Health Secretary Matt Hancock spoke quite frequently with Bill Gates in 2019. A favorite 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. PHE’s 300-man team of contact tracers was disbanded. This suited Gates because he preferred that countries invested primarily in vaccine, not in trace-and-test operations. With 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. A million “business deaths” occurred between 2020 and 2022. (Figures are from the ONS website.) 3. The national debt rose from £1-trillion in March 2010 to £2.5-trillion in March 2023, explained in good part by the borrowing done to set up furlough for salaried workers. [][][][] On 12 March 2020, Sir Chris Whitty had said on BBC One that there were “four stages” to the pandemic response, “and the Contain, finishes from today”. Gov.uk had it in black and white the next day without adding any detail: Britain was “moving out of the Contain phase and into Delay". A PHE boss later said that a team of "just under 300 staff" had been containing SARS-CoV-2 with the method borrowed from South Korea, but that “tracing was scaled back” because “the UK moved to the Delay phase of tackling coronavirus in mid-March”. At the same time, testing for the novel virus was stopped except at hospitals. [][][][] Sir Whitty did not say why the alleged second stage/phase 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 fleshed up 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”: In reality, the third and fourth phases would not occur in any particular order: “Research” and “Mitigate” were activities which would occur during the Delay phase. It’s obvious now that there had simply been a decision to stop containing the disease in the way that democratic East Asians were doing it. Nationwide lockdowns were going to be used instead while waiting for vaccine. The first lockdown began on 23 March and 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 rich. (Oxfam later reported that at least nine vaccine billionaires were made.) Gates had increased his influence over the WHO by helping them when Trump cut their funding in April, and 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 developed for a respiratory coronavirus, and he had made its global roll-out a part of his “second career”. He wanted governments to prioritize its financial support, and not to be using money on containment operations.
The main point, condensed : 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 and began mentioning the WHO (Bill Gates really) 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. (He's not qualified in medicine or biology.) After the pandemic, they kept putting his face in the BBC shorts which told you that BBC were "fighting for the truth" 24 hours a day. (Anyone who cr...