A flip-flopping Covid scientist who initially recommended ‘herd immunity’, then changed his mind and pushed for longer and tougher lockdowns, is to be knighted in the New Year’s Honours. The Mail has more.
Professor John Edmunds will be recognised for services to epidemiology, including the modelling work that made the case for lockdowns. …
The honours citation says the work by Prof. Edmunds and his team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was “vital for the U.K. response” to the pandemic.
In the early days of the crisis, he publicly suggested that so-called ‘herd immunity’ was “the only way to stop this epidemic”.
He then became a convert to lockdowns and irritated some ministers by using frequent media appearances to push for tougher restrictions. But last year Prof. Edmunds appeared to acknowledge that “too much weight” was given to scientific models – and not enough to the economy and wider society.
The scientist yesterday insisted he was a “bit embarrassed” by the honour as he was “not really one for the spotlight”.
However, during the pandemic he frequently headed for the TV studios in a “private capacity” to make the case for more stringent restrictions. In the summer of 2020 he said failure to lock down earlier had “cost a lot of lives” and accused Boris Johnson of “taking a risk” by easing restrictions.
Months later he warned that the U.K. needed “even tougher” restrictions to hold off another wave of the virus. In early 2021 he said easing the third national lockdown would be “a disaster”.
At one point the interventions by Prof. Edmunds and others so irritated government ministers that Boris Johnson considered scrapping the SAGE scientific committee on which they sat. One former Whitehall official said Prof Edmunds was one of a number of pro-lockdown scientists who used media performances to try to “bounce” the Government into imposing tougher restrictions.
At the time, the Tory MP and lockdown sceptic Sir Charles Walker said he was “cross with SAGE experts thinking they can advise both the Government and the [BBC Radio 4] Today programme”, adding: “You can do one or the other, but not both.”
Prof. Edmunds later attacked Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out initiative, describing it as “spectacularly stupid”. The scientist yesterday paid tribute to his team, saying: “It was an incredible time and we did amazing work over such an extended period of time. I’m very honoured that that’s being acknowledged.”
To get a sense of the “amazing work” done by Prof. Edmunds, take a look at the prediction made by the LSHTM modelling team in December 2021, urging the Government to lockdown over Christmas because if it didn’t the number of beds needed in English hospitals by Jan 22nd would be between 45,000 and 70,000 – and that was the best case. In fact, the actual number peaked at 17,120 on Jan 10th (h/t the Spectator).
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Well doesn’t this just give further confirmation that the whole Covid Inquiry is a pure ruddy farce? You can’t simultaneously demonstrate evidence, or publicly conclude, that the Covid response was inappropriate while you reward the architects and supporters of it with bloody knighthoods! The fact there’s an ongoing investigation ( and you don’t need super powers to foretell the conclusion ) but they’ll make like the entire scamdemic response was totally justified and those responsible for implementing the restrictions get treat like the bee’s knees anyway…Utterly mental.
Just when such expletives are direly needed!
I’m only thinking it and not putting it in writing!
It never stops does it? The rubbing salt in our wounds. The laughing in our faces, because the joke’s well and truly on us. Only in Clown World would people who require punishment due to playing their part in committing crimes against humanity and the immeasurable, needless damage and misery they are personally responsible for, get rewarded instead. How much more proof do we need that they hold us in total contempt? Reward the criminals and punish the innocent, the ones who don’t play along…Get the f**k out of town, this is just sick, in my opinion. A huge ”up yours!” to the general public, is what this is. Anyone would think they’re deliberately goading us..
Totally sick.
But it also reveals the establishment for what it is. A completely self serving, self preserving organism that feeds off the population.
The organism needs the population to be full of NPCs who just have no clue what’s going on. That’s what this and the ridiculous enquiry and all the other self-congratulating antics are for. To keep up the population of confused, zombied NPCs.
I have just posted something similar Mogs but I hadn’t read the comments prior.
Great post. Completely
agree.
Just catching up on the Crown and am reminded of the picture of the Queen sitting alone at Prince Phillip’s funeral. That is enough to remind me of the madness of lockdown.
Promises made at the time for services to re-writing science. Scum
And another one……
‘When William was our king declared
To ease the nation’s grievance,
With this new wind about I steered,
And swore to him allegiance;
Old principles I did revoke,
Set conscience at a distance;
Passive obedience was a joke,
A jest was non-resistance.
And this is law, I will maintain,
Until my dying day, Sir,
That whatsoever king shall reign,
I’ll be the Vicar of Bray, Sir.’
He’s another one who talks about epidemics growing exponentially which is contrary to:
1840, Farr’s Law. Infections follow a bell curve
1927, Kermack-McKendrick. Due to logistic growth
1928, Wade Hampton Frost. Infections remain inside the epidemiological triangle
It’s like he’s too incompetent to perform a literature review
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356519001_Behaviour_booster_vaccines_and_waning_vaccine_protection_modelling_the_medium-term_dynamics_of_SARS-CoV-2_transmission_in_England
Excellent. Thanks.
The three most important ‘virtues’ of the elite establishment are covidism, greenism and wokism.
The honours system is weighted accordingly.
I lost faith in its integrity years ago when Lenny Henry was knighted for being black. Probably the least funny comedian (maybe with the exception of Little and Large) of our age.
Try watching a few minutes of Eddie Izard. That guy is so unfunny as to be ridiculous. Talk about Emperor’s New Clothes.
May the deaths of the people he participated in causing come to visit him each night whilst he tries to sleep.
I recall that at one stage this expert recommended that schools should remain closed until all children had been “vaccinated”.
Just shows he knows even less about virology/immunology than he does about epidemiology – if that be possible.
Who would you believe, this man or the likes of Prof Carl Heneghan….
Got to keep the illusion going therefore honour a man who should be on trial. Those of us who know this for the farce it is will have to grind our teeth but in reality the honours system is just a cheap fairground show anyway. An exposed weak monarchy giving away meaningless titles and medals to keep the pantomime going, pantomime dames and cardboard knights.
Amanda Blanc racist aviva boss gets a gong!
A quick word about Professor John Edmunds – twat
…and a f*ckwit!
Awards such as this, and the one to the head of Aviva, show this government’s true colours – pink with green weins.
So this useless, firkin clown gets a knighthood for doing his job – extremely badly obviously.
Our motto is Never forget, Never forgive.
Their motto is clearly…
‘ Rub their noses in it. Let’s keep reminding them.’
Also note that Javid, that man who picked up the baton from Hancock and forced people who worked in care homes to take the experimental injections or lose their jobs, lets not forget these people do the work that very few others want to do, and at minimum wage, and Javid forced them to take a failed dangerous product or lose their livelihood. I wonder how many have died or been seriously injured as a result, how many found it impossible to make ends meet, and this Man is given an honour! What next a Nobel prize and a Knighthood for the Hamas leader for services to mankind?, An immoral, barbaric Government who care nothing for human life but very much care for themselves. I just hope that one day they receive justice for the suffering they have inflicted.
Brilliant. Thanks
Great response to this Peeps ! I can’t really expand on your succinct Comments about this Cretin ! He is another of the Shameless Charlatan’s ruining our world
Well done – the Honours List has truly hit the buffers! I thoughbt Starmer’s comment on it being a slap in the face for working people a trifle ironic – remind me why was he awarded his?
That’s an easy one, Bella!
For being the Gaffer of the Crown Prosecution Service, who remained blissfully “unaware” of the activities of Jimmy Savile and the child gang rapisrs of the Religion of Peace.
That “ignorance” must have taken some effort on Sir Kneel’s part and, of course, was duly rewarded.
As others have noted, the award to Edmunds is not only a deliberate slap in the faces of all those harmed by HMG’s ludicrous but malicious ‘following” of “The Science” that HMG had picked in the first place. It is also confirmation that the entire Honours system has been thoroughly perverted.
Even in this latest listing, I am sure that there are many who have tirelessly done their duty or used their talents in the service of the British people.
But being the recipient of an honour given also to scum like Edmunds is now putting those so honoured in a group similar to all those who had Frequent Fliers benefits on Epstein’s Lolita Express.
If I had been so honoured (zero chance of that), my medal would be returned by Tuesday morning’s first post.
The lunatics haven’t just taken over the asylum they’re outside building even more. This man is clearly deranged I just hope he can live with the knowledge of all those lives he’s ruined, school children’s education and mental health, business closures, deaths due to a lack of diagnosis, suicides, family breakdown the list goes on. Frankly I hope he rots in hell. Sorry but anger doesn’t even cover my feelings of contempt for this scumbag.
Failing upwards. Another FU to the British public award!