On 12 March 2020, Sir Chris Whitty said on BBC One that there were “four stages” to Britain’s pandemic response, and that “the Contain phase finishes from today”. (PHE later claimed that a team of "just under 300 staff" had been containing SARS-CoV-2 with the method copied from South Korea and Taiwan, until mid-March when ‘the Delay phase’ began.) “As we’ve always said, from the beginning”, it was time for the UK to be “moving out of the Contain phase and into Delay". (Whitty did not explain that the virus would be ‘delayed’ by a lockdown. He also didn’t mention that the other two stages of ‘the plan’ would not occur in any particular order: the “Research” and “Mitigate” phases could take place at any time during “Delay”.) Testing would stop immediately, ‘except at hospitals to detect who was infected’. ~~ Whitty was obviously fleshing things up to create an impression of detail when he said, “there were (always) four stages to this: Contain, Delay, Research and Mitigate”. In reality, it had simply been decided to stop Korean-style containment and wait in lockdown for vaccine to become available. Lockdown began on 23 March and the first vaccine doses were available 37 weeks later. ~~ Since 2015, self-acclaimed "health expert" Bill Gates had ignored S. Korea’s containment of MERS-CoV. In 2020, their method was not going to make billionaires in the way that vaccine supply was certain to do. Gates increased his influence over the WHO and over global vaccine supply, and he’d never wanted governments to invest in trace-and-test: ‘TTT’ might, in small ways, slow the big-pharma gravy train a bit.
Spotted in Facebook on 21.12.2025: The poster above is beyond the scope of this compendium but it supports an observation which seems plausible: Britain's MPs shut down the country's fledgling trace-and-test operation (calling it "the Contain Phase") on 12 March 2020, because they'd become aligned with a multi-national decision to ignore what South Korea and Taiwan were achieving, and to make use of big lockdowns while creating at least nine vaccine billionaires. 6 December 2025, DailyMail : "One grant recipient was Professor Neil Ferguson, one of the biggest advocates for vaccines and whose advice to Prime Minister Boris Johnson led to the UK lockdown in March 2020, and who famously resigned as a government adviser two months later after it emerged he broke rules to meet his married lover." 1. Twenty-six SAGE Covid-19 advisors had received millions from top pharma people who would make money from the vaccine. 2. SAGE told Johnson's government to for...