We’re publishing a guest post by Dr. David Livermore, Professor of Medical Microbiology at UEA, about the official public inquiry into the British Government’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which he regards as a ‘curate’s egg’ – good in parts, and the bad bits aren’t all that bad. (You can see the Draft Terms of Reference, published on Thursday, here.) The fact that it will be overseen by Baroness Hallett (pictured) is not a disaster – she acted as coroner for the victims of the 7/7 bombings and seems like an honest broker. Nevertheless, Professor Livermore had identified four omissions in the inquiry, such as this one:
First, and foremost: democratic accountability and the use of advisory committees. From the start of the pandemic until mid-2021 we were governed by a War Cabinet comprising Messrs Johnson, Raab, Gove and Hancock, along with Drs Whitty and Vallance. Their decisions were predicated on SAGE’s groupthink. Parliamentary scrutiny was suspended. Churchill’s dictum of ‘experts on tap, not on top’ was forgotten. My view – as a citizen, not as a Professor of Medical Microbiology – is that this should never have happened. Government is to govern; Parliament to scrutinise and expert committees to provide advice.
But, if Government is to subcontract its functions to unelected technocrats, these should include a range of specialities. SAGE is completely dominated by modellers, behaviourists, and public health medicine, with a single fixation on COVID. They say that it isn’t their remit to consider the wider societal effects of their advice.
Handing control of anything complex, let alone a country, to monomaniacs is generally unwise.
We’ve included David’s piece in a new section on the right-hand menu called “The Public Inquiry”. I expect we’ll be publishing a great number of pieces under this heading in the near future.
Worth reading in full.
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Wise, wise words…
Indeed.
But also wise, wise wasted words.
We know already what this Inquiry will be, the only question to be decided is, how much do foregone conclusions cost.
If the terms of reference were decided in secret, without public outcry being possible, you have the normal British Establishment Cover Up in train.
Just an excuse to hand a few million quid to the upper middle class in London, with a job to cover up the following:
An excellent list of issues. Very succinctly listed. Thank you for posting.
Absolutely none of your list is being explored in the mainstream. We have moved on to Ukraine etc.
Your list of issues deserves to be examined one at a time and in detail. Broadcasted to all for consideration.
Yes, wonderful work.
The mainstream is dead to truth – we need to beef up the Alternative Media!
People need to learn how to break their addiction to the BBC!
It is bad for their mental health.
This IS the alternative media and WE are beefing it up !.
Invite your friends. 👭 👨👩👧👧 👬 👩👦👦 👫
I caught a dose of BBC yesterday, sickened by its constant insinuation that Russia is already using chemical weapons in Ukrain as though to encourage our government to do the same.
The mainstream is just dead. Even the Daily Telegraph by which I have been banned from commenting after I posted links to the Planet Lockdown interviews of Dr Mike Yeadon and Dr Wolfgang Wodarg. The Daily Telegraph, in the pay of Gates, is anti-free speech.
And – since 7/7 itself is mentioned – 7/7.
Excellent list and summary. Very well put. Suggested additions:
23 Hiding and obscuring of data showing scale and extent of vaccine-caused injury and death.
24 Direct instruction by Hancock in Jan-21 to hide and deny that vaccines were killing the very people – the only people, in fact – at any risk from the virus, and that the entire ‘2nd wave’ – Jan-Mar-21 – was caused by vaccine injury.
25 The mystery of Euromomo comparisons. Why did some countries – notably Germany – have no Spring-20 death wave? Did midazolam, ‘DNR” and ‘collateral’ account for 90% of wave-1 UK deaths?
26. Why it took 2-3 months in 2021 to stop listing all post-Covid deaths as caused Covid (famously ‘even if run over by a bus’).
Even then, they still included such ‘bus deaths’ as covid if occurring within 28 days of a positive test.
Why their computers can’t handle those 28 days is beyond me.
Information no longer travels by horse and can.
” . . Horse and cart” but two can and a piece of string serves equally well.
Very well recovered KV😀
Very obviously to bump up the figures and keep the “emergency” panic going to force the “vaccinations” on the whole population, including our children of course!
Why else?
Did you see Hancock on the telly trying to pretend he didn’t know about it ?
27 Why, in Nov-20, when Hancock wrote to the 2.5 million frail-elderly and chronically ill vulnerable in the UK, did he not include a bottle of vitD tablets to see them through the winter. (Clinical trials results from Spain had shown that vitD was a sure antidote to cvd?)
28 Did Gates pay $40 million to Liverpool Uni in Jan-21 to induce A. Hill to change his mind, or turn his coat, if you prefer plainer speaking, on Ivermectin?
Proven – cash came from Unitaid, which has had funds from UK Govt previously.
Well, somebody bought him. I I’ve never seen anyone so shifty and uncomfortable in front of a camera.
When you consider all those brave doctors and scientists whose concience forced them to speak out even though they knew they’d lose everything, it makes the disgusting Hill look like Gates’ metaphorical rent boy.
Yup such low hanging fruit for a health department if protecting people’s health is their priority.
My letter arrived 6 months late but I didn’t need his advice to spend time in the sunshine, for Vit D, throughout the Summer of 2020 (and beyond !) even if just by standing by the front garden gate as my disability allowed.
Some more suggested additions:-
26. Deliberate fear mongering and the use of “nudge units” to frighten people into compliance. Some people are still afraid 2 years later. How is this justified?
27. No exit strategy to define how we get out of this thing – backtracking and u-turns by government ministers, seemingly on a whim.
28. No cost benefit analysis has ever been done, not about lockdown, transformation of the NHS into a covid only service etc. Why not?
29. Effects of closing down the NHS to all but covid for 2 years.
The NHS, as we once knew it, is closing for good!
See their plans for it.
I do not doubt you but “link” ?
I prefer to think of your #26 as the government waging an undeclared war against the people they are supposed to serve, the taxpayers, using technocratic taxpayer funded expertise to provide the ammunition and the MSM to deliver it.
I would leave out your items 28 and 29 which do not match my, very positive, experience at all and so might make easy targets for our opponents.
I’m glad that you have had positive experiences, but I certainly haven’t. My parents also have had good care, but that’s not the case for everyone, I’m afraid.
Sorry to hear about you but happy for your parents. Luck of the draw perhaps which is equally unsatisfactory.
Here’s a link. https://dailysceptic.org/2022/03/10/nhs-waiting-list-hits-record-high-as-6-1-million-queue-for-routine-operations/
There seem to be about 6 million people who might disagree. 6 million and 2 if you count me and my mother.
Thanks Boomer.
It’s not question of agree or disagree.
Perhaps I just got lucky or fell into a dead mans shoes.
If it was my list I could not include that complaint about the NHS level of service but
Each To Their Own.
100% disagree; lack of a cost benefit analysis allowed Government to steamroller the disaster of lockdown and other crap policies – such and mandating jabs to kids. Why would you not wish to have investigated the biggest extension of waiting lists for …decades?
30; investigate the nature and extent of Government collusion with “fact checkers” including the involvement and subsequent promotion of N’O’B.
31 the investigation of the MHRA’s EUA of experimental drugs and the unwillingness to approve HCQ/IVM
32; investigate the involvement of Sir Patrick Vallance in the development and research into SARS, involvement with WIV and precisely what he discussed about his activities whilst at GSK to those who appointed him CSO.
33.Legality of BBC accepting donations of any kind from such as BMGF
26. Nudge Unit.
I posted some months ago that establishing a Nudge Unit was bound to lead to disaster of one form or another.That the disaster centred around Covid was pure happenstance
Whoever thought it was a good idea has no business advising anybody and needs locking up.
What happened in 2020 was an international crime, and there already is an inquiry that delves much deeper than any UK establishment inquiry would go.
That is The Court of Public Opinion chaired by Lawyer Reiner Fuellmich. This is slowly gathering evidence from a wide range of experts to be called upon in the future.
I know that the Law can be slow 🥴 and perhaps especially German Law but I do wish Reiner would hurry up. 🥳
And dont forget mass censorship, public ridicule and sometimes job loss of anyone who questioned the narrative.
Inspired summary of ommissions from the Public Inquiry but I would somehow add the way Groupthink came to dominate the output of technical advisers and why it was not spotted by the advised.
That was because the advised were also overwhelmed by groupthink – which also needs to be addressed by the Inquiry.
This is far too ‘benign ‘an explanation – the truth is surely much darker?
There are two possibilities, imo.
1. That our MP’s have little experience and narrow education, and are primarily about hooking themselves to the latest bandwagon and ‘making decisions’ that they are ill prepared to make due to a lack of underlying knowledge and experience. This on the basis of being seen to ‘do something’.
2. That policies were actually devised and directed, or at least influenced by external bodies such as Gates and the WEF, and that our officials led us in a direction that would benefit them rather than the people. (I would consider this as treasonous, btw).
There is also a possibility, that the whole thing from leak of Covid, has been contrived by powers unknown. I fought against this idea for a long time, but the more I see of the switch from Covid to Ukraine, the more I can seriously consider it as a strong possibility. There is a bigger game being played.
Who needs ‘vaccines’ to depopulate? With food prices set to double, and the cost of heating going up, starvation and dying of the cold will do the job just as well.
Well there were some people screaming from the sidelines, but they were threatened and for some (Brandy Vaughn) much worse!
Spot on assessment ! We need an “Alternative People’s Enquiry” set up at once to parallel tho proceedings – get Reiner Fuellmich involved and we might find some truth!
All very good points but particularly No.18. It has been axiomatic since forever that fresh air and exercise are a key part of both staying healthy and recovering from illness. The fact that millions of Brits were locked down in their inadequate housing with often no outside area when the UK experienced the finest spring in living memory in 2020 was a disgrace and a complete public health nonsense. The pictures of police harassing April sunbathers and councils locking up playgrounds and taping over park seats underlined how utterly stupid our so-called experts were and indeed still are.
Looking down at other posts I think we should put all of these points to Baroness Hallett. She will be taking comments from the public in due course.
“Just an excuse to hand a few million quid to the upper middle class in London.”
Yeah, pretty much. Or tens of millions. Also it ropes in the semi-critics, who can avidly read all about the enquiry, discuss its terms of reference at dinner parties, savour the spectacle of bureaucrats or advisers or ministers being “asked tough questions”, etc. – middle class w***ers who won’t ever see the wood for the trees as long as they live and whose critical horizons stretch not much further than Question Time, whether that’s the one in the House of Commons or the one on the BBC.
Or what about the Simon Dolan challenge. You’d have thought they could make mince meat out of the abuse of the Public Health Act 1984. Was it too hot to handle for them because they’re not scientists? On the other hand, look at all the collateral damage caused because of these spineless so called judges.
There must be a Peoples Inquiry. A Public Inquiry will be nothing more than a whitewash and a few slapped wrists for the low hanging fruit. There are facts, research data and witness testimony that should be promulgated to the public in an official format at a public venue. The MSM would do their very best to ignore and ridicule, but truth will out. We the people must decide who is accountable not the self-serving establishment.
That sounds like ‘populism’, the BBC only likes Globalism. Over these last few yers it’s been interesting how channels like the BBC talked about populism as a problem regardless of their audience.
I nominate Jonathan Sumption to lead it.
Seconded.
^ That’s a good one. No official enquiry will ever “go” there. A lot of what’s written on a lot of Medical Certificates of Causes of Death is absolute balls, as every medic is aware. The whole framework of these certificates (note for those who don’t already know: these are different from death certificates) is utterly “Cover Your A*se” for the medical profession, insurance companies, hospital and health board management, and Big Pharma – and on an international level, not just nationally.
When a close family member dies, tell a nurse or medic on the ward where they died that you wish to come in and have a conversation in which they tell you in more detail how it happened that the person came to pop their clogs. Say this in a very nice, very respectful way. Of course they will say sure, and you will get your meeting. Study their shiftiness, their fraternity, their way of handling the “narrative”, and their overall preoccupations then.
This is the kind of thing that critics of the system ought to be talking about more among ourselves, because we all have personal experiences which may not be exactly this, but which shed light on the same reality.
If anybody here cares, speaking for myself, this is why although I am a raving anti-capitalist extremist I don’t give a toss for any faction of the organised left or ultra-left, because none of them have the slightest clue about real working class experience and therefore none of them even begin to criticise the “health” and “educational” conditioning that are so important in almost everybody’s lives. They reinforce these systems and the role of the managerial middle class generally, which is the class that they themselves mostly inhabit. A pox on them.
Toby Young says having Hallet in charge is not a disaster……
As a Member of the House of Lords she has accepted the governments official death toll as accurate, and called on the government to “manage surges in cases through quarantine, test, trace and isolate to prevent the importation and increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 and any new variants.” (Lords division of 25th March 2021)
Good list. You should send it to GB NEWS – Dan Wooton has already begun his own inquiry into the pandemic and he might be interested in some of the items on your list
I’d add to it the binning by Dom Cummings of the previously perfectly fine pandemic plan for a virus which the government itself downgraded before the “pandemic” began.
I’d also add to it the discharging of elderly people from hospitals to care homes without testing them beforehand to check they were not carrying the virus into the care homes to infect the vulnerable.
Plus, there should be an item on the list about the impact of the restrictions on the safeguarding of children and other vulnerable people – the implementation of the restrictions had a direct causative effect in the deaths of 2 small children who had no one to protect them because social services and their own extended family members could not protect them from the harm being caused to them in their own homes because of lockdown. And if it hadn’t been for the powers granted to the police Sarah Everard might still be alive today.
And lastly I’d put on it the PPE contracts where something like £8.5 billion worth of items which were either not needed or which were sub-standard are currently being incinerated, and the contracts were done on a VIP track which enriched Tory donors and friends and relatives of Tory MPs etc.
Wouldn’t imagine Baroness Hallett will be looking at any of these issues.
Let me summarise NPI’s:
Every single NPI that was introduced was specifically intended to undermine public health.
Every SINGLE One.
Add a further entry – abuse of Covid by WHO to try to control sovereign governments.
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/we-must-act-to-stopthetreaty
Public enquiry, followed up with criminal investigation and convictions. Absolute minimum manslaughter.
Telegraph, underestimate of world wide covid deaths (all excess mortality to be considered covid) funded by Gates. Vaccines, Remdesivir and lockdowns spring to mind.
Nothing will be anybody’s fault and most of the harrowing evidence will not even be heard – remember Chilcot that has now given birth to “Sir”
Blair.
Isn’t that first omission highlighted the most damning one? I don’t see how an inquiry can function effectively without first considering who was making the decisions.
Seems like maybe that’s the idea.
Indeed the illusion of investigation. Lessons will be learnt. But heads won’t roll. Even a casual jaunt through Ferguson’s predictions would be enough to confirm the total lack of logic or facts behind much of it.
Yes we need our own “investigation”.
David Livermore criticises the vaccines in terms of distribution and usefulness and physical harms but only touches on the coercion, talking about the strongest element of it – sacking care workers. But what about, from the point at which they widened the categories beyond the vulnerable and above 70,( then 50), the fact that the coercion ramped up and up?
Not only did we have passports for certain events, with the young being vilified, we also had society calling people who had 0, 1 or 2 jabs only, ‘anti – vaccers’. It split society apart. I had one jab and me and my 5 year old were un-invited last Christmas as ‘unvaccinated’, despite me agreeing to take tests in the days leading up to our stay. I haven’t spoken to my parents since. I can’t be a rare case. Families have been torn part.
‘Vaccine Passports’ now exist and aren’t going away anytime soon – and probably never.
The EU is extending their Vaxx Pass up to June 2023 for starters.
When you’ve got lawyers and judges who are being paid by the Government to find fault with those who are handing out the money and positions… well, I think we all know what’s going to happen. “Bite the hand that feeds you”? Not likely!!
Such anguish and distress for so many. Heartbroken people trying desperately to persuade family members and dear friends to read more widely before they accept the constant, bullying lies about “safe and effective vaccines”.
At the very least, it must be understood throughout the world that no “vaccine mandate” must ever again be used anywhere for anyone.
Let the manufacturers convince us of their safety and efficacy – as individuals with the right to sue for damages if we suffer injury as a result.
That’s so sad to hear
It would take an extraordinary act of courage on the part of those conducting it and others contributing for the truth to be revealed to any significant extent. The entire global establishment was behind the covid narrative.
There was an inquiry into the Iraq war, and Tony Blair is still listened to and earning millions.
History will eventually judge the folly and evil for what it was, but the protagonists will most likely be long dead by that time.
Who knows? The future is not written.
I want to fight! Let’s learn from past experiences, and do it better this time.
Oh I will continue to bang on to anyone who will listen that this whole thing was madness from the start, I just don’t think there will be a reckoning in my lifetime.
And there are a helluva lot like you. More than TPTB could have anticipated.
They wanted our acquiescence or our silence, and they got neither.
That barsteward bliar deserves to be hanged until he is vital dead
One thing I would like to know:
We are currently being told that the vaccine – though it cannot prevent someone catching the disease or spreading it , will nevertheless make the resulting symptoms ‘less severe’.
I have heard people say this, but have seen no studies or papers providing evidence of it. Does anyone know what evidence (if any) exists for this assertion?
Likewise no one can explain the summer of 2020 when numbers fell off a cliff and we had “eat out to help out”. All before jabs of course.
The ‘Inquiry’ isn’t going to consider
“democratic accountability and the use of advisory committees. “
Just another expensive public whitewash then.
Never trust a judge with a crooked mantlepiece!
They haven’t got enough whitewash to cover up the catastrophe they caused. But that’s OK, Whitty has already got his Knighthood and Vallance has moved onto propagandise about the Climate Change Scam.
As for Johnson, Handcock, Gove etc …. they’ll be exonerated as they were “only following the science” which was the intention all along.
And the wrecked lives will still be wrecked.
A monumental edifice of deceit and propaganda designed to hide a mountain of destruction, will require a heck of a lot of dismantling; especially with fierce resistance from so many rich and powerful interests every step of the way. The Baroness has her work cut out big time. I suspect she could continue her Inquiry for the rest of her life and still not get to the bottom of the whole story.
Meanwhile another bit of the cat slips out of the bag:
Masks in schools are not associated with lower coronavirus transmission, says new study (msn.com)
The Government announcing that it was “following the science” was the first mistake. But the SAGE committee was supposed to advising the Government, not announcing to the world on what they thought the policies should be. That was the second mistake.
It is difficult to find a workable solution on how the Government can obtain the expert advice it needs, and yet treat that advice in the proper context of the situation in the round. But it is evident that committees such as SAGE – stuffed as it was with people Sir Patrick Vallance knew would reach the ‘right’ conclusions – is not the way to go in the future.
My inquiry results always were and are:
Any discrimination is wrong and illegal.
Any assault, let alone abolition, of any inalienable individual right is wrong and illegal.
Any censorship, let alone punishment, of free speech is wrong, illegal and will lead to a worse outcome, in particular with regard to science.
As such, the response to the virus threat was a total moral, legal, democratic, societal, scientific and financial catastrophe and the declaration of bankrupcy of today’s states and their people.
Unfortunately, all these mistakes and assaults were deliberate, (ab)using existing power structures and human psychology and are now ingrained, which means that they will therefore enthusiastically be repeated when the next threat comes along.
Holding discrete national inquiries, (UK, Austria, Australia) is akin to investigating individual concentration camps and ignoring the puppeteers, the rotting Fauci/Gates/Wellcome/Roche/WHO/WEF axis of evil.
Start at the top of the pile of ordure.
just a small point on your list including Wellcome and Roche.Neither of these companies produced any”vaccines”. Wellcome is part of GSK, which together with Sanofi, Merck and Johnson & Johnson are the worldwide leaders for vaccines. the first 3 did not produce anything, J& J did but amost ignored and so I have been told only meant for use in third world. Another reson for my scepicism that these items only produced by 3 companies Astra Zeneca, Pfizer and Moderna with no special previous reputation for vaccines.
Thank you.
Roche was behind PCR testing and all that that contributed to the whole.
The Wellcome Trust is arguably the unholy UK equivalent of the Bill and Melinda Gates Philanthro-Mafia Eugenics outfit.
Merck and GSK are still enjoying the HPV windfall. (See the Indian trials chapter in Kennedy’s Fauci book.) Perhaps it’s their turn next?
At least that is what they’re doing in the Court of Public Opinion. A proper international people’s Court.
We don’t need their Public Inquiry -or a picking over and evaluation of the ‘terms’ to know the results already -this is, after all, the UK Deep State in Action -only one conclusion is required:
“Whitewash”.
Many protective coats for all those concerned.
The way I see it, we have three options. (1) Accept we live in a tyranny. (2) Leave. (3) Fight for something better.
You seem to be going for (1). How about we engage with this process and see if we can do a bit of (3)?
Some sort of campaign to raise awareness of MPs who are WEF members, The average Jo is still ignorant of the WEF but many would be familiar with DAVOS. An ignorant public is a real problem.
“A public inquiry”… Especially the British variety, an exercise in obfuscation and filthy lies! Tell me I’m wrong.
You may be right but it’s the best we’ve got for now so I think we should do everything we can do get something out of it.
After the Chillcot enquiry I don’t think you are wrong
“The dodgy dossier was not sexed up”. A.Campbell.
“The pandemic has affected us all, some much worse than others. I am acutely conscious of the suffering it has caused to so many.”
Wrong. And this biased opinion alone should cause immediate disqualification for submission to the prevailing deeply flawed and dangerous groupthink. It was the government response and the response of the establishment and mainstream media that caused the suffering. It was not as bad as they told us. And their so called vaccines were not what they said they were. And it’s still ongoing.
https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/03/12/whitty-lied-then-children-died-ons-data-proves-it/
God save me from the ugly rash of academics who’ve got their names on newspaper articles or websites off the back of this pandemic – or more exactly, off the back of government “pandemic” policy – despite never having bothered to acquire a decent set of writing skills.
“Handing control of anything complex, let alone a country, to monomaniacs is generally unwise.”
They need to give you a troubleshooting job, eh, David, so you can show them the way a person with steady hands and a clear sense of good management does things?
Here’s another cliché for your collection: trahison des clercs.
It’s trite but nevertheless accurate.
No mention of Macron threatening to close the channel ports if the UK did not discard it’s perfectly sensible ‘focused protection’ pandemic plan, and follow #NATO’s nazi lockdown policy ….
The Baroness’s e-mail address seems to be contactholmember@parliament.uk
If you want her individual e-mail address, i.e. to suggest that the terms of reference are inadequate, I think you’ll have to ask for the HoL for it.
one thing among many I definitely never want to see again is the revolting advertising of “look into my eyes and tell me you did enough” that advert was a disgrace and you do feel as if to say look into my eyes and tell me why people have been deprived medical treatment because the NHS packed up services, and pretty much barring doctors appointments and also making people redundant etc. You even here an uptick in stories now of people selling their houses and cars to go private as they cannot get treatment ffs.
Absolutely. Have a look at the graph of the NHS waiting list if you haven’t. It’s eye-watering.
I think any inquiry into this will be started from the idea that lockdowns and social restrictions were necessary and they work, and that covid is this extremely deadly disease that kills everyone. If that is the case, any such inquiry is invalid. It’s like the Nuremberg trials starting with the premise that the Jews deserved it.
That might have been the case but there are signs of hope now. Let’s not forget we we had some of the least restrictions in the western world during this last wave. Some pennies have dropped in important places.
Let us not forget that we do not know yet where the so called pandemic started from and how? If we do not get to the bottom of that there is zero chance of stopping another similar incident.
Do they still sell whitewash these days or is it called something else?
The best enquiry would be a Court appearance before a jury of all those involved in creating the last two years of Hell.
However, I already know the.conclusion of the enquire.
Lessons Will Be Learned™️
To the question, who goes to gaol? the answer will be: nobody.
Then it will be business as usual until the next enquiry into why sanctions against Russia caused UK and its citizens more damage and cost than Russia?
When that is out of the way, we can have another lovely enquire into why Net Zero drive us back to the Stone Age.
Psycopaths patting each other on the head whilst giving the plebs an illusion of probity. You saw the contempt they had in parliament for the raising of our concerns, even though they were underwritten by despair, suicide, addiction. The idea that those with a science based education should have any power at all is deeply pernicious. I have been around these people. They are intellectual and spiritual babies. Sixty years ago it was the greats of literature that we looked up to. Dr Faustus by Thomas Mann was top of the charts. Have you ever met anyone superficial who loves the great novels? The culture that we are forced to live under now isn’t just a degradation it is a radical uprooting force which has only death at the end.
I don’t think I’d be inclined to trust any official involved with 7/7 – another dodgy event once you dig into the details…
Bye bye British establishment hello new post apolcalyptic groundswell. it is up to us what we make of it and the contempt we have for our patrician past.
the politicians say we did the best we could with the information we had. No information should ever say that elderly people with a limited lifespan should ever be locked away from family, while care workers were able to be near them, why not the families. Hands touching through glass, wheeled out to ‘see’ your family. The whole thing was an utter disgrace in a so called civilised country.
Heather Hallett these days – the picture used in the article is how many years old?
Well noted. A lie of omission is still a lie.
Expect nothing from an inquiry where so-called bereaved families are to play any role. Losing relatives to death is bad but – in the end – unavoidable. Someone who then starts screaming bloody murder for the still living to be tortured because of his mad desire to get even with someone is nothing but a lowlive which ought to be silenced.
A lot of people have suffered hardship and loss due to goverment policy and certainly not due to the pandemic.
Such matters should never again be conducted by statisticians and models. No committee in future should be free of economists and business people (by which I mean those who actually run businesses, those who run them and those who work in them).
We ought to have a constriutional amendment that no Cabinet could be similarly lacking but the political class would never allow that.
I see we’re using a picture of Baroness Hallett in her Gerry Anderson (costumes by Sylvia Anderson) phase.
Good article, but how sad that no one today seems to know what the expression ‘curate’s egg’ means. It refers to something that cannot be good in parts and bad in parts; if any part is bad the whole thing is bad. Just like an egg. The Victorian cartoon that inspired the saying can easily be found by googling.
Excellent summary Prof.
Will they be looking at the utterly malevolent actions of government agent BIT, whose mandate was clearly to terrify and subdue the population?
If not – why not? If government is by consent, we didn’t consent to the barrage of propaganda these turds unleashed.
And neatly, BIT was privatised, so no FoI requests can be made.
“The fact that it will be overseen by Baroness Hallett (pictured) is not a disaster – she acted as coroner for the victims of the 7/7 bombings and seems like an honest broker.”
Absolutely laughable, she is part of the establishment therefore its a waste of time.
Looking forward to contributing my two penny worth.
No clinicians on SAGE, so inadequate clinical response to diagnosis and treatment issues with unnecessary delay. Also inappropriate bias towards containment rather than treatment
Failure to engage with those who submitted evidence-based proposals
Failure to read the extant literature
Failure to use the right data and statistical analyses.
Failure to prevent nosocomial infection allied to seeding of care homes by discharging patients without testing
Media hysteria
Etc
My two years worth of blog now stands At over 150000 words. Tempting to submit as is!
Can we have some understanding of a “curate’s egg” (https://interestingliterature.com/2020/06/curates-egg-phrase-meaning-origins/).
We should not be as humble on the matter of public inquiries as a 19th-century curate was about his bad egg.
Reply to rtj1211
Excellent list
Why not add the complete abandonment of the Pandemic Preparedness Strategy, with no evidence?
Also the banning of free speech. Anything not following the narrative was cancelled, blanked, disallowed or otherwise buried.
If the good Baroness is only allowed to talk to the same liars who have presented the policies such as Witless and Unbalanced, then all she will get is the ongoing government lies.
Even speaking to the bereaved families, if the correct sheeple are cherry-picked, will result in these people saying things like “If only we had locked down sooner”, or “If we had started mask-wearing earlier”, or “if him next door had only had his vaccines like that nice MR Hancock said”. Baroness Hallett will come up with nothing except a whitewash, unless people like David Livermore are allowed to speak openly with no threats.
I speak as a GP, living and working in Australia, where I am not allowed to say anything that contradicts the government narrative, under pain of deregistration, suspension , and re-education.