The free world's first lockdowns were imposed on towns in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21st 2020 by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. What influences lay behind his momentous decision?
Software engineer David Kirkwood peers into the murk of Professor Neil Ferguson's code for his COVID-19 model and finds a sprawling, amateurish mess that was never going to produce anything of value.
Do you feel nostalgic looking back at times we were imprisoned in our homes? Would you like to commemorate this unique moment in our history in a special way? Then look no further than the COVID-19 Souvenir Plate.
Masking, green passes, closures, and Christian Drosten too – all of them were part of the same system of social, cultural and intellectual strangulation from which Germans have now been released.
According to the fruits of an FOI request, Neil Ferguson's Imperial College modelling team did not have accurate case data when they produced their infamous 'Report 9', predicting armageddon if Britain didn't lockdown.
The trouble with complex predictive models is they're too unreliable to be trusted. But are they reliably unreliable enough to be banned?
The alarmist claims of Neil Ferguson and his modelling team at Imperial College have fuelled vaccine scepticism and led to needless lockdowns being imposed all over Europe, according to several leading scientists.
This is a pivotal moment. If Boris holds his nerve, refuses to impose any further restrictions and the Omicron outbreak burns itself out of its own accord, the spell cast by SAGE over the nation could finally be broken.
In an interview last week, Neil Ferguson said that Britain's high infection rate had had the "upside of boosting population immunity". Whether he realised it or not, Ferguson was making the case for focused protection.
Releasing all Covid restrictions on 'Freedom Day' was the right thing to do despite outcry at the time, a study for Imperial College London led by 'Professor Lockdown' Neil Ferguson has found.
