The Hallett report was released today and told us exactly what we had already worked out.
However, it was good to see that it did not try to obfuscate and pretend everything was fine apart from some dreadful bad luck.
Indeed with alarming honesty it blamed the Ministers for “failing their citizens” by preparing for the wrong pandemic and being hampered by groupthink and bureaucracy.
Baroness Hallett says that the lack of preparation led to many deaths and a cost to the economy and that the plans for a flu epidemic were inadequate for the pandemic when it struck causing over 235,000 deaths.
You can read all the details elsewhere.
Here, I wish to highlight that the planning for a flu epidemic had been explored in 2016 and involved many different departments across the Government in an operation called Cygnus (little swan).
It concluded that the Government was very ill-prepared for such an event as a flu virus escaping from SE Asia.
It would appear that extensive discussions were reminiscent of Yes Minister after A and B options were discussed, with the question “Are there any other C based options?” Yes minister, do nothing and hope it never happens.
It would appear that this was the main conclusion. However, what should be emphasised here is that the Chief Medical Officer at the time, Sally Davis, was assured that the WHO would prevent such an outbreak from ever reaching Europe, so no need to overprepare then.
However, the WHO was a very different animal after it was hijacked by China and a very compliant non-medic put in charge, namely Tedros Gebreyesus, who when alerted to what was a new outbreak of severe respiratory disease was by all accounts severely constrained by China.
It could be argued that had the WHO done its job unhindered then the outbreak should have been contained.
The important point to be aware of here is that the virus SARS-2 was very much a typical respiratory virus except more infectious and deadly.
This was because, as my colleagues and I pointed out at the time, it had been over-engineered to be super-infectious to human cells in the Wuhan laboratory from which it had clearly escaped. Nevertheless, there was no evidence that it spread any differently from the classical flu virus.
This meant that it should not have been regarded as anything else and that there should have been no need to abandon the strategy as Matt Hancock did without meaningful consultation. I will never forgive him for shouting my colleagues and I down for supporting the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD) in autumn 2020, which said it was an airborne virus that was no threat to the young and that natural immunity was the logical way forward. The GBD also said patients suffering from early symptoms should be treated without delay with standard time-honoured treatments, namely Vitamin D3, aspirin gargles, intra-nasal interferon sprays, Becotide (the asthma spray) and dexamethasone when chest inflammation was apparent. Hancock will be remembered forever by his colleagues for proclaiming that “I decide who dies!”
As to accuracy, I must take issue with 235,000 dead claim made by Hallett. I do not believe this for a minute, knowing that hospital patients with terminal disease were tested until proved Covid positive so that they died from Covid and nothing else. Also, the time span here includes all those who died from the dreadful effects of the lockdown, the failure of the NHS and those excess deaths that did not appear until the vaccine programme had been rolled out for several months.
I was delighted to see that this report addressed the fact that the negative impact of lockdowns had not been thought through. Obviously not, as if they had we would not have imposed lockdown, which we did even before stopping flights from Wuhan – still arriving in the U.K. three weeks in.
Baroness Hallett criticises a total lack of leadership in this regard, which is what we had and still have. Jeremy Hunt and Matt Hancock are rightly named.
However, what about the Chief Medical Officer and the Chief Science Officer, who started out saying some straightforward truths, such as emphasising the role of natural immunity and the deaths being mainly in the old and at risk. Why then did they not stand against lockdown more vigorously? Anders Tegnell of Sweden did stand firm and was rewarded with the lowest excess deaths in Europe and the Western world.
Overall, the inquiry has come to the right conclusions and now needs to explore the outcome of the vaccine inquiry section, which was delayed until after the election.
Angus Dalgleish is an expert in immunology and Professor of Oncology at St. George’s Hospital Medical School, London.
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Professor Dalgleish is a legend.
But could he please explain how Covid 19 from the SARS CoV 2 common cold coronavirus could be, as he suggests, more deadly than other Influenza Like Illnesses when mean age of mortality from Covid was pretty much exactly the same as life expectancy?
Off topic slightly.
Experts say that “Flu” disappeared during this time yet overall the death figures (the spike apart – probably due to sick oldies being returned to Care homes so as not to affect the sacred NHS too much)) remained the same.”average” as for previous years.
So, where exactly was the pandemic.
And for any expert Virologists, can they explain precisely how and why one virus can apparently make another virus disappear?
Spoiler alert, if anyone can a Nobel Prize awaits…
Methinks Germ Theory needs a bit of a rethink.
But that won’t happen – too many bigpharma rely on it.
Those oldies were also dosed up with medazolam & Morphine and many put on the end of life Pathways. There are your pandemic deaths for April 2020.
They only tested for Covid, up to 45 cycles on the PCR. So everyone had Covid, and various other ILI, OC 43, Rhinoviruses, influenza, all at the same time.
Which is why, astonishingly (not), age adjusted mortality, life expectancy, remained pretty much plumb normal.
I sympathise with everyone who thinks that the people running this country, this inquiry, cannot possibly be that dim…..
But, manifestly, they really are…and there it is…
Evil not dim
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Roger Hallam jailed. Five years.
Sweet.
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Absolutely terrific news.
Unless reprieved on appeal. he’ll be out in 2, even less given good behaviour.
In March 2020 about 60,000 people were kicked out of hospital. Hospital bed occupancy went from about 95,000 to under 40,000. Where did they go, what were the consequences for these, mainly bed-ridden old & infirm? Look amongst this crowd for many of the deaths.
How convenient for the Government, all those pensions that they don’t need to pay.
“severe respiratory disease “…..Oh yeah, where was that then!
There was a potentially severe respiratory disease which, if you were susceptible through poor health, could kill. I didn’t believe the nonsense from the start and am unjabbed, but I don’t deny there was a virus.
My cousin, a man aged 58, who had no obvious health issues, got Covid whilst on holiday in Cornwall and died of it 10 days after returning home. His wife and daughter also got it and survived.
Why him? He was probably 3 stone overweight; vegetarian, so his diet may have made him more vulnerable, but I suspect the main reason was severe Vit D deficiency. He was a professional photographer who spent most of his time indoors and a lot of that in his dark room…. for decades.
“Hancock will be remembered forever by his colleagues for proclaiming that “I decide who dies!”…..I just call him Medazolam Matt. To give the impression of a pandemic, you need a spike in deaths to scare the population, that is where PATHWAYS NG163 came in. Democide against UK citizens, mostly pensioners.
Nuremberg 2 for these slimy c**ts. Democide makes my blood boil.
I strongly disagree. Hancock was just one of many useful idiots. This was global. The inquiry was partly done to stitch up the Tories but mainly to continue the pretence that there was a “deadly pandemic”. If “covid” exists, where it came from is of secondary importance.
Disagree with what? That, because he was one of many, that he shouldn’t be brought to justice? Who should then? Where do you draw the line? Who has to face justice and who doesn’t?
Certainly the senior leadership and their senior advisors, here and globally.
The focus on Hancock runs the risk of making it all about him – “if it weren’t for him everything would have been much better” – which clearly isn’t the case.
“Overall, the inquiry has come to the right conclusions”
Seriously? There was no “pandemic”. Everything done in the name of the “pandemic” was folly or evil or both, take your pick.
Headline from C4 News on my YouTube feed “Covid inquiry: Government failure led to more deaths”. Government action certainly led to deaths, not the ones C4 news means though.
Anyone who can draw anything positive from this grotesque tissue of lies needs their head read.
Absolutely ToF, this is another psyop intended to divert attention away from how we arrived at March 23rd 2020 essentially worldwide.
Ex-military US mad people looking for 60 day cures for any disease is one reason, read Paula Jardine’s articles about the origins of Covid. And look at what Drosten and co were up to in Germany, Canada and the US until it was pushed sideways to China to try and hide it.
Thanks!
Yes Countermeasures are military. She mentioned from what I remember an involvement from BARDA, DARPA, CIA, & DOD.
Speaking of Hand-cock I’ve been scouring Youtube looking for the video where someone asks Hancock hard questions in a meeting about patient 0 etc.
Wancock represents every person & entity that caused & went along with everything Convid ! The little b-stard can be used as a scapegoat until others higher up the chain can be brought in 🤞 . Just cast your minds back to when the F-cker went on Piers Morgan to declare “William Shakespeare” as the first Jab recipient & he laughed so hard he had to pretend to cry & Morgan backed him up saying , I can see you are a little emotional Matt — Get the F-ck out of here !!!!!
“Get the F-ck out of here !!!!!”
If Piers Morgan told him that he’d be much more respected now!
Can I just say I could have written this without the need for months and months of “inquiry”, ranks of lawyers, and associates, and the multi million pound cost to taxpayers. Talk about stating the bleeding obvious, what about the hysteria? when hospital numbers demonstrated that there was no threat of death to the vast majority, what about the lockstep behaviour of Governments across the west, what about the forced injections, lock ups, effects on society, the use of drugs to kill the elderly, the excess deaths and yellow card being ignored, the fact that the drug manufacturers with the collusion of the health authorities and the cabinet, lied about the novel experimental product being forcibly injected into millions, that it was not fit for purpose, it wasn’t effective and is most definitely not safe. What about the overstepping of authority?
None of these questions and more have been answered, no culprits named, and no one charged with murder, and other criminal acts as a result.
But I have no doubt that oft used phrase will be mouthed by Starmer in the near future “lessons will be learned”. My concern is what lessons those are, how to make things so much worse so more power can be gained next time I shouldn’t wonder,
My cousin, a recently retired epidemiologist, told me at the height of the Covid scare that he was extremely troubled by the excessive number of deaths that, for some inexplicable reason, were said to be due to Covid. He simply didn’t believe it, nor does he now.
My main issue is that I came to these conclusions early 2020….