I must admit, I’m really enjoying the Covid Inquiry. Now the Rugby World Cup is over, it’s far more entertaining than anything else on TV. Inspired casting of Dominic Cummings as the evil genius, assisted by Uriah Heap-like Lee Cain. The persecution of the dignified and serene female lead, Ms. Helen MacNamara. Urbane and polished advocate Hugo Keith KC feeds the lines to smoothly serpiginous Simon Stevens – as always, the best politician in the room. There are moments of genuine hilarity as senior civil servants swoon at salty language from Cummings. I strongly suggest they steer away from members of my profession, who are quite capable of expressing dissatisfaction using vocabulary that would make a docker blush. Tension builds inexorably towards the grand entrance of Box Office Boris – don’t forget to tune in, folks.
I do get the feeling however that the Noble Lady Hallet looks slightly bored – quite possibly because she wrote up her conclusions well before the process started and may be finding the performative part a bit tedious.
Because whatever we are watching in Dorland House, 121 Westbourne Terrace, is certainly not an inquiry. This matters, because what we are witnessing is the production of official history. History in its original Greek meaning is defined as an inquiry. An investigation into why things happened, not just a recitation of events.
Dominic Cummings wrote a fascinating 115-page witness statement, which you can access here. There is much of interest in this document. So why did the formidably capable Mr. Keith choose to concentrate on a few hurty words uttered by Cummings and ignore the matters of great substance which had huge relevance to decision making and governance? Mr. Keith is a professional advocate. He is well remunerated for crafting an argument favourable to those who are paying him. I suggest that is precisely what he is doing.
Regular readers will be familiar with my fascination for drilling down into details, but today I’d like to make a broad general observation about Cummings written testimony, which seems to describe a ‘game of two halves’. First half, the Greek chorus aligns in one direction, chanting in unison about herd immunity, focused protection, staying at home if symptomatic, and so on. I like that – its Great Barrington before Great Barrington became a thing. That’s described by the officials as ‘Plan A’.
Then suddenly, around the period from March 9th–15th everything changes. The chorus turns 180 degrees and chants about NHS overwhelm, imminent catastrophe and the imperative for lockdown – or ‘Plan B’ for short. Why?
There is simply too much detail and conflicting information in the mountain of written evidence for one person to tease out the answers – which is precisely why a proper inquiry is needed. My brief reading of the situation reveals a growing sense of panic and fear, driven above all by Professor Ferguson’s graphs of doom, best illustrated in paragraph three of page 32 in Cummings statement. The detail behind this is reflected in an email exchange between Vallance, Whitty and Ferguson dated March 15th.
Ferguson describes a “reasonable worst-case scenario” (RWC). In the RWC, the peak requirement for ICU beds in England is over 180,000, with almost half a million general hospital beds needed for the less critically ill. Think about that. The NHS in England has about 4,700 ICU beds at maximum surge capacity. I haven’t so far seen any detailed reference to the critical supply constraint – the number of ICU trained nurses available. It takes years to train an ICU nurse, so no matter how many ventilators were produced by Dyson, without the nursing staff to go with them, such efforts were meaningless. There is also no detailed commentary on how likely the RWC was. Clearly, if there was a 1% that the RWC would materialise, this may not have been consequential. Yet all of the major players seem to have accepted that the RWC was overwhelmingly likely without lockdown restrictions – why was that? Where was intellectual curiosity amongst our key decision makers?
In retrospect, of course, we know that Ferguson’s numbers were complete nonsense. Yet his interventions were the critical assertions which scuppered the initial plan, loosely referred to as the ‘Swedish approach’. Had we stuck to Plan A, it’s a reasonable inference that the country would be in much better shape than it currently is. Despite this, Ferguson was given the most deferential treatment during his questioning. Again, I ask why?
A proper inquiry would take Ferguson’s modelling apart, line by line. Dissect all the assumptions made. Investigate how the algorithms were set up. Find out who wrote the computer code on which the model was based and what individuals were involved in putting the model together. What inputs were made to derive the RWC and other scenarios? Who decided on those parameters and why? Ferguson is merely the mouthpiece for people who constructed a machine which locked up the entire population for months on end, wrecked the economy and caused massive collateral damage to general healthcare, children’s education and mental health.
A proper inquiry would reveal everything about these backroom people. What their backgrounds and beliefs were. Who paid them. Who guided and motivated them – and why.
That is what a proper inquiry would look like – and we aren’t going to get it because the people setting the terms and conditions of the inquiry don’t want to investigate these matters. Again, I ask why?
Those responsible for the catastrophe of lockdown have already banked their gains – taken the promotions and awards – baubles distributed to incentivise compliance and silence. An inquiry is far too dangerous. An inquiry might raise awkward questions. An inquiry might expose information that did not fit the officially sanctioned version of events. Far preferable to generate a comfortable consensus, even if it is the wrong consensus. Then we can do it all again next time.
Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen – the next show will be starting shortly.
The author, the Daily Sceptic’s in-house doctor, is a former NHS consultant now in private practice.
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Best wishes and Merry Christmas to all at the DS team. Thank you.
I hope and wish our membership grows over the next few months and that DS becomes rightfully stronger, a light in the darkness.
To all DS members, especially the vets
, thanks for being here, thanks for hanging on and I hope you have a great couple of days.
There are truly great people posting on here and many thanks to you all.
Have a great Christmas.
Seconded. Lots of progress in bringing the truth to the world, but a long way to go. Rest and enjoy before the mission continues. Cheers to all.!
Thanks Neil.
Lovely post hux, and a merry Xmas to you and all of the respectful people who keep the comments sections alive.
I do actually celebrate Xmas but got up obscenely early and now the cat is having her fun with all the torn wrapping paper. Coffee!! lol
Thank you Mogs.
Well said, HP – I second that emotion.
Thanks Michael.
Cheers Hux. Stay the way you are, there aren’t enough like you.
Thank you very much Marcus.
You are much appreciated on here Aethelred
Thanks.
The story about the UK and Moderna partnership is worrying confirmation that this mRNA crud is never going away and they will for sure be manufacturing further plandemics in order to create demand. And isn’t the WHO meant to have planned for 10 years of pandemics? But I’m sure that’s another coincidence..
”Developing vaccines on UK shores means it will be able to scale up production rapidly in the event of a health emergency, significantly boosting our ability to respond to future pandemics.”
What I’m wondering though is how many suckers will eagerly roll up at the next whiff of a scamdemic next time around. You can fool people once, but time and again? Doubtful.
It is indeed shocking that mRNA vaccines are the technology they have latched on to in order to move to a digital computerised health system and they are determined that nothing is going to derail this sinister ideological plan.
If they can make this digital mRNA health approach work it will mean continual injections for all and shed loads of money for them. The prize is so huge they are not going to give up easily.
Here’s John Campbell’s thoughts on the whole thing. It’s what you say and obviously profit but I maintain the depopulation theory cannot be dismissed. If studies are now showing the genetic code can be reverse transcribed into human cells, and we’ve seen from biodistribution data that the LNPs concentrate in ovaries, just what assurance is there that this won’t have an affect on the reproductive potential of the next generation? And that’s before we mention all of the worrying data on women’s reproductive issues post-vax, low sperm counts/mobility, low birth rates, increased stillbirths and miscarriages. It’s the experts in these related fields, such as Dr Thorpe, who are sounding the alarm as they’re seeing it first-hand, but are being studiously ignored, much like the adverse event reporting systems’ data. Criminal and malicious. So any further mRNA ”vaccines” will hardly be expected to perform any differently will they? More of the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDLx1IAITTg&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell
Billy ran his table-top for his next “pandemic,” in October 2022 with predominantly African nations. The next one is called SEERS-25. Due to be released in…2025, which will probably be just after the Plandemic Preparedness Treaty gets the nod.
SEERS-25 is based on the polio virus and this time it will target our youth.
Nice.
Yes potentially we are in great peril !!
Maybe they are just going to go for it now , based on The WHO getting their global treaty in place when it comes back on the table ! Things will get very messy indeed !
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cements-10-year-partnership-with-moderna-in-major-boost-for-vaccines-and-research
More public money wasted to create a homegrown cesspool of disease-inducing pharmaceutical slurry. The gift that never stops giving to those who partake…
As it is the season of goodwill, best wishes – to those who have and those who did not.
The Baby Alex story is beyond awful. Totally heartbreaking.
Yes I’ve read it also. Nothing short of murder. A dreadful story.
“Harry and Meghan say the Sun’s apology for Jeremy Clarkson column ‘nothing more than a PR stunt’
A good example of why in general it’s pointless apologising to the offended woke. Worse than pointless, what happens is that having been given an inch they will want a mile.
It’s the one area where one should double down.
There are very few public figures who speak their minds, and fewer still who refuse to back down when a furore ensues. I can’t think of many who have done this.
Crumbs! Eat your heart out Tomorrow’s World.
If this is a glimpse into the future of medicine delivery methods then that’s even more incentive to stay healthy and the hell away from pharma products. Gelbots and transformer bots anyone?? Creepy;
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/gel-bots-and-rubbery-clots
Full Guardian Xmas joy….
It’s every version of Scrooge in 2022.
Why is Clarkson being crucified for telling Sun readers how he feels about certain hangers-on to the Royal family. Most of us share his antipathy.
From what I have seen reported Clarkson’s language might be considered a bit robust but the left are able to do that without any comment save admiration from their fellows.
the Sun is being wet in its withdrawal of support from Clarkson and I suspect it’s readers side with the columnist, not the Editor.
The removal of the old-fashioned Page 3 seemed to be a sad moment in the history of The Sun. Marked a turning point. But then perhaps I am nostalgic, remembering back to the hour or two three times a week hauling a bag of papers around the neighborhood, before traipsing unwillingly – and usually late – to school.
I am sure this excellent piece will appear on here shortly but have a read…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-damascene-conversion-of-andrew-bridgen/
Goodnight kids , well done whoever posted the Film , “They Live” we all watched it tonight , so prophetic !!