Health Secretary Matt Hancock chatted quite frequently with Bill Gates in 2019. A topic of theirs was, “infection control”. Gates was also “good friends” with Penny Mordaunt, Defence Secretary until she was sacked by Boris Johnson. In mid-March 2020, the East Asian trace-and-test method for containing SARS-CoV-2 (known as ‘Containment’ in Taiwan) was abandoned in the UK on the day after the WHO declared a pandemic (11/03/2020). Declaring that this was all just a part of the plan, Chris Whitty also shut down Public Health England’s 300-man contact tracing team, which was about to be expanded with 5,000 trained council employees. The sudden u-turn suited Gates because he preferred that countries invested primarily in vaccine, not in trace-and-test operations. [][][][] With the government no longer trying to avoid lockdowns, the economy was going to be hit very hard: 1. Economic output dropped to its "lowest in 300 years", quoting Boris Johnson in February 2021. 2. Almost a million “business deaths” occurred between 2020 and 2022. (Figures are from the ONS website.) 3. The national debt rose to £2.5-trillion in March 2023 (it was just under £1-trillion in March 2010), explained in good part by the borrowing done to set up furlough for salaried workers. [][][][] Looking closer at video from 12 March 2020, Sir Chris Whitty had said on BBC One that the country’s pandemic plan “always” had, “four stages… and the Contain, finishes from today”. The next day, Gov.uk confirmed it in black and white without adding any detail: Britain was “moving out of the Contain phase and into Delay". A PHE boss later said that the team of "just under 300 staff" had been containing SARS-CoV-2 with the method borrowed from South Korea, but “tracing was scaled back” because “the UK moved to the Delay phase of tackling coronavirus in mid-March”. At the same time, PCR testing for the novel virus was no longer allowed except at hospitals. [][][][] Sir Whitty did not say why the alleged second stage/phase of ‘the plan’ had been given the name, “Delay”. It seems, in hindsight, that he believed that the spread of COVID-19 would be ‘delayed’ if a country-wide lockdown was imposed. His narrative had been embellished to create an illusion of detail when he said, “As we’ve always said, from the beginning, there were four stages to this: Contain, Delay, Research and Mitigate, and the Contain, finishes from today”: A cBBC article revealed that, in reality, the third and fourth ‘phases’ would not occur in any particular order: “Research” and “Mitigate” were activities which could occur at any time during the Delay phase. In hindsight it’s obvious that there had simply been a decision to stop containing the disease in the way that democratic East Asians were doing it. The ‘plan’ had become very “simple”: nationwide lockdowns were to be used while waiting for vaccine. The first lockdown began on 23 March; vaccine first became available on 8 December. [][][][] "Health expert" Bill Gates (not qualified in medicine or biology) had given a long TED Talk in 2015 about the likelihood of future virus outbreaks. He never spoke of S. Korea’s novel and effective method for containing MERS-CoV that same year. (China, a country which received constant support from the WHO, later failed to make a similar system work.) In January 2020, Gates could see that the expanded ‘Trace, Test and Treat’ strategy in S. Korea was not going to make big money for investors. In fact, the Koreans were discouraging companies from making profits out of the situation. Global vaccine supply, on the other hand, was certain to make some people very rich. (Oxfam later reported that at least nine vaccine billionaires were made.) Gates had consolidated his influence over the WHO by helping them when Trump cut their funding in April. He had maintained his silence about the approach taken by S. Korea and Taiwan. [][][][] This was the first time that a vaccine was to be used against a respiratory coronavirus, and Gates wanted its global roll-out to be a part of his “second career”.
The main points, condensed (references to every fact are found in the discussions which follow): On 12 March 2020, Tories rejected their confidential SAGE advice which had told them to copy the East Asian containment strategy. They shut down PHE's contact tracing operation in mid-March, and began mentioning the WHO (closely aligned with Bill Gates) which had been pushing pseudo-science ("animal-to-human epidemics are on the rise!") since long before 2015. (The WHO's unbalanced descriptions of zoonosis prevailed again at Gates' Event 201 conference in October 2019: Michael Ryan postulated "a SARS-like virus germinating quietly among pig farms in Brazil before spreading to every country in the world.") Tories had paid Britain's MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) £980,000 to enter into a partnership with Gates in 2017 (who is not qualified in medicine or biology.) After the pandemic, they kept putting his face in the BBC sho...