The next pandemic could be even more deadly than Covid, a Government scientific adviser has warned as he said the U.K. needs to be better prepared for a future health crisis. The Mail has more.
Professor Mark Woolhouse said the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K., was potentially nowhere near as bad as it could have been.
The epidemiologist told the Covid Inquiry the U.K. made a mistake in preparing only for an influenza pandemic rather than hedging bets across a multitude of different outbreaks, including coronavirus.
Professor Woolhouse, a member of the Scientific Pandemic Infections group on Modelling (SPI-M) which advised Government during the pandemic, said he did not want to cast himself as a “doom-monger”, but warned the next outbreak could be far worse.
He told the inquiry in London: “I hope this doesn’t sound too shocking, but on the scale of potential pandemics, Covid was not at the top and it was possibly quite far from the top.
“It may be that next time — and there will be a next time, I don’t know when, it may be quite some time in the future — we will be dealing with a virus that is much more deadly, and is also much more transmissible, in which case actually the things we did to control Covid wouldn’t work anyway.
“I am not sitting here as a doom-monger saying this is going to happen soon, but I am confident enough to tell Government that this is something you should be concerned about, you should be prepared for.
“The next pandemic could be far more difficult to handle than Covid was, and we all saw the damage that that pandemic caused.”
The inquiry, which is in its fourth week, has repeatedly heard from scientists and politicians that the U.K. failed to prepare for a pandemic other than the strict parameters of a flu-like outbreak.
Professor Woolhouse said this strategy was like betting on just one horse at the Grand National.
They just can’t help themselves with their fearmongering and endless ‘pandemic preparedness’, can they. And Mark Woolhouse had been one of the better ones, telling the Government last year that “most of the people who died in the first wave got infected during lockdown” and “lockdowns were not a proportionate or sustainable intervention and the forthcoming inquiry needs to take a critical view of their role”.
Well, this was your chance, Mark. So why are you instead telling the inquiry to make preparations to ‘control’ deadlier and more contagious diseases?
The truth is there has not been a global outbreak of disease that killed more than a fraction of a percent of the world’s population for over a century. Thanks to modern living conditions and medicine, ‘pandemics’ just aren’t something humanity has to worry about anymore. But that’s not the impression you get from listening to any of these scientists.
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“… which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K.,…” is a flat-out lie.”
Linked to below are the ONS’s numbers for England and Wales from Feb 2020 to Dec 2021 where Covid was listed as the only cause of death. Bear in mind that this includes both the vulnerable and the healthy. These figures are the result of an FOI. Unless I made an error when adding the rows for the different cohorts together, they total 6,183, 833 of which are under the age of 60. It wasn’t even as severe as a bad flu season. See for yourself.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021
Short version: academic uses inquiry as a platform to stimulate funding in his area of research.
Who is afraid of the big bad pandemic? It will huff and it will puff and it will give you more furlough.
And since Covid, or whatever it was, was no more deadly than a bad bout of flu, it’ll be another false alarm. Honestly, these fearmongers can just F off!
What pandemic?. You mean seasonal flu?. Just how stupid do these people think we are. No clapping for the NHS outside I turned the TV volume up and shut the windows when those lemmings trotted out. There’s non as funny as folk.
“The next pandemic could be far more difficult to handle than Covid was, and we all saw the damage that that pandemic caused.”
Er no, it was the Government response under your recommendations that caused the damage NOT “Covid”.
These people need shutting up (I know against free speech principles) and then locking up. They are causing so much damage still economically, socially and medically.
“I’ve been getting a lot more money and sex with humans since we terrified everyone about a cold virus, please continue”
What a bellend. I recall a time when Professors offered evidence to support their views. This idiot needs to shut his arse and give his mouth a chance to connect with his brain.
“Professor Mark Woolhouse said the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K.”
Given there were no autopsies on the vast majority of those cases (and there has never been a test which identifies only Covid) we have no idea how many died “from Covid”
Britain prepared for a pandemic then threw away all that preparation when Covid came to out shores by initiating unscientific lockdowns, maskings and shutdowns of businesses. Next time I suggest we follow the well established protocol of protecting the vulnerable and letting everyone go about their business.
Why is it that brainless freaks like him always look like their going to explode if you don’t agree with them? Obviously his wage must depend on our capitulation
Oh no, we prepared for flu, not covid, which is effing identical.
They need this as an excuse for casting the prepared pandemic plan into the bin in favour large-scale experimenting with perfectly random policies some non-expert (like the Chinese president) really badly wanted to have an effect on virus spread. Also, for keeping it binned as the grand social layman experiment is supposed to continue at the earliest possible opportunity.
That’s what I thought they are both supposed to be coronaviruses aren’t they? If of course you believe in viruses! Or are you going with Vernon Coleman’s theory that it was (still is) rebranded flu?
Oh, so not very deadly then.
Another bastard commie?
“Next Pandemic Could be “Even Deadlier than Covid”
Someone should ask him what the Infection Fatality Ratio for Covid was. My latest understanding is 0.07% (less than 1 in 1,000), with a focus on the elderly, obese and chronically ill. “Even deadlier than that, Professor?”
“Professor Mark Woolhouse said the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the UK …”. What a liar! FOI requests have established that the number of people who have died from, not with, Covid in the UK is in the low tens of thousands.
Oh gosh …… even deadlier than 0.02% of the population who died of/with Covid ….. most of whom were already knocking on heaven’s door due to age, obesity or other co-morbidities.
I’m SOOOOOO scared.
Not.
In other news, a fire insurance salesman has been seen lurking near buildings with a can of petrol and a lighter.
Surey TOF.. that would be arse-on.. 😉
the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K,
Something for all these Captain Correlations: So, at least 227,000 people in the UK died within four weeks of having a Sars-CoV2 PCR test. Shouldn’t we deduce that Sars-CoV2 PCR tests kill lots of people from that?
He told the inquiry in London: “I hope this doesn’t sound too shocking, but on the scale of potential pandemics, Covid was not at the top and it was possibly quite far from the top.
Plain English version: Everything always turns out much more harmless than what I had previously imagined during one of my usual wild flights of fancy.
Since when does Being a fantasist with a tenuous grip on reality qualify people as governmnet advisors? Methinks a great to prepare for future ILI-pandemics would be – ASAP – to get rid of all these woolly-headed Woolhouses wielding computer simulations of their crazed state of mind.
^ ILI — Influenza-like Illness
The key qualification for a Government advisor is to be a fantasist with a tenuous grip on reality. That way you fit in perfectly with all the other tossers.
The article goes on to quote Woolhouse as explaining that directors of public health, who were taking the lead on policy responses during the earlier stages of the pandemic, get their guidance from “watching the television and reading the papers”. So while we were implored to “Follow The Science”, it was really journalists running the show?!
Can Prof. Woolhouse supply any evidence whatsoever that the next pandemic will be deadlier than the last, or is he content to just sit there and guess? Turtle hats on everybody!
Guess, obviously. He literally said so.
He’s on the money, because gain-of-function work is improving all the time.
Billy has promised a “next pandemic,” so even though the last one was the Black Death 500 years ago we are going to suffer two in five years because 2020 plus 10 is the decade of the vaccines.
Ah yes.. the decade of vaccines.. accompanied of course by scamdemics just springing up out of nowhere..
“…the coronavirus outbreak, which killed at least 227,000 in the U.K”
Absolute and utter bunkum!
I was distributing the following cards for several months until mid-2022. They categorise deaths correctly following the ONS data up to the end of 2021
And further to this, because the deaths were largely among older folk, the total years of life lost amounts to just 467 complete lives!
Good one Mike..
We’ve not had a pandemic for centuries, all this trouble stems from bioweapon research and profiteering. It’s a racket. Quite frankly those promoting this research and fear propaganda need to be locked in the Tower of London and kept there permanently for our safety.
The only good thing that might come out of this scandalous, wicked assault on the population is that the vaccine scam and associated damage to infants and children is now becoming clear to many, many more people.
Got to stop the great unwashed going abroad on holidays – or even travelling around their own countries, haven’t they?! After all, they want to close most of our airports and prevent us using cars by 2030!! Scumbags! Classic novels like The Caves of Steel and Logan’s Run (or I am Legend!) don’t look so outlandish they way things are going!!
They use films, novels etc to prepare the plebs for what’s to come.. the a$$holes always put out their plans to absolve themselves of karma. The Simpsons are classic example of that.. they forecast 911.. pretty smart eh!
A pandemic (if one happens in the future) will always be deadlier than no pandemic.
Because there was no pandemic.
But take a look at excess deaths SINCE THE JABS, kids!
In the two years 2020-2021, only one child aged 5-15 died of covid-19 without any pre-existing conditions or co-morbidities. That is 1 in 7.3 million!
Since the jabs, MHRA have reported 19 fatal outcomes for the ages 0-19 from the jab.
This is manslaughter – nay, childslaughter.
“even more deadly than Covid”
You mean, the fatality rate might creep up to an unacceptable 0.04% of cases, instead of 0.03%?
Obviously, a profound threat to our species.
“not the impression you get from listening to any of these scientists.”
not the impression you get from listening to any of these
scientists.….charlatans surely?
He is right. Any above average flu season can be deadlier than covid.
Oh dear. Another you are all going to die warning, that if you do as you are told you could live for ever. I don’t think so. Death is inevitability, get used to the idea.
Him and Greta should team up. Get them a sandwich board each, off to the city centre they go. What a pair of chuffing clowns!
The universal adoption and promotion of those absurd new party lines in the context of that absurd and totally rigged inquiry racket have become another cockup or conspiracy question.
“The next pandemic could be far more difficult to handle than Covid was, and we all saw the damage that that pandemic caused.”
No, the damage was done by government policies and people like you Professor i.e. the lockdowns, the mind games and the jabs.
And I think many are cottoning on to that fact, which is why catastrophizing ‘Chicken Licken’ idiots like the above guy, trying their best to drum up some fear-induced hysteria again, will fail at every level. I mean, just to keep it brief and to the point, all it takes is to look around at the inconvenient facts of the ‘control group’ ( that’d be us, the unjabbed ) to see that we’re all still alive and kicking. Oh, and not to overlook good old Sweden, the other ‘control’, who nicely demonstrated that any restrictions imposed on the rest of the world did precisely Jack sh*t in terms of stopping a respiratory virus so were completely unnecessary to begin with. People such as Woolhouse just confirm to me time and again how somebody can be so accomplished academically and yet simultaneously so idiotic and ignorant. I now do not automatically respect people just because they have a fancy title or letters after their name.
Oh Mogs, get with the plan, we the UNJABBED owe our survival to the majority of good citizens who stood up to DO THE RIGHT THING.
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From the author of ‘The year the world went mad’. Has someone had a word with him?
My thoughts exactly. Andrew Wakefield moment. Billy Bonus in the post.
Actually, I thought more of an Andrew Hill moment. You know, the turncoat Tess Lawrie called out for burying the excellent results of IVM all for a lump of grant cash. But yes, a Billy Bung on its way again with nobs on.
https://worldcouncilforhealth.org/multimedia/dear-andy-dr-tess-lawrie/
Absolutely correct WW, sorry for my error and it was Andrew Hill.
Don’t forget Uttar Pradesh, population 241 million…
https://expose-news.com/2022/08/13/the-miracle-not-heard-around-the-world/
Indeed, but just remember that a professorship is a position and not a qualification. I left academia nearly 20 years ago because helping the undergrads and doing quality research was clearly not the priority of the university. Climbing the greasy pole was all the majority of staff were interested in and virtually all the money was being funnelled into the medical faculty.
Dr Mike Yeadon has demolished the idea of respiratory pandemics so whatever Billy is planning it can’t be respiratory and it can’t be a pandemic.
“People such as Woolhouse just confirm to me time and again how somebody can be so accomplished academically and yet simultaneously so idiotic and ignorant.”
You are being overly kind to him. I think he knows he is being evilly disingenuous and not at all acting in good faith in spreading a false narrative, for whatever reason.
Well said Michael..