An alternative Covid Inquiry transcript.
Lead Counsel: Professor Maclean (AM) as former Deputy Chief Scientific Adviser and a member of SAGE we would like to revisit your recent testimony where you stated in a WhatsApp message that Professor Carl Heneghan was a “f**kwit”.
Lead Counsel: In that brief chain of communication (above), you stated “are we going to bring up the Seattle fishing vessel”. What did you mean by that?
AM: This was a study performed by various researchers in Washington State released as a preprint in August 2020 and published two months later in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology.
Lead Counsel: Can you please outline the key findings of this study?
AM: This study was unique during the early stages of the pandemic in that we had a fishing vessel setting off from Seattle with all of the 122-man crew testing PCR negative or seropositive for COVID-19. Only three of the crew members had been tested for antibodies. After 18 days isolated at sea this vessel returned to port as one member of crew had to be hospitalised with COVID-19. All the crew were then retested and over 85% of them were now PCR positive. In addition, genomic testing on 39 individuals indicated infection was from a single strain of the virus.
Lead Counsel: So this was a rich source of information that would enable you and your SAGE colleagues to advise Government pandemic strategy?
AM: Yes indeed.
Lead Counsel: What was the first recommendation you based on this data?
AM: SAGE advised the PM to expand the ‘world class test and trace strategy’ at vast cost and resource.
Lead Counsel: But you knew from this Seattle data that this would be effectively useless?
AM: Well we felt we needed to do something even if the science was pointing in the wrong direction and it made us feel influential and important. In addition, I studied measles early in my career and thought that respiratory viruses would follow a similar transmission pattern, so I assumed that these data were somehow flawed.
Lead Counsel: Is there now any evidence that the test and trace program had any bearing on transmission?
AM: None whatsoever. Looks like this study was right all along.
Lead Counsel: Did you revise your transmission narrative based on this study and subsequent data?
AM: No there was too much at stake as we had gambled on a measles transmission model and like the great lady we were not for turning.
Lead Counsel: What else did you learn from this study?
AM: For the three crew members who originally tested seropositive, indicating they had previously had COVID-19, they were included in the symptom-free crew members that tested PCR negative following the outbreak. This indicated that prior immunity was highly relevant. This was inconvenient as we as we were all hell bent on a mass vaccine intervention and wanted to portray this as the only way individuals could protect themselves. Many of us were heavily invested in this theme theoretically and financially.
Lead Counsel: What did you do with these facts regarding prior immunity?
AM: Basically ignored them and ploughed on with the vaccine development programme.
Lead Counsel: Would you say that at any point SAGE followed the science and instigated any actions that were empirically based?
AM: No we just stuck to the theoretical modelling and some decisions were just to difficult to reverse. I was also keen on getting Vallance’s job which meant that I was never going to do anything that questioned the narrative. Do you think I am mad?
Lead Counsel: Frankly, yes.
Lead Counsel: So in summary there were just a few tiny flaws with SAGE’s pandemic plans; they were bollocks?
AM: I think that is a fair summary.
Inquiry Chair: Thank you for your testimony, Professor McClean, and also to your colleagues who have managed to bankrupt our great nation and caused immeasurable public distrust in authority and science. With reference to your original comment about Carl Heneghan. Given the evidence that you have presented here perhaps the collective noun for f**kwits should be a SAGE?
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A “Hallett” perhaps, as collective noun for the arrogant/contemptible?
That word is already reserved. A hallett is an exceptional cover-up of massive fubar resulting from trying to cover up a routine snafu.
The authors of this are really Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson and I claim my £10.00
Sage:
‘Sage leaves are full of wrinkles.
Sage’s botanical name salvia derives from the Latin word salvare, which means to cure. “Whoever has sage in their garden, will not die” was a popular belief in the Middle Ages. (They lied)
Sage will ease gastric problems and help against bloating after eating fatty meals (Nonsense. Sage is itself bloated, fat; a gastric problem)
The leaves are filled with essential oils that protect against bacteria, viruses and fungi.(Again completely wrong. Sage is, in fact, lethal regarding viruses)
In the kitchen (cabinet), Sage is a real prima donna. (Absolutely correct)
The leaves can be subjected to heat without any problems, as they willingly give off their flavour, especially when fried.’
Frying appears to be the way to go…….
Sage is nice with leeks and also, with pork. I don’t think SAGE is really good for anything and certainly not nice, especially not as food ingredient — imagine finding traces of Susan Michie in your roast, complete with N95 mask … brrr.
Admittedly the wrinkles are not attractive but the frying idea……
Fried sage leaves are delicious, especially with offal – liver, kidneys, heart etc.
Sage is often stuffed up a chicken’s arse, as part of sage and onion stuffing.
Highly appropriate as most members of SAGE spent the covid years with their heads up their own arses. Just like onions, what they did should bring tears to everyone’s eyes. If there’s ever another ‘pandemic’ the government should say “stuff SAGE” and get some sensible advice.
On a more serious notes some stern warnings in the following article ending with this:
These are the paraphrased final words of Astrid Stuckelberger –
“We are gonna have a tough wave of time now, this may last for 6 months a year… who knows. So, take good care of yourself. If you are knowledgeable, you are better prepared for what may come – and take care of the elderly and the kids. I am worried about the children. They are gonna go after the children…”
“There is already a warning: in Norway, they must vaccinate all the young people… Take No Vaccine whatsoever, they are trying to sell you all sorts of common vaccines – don’t take them, they are all fake mRNA vaccines….”
https://www.globalresearch.ca/agenda-un-who-total-enslavement-humanity-global-health-dictatorship/5834338
Well fairly off-topic, though on the topic of f*ckwits and Norway, I literally cannot believe people like this exist. This is even worse than the imbeciles that got their Covid vax pass tattooed on them. And worst of all is this guy’s a nurse!
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1719879600711368908
Excellent.
Absolutely brilliant, many thanks for starting a wet Friday morning with laughter
Evil is banal, as Hannah Arendt told us about something worse.
Humour is a good tool to destroy it’s arrogance.
Thankyou for this but I continue to seethe.
Brilliant LOVE IT!!!
In our dreams ….
Is that Florence of Belgravia in the photo?
Grwat. Can we slip this into the official enquiry minutes?!
A Sage of Fuc*wits applies even more to the Johnson Cabinet…..but not quite, perhaps – Ah yes; A totally and utterly corrupt SAGE of Fuc*wits. That’ll do for now.
Don’t forget that the Prime Minister had a very compliant husband.
And what about the Diamond Princess compared to this fishing vessel? Judging by the models of Master Fergusson all of the passengers on this ship should have died. In addition it was the Italians that created Quarantining during the great Plagues by making arriving ships stay at anchor for 40 days. This would have done F-all because the onboard rats that may have carried the Plague would not have understand such rules.