signs are that he still believes earlier lockdowns would have been OK because shorter; he thinks face-coverings work; he refers to ‘full lockdown’, and people ‘changing their behaviour’, ie, he is still in favour of all kinds of damaging and costly ‘measures’, complaining in December that ‘plan B’ came too late in England; he believes that mass vaccination is the way out of the pandemic and denies the value of natural immunity; he thinks vaccine passports work…….
Very few of these apparent reversals show genuine humility.
I’ve just been watching a 4 hour video on the Highwire, it’s called ‘Covid 19: A second opinion roundtable in DC’ led by Senator Ron Johnson. In it you can watch a Doctor in tears as he describes having to stand by and watch his patients die because of suppression of workable treatments, and hear about medical practitioners losing their right to practice for trying to save lives. These are the real heroes and they have been trying to get their voices heard, at great cost, from the start.
As have America’s Front Line Doctors – they’ve been reviled and maligned and slandered from the beginning, while just trying to do the jobs they’ve been trained for in a way they knew worked. I sat up and took notice when two brave Californian doctors went on air to tell it how it was – at great cost to themselves, I believe.
Cole and McCullough are the tip of a growing iceberg…
“Ezekiel 25:17. “The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.”Woolhouse will pay for his part in this crime and recanting his sins will not serve as mitigation. Let him be damned.
See the righteous in “Covid 19: A second opinion roundtable in DC”.
https://thehighwire.com/videos/covid-19-a-second-opinion-roundtable-in-d-c/
What impressive people – shepherding the vulnerable through horrendous darkness, risking and losing their livelihoods, and being reviled by the selfish and the tyranny of the evil.
“You can buy his book here”
Why?
These fekkers bear a huge responsibility for the economic and human costs of lockdown. Costs which my grandchildren and, quite possibly, their grandchildren are going to have to carry. And he expects us to line his pockets by buying his sodding book??? No f-ing way at all. Don’t care how many mea culpas he makes, it’s not enough
Spot on. At least he could be offering ALL proceeds to a charity related to the harms he and his cohort have done.
His late regret sounds a bit like ‘I was only following orders, but at least I’ve recanted now, so can I be spared?’
It would have been much more convincing if he’d blown the whistle back before the damage was done. Who knows how many lives might have been saved?
“We knew from February [2020], never mind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem. It would simply delay it,” Woolhouse says, a note of enduring disbelief in his voice. And yet in government, “there was no attention paid to that rather obvious drawback of the strategy”.
Personally, based on my own copious research and journalism, I have no doubt that plenty of “public health officials” in the world KNEW that this virus was spreading in November and/or December 2019. If they didn’t know this, they are guilty of professional malpractice for not knowing.
But, yes, the notion that this virus could have been “stopped” or “eradicated” by lockdowns implemented around March 15, 2020 is and was preposterous.
Link to press conference where CDC said COVID was not in America until “latter January:”
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/coronavirus-started-spreading-u-s-january-cdc-says-n1217766?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma
I’ve written two articles that identify 16 (or 17) Americans who were sick with Covid symptoms in November or December 2019 and later tested positive for COVID antibodies. These names come from published articles, including at The Seattle Times, Palm Beach Post and Fox News (plus my own article).
But you don’t have to accept this as “evidence” this virus was spreading widely across many states in the United States prior to the Wuhan Outbreak, which began Dec. 31, 2019. The CDC actually went back and looked at archived blood collected by the American Red Cross in December 2019 and January 2020.
Here’s the findings of this study:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa1785/6012472
“To determine if SARS-CoV-2–reactive antibodies were present in sera prior to the first identified case in the United States on 19 January 2020, residual archived samples from 7389 routine blood donations collected by the American Red Cross from 13 December 2019 to 17 January 2020 from donors resident in 9 states (California, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island, Washington, and Wisconsin) were tested at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for anti–SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. Specimens reactive by pan-immunoglobulin (pan-Ig) enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against the full spike protein were tested by IgG and IgM ELISAs, microneutralization test, Ortho total Ig S1 ELISA, and receptor-binding domain/ACE2 blocking activity assay.
Results
Of the 7389 samples, 106 were reactive by pan-Ig …”
This means that 1.43 percent of tested blood was “positive” for COVID antibodies. However, if you just focus on the blood samples collected from three states – California, Oregon and Washington – this positive rate was 2 percent.
(If we extrapolated the results of California, Oregon and Washington to the U.S. population, you would have six million infected people by December 2019).
The people in these 3 states donated blood in mid-December 2019. To test positive for IgG antibodies, most would have had to have been infected by the virus in November 2019 (it takes about one to two weeks for IgG antibodies to develop and be detected in antibody tests)
I still don’t know why this was the only major study of archived Red Cross in America or why it took eight months to publish the results of this study (which only tested 7,300 units of blood) given the “national emergency” and the assumed interest in determining when this virus first began to spread in America.
It still boggles my mind that the CDC maintains that this virus was not spreading in America before January 2020. Or that they have gotten away with this statement.
I earched for and found an article of yours but couldn’t re-locate where, forget to mark where I was. Which American on-line papers publish your articles?
UncoverDC.com and The American Thinker have published more than anyone. I’ve also had articles published at The American Conservative, Zero Hedge and Golf magazine among other sites.
Here’s a couple of my Covid articles that did get published. Read the one about a “search for the truth” being taboo to get a sense of all the publications that would not will not publish my articles.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2021/12/orwell_was_right_control_the_language_control_the_world.html
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/06/25/an-alabama-man-nearly-died-from-covid-19-the-first-week-in-january/
https://uncoverdc.com/2020/07/13/covid-19-is-a-real-search-for-the-truth-now-taboo/
I agree.
Hasn’t recanted; it’s same as before. Did know. Has known for years. It’s book-promotion and zilch else.
Well-established by end-Jan 2020 that 99+% population not at risk from virus; only up to 1% room for improvement; a total no-can-do-for any Pharma product and clinically of no relevance or significance.
No such thing as a 100% safe Pharma product. Therefore, risk from jabs for all healthy 75s and under, but no benefit humanly possible.
Throughout Feb and into March 2020 repeatedly said: ‘majority experience only mild or moderate symptoms’ when they catch a coronavirus (cold).
Act of Terrorism carried out on entire World’s population (apart from maybe Swedish) knowingly and intentionally designed to destroy multiple aspects of physical health: immune, respiratory, cardiovascular, renal, hepatic, gastrointestinal, endocrine etc.
Some didn’t buy-into fear so, restrictions involving sudden drastic change in life-style imposed to hit them too, via same basic biological mechanisms; been well-known for decades that prolonged restrictions and dramatic changes in life-style damage multiple aspects of physical health.
March 2020 lock-up specifically designed to prevent natural immunity resolving situation by end-Sept 2020. Pharma couldn’t produce (even with help by regulatory authorities’ fast-tracking of EUAs) before then and, EUAs require scant data anyway but even that much, I believe, was reduced summer 20. It was stated at time that March 20 lock-up was to ‘buy time for a vaccine.’
John O’Looney testified to this when he revealed how Mortuaries were prepared in late 2019 for deaths from a ……virus……that had not been “discovered” …
Given that Freddie Sayers interview with Dr Camilla Holten-Møller has been out for a while we can compare the Danish modelling (correct) with SPI-M (complete joke). I imagine that many students will complain about the calibre of their teachers and seek to get them replaced.
Looks like Adam (77 Brigade) Hill from the Torygraph comments has a login here as some clown is red arrowing left right and centre.
The Phantom Downticker has been highly active on here for a while now!
I have a mental image of them in my head and it brings me some pleasure to think of the deranged cretin obsessively doing what they think is their duty. Just like when they were out bashing pans like a lunatic in 2020.
Imagine how boring a job that is. Perhaps (s)he’s the office junior – though if (s)he’s a 16-year-old it’s unlikely (s)he’d be able to understand the big words in some comments – so (s)he puts a downtick, just in case……
I preordered the book on audible since we had expiring credits. I don’t mind someone admitting their errors. I’ll take on all the newcomers to this site.
But the fact remains we knew, WE KNEW, by early March who was at risk, that it was airborne and so masks would be ineffective given the virus size, and that China’s barbaric lockdown was morally and epidemiologically wrong. I backed the original 3 week lockdown because a short delay in cases would allow a ramp up in services (the unused Nightengales). All we have to do is get rid of masks on airplanes and London transport and maybe we can become rational again.
And ANY ridiculous and pointless ”testing”. We didn’t used to be ”tested” for a common cold before we were allowed into a hospital/clinic/etc, did we?
Deep regret…not good enough…how about ten years hard Labour for all the damage and heartache they have so casually caused decent people?
Come the revolution, when they’re all lined up, he’ll put up his hand and, with a wobbly voice, squeak ”But I was the one who said sorry”.
The three Chinese monkeys…don’t they look shifty. We know why!
Pretty soon, SAGE Lockdowners will be as difficult to find as Nazis the day after Germany surrendered.
Or Frenchmen who weren’t in the Resistance.
And they deserve a rather similar fate when exposed.
Apalling admission. Did he speak up at the time? Did he publically threaten to resign because he knew it to be wrong? This is just like the nazi military saying ‘I was only following orders’. Disgusting.
I don’t have any Legal standing, but I have read and studied The Law in times past and I conclude the following, which needs to be Legally verified – please put it before a Lawyer, Barrister, or other Legal Representative of your acquaintance, for their considered “Legal Opinion” :
From a Legal point of view, because of the Law revision in 2013 – it must be argued that there are two species, those Human with humanity and Trans-humans, without natural people, no longer human and do not enjoy any human or other rights of a state, and all related rights are lost, because GEN-POINT technology patents are under US jurisdiction and law, where they were registered. This applies worldwide and patents are subject to US law.
All the Covid-19 “vaccine” patents mention gene deletion. All the patents except one, mention “complimentary DNA” (cDNA). cDNA is a chimeric mRNA cocktail that’s being coded into Human cells using artificial genetic sequences in cross-species genomics.
According to the US Supreme Court ruling in 2013, altering Humans with cDNA makes them patent eligible. The court documents show that cDNA is made using modified bacterium and Supreme Court judges ruled it patent eligible. This means that a plant, animal or Human, could be patented and owned if first genetically modified with cDNA.
Mark Steele summarized it perfectly by stating:
In the US, the Supreme Court has ruled that vaccinated people worldwide are products, patented goods, according to US law, no longer human. Through a modified DNA or RNA vaccination, the mRNA vaccination, the person ceases to be human and becomes the OWNER of the holder of the modified GEN vaccination patent, because they have their own genome and are no longer “human” (without natural people), but “trans-human”, so a category that does not exist in Human Rights. The quality of a natural person and all related rights are lost. This applies worldwide and patents are subject to US law.
Since 2013, all people vaccinated with GM-modified mRNAs are legally trans-human and legally identified as trans-human and do not enjoy any human or other rights of a state, and this applies worldwide, because GEN-POINT technology patents are under US jurisdiction and law, where they were registered.”
So, we now have the not vaccinated with mRNA vaccines, who have all of the Human Rights and humanity, by Common Law AND The mRNA vaccinated patented trans-humans, who have no rights at all.
This then suggests that a not vaccinated Human, cannot be tried by a Jury of their Peers, (Peers “one that is of equal standing with another : equal The band mates welcomed the new member as a peer Merriam Webster Dictionary since 1828) . when the Judge, Prosecution and Defense, Support Staff and Jury are mRNA vaccinated, are now trans-humans
Can a trans-human, with no legal rights whatsoever, under the 2013, above, Law Revision, act on behalf of the Law in whatever capacity, when prosecuting a not vaccinated human who is Human under Common Law – Legally speaking, I would say NO although this has not been tested, in a Court of Law, yet
It could be legally argued that a “not vaccinated Human”, under Common Law, cannot be housed with mRNA vaccinated trans-humans prisoners, because trans-humans have no rights under Human Laws and are a trans-humans species, whereas humans do.
It also suggests that if a Human does something to a trans-human, it cannot be an offense, because the Human has Legal Rights under Common Law, where the mRNA vaccinated, trans-human, does not have any rights under the Human Common Law, at all.
Thus, when “Crimes Against Humanity” charges are filed by mRNA vaccinated, trans-humans, they have no legal rights under Human Laws and cannot have any “Human Legal Representation”, accordingly, because when the “Human Common Laws” were entered into Law, no provision was made for any trans-humans species from 2013, which is why the mRNA vaccinated trans-humans have no rights at all.
Can the Canadian Premier, his Mayors, Police, etc, do what they have been doing, under Human Laws, if they are vaccinated and trans-human – without any “Human Legal Rights”, whatsoever and can any other Premiers, of any other Country, once they are vaccinated and thus trans-human, have any rights at all, as well?
Only Humans who have NOT been mRNA vaccinated, can enjoy the rights of humanity, because they remain Human under Human Common Law – presumably?
No, I will not be swelling Prof Woolhouse’s (doubtless already fat) pension pot by buying his book. The time for collaborators to have spoken out has long since passed.
Any action which has caused death and damage when now known to be wrong by the perpetrators should require legal action. There are medical individuals who also have been presenting data which has affected the ability of obtain health care. They are still attempting to vaccinate 5-11 year olds who are known to have 85% antibodies when there is no safety study.
This authoritarianism the emergency powers permitted should never be used again for similar problems and to avoid it these scientists and clinicians need to be legally challenged for the harm they caused.
“Any action which has caused death and damage when now known to be wrong by the perpetrators should require legal action.”
850 Common Law ‘Constables’ are available!
https://guardians300.com/
Not to mention all the vile, inhuman politicians who demanded (and still, in many cases such as Kneeler, demand) tougher and tougher totalitarian controls. The Japanese ritual self-humiliations followed by seppuku look like a good template to me!
Enrich Woolhouse by buying his book….when he’s partly responsible for destroying the lives of millions!!!
I’d like him and all the other members of SAGE and this disgraceful Government prosecuted for their destruction of millions of lives…… over a Low Consequence Infectious Disease.
Getting out of the “Mea Culpa trap” first doesn’t impress me one little bit.
If he were really regretful, then he’d declare he was giving all proceeds to a ”covid lockdown harm” related charity.
These people were paid lots of public money to get things so catastrophically wrong. Many of us called it correctly for free. Justice requires they are called to give account for their behaviour.
To all the sage “experts” and their assistants, “If you allow a crack of doubt the whole construct collapses”.
Buy his book! I’ll not be feeding the beast.
This business of age discrimination of the virus is wrong. I know a number of elderly infected at the start of covid, they weren’t particularly healthy, they all survived I know loads of elderly who have now had covid, post three jabs. They were ill for a week and survived quite happily. I would like to know how many frail elderly died from the “vaccine”? That is the real question.
How many frail elderly with covid, were overdosed on midazolam (a drug normally used by anaesthetists), killed by remdesivir, starved to death, placed on ventilators that killed more than saved, sent back to their care homes to spread the virus to other frail elderly, who then rec’d all the same disastrous treatment as their colleague. Yes the elderly risk of dying from covid was just one more scare tactic in sage’s arsenal. Healthy elderly did as good as healthy fifty year olds. Those taking Vit D, C, Zinc, Quercetin did even better.
everyone knew shortly after the start of covid, that comorbidities such as obesity, diabetes, and people with severe disabilities were at the greatest risk for poorer outcomes.
why then does sage continue to want to protect the elderly? Frail elderly are one thing. Healthy, robust elderly another. Perhaps sage could have used some of cash to distribute vitamin D to every man, woman and child in this country. Perhaps they could have advised the public to lose weight and get some exercise each day and eat a healthy diet and get their rest. Instead crickets, not a word of prevention. Lockdowns, stay at home mandates, and worst of all, isolate and stay well away from the elderly.
crimes against humanity were committed. When will they have their day in court?
Way back in the summer of 2020, America’s Front Line Doctors were stating very clearly that those supplements you mention (and I’d never heard of Quercetin before then) were being given to their ‘frail elderly’ and that they were the best theraputics, with Ivermectin being used for sick people.
Of course, huge efforts have been made to silence and demonise them, from that day to this. Fortunately, they keep fighting, and their website and news are worth looking at.
Recanting or trying to evade prosecution for crimes against Humanity, Human Rights abuse and child abuse?
He’s not really recanting is he? He still says stuff like ‘we should have introduced measures earlier’. They weren’t measures though, were they? They were restrictions. So he still believes in them, but is trying to misdirect. What we should have done, as early as you like, was to protect the elderly, but for some reason they were deliberately put in harm’s way. And then a universal policy was instituted for a mainly healthy, unthreatened population. This could only destroy our economy, while shovelling money to Big Pharma, for largely untested ‘vaccines’. The virus of course, found an ally in the NHS, who became expert at spreading it.
I think repentance is all very well, but penance must be done. Let the repentant sinners of SAGE etc be paraded on Television with a sign around their neck showing all their false predictions before apologising to the nation in the most grovelling terms.
‘…everyone died, but at least no one was saved unfairly,’
Isn’t that the ethos of the NHS, free access to all and if the poor don’t actually get treatment, that’s all right because the not-poor don’t actually get treatment either – medical communism?
To be fair, when lockdown was proposed it had a specific aim – to stop the NHS being overwhelmed by “flattening the peak. I think that most of those who introduced it would still say that it succeeded in that. Thereafter the flaws began to emerge, but I still think that if the lockdown had been complete that would have stopped the first wave dead. But it never was; there were too many exceptions to staying at home, and of course those who did not could spread it about both at home and elsewhere. And, as we have seen, even then the virus can be imported from abroad and so it will come back. So while in theory they work, in practice they cannot. But again, trying to be fair, government is put in an impossible position when it is under extreme pressure to do something rather than nothing, and China’s approach was a role model. Especially when almost very government did the same. However now that there is data there is no excuse for persevering with lockdowns.
In medicine many decisions are made on the basis that something will work, without considering the vital question “If we do this, what could possibly go wrong?”
The Peoples Republic of China is not the ideal rôle model for anyone, especially not the Tory government. With the benefit of hindsight, there appear to be have been a wide enough range of policies, especially across the USA between states, which might be useful to work out how bad many of them were.
We should not make it easy for them to sweep things under the carpet, when they attempt to move on, notwithstanding the need for an element of forgiveness for the amateurs and so-called experts.
A bit unfair Toby – Woolhouse was one of the first lockdown sceptics – certainly I regularly quoted him (in my celebrated tweets
) back in (summer?) 2020.
Who is going to be prosecuted for all this criminality that was obvious almost from the start? Johnson? Hancock? Vallance? Ferguson, may his name be forever cursed? No, all the ulprits will walk away, some with honours awarded, and hundreds of thousands will be left suffering for their crimes.
They are all “unts” ..
May I be the first to say that I will gladly accept a personal cheque for £50 as token compensation for two years of life taken under false pretences. I am sure that I speak for several million others in the UK and many more millions, possibly billions worldwide from countries who took your word as gospel.
One down – how many more to go?
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