Patrick Vallance branded his Chief Medical Officer colleague Chris Whitty a "delayer", it has emerged, as the former Chief Scientific Adviser tells the Covid Inquiry future lockdowns must be "harder and earlier".
Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance are marking their own homework with their 'independent' report on lockdowns, and no surprises that they omit to highlight any of the glaring failures in the approach they took.
Senior epidemiologist and Government coronavirus adviser Professor Mark Woolhouse claims he was told to "correct" his views after he criticised what he thought was an "implausible" graph shown at an official briefing.
SAGE has been stood down in a clear sign that the Government believes the Covid crisis is over. Good to see the back of those guys, who had a special knack for using bad predictions to push us into unnecessary lockdowns.
What justifies a lockdown? That's the question which, 16 months after the policy was introduced as a draconian tool of disease management, we still don't have a clear answer to.
