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The Covid Inquiry Asks for Red Teams But Will Get Blue (Pilled) Teams

by James Alexander
16 December 2024 7:00 AM

On July 18th of this year Module 1 Report: The Resilience and Preparedness of the United Kingdom, phase one of Baroness Hallett’s Covid Inquiry, was published. It is about 200 pages long. It is in that strange modern governmental dumbing-down typeface: suitable for a children’s book. It editorialises in a dreary way about COVID-19. The document is a dull pudding, but has a few raisins (small bits of raison) in it. However, perhaps as a consequence, there is a great crack of cognitive dissonance running through the report.

I can boil down the entire report to two points (Recommendations 9 and 10):


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    Monro
    Monro
    4 months ago

    ‘…when the next emergency does come, the door in Whitehall that says ‘Red Team’ will open to reveal a respectable cadre of blue-pilled and quite possibly blue-haired HR types reading Parkinson’s Law and ordering things on Amazon – if any of them have come to work that day.’

    Brilliant!

    In actual fact, Whitehall’s ‘Strategic Command’ could knock up a national crisis management centre to provide ‘whole system…..etc.’ in double quick time. We could call it the Ministry of National Security and then get rid of the MoD and Home Office.

    Red Teaming? What, then, was the Great Barrington Declaration? Look what happened to that.

    The real problem, as the author identifies, is that incompetence is institutionalised in Whitehall.

    Britain has become a bit like the Ottoman Empire in its final years; a self licking lollipop.

    ‘Systemic reform is required.’

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    FerdIII
    FerdIII
    4 months ago

    The Corona Coup was a plandemic, Fascist takeover of the G20 and it was a CIA-DoD event, at least 20 years in gestation in various stages. Areas of the world outside the G20 that did not participate were not afflicted by the fake-virus, nor by the after effects including death of the mRNA toxins. These are statistical facts.

    It was a pilot project.

    And of course the system will reward itself and its fascists with more money, more agencies, more ‘plan’s and a WHO inspired global document granting ’emergency’ totalitarian powers to local and international governments.

    This is not a conspiracy theory, but a fact-theory.

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    stewart
    stewart
    4 months ago

    WWII was the moment the UK became a centrally planned economy and that is what it has remained ever since – a momentary head-fake towards free-markets in the 1980s not withstanding.

    The country is run by socialist oxbridge types. In essence they are the same as soviet apparatchiks but disguised with all the trappings of British pomp and tradition and an old aristocratic aesthetic.

    Until the vice like grip on power of the British socialist bureaucracy is dismantled, any meaningful discussion about how things should be done will be a complete waste of time. Until then, they will be done with with the same in-humane, we know what’s best for you, soulless, Soviet approach as always.

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    Jack the dog
    Jack the dog
    4 months ago
    Reply to  stewart

    Absolutely.

    I came to the same conclusion a bit back.

    It is a truism to say we won the war but lost the peace, but it is true.

    The government learned all the wrong lessons.

    Actually the rot set in in 1914 .

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    DickieA
    DickieA
    4 months ago
    Reply to  stewart

    Spot on. I can never forgive the past 14 years of Tory socialist government; however, if there are any mitigating reasons for their treachery, it is that they were up against (and probably betrayed by) the socialist bureaucracy actually “running the show”.

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    Gezza England
    Gezza England
    4 months ago
    Reply to  DickieA

    The lying oaf may have had an 80 seat majority in parliament but the socialists had a majority in the Tory party and thus parliament. It didn’t help that the oaf was a metropolitan liberal even before the odious Carrie got her claws in him.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Gezza England

    And a socialism majority in Whitehall that is the worst kept secret, denied by the Left, of course.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    4 months ago

    I don’t see why it’s impossible. We certainly do it in our firm. It does require the leadership to have a relatively genuine open mind and an actual willingness to listen.

    In the case of “covid” it would not have helped because the decisions were all political and nothing to do with “public health”.

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    stewart
    stewart
    4 months ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    The big difference is that your firm presumably doesn’t take the view that its clients are dangerously incapable dolts who need to be told what to do.

    That’s what the establishment think of us, which is why they don’t have a genuine open mind nor a willingness to listen.

    The only listening out they do is for restlessness and dissent in order to deal with it and keep us in line.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    4 months ago
    Reply to  stewart

    “clients are dangerously incapable dolts who need to be told what to do”

    They do seem like that sometimes but ultimately we have to help them make money otherwise they will stop paying us so it’s in both our interests to collaborate constructively.

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    Marque1
    Marque1
    4 months ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    The customer is not always right, but they are always the customer.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Marque1

    Exactly.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  stewart

    But they must’ve thought that of the Public for decades I would’ve thought. That said, they had previous ‘pandemics’ and just got on with it and partied hard at Woodstock etc.

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    Marque1
    Marque1
    4 months ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Unfortunately it also requires a willingness to ‘do something’. This is genuinely lacking in most management types in the company for which I work. They do not like managers from outside with experience (they have all been shunted out), they like young graduates with a degree in finger painting or fillum appreciation instead of something rigorous like macramé. That way they have trainee managers who are convinced of their intellectual superiority over the rest of us, but are easily moulded in the company image. I have been many things in my 68 years, soldier, lorry driver, taxi owner, manager in the hospitality industry, husband to a short ginger with green eyes (now that was challenging, like playing ping-pong with a live grenade) and most of all a reader. I am probably not what they are used to and I do so love pricking their self esteem with my little barbs. I also make them very nervous, upper as well as lower management, apparently I am rather ‘forbidding’ in my demeanour. I take my pleasures where I find them.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  transmissionofflame

    Interesting how a “Red Team” would over rule the Five Eyes, DOD & NATO.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Ron Smith

    Yup, the whole thing assumes there was an actual public health emergency that the politicians were doing their best to combat. Didn’t look like that to me.

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    NeilofWatford
    NeilofWatford
    4 months ago

    Over 20 years, I trained 25,000 people in the art of peer review.
    There are two essential components:
    1. Subject matter expertise
    2. Political Independence, the ability to speak without fear or favour.

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    transmissionofflame
    transmissionofflame
    4 months ago
    Reply to  NeilofWatford

    Indeed – though I think there is a third essential component to make it work which is that whoever is being reviewed or making the decision does not just hang on to their preconceived ideas or blindly follow an agenda.

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    FerdIII
    FerdIII
    4 months ago
    Reply to  NeilofWatford

    would add
    #3 no financial conflict of interest not just declared but proven.
    #4 a clear statement of philosophical world views and biases and apriori assumptions.

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    Gezza England
    Gezza England
    4 months ago
    Reply to  FerdIII

    And you are not reviewing the work of your mates.

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    Gezza England
    Gezza England
    4 months ago

    Has the inquiry covered the failure of governments since 2005 to create a pandemic plan alongside the one for influenza? That has to be a major failing of the response to covid. All mention of SARS and MERS had been removed from the last version of the emergency plan.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Gezza England

    Yet they can’t explain the difference in transmission considering ‘they’ are all airborne. And this asymptomatic transmission along with the PCR test was the basis for the whole scam.

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    Climan
    Climan
    4 months ago

    Like many thing the govt response to COVID was (or should have been) a “system”, the only questions of interest are how good the system was, and how it can be improved.

    The No.1 enemy of the systems approach (which is usually highly technical) is the tendency for things to be organized along the lines of leaders/managers. Hence the shopping trolley stories about Boris when people sought to influence the leader.

    The Red Team idea might be useful, but only if it for the technical specialists who define the “system”.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Climan

    It would be like a shopping trolley if it was not based on science evidence based. Especially when it is a political agenda of control and wealth transfer. Scotch Egg anyone.

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    MadWolf303
    MadWolf303
    4 months ago

    Given the huge numbers of people, who have either died or been incapacitated, in every degree, from minor to near dead, due to the vaccines, is it not statistically impossible that no MP’s have been effected, if they had been equally vaccinated…

    As for any report via the Blob…did Bill Gates sign it off.

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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago
    Reply to  MadWolf303

    Andrew Bridgen did have a reaction to the jab, that may be when he started to listen to his constituents.

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    MadWolf303
    MadWolf303
    4 months ago
    Reply to  Ron Smith

    Tks…I wonder why he got a real jab…..

    Reform should take him on…..

    Last edited 4 months ago by MadWolf303
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    Ron Smith
    Ron Smith
    4 months ago

    ” Hunt”

    Is that the one with a Chinese Communist wife, who also likes Chinese Communist Lockdowns….China style!

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    soundofreason
    soundofreason
    4 months ago

    I see little evidence that the Hallett Inquiry has applied Red Team thinking to the first module report.

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    Jabby Mcstiff
    Jabby Mcstiff
    4 months ago

    The cancer epidemic is starting to explode and I mean explode. One of the consequences is the loss of a loved one for billions of people. And the cancer didn’t follow the normal trajectory it was rather sudden. Ttrust me when this gets into full swing there won’t be a soul alive denying it.

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    James.M
    James.M
    4 months ago

    Why anyone with a brain cell would think that locking healthy people in their homes was a strategy for defeating a viral infection is beyond me. Either they know nothing about virology or epidemiology or the knowledge they do have is totally inadequate, unscientific and plain wrong. The whole pandemic response was driven by fear and a fearful mind is the worst possible state for anyone, let alone a bunch of intellectually challenged politicians, to be in to make any kind of intelligent decision that will result in the best outcome.

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    Mark Splane
    Mark Splane
    4 months ago

    “Institutions should be open to potentially unconventional thinking.” This is true, but what happened was the opposite: conventional thinking was thrown out the window and the Precautionary Principle flushed down the toilet. Sweden achieved the lowest excess death rate in Europe and minimal collateral damage by sticking to their existing contingency plan, which was essentially the same as ours.

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