On 12 March 2020, Sir Chris Whitty said on BBC One that there were “four stages” to Britain’s pandemic response. “.. and the Contain phase finishes from today”, he said. (PHE later said 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". However, Whitty did not explain that they believed the virus would be ‘delayed’ by imposing a country-wide 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 success with a containment method for MERS-CoV. In 2020, their ‘Trace, Test and Treat’ 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 the containment method: ‘TTT’ might, in small ways, slow the big-pharma gravy train a bit.
February 2026: Here is a new pandemic scare story, made possible by the same sort of informational bias, propagated by the WHO, which led to China saying in 2020 that SARS-CoV-2 was only being caught by people who handled animals in the Huanan Seafood Market. The comment underneath is backed with more detail in this blog. A response : A falsity was generated by what the WHO had on its website in 2020 (find relevant bits in the blog with Ctrl+F). They'd oversimplify things and let people imagine that zoonotic viruses are ones which jump regularly from animals to humans. (Only the rabies virus jumps between species regularly, and it never spreads fast enough to cause 'outbreaks'.) What the WHO were meant to tell you was that respiratory coronaviruses might have given rise to human infecting strains, i.e. a virus particle might mutate during its replication phase and produce human infecting progeny which would constitute a novel, human-infecting strain. It's not the sam...