Health Minister Hancock chatted frequently with Bill Gates in 2019. Gates was also “good friends” with the Minister of Defence. A favorite topic was “infection control”. In March 2020, South Korea's method for containing COVID-19 was ditched in the UK. This suited Gates because he preferred that countries invest only in vaccine, not in trace-and-test operations. It meant that Britain’s government would no longer be trying to avoid lockdowns, and the economy was going to be hit very hard: 1. Economic output dropped to its "lowest in 300 years", said Boris Johnson in February 2021. 2. There were approximately a million “business deaths” between 2020 and 2022 (figures are from the ONS.) 3. The national debt was £1-trillion in March 2010 but it was £2.5-trillion in March 2023, explained in good part by the borrowing done to create furlough. [] [] [] On 12/Mar/2020, Sir Chris Whitty said on BBC One that there were “four stages” to the pandemic response, “and the Contain (phase) finishes from today”, he said. The next day, gov.uk had it in black and white without 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 copied from South Korea and Taiwan but, “tracing was scaled back when the UK moved to the delay phase of tackling coronavirus in mid-March” (testing was stopped altogether except at hospitals.) Sir Whitty did not explain why the second stage/phase was referred to as ‘Delay’. It seems, in hindsight, that he believed that the spread of coronavirus would be ‘delayed’ if a country-wide lockdown was imposed. [] [] [] Sir Whitty was fleshing up his 12/03 announcement 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”. He didn’t mention that the third and fourth ‘phases’ would not occur in any particular order: ‘Research’ and ‘Mitigate’ would both occur during the Delay phase. There had simply been a decision to stop containing the disease in the way that democratic Asians were doing it, and nation-wide lockdowns would occur while waiting for vaccine. [] [] [] The first lockdown began on 23 March (made official on 25 March) and the first vaccine was made available on 8 December. [] [] [] Self-described "health expert" Bill Gates (not qualified in biology or medicine) had never spoken of S. Korea’s success with the containment of MERS-CoV in 2015. China 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 any billionaires, but global vaccine supply was certain to do so. (Oxfam reported that at least nine vaccine billionaires were made.) He increased his influence over the WHO (by helping them when Trump cut their funding) and over global vaccine supply, and he maintained his silence about S. Korea and Taiwan. (Putting public money into containment strategies might, in small ways, have slowed the big-pharma gravy train slightly, so he preferred that people stopped talking about containment.)

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Footnotes/ media comments: recent ones are at the bottom.

  When the care homes situation had been reported in 2020, Grant Shapps said on TV: 1. "There was no instruction book", 2. "We didn't know that the disease could be asymptomatic" (It was his way of saying, 'We didn't know that we were sending virus into the care homes'.) Robert Jenrick had said the same two things in the morning on BBC Breakfast. 

Bear in mind that:

1. South Korea's first official case, confirmed on 20 January 2020, appeared healthy until they could check her more closely at a hospital. They decided then that they'd strive to test all contacts of infected people, whether or not they were showing symptoms. 

2. A longstanding definition of a carrier, showing today on NIH.com, was: 'A carrier is an individual with no overt disease who harbours infectious organisms'. There was nothing new about 'asymptomatic cases'.

3. The Koreans closed nursing homes in February 2020. (bfpg.co.uk - see under 'February 21'.)

MPs kept religiously silent about what S. Korea was doing from February to December, pretended that there was no story even when American journalists were raising it loudly in their news media. Our MPs made sure the subject was never broached on BBC TV until after the first lockdown was over. An 'MPs boycott' of all other TV channels ensured that the public would tune to the BBC for pandemic guidance: pmorg and mgove.

Tests are expensive for returning travellers, might be £120. In April, some Americans payed about $20 for imported ones from South Korea.

Boris was like, "What's all this then?" when he popped into PHE in March, not realizing that South Korea had made millions of testing kits by that date?

Boris parted ways with Trump by running a big lock-down, but the UK death toll is higher per capita than US deaths.  (Per million: UK: 914.9, USA: 856.0, S Korea: 10.6)

Some Asian countries had a head start with virus containment because their medics had visited Wuhan and seen the "abnormal practises" there. The medics went home with a determination to do better, but we looked the other way and stuck with the WHO's narrative instead.

1) They* cracked down on doctors who spoke of a contagious pneumonia. 
2) They tweeted that the virus was "transmitted between animals and people", not from person to person.
3) They tried to stop travel bans in countries receiving flights from Wuhan.
    *"They" are China in collaboration with the WHO. Trump stopped WHO subsidy in April but then we gave it a big bonus and kept a deaf ear to what other Asians were doing after they'd visited Wuhan in mid-January: Exp, yah

The WHO published instructions for making a coronavirus test on January 13 but Johnson/ Hancock 

1. didn't notice that, 

2. ignored SAGE advice to "copy S. Korea", 

3. gave WHO a £55 million bonus in April.

09/02/2021 - more lockdown is suggested by 'the science': We have put our faith in the assumption that the economic fall-out will be manageable, but we also assumed that something would be done to safeguard people in care homes last winter-spring. (On TV, we'd seen Hancock say that protecting the elderly was a priority.) Our faith/money was in the WHO and that's why we hadn't become aware that the Chinese were doing a cover-up: The WHO was an agent of that cover-up but we showed more faith in it by sending it a bonus in April: £55 million. We "follow the science" but didn't stop inward travel of the virus at airports or through the Channel tunnel, and were very late in getting PPE. We had scrapped the committee called THRCC in July 2019, which might have acted sooner and assembled a virus-beating response like the one that's worked in S. Korea.... 

09/02/21 - Testing to commence at airports: In July 2019, Tories scrapped the committee called THRCC which might have assembled a virus-beating response like the one that's worked in S. Korea. In February 2020, Tories didn't want to suggest tracing of phone movements to find cases and quarantine infected people. That was 'privacy invasion' and would have put their political image at risk.

Not responsible governance:

1. Scrapping THRCC in July 2019 (to "slow down on things" that weren't useful to Brexit.) THRCC was effectively a pandemic watchdog.

2. Shutting Parliament down in September so that a scrutiny of Brexit stratagems couldn't take place. (Such scrutiny might have raised the issue that the EU was preventing our coastline from being targeted by migrant traffickers.)

3. Dismissing the WHO's suggestion to "test, test, test" on March 16 (albeit very late.)

4. Skipping all the COBRA meetings at the beginning of 2020 (5 in all.)

5. Preventing accounts of South Korea's test-based response from being shown on the BBC until November 2020. SK had flattened the curve before March, was just as effective against a second wave after the UK variant got in at the end of the year.

6. Ignoring all non-communist Asian countries that quickly imposed travel bans and closely monitored airport arrivals. - NERVTAG ruled out thermal screening when it would have detected a percentage of any infected truck drivers who continued to drive in through the Eurotunnel.

7. Acting as a denialist until March 5: "I'm shaking hands with everybody" and, "This is not the most serious of diseases" on March 3.

8. Not helping care homes when coronavirus was getting in and killing residents quickly. Shipping cases into them from overcrowded hospitals.

9. Giving a £55 million bonus to the WHO in April after it was shown to have been accessory to the CCP's cover-up. 

 

India descends into a terrible wave of deaths: -- India once called Queen Victoria its 'Empress' and still looks to the UK as a source of progress, particularly in medical matters. But could they read the signs in 2020 with our Health Secretary doing things in a smoke and mirrors way? What he said was sometimes the opposite of what he really had in mind. (e.g. He said in February that protecting the elderly was a priority, but he didn't close the care homes to virus ingression in March, as South Korea had done in February.)

How many Brits noticed in 2020 that the Eurotunnel was always open and what that must have meant in terms of containment of coronavirus? Hancock pretended that 'Track and trace' would get the virus contained (as in South Korea) but then he found it very easy to simply lock us down and wait for a vaccine to be developed. Testing stations were established (for obvious reasons) but tracing never took off. (It could only have helped us if he'd started it at the end of January.)

India doesn't have infrastructure that's well-suited to lockdowns and their hope for a widespread vaccination program isn't likely to be fulfilled any time soon. Perhaps, they'd be better off if they'd looked to the South Koreans instead. The Koreans pinned their hope on containing spread rather than simply waiting for a vaccination program. (The MERS lockdown in 2015 had dented their economy so they got busy with test-and-trace as soon as they realized how deadly SARS-Cov-2 can be.)

May 6: in response to John Bercow calling No. 10's action in Jersey "juvenile and down market" -- I'd like his opinion on the decision to do nothing about the pandemic until it had spread right across the country /ignoring that South Korea had done two months of intense spread-prevention already.

G7 preparation was behind the aesthetic destruction of Carbis Bay: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10225887075551298&set=a.1332983292410

7 May 21: Tories have been happy to have Indians making vaccines for export while the majority of Indians can't get one. We see some effect from vaccination here but could more lives have been saved before it was available?

Care home residents had human rights violated by government after getting vaccination, were practically in solitary confinement for great lengths of time: -- Govt. was making their lives hell until it faced legal action.

Hancock said in February 2020 that caring for the elderly would be a priority, but all that Hancock ever meant was that the elderly would be first to get the vaccine (when hard working scientists could make one available.) Johnson was in hospital when Hancock was doing nothing to protect care homes. 19,000 are known to have died before anything was done to make them safe (cf. in South Korea, nursing home were closed on 21 Feb 2020

Cummings knows not to expose the Tories in every way that he could, e.g. What effect did having the Eurotunnel open all the time have? Answer: It meant the UK response was actually very simple: Lock everyone down and wait for a vaccine. Very costly too. Cummings also stays on-side with the Tories by continuing be silent about South Korea's world-beating response and the fact that their first official case, confirmed on January 20, was 'asymptomatic' (although she had a high temperature - showing that NERVTAG was wrong to throw out thermal imaging.)

We might gain better control of variants with responsive, task-force-style containment as practised in South Korea. Their testing and tracing greatly limited their mortality (still below 2000 total) but our top Tories have meticulously avoided mentioning it from the start.

Hancock's initial strategy was do nothing unless things got bad. That prevented us from having a task force like the one in S. Korea (less than 2000 dead even with the UK variant hitting them in December.)

12/06/21 A lateral flow test can give a false negative, making it profoundly different to the original test which was PCR.  But hey, strong-on-detail hasn't been the Johnson hallmark in our pandemic response.

Kudos to Susanna Reid today for telling the Shadow Health Secretary that Labour MPs have been comfy back-seat drivers for the last 15 months, not adequately challenging crucial decisions that Hancock and his men made on the quiet (often in secretive WhatsApp groupings?)  He said: "They rolled out the red carpet for the Indian variant" but he is still keeping quiet about the lack of thermal screening at airports. That screening would now be detecting variant carriers who, instead, have been free to walk in at our airports.   (Use Ctrl-F)

S. Korea's first case was detected with airport thermal screening (she was otherwise 'asymptomatic') but Hancock and his NERVTAG men ruled against using the screening in the UK in 2020:

With no screening at the Tunnel, there couldn't be any at airports either, as that might invite quarrel, e.g. Why would it be OK to protect life in one place but not at the other? Why were we continuing to let coronavirus be brought into the UK in lorries? NERVTAG decided the matter by saying that thermal screening isn't an effective tool because it cannot catch every case.

Surely, heat sensors could have been used to detect at least some of the variant carriers arriving at our airports? It would definitely have been "saving" some "lives", but Hancock won't broach the subject.

S. Korea has thermal screening at airports which catches a good number of the arrivals who are infected. NERVTAG's men dissed the screening in 2020 because it cannot catch every case. Variant just gets walked through at our ports of entry. 

Surely, Hancock would have preferred that every measure was taken to reduce ingression of variants until the majority have had both vaccines? Therefore, why has he persisted with the decision that his NERVTAG men made early in 2020, i.e. No thermal screening at airports? 

Labour have been comfy back-seat drivers for the last 15 months, not probing crucial decisions that Hancock has made on the quiet, e.g. No thermal screening at airports which today would catch a percentage of variant carriers before they enter the country. 

But not a single hint that thermal screening might add useful data re. variant ingression. There has been an unfounded bias against thermal screening because its rejection served what was desired at the Eurotunnel port. 

https://cornishstuff.com/2021/06/18/covid-spike-in-cornwall-not-linked-to-g7-summit/?fbclid=IwAR1_FB89pIEz2U6vLWsDwrJYHqXDvY6XNPtlFeCLOJxEstArdZ5g87bBy7Y

More than once in this pandemic, scientists have expressed opinions/wants (not always their own) as fact, e.g. a NERVTAG knighted scientist decided that thermal imaging is fruitless in spite of the fact that Thailand and South Korea's first confirmed cases were detected that way. Our airports still do not screen arrivals and there isn't any other tool that gives immediate indication of high risk (just as there's no substitute for a sniffer dog.) Use Ctrl-F with 'thermal'

Clunky, late-starting response led to extra loss of life and businesses. Some scientists were bad sources of advice, e.g. see the section about thermal screening - UK scientist saying it was "just one of many" methods for detecting virus infection at an airport.

19/06 https://www.facebook.com/BBCQuestionTime/ - care worker in tirade against compulsory vaccination.

Now you see that care home residents were extremely vulnerable. They caught the disease from staff as well as from anyone else who entered their buildings, which had none of the tech being used to protect people in S. Korea (e.g. separation of ventilation systems, phone apps which meant doctors could do video consultations with patients....)

Nicola and Devi Sridhar used to tweet at each other in 2020 and then Nicola proclaimed: "There's no point in comparing countries' responses". Google still posts a stark reminder that it was South Korea that did the right thing because it had the right scientists.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/matt-hancock-boris-johnson-accepts-apology-125636479.html

When did the smooching begin? 2020? Nurses have toiled in uncomfortable PPE on extended shifts... Vine on BBC Radio 2 this week spoke with parents who had not been encouraged to take sick kids to A&E. One woman said her 5-year-old could have been helped easily if diagnosed in time, but ended up with a stroke and life-changing consequences. Could Hancock have worked harder, much earlier, and kept the hospitals safer?

In South Korea last February, you saw women taking leading roles in fighting the spread of the virus (see Channel 4 video; link in blog). Hancock and his men hung around for more than a month and then ignored everything the S. Koreans had done, then suppressed news of it on BBC TV.

'Lack of any obvious symptoms' is the first thing that South Koreans noticed about their first case in January 2020, detected with thermal screening at an airport. Right away, they decided that all contacts of infected people would be tested, regardless of symptoms. Somehow, the WHO first 'announced' the possibility of asymptomatic cases several months later, seeking to restore credibility and usurp the leadership shown by South Korea?
Their society-protecting innovation, the recent history of which was muted on BBC television during our big lock-downs. SK society that took it seriously and now has a very low deaths-total of 2,015, in spite of having almost twice as many people per square mile.

on BBCQT: You saw women taking leading roles in fighting the spread of the virus in South Korea last February (see Chan), rather than just sitting in their homes and talking on zoom like Devi Sridhar. Boris, Hancock and their advisors around for more than a month and then ignored everything the S. Koreans had done, then suppressed news of it on BBC television.

Early in 2020, it was decided that the Eurotunnel should be kept open, meaning that the virus could come into the UK that way. NERVTAG advised to risk not having any thermal screening as that would interfere with the lorry drivers. But wasn't it silly to also have no screening at the airports when so many people were hurrying back to the UK from skiing holidays? How did they propose to "put a shield" around care homes if they couldn't set up anything at the airports to shield the country?

Would it be fun to speculate which country in the World might be the safest and best-functioning at the moment? Could it be South Korea, never once mentioned by Hancock, and for a political reason? 

To South Koreans, westerners must seem to be going through a form of anti-renaissance, their science and logic thwarted by nonchalant politicians and ignorance spread in digital ways. OK, South Koreans didn't duplicate the development of vaccine but they did keep their death-rate very low while waiting for one.

Thanks to NERVTAG, our airports have never had any form of live screening. Its argument was that some people will always get past thermal screening, therefore we shouldn't screen at all.

Taiwan has waited for vaccine but has had a very good system for preventing viral spread in the meantime. (South Korea and Taiwan have been like brothers in this, both westernized and not waiting for mixed messages from the WHO, which excluded Taiwan to give veto power to China.)

Nadhim Zahawi said yesterday that we must still follow "the guidelines" after the rules are gone. Then, we were shown men in public with shirts off, embracing and jumping around as if there has never been a pandemic. New surges in cases were mentioned. Somebody gave MPs two strict instructions in March 2020: 1) Do not talk to any TV channel but the BBC. 2) Avoid saying, "South Korea" and don't get into dialogue about that country's type of pandemic response. The logic of the S. Korean response was instructive for its citizens: The man-in-the-street quickly grasped what he needed to know about the virus and how to behave in the interest of safety. (You won't see S. Koreans roistering in the streets today while they still keep a close eye on viral spread.) Nobody in the UK had the benefit of such early knowledge of the virus last February: The BBC kept news of the South Korean response off its family-time TV until November. In March 2020, most in the UK could only obey new rules without knowing what the over-all plan was. (Isn't that why nobody asked: "What about the care homes? Shouldn't somebody help them to be safe too?") Therefore, it's not surprising now to see examples of disregard for "guidelines" as soon as there's talk of lifting the "dictats" (Zahawi's playful version of "dictates".) The South Korean people had complete access to the 'pandemic science' from the start so that people could know instinctively how to act. They have always been encouraged by the government's focus on safeguarding commerce and industry (by avoiding lock-downs as much as possible.) How many shops have closed in your town? Should we be begin a national count? 

The nation's brains weren't all immediately sent home to sit on furlough in South Korea. Some became fully engaged in fighting the spread of the virus. With our top brains stuck at home, the response relied heavily on the efforts of smoochy Health Minister Matt Hancock. In S. Korea, anyone could be useful, e.g. that teenager who came up with a surveillance website where anyone could see exactly where the latest cases had been confirmed.

There were women in South Korea in 2020 who were leaders in fighting the spread of coronavirus while our lady scientists merely appeared on zoom interviews with the BBC from their laptops at home (being locked down there.) It would be fair to say that our pandemic decisions were all made by men, the women quite placid in their high-ranking slots:  (See the South Korean women here: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus?fbclid=IwAR3ARKwIqBv6ei5HOxwqllcA6DXZe5Zc2z8u10EZZhEBX9Bh7c-127eqlpQ)

Uni of Edinburgh, 20/09/2021
We see Professor Bauld a lot now on BBC Breakfast as we did during our first lockdown in 2020. We also used to see Devi Sridhar, head of GPH in Edinburgh. What's puzzling is how their expertise was obviously not reaching top MPs in the first few months when it might have had some effect. Both professors never mentioned the striking progress that was made quickly in South Korea (Sridhar did mention S. Korea once on the BBC, but only to imply that it used brutal tactics in its response.) 

It was the same south of the border: On 1st March, Mr Johnson was filmed receiving a very dubious answer ("it's only hurting old people in China") from a staff member at PHE in Colindale. (See this on the Channel 4 documentary that's still available online: )

A BBC article talks about false science in 2021, but not about the WHO's misguidance concerning Wuhan's outbreaks.

False science put us off guard last January, February and March: 'A virus that had evolved to get into a human's cell and replicate there (hence, the covid symptoms as the replicates get into more and more of that human's cells), but the progeny virions will not then be able to get into another human's cell/s and undergo replication.' Call it pseudoscience but the WHO had produced it and put it on its website factsheet for MERS. 

Guardian asks why are we so chilled about covid-19
... Because we sat at home from March 2020 and were spoon fed what the gov wanted us to see on BBC One, where South Korea would never be discussed. (They boycotted other channels so we'd all be watching BBC One)

"worst public health failure"
In order to amplify their position that the lockdown should have been imposed sooner, the MPs (and "22 scientists") are omitting the fact that the WHO had signalled a very low threat to public health in early January 2020. Some countries less distant from Wuhan, who don't take the WHO's politically-influenced assessments too seriously, knew to get busy straight away, not with locking down but with containing the virus person-by-person.

American reaction to the WHO's "diplomacy for" the CCP was dismissed by Hancock as if Trump had made it all up himself. Almost in defiance, we gave WHO a £55 million bonus before spending anything on protecting our care homes.

After being called out for pedalling the CCP lies, the WHO then adopted ideas from the South Koreans without acknowledging them or suggesting anybody follow their example. By habitually referring to the WHO (without actually following its guidance much), our MPs conceal the fact that the South Korean method was rejected by them from 12 March onward. They switched to doing a response which amounted to simply applying lockingdowns until vaccine was available (on 8 December.).

The MPs are omitting the fact that South Korea was avoiding the use of lockdown as much as possible, in order to protect their economy. However, SK did quickly close nursing homes and any other facilities in which viral spread might be hard to control.  This was not an 'evidencet-based' decision, just common sense. (Our men say that they had a short supply of coronavirus testing kits and therefore couldn't know that it was reckless to put covid-19 patients into care homes.)

Thanks to NERVTAG scientists, we've never had thermal screening at the Eurotunnel, at airports, or at any other ports of entry. However, anyone entering an NHS covid-19 lab today must pass through the building's front door (even if they work at the back) because that is where the thermal screening is done.

Hancock to work at UN
He's the one who thought it amusing that our modelers "thought it was flu". He made sure we didn't try anything that might ask him to go out on a limb as South Korea was doing, and then made the BBC keep their triumph out of all lockdown TV programming:

Let's not forget that the WHO is a part of the UN and it was its eagerness to please China that caused us to think the threat from Wuhan was low.. (p.s. Would we ever think of letting them put flu patients into care homes? Why coronavirus then?)

The UN withdraws offer of work.
The WHO was sent an extra £55 million shortly after it was discovered that its "no human to human transmission" message was CCP hocus pocus. Again, in 2021 we sent £55 million, this time for an educational project. But it seems that donations to the WHO don't make the UN feel obliged  to Hancock in any way?

Sridhar reappears, but on Channel 4 this time.
Prof. Sridhar was on BBC Breakfast almost daily during the lockdown but she never mentioned the South Korean response, which had been doing so well since February. In June, she said "We are lucky here in Britain" because some countries were showing brutality in their pandemic responses, and then she gave S. Korea as her example, suggesting that it had treated the Daegu cult leader harshly (patently untrue and it wasn't long before he was discovered to have defrauded his many followers.) In May, she had appeared in the Channel 4 documentary about South Korea and it mentioned no brutality, only a brilliant response program (2709 total deaths to

date. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus) Her reticence about the achievements of S. Korea whenever she appeared on BBC TV was obviously in line with a hidden policy, because nobody on it was mentioning them. Then, on 31 October she swivelled and called Boris' second lockdown, "this rubbish path" and said we should be copying "southern Asian countries". (Linda Bauld did all the BBC Breakfast zoom chats from the next day onwards.)

Article calls Sridhar "Sturgeon adviser".
Nicola Sturgeon proclaimed that "there's no point in comparing countries". Her adviser, Prof. Devi Sridhar was helping the BBC keep quiet about the South Korean pandemic response... Cumulative total S Korean Covid deaths today? 2709.

Sunak's budget.
Why don't the Tories save some money by quitting the WHO (which is a subunit of the UN.) WHO led us badly astray last January with their "no human-to-human transmission" tweet. On March 16, they said "test, test, test" but the virus was already well spread by then. Testing for the purpose of virus containment needed to be done first thing, in combination with restriction of travel. The WHO had criticized those countries near China who restricted travel and has never retracted that criticism.

The NHS has NEVER put flu patients into care homes but they did it with coronavirus patients - (It seems they never communicate openly with overseas health bodies, we just assume the WHO is the guiding authority.)

Gates preferred we forget that the WHO fed us a false account of the outbreak, concocted by the CCP, giving the outbreak time to grow. He helped put the WHO back on its pedestal when Trump cut its funding 

Bans on care home visits
People in care homes are being subjected to isolation worse than during lockdown, as care homes cover their backs against being accused of letting infection in. There's some relief on realizing that there is a 'Care minister' who has been petitioned, but she never seems to get a mention in the media. Instead, Owen Paterson has provided another load of sleaze noise which helps forget the unnecessarily high number of people lost to covid-19 in the UK. Not forgetting that Hancock drew attention to older people as 'spreaders who would get the vaccine first, when there was one'.

Johnson walks with no mask in a hospital.
"Hancock didn't advise me well last winter but now I know where I'm safe"?
He caught covid in a hospital in March 2020 and spread it around by "shaking hands with everybody!" By that time, South Korea had flattened two surges using the test they'd cut corners to have ready.

WHO chief slams Boris.
How 'ironic'(?) Boris sent the WHO a £55 million bonus after it let us all think there was no sign of h-to-h transmission. Two countries which aren't WHO favourites did things differently and triumphed. The WHO ignored them and most of the World has followed suit.

Is there anything more toxic than a 'Health Organization' which parrots CCP tweets (without noticing that what they say is as good as impossible), leading most countries to stand-down because "there's no human-to-human transmission"?

Sturgeon was steered by Devi Sridhar into telling Scots that they shouldn't bother looking at other countries' coronavirus responses. In particular, Devi made sure there was no interest in Taiwan and South Korea - she did the same thing many mornings in 2020 on BBC Breakfast:

'The West' ignored what Taiwan and South Korea had done from the start: Taking the WHO with a pinch of salt, they got a proper testing-and-tracing system together which would let them avoid big lockdowns.

We wouldn't have needed big lockdowns if we'd listened to Taiwan and South Korea two Januaries ago. They weren't influenced by WHO claptrap, got busy and shielded well without vaccine.

The South Korean response that circumvents big lockdowns didn't appeal to our MPs last winter. Their ear was still open to the WHO in spite of the falsity it had advanced on behalf of the CCP. Taiwan and S. Korea have a lot in common and neither is a WHO favourite (both have USAF bases and neighbours with hostile communist.) What they did in February was lauded by some Americans but coherence was lacking in American leadership and six weeks were wasted by the CDC (trying to make its own test so that it would be 'Nobel standard'. That test was shelved and is not usable yet.) Countries in 'the West' (aligned with the WHO but not really paying it much attention) simply locked down and waited for vaccine and/or medication but, 'ironically', South Korea was one of the first to develop "antibody treatment" for coronavirus. 

Lock downs for the unvaccinated? Lockdown the people in charge who completely ignored the perfectly logical system that's worked so well in Taiwan and South Korea. (By the way, both countries have USAF bases and have benefited from decades of American education. Both have enemy communists on their backs all the time.)

"No doubt we would be in lockdown without vaccination." But South Korea and Taiwan worked out a system quickly that circumvents major lockdowns, without vaccine. The WHO skilfully made it hard to notice what these two independent-minded countries did. Western governments were then also happy to be taking an easier road for themselves, even if it was very costly for their people..

No need to move to covid "plan B". The last 21 months might have been 'Plan A' but it took only weeks for South Korea and Taiwan to get things under control and circumvent big lockdowns when vaccine was not yet available. (Hancock was "saving lives" but we often were losing 100-times more than S. Korea was, a fact that's never been acknowledged, let alone explained.) The WHO made it hard to notice what those two independent-minded countries did, not popular with the CCP. Western governments who were entrained to the WHO were taking a much slower and easier road for themselves, which was very costly for their people.

The WHO holds a public forum. The BBC in January 2021 played back a secret recording in which Michael J. Ryan had been very anxious about the obvious danger he could see in the Wuhan outbreak in its early days. That was in January 2020 and he was obviously brought back into line by his colleagues at some point. Van Kerkhov 'explains' why she favoured adherence to "the diplomacy that we use" with China, rather than challenging that country and sounding a more obvious alarm to the rest of the World.

PM urges HS2 critics to "wait and see".  That "wait and see" approach cost lives and made a big lock-down unavoidable:  There was no 'instruction book' but the South Koreans might have explained their simple system if we'd called them on a Samsung Galaxy? After all, it was their third coronavirus in two decades.

Ministers "not fully prepared" when covid hit?  It's worse than that. They rewarded the WHO shortly after it had facilitated China's cover up and made no reference to South Korea's proven type of response, (The MPs also made sure very little was heard about that on UK television until after lockdown.) They adopted a 'No screening' policy at border crossings.

Care homes still denying family visits.  In 2020, people were reassured when Messrs.. Hancock and Johnson said that the elderly would get pandemic priority. What people didn't realize was that the elderly were becoming stigmatized as super-spreaders. They would be 'first to get the vaccine', in order to protect 'the rest of us'. In the meantime, Hancock was watching the effect of lockdown on NHS capability and he didn't make any recommendations that would "shield" the care homes from viral ingression until 19,000 had perished.

Raab refusing to accept WHO's advice on face-masks.  They've used the WHO in their game of smoke and mirrors, sending it a bonus of £55 million and the same again in 2021 for a different cause. A 'World' health organization that helped China conceal the danger and slated countries for using travel bans, even after it had accepted that there really was an emergency. Mainly, the WHO's habit of ignoring South Korea was useful to Hancock because he wanted to obstruct news of that country's way of handling a coronavirus (he hid it from the British public.)

The WHO says don't use travel bans for Omicron.  It's called Omicron so that people 'won't know where it comes from and then turn hostile toward that country'. WHO micro-managers imposed this formula not long after their "diplomacy" with China had given the initial outbreak more time to spread. They delayed warnings even after the CCP stopped saying that it wasn't transmitting h-to-h. "The virus doesn't seem to go human-to-human" and, "Don't use travel bans because that'll isolate China", said the WHO. (Countries which had closed borders were criticized even after it was admitted that there was an emergency.  Now, they have again said, "don't limit travel" and they might be right this time but who listens any more? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiW3eyIyD3U) Are we still happy that Boris sends the WHO a few Pounds from each one of us every year?

#politicssouthwest "The NHS was already on its knees before the pandemic" - As well as having dissolved our ministerial Health Threats Committee (THRCC) just months before the outbreak, the PM dodged meetings and there was nothing to slow the virus down until March 23rd:

People in South African care homes in 2020 were exposed to the virus just as badly as here in the UK. If Hancock had sent a warning to UK care homes last Jan/Feb, South Africans would have heard about it and followed suit... 

Van-Tam says 'leave the panicking to us'.
"Let us do the panicking"? They were cool as cucumbers in 2020 in spite of 19,000 certified covid-19 care-home deaths between March and June, and a national toll of 71,000 in December when S. Korea had lost fewer than 600.
People in South African care-homes were also completely exposed to the virus with no adjustments in staff and visitor comings and goings.. If Hancock had sent a clear warning to UK care-homes,, South Africans would have heard about it and followed suit...

Omricon hitting South Korea hard. Van-Tam tells us to chill and let him do the panicking. In South Korea, they are anxious because Omicron is proving hard to contain and they have had "34 deaths". Which country seems to get a better sense of when to take things seriously (bearing in mind how often we've had more than 100 deaths daily in the last 22 months)? 

Piers Morgan gets reaction after saying friend died needlessly.
Piers was the only TV personality to question the close control that MPs held over the media in 2020, i.e. boycotting everyone but the BBC (which they could make silent about South Korea's success with this, its third, coronavirus.)

Western figureheads went with the WHO in ignoring the South Korean method for stopping the virus. (Is every level of data privacy so sacrosanct that it automatically justified western politicians' and scientists' silently ignoring South Korea's ability to quickly slow the spread of both MERS and covid-19?  How does this square with the fact that service providers can snoop any customer's phone and or internet activity? There's nothing in place to stop them if they lack integrity.)

Re: Tory xmas party:
They might/might not have 'followed the rules' but did they look at any of the science re. the way South Korea handled MERS-CoV and then SARS-CoV-2? Obviously not or they wouldn't have been shaking hands in a hospital in March 2020.

03/12/2021  Is it taboo to compare the death toll in South Korea with ours: 3705 vs. 145,000. That equates to 1 in every 463 Brits deceased vs. 1 in every 14,000 South Koreans. Our toll still climbs while S. Korea has been better at maintaining a low infection rate. (It's a well established fact that SARS-CoV-2 kills 1.9% of the people it infects. This figure might vary slightly between population groups.)

Government too accepting of WHO sell-out from the start means few now realize that South Korea (most of the time with no vaccine) has lost 1 person in every 14,000 while the UK has lost 1 in every 463.

Omicron may reduce the gap between infection and infectiousness.  There's a different gap which is increasing because, unlike the South Koreans, we still often lose more than 100 people per day to SARS-CoV-2.

There's been a longstanding effort to prevent an awareness that South Korea (most of the time with no vaccine) has lost 1 person in every 14,000 while the UK has lost 1 in every 463.

(Our toll still climbs while the Koreans have been much better at maintaining a low infection rate.)

More than half Omicron cases in England are in the double jabbed.

Hancock saw jabbing as the simple answer: 'We'll just lock everyone down while the vaccine is being deceloped.' The quick and powerful Korean response was ignored on a pretense of moral superiority (the data privacy 'issue'.) South Koreans have lost 1 in 14,000 since the start of the pandemic. We have lost 1 in 463 (a figure that worsens daily.) Their method protects them regardless of vaccine availability. 

https://twitter.com/i/status/1467840802512850947 Why has no post been made on the BBC Politics page for Dawn Butler's contribution yesterday? Butler made simple factual statements which obviously rattled the conservatives, and the chairwoman then didn't show her impartiality either. After pointedly saying that she was at the funeral of an MP recently (as if that terror incident had been driven by words from people like Butler?), Nickie Aiken said it's unparliamentary to accuse an MP of "lying". She said that Johnson "got us through this pandemic" and therefore shouldn't be subjected to such unkind accusations.

'Is withholding information always less insidious than lying?'
Hancock had a system of media control in 2020 that prevented BBC TV from showing anything that would make South Korea interesting to Brits at home in lockdown. (All other media channels were 'boycotted' by Tory MPs.) The control of televised BBC made it easier to prod the herd in desired directions -  while businesses dried up. It made sure the Health Minister wouldn't be criticized for 1. Never completely closing national ports of entry or having thermal screening at any. 2. Not going after the virus in the way that South Korea did (with a method that had been successful in 2015 with the MERS coronavirus.)
The WHO was doing the same thing: ignoring South Korea and Taiwan (two countries that have always worked together and defied the CCP.) While most patrons of the WHO did the same thing (ignored the way South Korea slowed viral spread very quickly), we were often losing a hundred times more people, and spending massive sums while companies' futures were jeopardized.

Most westerners concurred with the WHO without thinking in any depth about the 'privacy invasion'. Privacy trade-offs are not new and have been written about. (On 07/12/2021, BBC One discussed the 'invasions of privacy' that will be unavoidable as Facebook, now known as 'Meta', will be developing 'the metaverse'.)

Sturgeon calls Johnson 'corrupt'.

She followed Devi Sridhar's 'guidance' and advised Scots not to look at other countries' pandemic timelines. Scots might have realized what a raw deal they've been getting?: 

Joe Biden gave the WHO its money back after they had ignored Taiwan's witness appraisal of the Wuhan crisis, and conveyed to the West that the virus wasn't spreading among people, and obscured South Korea's early progress with covid-19, and delayed emergency declaration, and continued to criticize countries who'd closed borders (Joe must be getting thumbs-up all over the PRC.

UK records 11-month record high number of infections.
There's no mention of the 120 who died 'in the last 24 hours'. Our daily deaths add up while South Korea curbed that trend early in 2020: They didn't simply wait for a vaccine to arrive, they got busy "bali bali" and came up with a genuine way to protect people and their economy. The WHO kept quiet about how well South Korea doing and so did our Matt Hancock, who went as far as making it a banned subject on the only TV service that MPs were allowed to appear on.

12/12/2021. Criticism of Johnson hits all the channels:
He was battling covid when Hancock left the care-homes unprotected. 
    "he can override Hancock he's the prime minister!"
        He's almost certainly had long-lasting effects including 'brain fog' which makes it harder to do decision-making.
    "To be fair Hancock was the only health minister in Europe to order enough vaccines initially."

 The European response was also badly compromised by their diffidence for the WHO. Some Americans made it clear that the WHO had helped the CCP do a cover-up. Hancock could read about it just as easily as anybody else.

The WHO got a £55 million bonus after it had ignored the Taiwanese medic who told the truth about Wuhan. The WHO had suggested that the virus wasn't spreading H2H (had suggested the same thing with MERS) and kept silent about South Korea's early progress with testing and tracing. It made emergency warnings late and then continued to slate countries for closing borders (including S. Korea.) Has anybody at the WHO ever spent a shift in PPE?

One country avoided lockdowns as much as possible and got a head-start in slowing the spread of the virus. The WHO ignored it because of its being mates with Taiwan and not fond of China (and it was dismissing the WHO's pet theory that there was no H2H transmission.) Our government took steps to keep its success off the BBC during Lockdown 1 and still never mentions it now. 

Govt now being called 'doom-mongers'.  It was rational scientists who were called "doomsayers" by Johnson in 2020 when they tried to make it known what had been observed in Wuhan. He rewarded the WHO for its hush-hush approach. 

So much abandonment of people's businesses while the pandemic response was kept as simple as possible: Almost nothing like what South Korea did was attempted when it would have had an effect, before infection could go widespread: 

Keeping the public in the dark about the real decisions that were made last March - That wouldn't have helped people solve their day-to-day difficulties well. e.g. Some small companies must have thought "OK, we can go home for a while. It won't last long" not knowing that Hancock knew full-well that the lockdown would last many months while a vaccine was being developed..... People in care homes had no system to tell them that a 'tsunami' of infection would race through their open doors. People in South Korea, on the other hand, had a much better picture of what was going on and knew instinctively to close "nursing homes" on February 21. 

Omicron cases grow by 10,000 as major incident declared in London.

Johnson kept sending an 'it's over' message with his mask-free walks around hospitals. Now we see an over-reaction which is killing off more businesses. 

Finder of Omicron describes cases as "extremely mild".

A noisy emergency now does help gloss over certain very costly omissions by the WHO, by Biden, by Johnson and by many other heads of states in 2020: 

Dorries removed from Tory MPs WhatsApp group

Their WhatsApp habits are bad for leadership. Gossiping in secret about each other doesn't foster good decision-making:  (Use Ctrl-F to find 'WhatsApp')

A comment in facebook, 19/12:

South Korea dealt with the pandemic brilliantly. They are still very proactive about it as the cases rise. They acknowledged that schools were causing spread and they only went back fully in person in November 2021, but have said if numbers expand they will be back to online learning. Mass testing and contact tracing, testing of people before going into hospital, not after. Closing of care homes. Disinfection, warnings to ventilate spaces. Isolation. They treated it for what it was. An airborne virus.

The President of South Korea offered to help the UK with its response but the UK refused. Why would you refuse help from counties very experienced in dealing with viruses?

Johnson becomes Santa Claus?

Jab = Xmas present?  He gave the WHO a few presents after they set us off on the wrong track ........The WHO suggested that MERS didn't spread human-to-human, implying that South Korea's testing and tracing response had been a waste of time. Five years later, the WHO supported China's tweet which said the same thing about SARS-CoV-2 (not spreading H2H) and kept silent about South Korea's early progress against this coronavirus. It delayed its international emergency warning and then continued to criticize countries who'd used travel bans to prevent viral spread (including S. Korea.) Has anybody at the WHO ever spent a shift in PPE? Let's have them stop sending UK money to the WHO - two bonuses of £55 million since last April that we know of. 

Closing of businesses. If every town has lost at least one, how many are gone now?

Hancock showed no inclination to avoid lockdown by copying South Korea. Instead, he had BBC One and Devi Sridhar keep silent about South Korea until after our first lockdown was lifted.

The WHO has been trying to kill South Korea's coronavirus story for at least six years, ever since that country faced the quick-killing MERS coronavirus in 2015. The WHO's ploy was to publish a statement that MERS-CoV didn't seem to spread human-to-human, implying that South Korea had been wasting its time chasing it down with its new testing-and-tracing method ('the outbreak was over anyway'.) As soon as China, 'by coincidence', said that SARS-CoV-2 didn't show H2H transmission, the WHO chimed in with concurrence and suggested that countries stop using travel bans that would "isolate China economically". For most countries, the WHO succeeded in snuffing their awareness of what they could have done in February 2020 by copying S. Korea. It wasn't until March 16 that the WHO said, "Test, test, test", by which time SARS-CoV-2 had spread everywhere and no testing-and-tracing team on Earth could hope to contain it. In the UK, Health Minister Hancock showed no inclination to avoid lockdown by copying South Korea. Instead, he had BBC One (the only TV channel which MPs didn't boycott) and its regular consultant, Devi Sridhar keep silent about South Korea until after our first lockdown was lifted. 

With a test and tracing system that's never been applied on time, the UK has had days with 100 times as many deaths as in South Korea. More recently, with South Korea needing to re-open to a world which never gained control as it did in 2020, it has been losing people a lot more quickly. But the two totals remain strikingly different: 5176 vs. 148,000.  (SK has more people per sq. mile.)

Australians might charge the unvaccinated for hospital time.

South Korea is a place you can survive whether you have the vaccine or not. Time wasn't wasted waiting for vaccine and the deaths total there is still strikingly low for a hi-tech country with dense population: 

Johnson and Biden take the WHO seriously but the WHO only sees South Korea as a country to be upstaged and ignored (being mates with Taiwan.) We all pay the price.

Western leaders were dismissive of South Korea in 2020 and then learning too little, too late, from its success: The WHO had been discrediting South Korean achievements in disease control since at least 2015. By asserting that MERS didn't spread human-to-human and then backing China's opinion that covid-19 was likewise being caught mainly from animals, the WHO made the Korean testing and tracing seem to be a waste of time. By imposing a travel ban, the Koreans were 'making another decision that wasn't evidence-based!' Koreans were even going as far as 'breaching data privacy without any evidence-based reason for doing so!' Time has shown how fallacious the WHO has been but there's no further scrutiny since Trump withdrew its funding.

"As of 9am on Tuesday (28/12/2021), a further 129,471 lab-confirmed cases were recorded in the UK."

S. Korea reported <4000 today.

Why so different to the UK? S. Korea first established a very effective test-and-trace system and has always had thermal screening at airports (which NERVTAG said doesn't work, although its been compulsory at big NHS test-processing facilities.) 

The WHO is part of the UN. In 2015, it began distorting scientific ideas in a way that would make South Korea seem misguided, not making "evidence-based" decisions: 

Have they yet realized that a poor grip on virology coupled with hostility for South Korea is what caused us to receive late warnings and scant advice from the WHO?  If so, will they keep throwing bonuses of £55 million at it?

In 2012, a WHO publication denied that pneumonia outbreaks were evidence of a virus which spreads human to human. MERS-CoV was said to show 'no H2H transmission' but South Korea saw in 2015 that outbreaks inside four hospitals (caused by one man who visited them) were proof of human-to-human transmission. They got their testing method going again in January 2020, now expanded and synced with phone technology, but the West was kept in the dark. Our leaders seem to have let the WHO off the hook, even sending it bonus cheques now and then. 

Will anyone challenge Hancock, Van-Tam etc. for helping the country be duped by a WHO 'theory' which began in 2012? The result of WHO thumb-sucking was millions of animals killed needlessly in 2020 and a fatal delay in response advice. (Two bonuses of £55 million each have been sent to the WHO since April 2020, that we know of.)

The WHO should be shut down for its 2012 'idea' which, repeated in 2020, was used to justify the harmful delay of its emergency warning and the killing of millions of animals as 'spreaders'.  (Two bonuses of £55 million each have been sent to the WHO since April 2020, that we know of.)

Van-tam gets a knighthood.

03/01/2022 - 73 deaths in the last 24 hours

South Korea's mortality rate has steadily increased since it re-opened airports in December 2020. The President came to the G7 in Cornwall and seems unlike the Koreans who worked flat out to cut the spread so effectively. Nevertheless, if we have 73 deaths every day (like in the last 24 hrs), it will take 78 days to lose as many people as they have since January 2020. 

What's "Sir" Jonathan Van-Tam done that helped us, beyond persuading people to comply with the half-baked response that Hancock chucked together at massive expense? (19,000 had died in care homes by the end of June 2020.) 

As an academic, Van-Tam should have been alarmed when the WHO was pushing a 'no H2H' theory which simply wasn't virology, and should have protested at the £55 million bonus it received after holding back knowledge of the effective South Korean response. The WHO did these things to stall western responses and 'protect China from travel bans'.

06/01/2022. Grant Shapps said just now that the economy is "going gang-busters". After mentioning the price at the pump, his Party is "assisting" wherever it can, for example helping people with their heating bills ... The Breakfast interviewer got no chance to probe in a zoom setting and didn't ask what about all the shops that have disappeared from the high street since March 2020? - Were they just collateral of Johnson's Lockdowns? Lockdowns were a measure which S. Korea worked hard to avoid and which they saw as, 'typically CCP'.

When Biden restored US patronage of the WHO, he made it seem to be 'the good guy' (as opp. Trump.) When the WHO had spun a yarn ("there's no H2H") to stall westerners and shun South Korean progress ('to protect China from travel bans'), that was mischief. 

Anger at latest China lockdown

It was fear of lockdowns that drove South Koreans to come up with an effective response to covid-19. Having living memories of life under oppression, they are wary of anything that's authoritarian.

In another of its mischievous moves, the WHO concealed how well their testing and tracing beat spread, preferring to highlight the 'authoritarian' way they displayed recent case movements on a website after tracking phones and credit cards. (It was done with names and addresses removed.)

Zahawi and Van-Tam need to admit that the WHO did harm in January 2020 with its notion that there was 'no human-to-human transmission'. The same thing was said in 2012 about MERS-CoV because, 'No H2H' made it seem that travel bans wouldn't achieve anything (and preventing travel bans suited CCP interests, of course.) 'No H2H' also implied that South Korea's testing-and-tracing was a sham, because 'all transmission had been animal-to-human!'. The WHO has never apologized for the mistake, persists in suggesting that countries make travel ban decisions which were "not evidence-based". The WHO has received two £55 million "bonuses" from Whitehall since April 2020 that we know of. 

Zahawi uses the word, 'endemic'. The use of the word 'endemic' might be optimistic but questionable. It implies that future mutants will be limited to their country of origin. Worth mentioning lest we forget: the WHO mixed up viral and non-viral biology in January 2020 to argue that China shouldn't face travel bans (but Biden sent it a Billion Dollars last year? more?)  Van-Tam seems not to have noticed how fallacious the WHO was. It's received two £55 million "bonuses" since April 2020, that we know of.

May 2020 BYOB

They let the WHO fool them into ignoring the method of South Korea (587 lives lost by Dec 14.) An easier time was to be had by spraying money at contractors (70,752 lives lost by Dec 18.)

Scientists believed covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’ "Scientists feared debate could hurt international harmony". Were they WHO scientists? The WHO's desire to avoid 'hurting' China led to delays in health warnings: There was a preoccupation with preventing travel bans which the WHO said would "isolate" China economically. In 2012 with MERS, a WHO update had already started pushing a fallacy of 'no human-to-human transmission' (which was disproved by circumstances in South Korea in 2015.) The WHO's intention was easily overlooked, i.e. Only H2H transmission gets these viruses across international borders: Say that there's no sign of H2H transmission and you'll find that countries are slower to impose travel bans. That pleases the CCP. (It has members who infiltrate the WHO as employees?)

Prof Sir Jonathan Van-Tam is leaving his role

It's odd that Van-Tam overlooked something fundamentally out-of-the-ordinary in the news coming from the WHO at the start of the pandemic. He has never commented on the WHO's persistence in suggesting, "no sign of human-to-human transmission". The WHO realized in 2012 that this message would make governments less inclined to have travel restrictions. (If MERS wasn't moving, 'human-to-human' then it wouldn't spread across borders!) China doesn't like travel bans and the WHO has employees who are members of the CCP. Even if Van-Tam 'didn't know the politics', he should have been puzzled by the WHO's idea, which cannot feasibly work for a respiratory virus in the way that was implied (animal-to-human transmission occurs with Rabies but have you ever heard of a rabies epidemic?) Does Van-Tam care about the details any more than the WHO did and why has he shown no concern about the big sums we send (two £55 million bonuses since April 2020, that we know of)?  ps. It goes without saying that the WHO's message had a global effect in slowing readiness for what was to come.(https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/306804870493851)

Van-Tam, tacitly: "Forget the economy. Forget about the care-home tragedies (at least 28,000 by the time he entered the scene.) Just hoard as many vaccine doses as we can." Academically? V-T never bothered about the WHO's fallacious "no human-to-human transmission" message (proved wrong for MERS in 2015) which was pushed solely to make travel bans seem unnecessary. (China would 'be hurt' by travel bans and the rest of the World could go to hell.)

Re: Dominic Cummings helping stir the issue of No. 10 parties.

Cummings is a red herring. He's never mentioned the care-home deaths and only once said we should have emulated "Taiwan". Just like all the other Tories (who were forbidden to appear on any TV channel but the BBC), he never says, "South Korea". There's a pattern and it suggests that Cummings is a double agent.

The WHO made it difficult to realize that South Korea did much better by not locking down. The WHO repeated that there was "no human-to-human transmission" (its idea made up for MERS in 2012, disproved by circumstances in 2015) so that countries might not restrict travel. (The WHO was trying to please China this way and the rest of its member countries could go to hell.)

Cummings says Boris was warned about drinks.

Whenever Dominic makes another appearance, two things remain the same: 1. He never gets close to discussing the loss of 28,186 care home residents between 2nd March and 12th June 2020. (Did it never cross his mind that care homes might have needed government consideration while everybody else was being sent home to lockdown? What sort of mind wouldn't it cross?)
2. He has said that Britain should have learned from Taiwan and had travel bans much sooner, but he's never said a word about South Korea (which was in a similar position to the UK: facing a coronavirus that had already been carried in by travellers from Wuhan.)
Why does Cummings keep 1. and 2. out of public discourse? Is he actually doing the Tories a favour by making noise that keeps these bigger questions to one side? He still has something in common with all the MPs involved: They never said "South Korea" on TV in 2020 and they still never mention its exceptional response now.
p.s. Should we continue to send the WHO about half a billion Pounds per year after it issued a misleading update in January 2020 which was a repeat of the one disproved in 2015 about MERS, i.e. "This coronavirus shows no human-to-human transmission". The sole purpose was to dissuade us from subjecting China to a travel ban but it also encouraged MPs to be casual about the health threat to ourselves. ('If there's no human-to-human transmission, then people can't carry it to other countries!')
p.s. Dr David Nabarro who works under the WHO's Director-General was on BBC Breakfast this morning, implying that we don't collaborate with other countries enough about mutants. (Do they ever stop criticizing us?) He was sitting in his home in Geneva where he must obviously have millionaires for neighbours.

Well I hope you feel better for that. But why should it matter that Dr Nabarro has a home in Geneva (where the WHO is based)?

  L It suggests how affluent they are, duh. We paid the WHO nearly half a billion in 2018/19. It's anybody's guess what they get from us now, the tax payer. I doubt you've bothered to read the critique of their 'no H2H' idea. Even if top WHO admin clerks like your Nabarro couldn't sense that somebody hadn't understood the difference between a 'zoonotic virus' and any other kind of zoonotic pathogen, circumstances proved the idea wrong in 2015. But they pushed the same impossible notion again because it suggested that travel bans would be unnecessary/pointless. The desire to please commies in China forced a dumbing down of concepts and so many top 'academics' kept quiet. It's appalling. You feel any better?

G I Nabarro and I used to work for the same place. He was very highly regarded and I doubt very, very much he is making anything up.

•  L W Yes, I'm sure he makes people happy in a social setting. He has all the assets for that. But I think by now he knows the WHO peddled non-science in order to make it seem that travel bans would be pointless. He knows this was to make China happy and that it delayed countries from starting to protect their citizens effectively. He also knows the WHO acted as though South Korea didn't exist and had no story to tell.

Re. hamsters and other pets to be culled in Hong Kong.

"Animals are regularly catching respiratory coronavirus which often mutates in them so that human-infecting strains are produced". Another distortion of science was the "coronavirus shows no human-to-human transmission" idea, suggested by the WHO for MERS in 2012. That one was proved wrong by circumstances in 2015 but was pushed again in 2020 because it might fool people into thinking that travel bans would be unproductive. ('No H2H' means that people won't spread it when they visit other countries!) - Of course, the WHO's motive was to please the CCP, because travel bans might "cause China to suffer international isolation". The WHO has plied communist-driven hocus pocus but hard-working Brits are sending it half-a-billion Pounds per year, maybe more! WHO aficionados live with the billionaires in Geneva

The WHO pushed bad science at the start of the pandemic ("This coronavirus shows no human-to-human transmission") to fool countries out of using travel bans which might 'hurt China'. The effect was leaders everywhere became casual about the threat to their own people. But we continue to send the WHO half-a-billion Pounds per year, maybe more. 

The WHO disseminated some 'bad science' at the start of the pandemic by relaying a message that had come from the CCP in China.

In 2012, the WHO had suggested that MERS was not transmitted human-to-human. However, it must have realized in 2015 that four hospital outbreaks in South Korea were proof that there was H2H transmission: One infected man had travelled from hospital to hospital and then they had the outbreaks.

It seems likely that the CCP soon realized that a declaration of ‘no H2H transmission’ could serve to convince countries that travel bans won't achieve anything: ‘People might carry the disease to another country but they would not infect anybody there!’ When the CCP was using repressive tactics to cover up knowledge of Wuhan's pneumonia outbreak in 2020, it didn't hesitate to say that this new disease showed "no evidence of human-to-human transmission". The WHO did not challenge this, rather crafted its own announcement from China’s tweet. The CCP didn’t want any countries to restrict travel and the WHO obliged by discouraging travel bans in news communications.

The WHO kept silent about news of the South Korean response to covid-19 which should have been held up as an example for the World to learn from. (Looking at the page dedicated to S. Korea on the WHO's website, there is nothing new that relates specifically to that country, just two downloadable files dating from January 2019: who.int/republicofkorea/our-work)

By relaying China’s 'no H2H transmission' message to the World in January 2020, the WHO fooled countries into delaying travel bans and leaders in countries everywhere became casual about the threat to their own people. (Think about it from their point of view: First they hear that China says there’s no H2H transmission, then they get the same message from the WHO.) The WHO also delayed its international emergency declaration for at least a week and didn’t call the disease a ‘pandemic' for several weeks. It continued to say that countries had ‘damaging travel bans' which were “not evidence-based". Should we continue to send the WHO half-a-billion Pounds per year? 

24/01/2022

"The WHO. When it speaks, you listen, you scientific guys", said a BBC Morning Live host this morning. Sadly. that's true even though the WHO was more interested in helping China to prevent travel bans in 2020 than it was in making anybody safer. Some Americans noticed what had happened (and the White House acted) but our men ignored them and sent an April bonus of £55 million on top of the half-billion we give the WHO p.a. "Test, test, test", said the WHO on March 16, 2020 but by then it was too late to contain the virus that way. Before March, its intention was, "Delay, delay, delay" and it achieved the delay by suggesting that there was "no human-to-human transmission." The same WHO suggestion had been made in 2012 for MERS and proved wrong by circumstances in 2015 (outbreaks inside four hospitals all traced to one man who'd visited each one.) While peddling the 'no H2H' nonsense, the WHO kept silent about South Korea's frugal and effective response, and it's put nothing new on its website page for South Korea since 01/2019. 

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The following is a response to a suggestion that the 2020 spike in UK care-home deaths was possibly caused by a 'sudden loss of medical services in the first months of lockdown, particularly in cancer treatment.' The excess deaths being referred to occurred during the three month period between March 2nd and June 12th (see amnesty.) Lockdown began on March 23rd and, by June 12, people had begun to demand that government take some responsibility for helping care homes.

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"If, as you say, the posthumous PCR test results were not supported with any other evidence that the virus might have killed anybody, it's strange that, before the results were published, there was a spate of local news flashes about care home deaths "being air-brushed out of the national news", and then there were multiple reports of care homes quickly losing almost all of their residents.

Care-home deaths happened in countries like South Africa as well and they also had no conscious strategy for keeping virus out. Staff came and went as usual from a society that was getting the minimum of pandemic response support. I have first-hand experience of how quickly the virus killed after it was noticeable that somebody was having breathing difficulty. There was no mistaking the situation.

One NHS doctor I saw on TV brought it home when he described how the virus caused the lungs to become filled with fluid quite rapidly, literally drowning the patient, often regardless of intensive care. You may be right to point out that a portion of the care-home excess deaths was due to insufficient cancer treatment. On the other hand, people caught covid-19 when they had to leave care homes for short visits to cancer units at hospitals.

It's doubtful that Nuffield Trust-org is trying to exaggerate what happened: "Despite warnings of the potentially devastating impact of Covid-19 on care homes, the first wave of the pandemic saw an extraordinary number of excess deaths among residents. The scale of mortality in care homes laid bare long-standing problems with care home provision, as well as shortcomings in the response to the pandemic, which we discuss in our accompanying blog."

Boris' partygate?

Hancock adhered to WHO misguidance in January 2020 (more interested in stalling travel bans than keeping deaths to a minimum) and 100% ignored the way that South Korea expanded its method for MERS-CoV containment to that of SARS-CoV-2 (and we still throw half-a-billion Pounds annually at the WHO?)

May 2022. Grant Shapps says it's all (partygate) a trial-by-media. https://www.indy100.com/news/grant-shapps-partygate-defence-boris Grant Shapps wants the media to keep it quiet, just as the inner circle (Johnson, Hancock, Cummings and Sunak) kept BBC television quiet about South Korea during the lockdown of 2020, and boycotted all other channels so that no SK-related questions could get through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pf_Om88Yg ///

The Irish might get a 'full pandemic inquiry'.

Bear two things in mind: 1. The WHO, assumed to be a global health sentinel, had priorities that didn't help us. Mainly, it was focussed on discouraging travel bans so that China wouldn't become "isolated". It had realized that a simple announcement, i.e. "There's no evidence of human-to-human transmission" would help to prevent such bans. 2. The British government, watched by many countries, was also not focussed on 'saving lives'. Like a war cabinet, it focused on a few 'targets' and any collateral would have to 'take care of itself'. Mainly, the health minister watched how well the NHS was coping after he had locked society down. Care homes weren't thought about and 28,000 extra deaths occurred in them between March and June 2020.

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False impressions were cunningly plied by China and the WHO in early 2020. Hancock, Johnson and Cummings likewise controlled media to limit what the public would see and hear about covid-19 on a daily basis.
The WHO was doing more than one thing at the same time. Some of its actions would suggest that it had the best of intentions, e.g. the publication of a coronavirus test on January 13. However, it was not relaying any information about South Korea's busy test-and-trace system (which had proved itself in 2015 against MERS.)
Matt Hancock also ignored South Korea’s quick response to covid-19 and sent a £55 million bonus to the WHO shortly after it had said that covid-19 showed 'no sign of human-to-human transmissibility'.
China had got this 'no H2H' idea from the WHO in 2012 and realized that it could help prevent travel bans by tweeting the same idea for covid-19. Behind the scenes, China was busily copying South Korea's ideas and applying them in its own ways. (To most outsiders, there was no sign that the ‘no H2H’ idea was conceived by the WHO in 2012, never supported by any data and disproved when four hospitals in South Korea had outbreaks that were traced back to one man who had visited each one.)

The WHO used every opportunity to discourage travel bans because of the way that they might affect China. Now, by resurrecting its "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" message, it could make such bans seem pointless: 'People can travel because they don't transmit these CoV diseases!'
A Taiwanese visitor to Wuhan had seen at a glance that the pneumonia outbreak was highly contagious. Obviously (to any ordinary person), South Korea needed to limit travel while doing covid-19 containment, but the WHO simply didn't talk about South Korea. Hancock organized (through WhatsApp) that the BBC would keep the Korean story off the TV screen until lockdown was over. He didn’t want anybody saying that there was a good alternative to simply locking the whole country down.

Hancock put the focus onto safeguarding the hospitals but 'forgot' about care homes after promising that “putting a shield” around them was a top concern. By waiting until March to act, he’d made certain that locking society down was the only way to take pressure off the NHS. - 'Forget about hunting the virus down with the frugal S. Korean system. Keep that story off the BBC and ban it as a topic of discussion for MPs.'
Adopting a war cabinet stance, enforcing simple directives that left individual concerns out of the picture (e.g. saving the family business), there was ample time for booze breaks. -----------------------

The WHO is a costly source of health news. (The UK now sends it approximately half-a-billion Pounds per year.)

In 2012, the WHO said that MERS showed no human to human transmission and later did not acknowledge that this was proved wrong by events in 2015.

In January 2020, it repeated the 'no H2H' idea for covid-19, disproved across the World by March. It didn't care and still argued against travel bans, for China's sake. The consequences have been grievous. 

I know somebody who was posted in a country which had a MERS outbreak and he said it was a quick killer. Obviously, that's why S. Korea took it seriously and worked out a system that might contain it. These basic facts were submerged by the WHO, persisting with its 'no H2H' nonsense. Surely, the Tories knew that Taiwan and S. Korea might be side-lined because of WHO entanglement with China, but no, the Tories stuck with the WHO and minimized travel restrictions as much as possible, probably to keep China happy.

31/01 The whole S. Korea story was withheld from the BBC-watching public in the knowledge that the WHO wouldn't spill the beans either.  (MPs boycotted other channels so that the majority would tune to the BBC every day.)

31/01 Theresa May jumps on the Boris-bashing bandwagon:

May was the PM who "didn't understand" or "ignored" the fact that a lawyer in South Africa can build a case entirely through 'plea bargains', exactly as was done during Apartheid: bit.ly/mugTaxi

In 2020, the whole S. Korea story was withheld from the BBC-watching public in the knowledge that the WHO wouldn't spill the beans either. (MPs boycotted other channels so that the majority would tune to the BBC every day.)

03/02

It was posted today that the UK had lost 303 people in the previous 24 hours. If sustained, this rate would give us about 100,000 deceased in 11 months. (compare with 71,000 lost in 11 months in 2020.) But, it's been proposed that the daily figures no longer be provided on-line. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-covid-daily-updates-scrap-data-live-b980233.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1jkgsoNo_yE3Zp0d4szFpXgrq75QVDBScBQHWJOx8cZglQl4kfDieXlWQ#Echobox=1643814430 Such scrapping of figures will further prevent people from noticing a two-year trend: - Countries who thought the WHO was a watchdog suffered enormous losses, while democratic Asian countries (much wiser to the WHO's pro-China campaign) got control quickly and protected their economies (by avoiding lockdowns as much as possible.)

In 2020, there were days when we were losing 100 times more people than South Korea was. On December 18, our total was 71,000 but S. Korea hadn't yet lost 600. Trends did fluctuate with new variants and the lifting of S. Korea's travel ban (persuaded by Johnson? - the S. Korean PM did come to his G7 in Cornwall), but the big picture still gets no mention among MPs: Why is our total 157k while S. Korea's is 6k? SK has more people per square mile. 

04/04 Johnson accused of making incorrect claims about employment figures

Yesterday, the Standard said he claims that COVID deaths are so low now that they need no longer be posted on-line. We had lost 303 in the previous 24 hours, which would amount to 100,000 dying in 11 months if sustained. (We lost 71,000 in 11 months in 2020.) Two days ago, our 24-hour count was 534 and three days ago it was 1,125. When you remember that South Korea lost fewer than 600 people in 11 months in 2020 (and they did no big lockdowns), you start to wonder?

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/boris-johnson-covid-daily-updates-scrap-data-live-b980233.html?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1jkgsoNo_yE3Zp0d4szFpXgrq75QVDBScBQHWJOx8cZglQl4kfDieXlWQ#Echobox=1643814430

07/04 - responding to a claim that daily deaths are still high because of anti-vaxxers and that they have caused severe damage to the UK economy.

You might consider that S. Korea was focused on saving the economy from the word 'go' and did it by avoiding lockdowns because it had proved in 2015 that test and trace can work... (Where there's a will, there's a way etc.) But BJ stuck with the WHO which had kept its members uninformed about SK, as desired by Chinese elements.

The London Evening Standard is the only paper still posting daily covid deaths:

Only the Standard keeps us up to date about the daily count which still makes South Korea seem a much safer to be. Some days its higher here than ever, e.g. was 1121 on Feb 1 (although a lot depends on your Google search phrasing - today the graph being shown has 534 as the highest daily count this month! I have a PrtScr copy showing 1121.) Let's accept the 534 figure and remember that SK lost that many in 11 months in 2020. But it's still never mentioned or analyzed - shows that 'certain people' at the top took a short cut and made the job simpler for themselves by ignoring/suppressing how SK did things.

09/02. Big Tory donor gives to Labour instead.

January 2020, there were two things to consider: 1. How to prevent deaths. 2. How to protect the economy.

For 1, vaccination was the goal in the long run. No government doubted that. But only a few Asian countries who were not WHO favourites seemed interested in 2.

South Korea showed "exceptionalism" and American journalists got very enthused about its fast-response system. Matt Hancock said that 1 was a big thing for him but he waited until the last week in March before doing anything at all. No. 2 never seemed to cross his mind. 

Lots of energy gets wasted by ranting about anti-vaxxers. No energy put into exposing how most national pandemic responses should have begun with an urgent acquisition of face-masks: and we in the UK might have been better off exposing how what the BBC put out daily during lockdown in 2020 was only 'part of the truth' (not "the whole truth and nothing but the truth".)

Did the Covid modellers get it wrong?

S. Korea didn't put modeling in the fore-front. Rather, they upscaled a method they had used to stop MERS-CoV from spreading inside hospitals. Our modelers were somewhat slow to catch on and were simulating a 'flu outbreak' at first - documentation of this is hard to find but Hancock spoke of it on TV. When lockdown was over, a BBC documentary called 'Lockdown 1.0' made some of this very clear but, 'conveniently', is no longer viewable. ('54 Days' gave even more surprising detail which had been suppressed during lockdown, but that too had a short availability on BBC iPlayer.)

Britain seems to have beaten the virus. But have we been smart or just lucky?

Lucky? 160,000 killed while S. Korea used common sense and has lost 6000, most killed by variants after re-opening its border to countries that took ages to get control.  Also compare the economic losses please. - no big lockdowns in S. Korea.

Gas price hike was caused by lockdown - less gas was bought therefore suppliers raised price.
A good way to deal with a coronavirus (without locking down) was worked out in 2015 but the story was suppressed by the WHO and then by Matt Hancock. 

The following suggests that Matt Hancock was wrong to assume that hospitals wouldn't cope unless there was a national lockdown: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews

Ghebreyesus to Jinping: "Yes, we respect your rejection of South Korean information, because they always support Taiwan."  Biden to Jinping. "I need to make it seem there's a lot of damage to be undone, so I will restore USA support of the WHO." https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10225461168343884&set=a.1332983292410

In March 2020, Hancock predicted that hospitals would only manage their case-load if there was a national lockdown. The well-meaning public showed a cooperative spirit but had no facemasks to wear, so they were sent home where they wouldn't need any.

(Cummings asserted that there was a dearth of PPE in March and Hancock denied this but he didn't send any facemasks to care homes, so perhaps Cummings did not lie.)

A new report says that society would have done much better to avoid lockdown - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews

South Korea had closed nursing homes in February. In contrast, our care homes were not brought up to date and some were used to give hospitals somewhere to dump the bedridden.

Once Hancock had everybody indoors and watching a meticulously controlled BBC commentary, he played things by ear, called it "evolution".

Covid lockdown 'prevented only 0.2pc of deaths in first wave'

No big orders for facemasks were made by Health Minister Matt Hancock in January 2020 after he heard about Wuhan overflowing with pneumonia cases. (Dominic Cummings says there were no extra facemasks in the UK, only the normal stock levels for medical staff.) Hancock has always taken the WHO seriously and it had said that there was 'no evidence of human-to-human transmission' of covid-19, which was an echo of what it had said in 2012 about MERS (proved wrong in 2015 by outbreaks in four South Korean hospitals being traced to one man who'd gone from hospital to hospital.) Time went by and Matt realized in March that it would have been wiser to make orders for facemasks much sooner than he did. He covered the mistake by saying that the hospitals would soon be rammed if he didn't send everyone home to lockdown right away. At home, people wouldn't be phased that facemasks were only now starting to appear in shops. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews 

BBC article, 19/02/2022: "What are false flags? And when have they been used?"

Matt Hancock didn't make an order for facemasks in 2020 after he heard about SARS-CoV-2 (at least, that's what Dominic Cummings says.) He'd been listening to the WHO which said there was no evidence of H2H transmission. Without facemasks, people would spread respiratory virus easily at work. He covered his mistake by saying that the hospitals would be swamped if he didn't send everyone home where they wouldn't need facemasks. Was that a false flag and what did it do to the economy? https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews 

When can we have that 'late pandemic response' inquiry we were promised so long ago, and explore some things that Tory MPs have always omitted? Any mention of South Korean expertise was kept off BBC One during the long lockdown of 2020 (all other channels were boycotted by the Ministers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4.) Professor Devi Sridhar, who'd been on BBC Breakfast a lot, persuaded Nicola Sturgeon to say that we could learn nothing from observation of overseas pandemic responses. The BBC never stopped quoting the WHO which had ignored what South Korea achieved with MERS in 2015. Outbreaks in South Korean hospitals proved that MERS-CoV transmits human to human. In 2020, the WHO's message that covid-19 was not showing, "evidence of human-to-human transmission" was an echo of what it had said about MERS in 2012. This time, the groundless 'theorizing' encouraged countries to dawdle and they became significantly late in responding. It was hidden from them how effective South Korea's method was.  Next, we sent the WHO a bonus of £55 million in April (and another £55 million early in 2021) on top of the near half-billion it gets.

"SARS-CoV-2 jumped to people from animals in Wuhan wet market"

The same animal-to-human 'train of thought' is evident in a 2012 update made by the WHO regarding MERS-CoV, i.e. "the novel coronavirus cannot be easily transmitted from person to person”. Taking this idea further with SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020, the WHO was implying that all transmission was probably animal-to-human because, "There's no evidence of human-to-human transmission."

The original WHO update was proved wrong in 2015 by MERS outbreaks occurring inside four S. Korean hospitals which were traced to one man who'd visited each hospital after he'd caught the disease in the Middle East (nowhere near any wet markets like those in Wuhan.) But the WHO habitually ignores anything that happens in S. Korea because it's a country that has always supported Taiwan.

The nine covid billionaires (find it with Google) got rich faster thanks to the way so many countries ignored what South Korea did in February 2020. The Koreans paid attention to the immediate dangers, closed the border and ramped up a process they'd invented to stop MERS-CoV from spreading inside hospitals in 2015. Before the disease could 'go viral' in the hospitals, they'd isolated infected people after finding them with with testing and tracing. Instead of urging countries to do likewise with SARS-CoV-2, the WHO provided distraction with its: "There's no evidence of human-to-human transmission" tweet (in other words: "Only people who handle animals in Wuhan are at risk.") The world watched and waited until it probably was too late to hold back the virus in the same way that the Koreans did. The alternative was attractive in its simplicity: "Just lock everyone down and wait for vaccine to be created!" People had no immediate desire to defy government and resist lockdowns that were 'making them safe' (while putting livelihoods under enormous strain.) People in UK care homes became quickly very unsafe. Matt Hancock was probably wrong to assume that a national lockdown would help hospitals significantly (a 0.2% benefit has been estimated): https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews. If we'd had facemasks at the time, we could have kept calm and carried on almost as normal, as the South Koreans did. On the other hand, a form of 'locking down' that should have been done was the safeguarding of people in care homes. South Korea closed nursing homes in February 2020. (SK had lost a total of 587 people by December 14 while we had lost 70,752 by Dec 18.) No big orders for facemasks were created by Hancock when Wuhan's flood of pneumonia cases were being taken very seriously by non-communist Asians. Dominic Cummings says there were no extra facemasks in the UK when we went into lockdown, only the normal stock levels for medical staff. Hancock always takes the WHO seriously (and was hoping to work for the UN) which had downplayed the danger, with fatal outcomes for many. The "no evidence of H2H" statement was an echo of what the WHO had said about MERS-CoV in 2012, proven wrong in 2015 by outbreaks in three South Korean hospitals being traced to one man who'd gone from hospital to hospital. Time went by and Matt realized late in March that it would have been better to place orders for facemasks in January or earlier. However, he also realized that he could say that the hospitals would soon be filled to capacity if he didn't send everyone home to lockdown right away: Once safely at home, people wouldn't be struck by the fact that facemasks were only then starting to appear in shops.

The beginning of a contrived preoccupation with 'animal-to-human transmission' is evident in a 2012 update made by the WHO. It stated of MERS that, "the novel coronavirus cannot be easily transmitted from person to person”. (How was MERS-CoV infecting so many people? The answer: 'animal-to-human'.) Carrying this 'zoonotic' notion forward with SARS-CoV-2 in January 2020, the WHO was implying that all transmission was probably animal-to-human because "there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission" (a tweet which was supposedly based on 'Chinese intelligence'.) The original WHO update was disproved in 2015 by the occurrence of MERS outbreaks inside four S. Korean hospitals which were traced to one man who'd visited each one. (He'd caught the disease in the Middle East, nowhere near any wet markets like those in Wuhan.) But the WHO habitually ignores anything that happens in S. Korea because it's a country that's always supported Taiwan. p.s. The WHO people were ignoring the fact that an evolution of a 'zoonotic' virus is a one-off genetic event. - All subsequent human infections can be traced ultimately to virus coming from the animal in which the virus' genetic change occurred. All the WHO was interested in was preventing travel bans that might hinder Chinese prosperity. ('If there's no H2H transmission, then people who travel will take the virus with them but they won't pass it to people in the other countries!')

Last year, Sir Nadhim Zahawi said if we didn't hoard vaccines it would be like neglecting to put in some extra tent pegs when we knew there'd be a storm in the night. Somehow, the tent flying off in the wind represented our total loss of immunity if we didn't keep all vaccine for ourselves?

Hancock didn't have facemasks for the man in the street until late in March 2020. He'd let the WHO soothe him with its longstanding lie that coronaviruses don't spread human-to-human.

The WHO was ignoring South Korea in Jan 2020 and all western politicians did likewise, each later saying, "But we are not the only country with huge pandemic problems."

It's been normal to think of an 'abolition' as the ending of a practice which is a stain on society, e.g. slavery and the death penalty. Nevertheless, THRCC was "abolished" in July 2019 in order to "slow down on things" that didn't help top MPs focus on Brexit (https://www.soundhealthandlastingwealth.com/covid-19/boris-johnson-scrapped-pandemic-team-before-coronavirus-hit-uk/).

THRCC would very likely have turned out to be much more on the button about covid-19 than the WHO was (see https://www.grassley.senate.gov/news/news-releases/grassley-world-health-organization-aiding-china-s-coronavirus-cover) and would have recognized that the longstanding Asian practice of wearing facemasks in public should have been quickly adopted in the UK. The UK was soon "spraying money" at the pandemic (Kier Starmer's choice of words): The small spend that kept the THRCC together was a tiny drop in the ocean, by comparison. The acquisition of facemasks should have been our first step. If nothing else, they would have had a signalling effect (as armbands do) and helped unify a response, reminding of the need for social distancing and hand-washing. Once the people had masks, a genuine test-and-trace activity could have begun. But the first thing that was done which involved public cooperation was lockdown (on March 23rd.) Dominic Cummings has said it was idiocy that caused us to wait until the end of March for facemasks. (They might not actually have protected anyone very well from covid-19 but it's been worked out that Lockdown helped reduce deaths by perhaps 0.2% - https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trusting-people-thing-saved-more-190617785.html?.tsrc=bell-brknews) The MPs had trusted the WHO with its claim that there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" (a WHO update in 2012 had said the same thing about MERS-CoV, proved wrong in 2015 by hospital outbreaks in S. Korea.) WHO personnel (many are Chinese) were only interested in preventing travel bans in 2020 and had never acknowledged the way that South Korea tackles coronaviruses. Most western leaders who invest heavily in the WHO were content that 'the science' suggested covid-19 wasn't spreading. With nothing tangible to give people hope when the outbreak was turning deadly in the UK, Matt Hancock saw lockdown as the only escape route. The news media would be handled (so that South Korea's achievements wouldn't get coverage) and it would be a long time before anyone realized that getting PPE on time might have enabled a response that didn't turn lives upside-down 

The 'booster' concept was a powerful political plaything for a government that was deceived and delayed by the WHO: 

Defense of facemasks: Asians have been wearing them in public for decades so they must have done some research. People who wear them are also more likely to be the people that take more care of over social distancing and hand-washing, so they help 'signal' to observe caution, if nothing else. Don't forget that NERVTAG scientists were happy to say that thermal screening achieves nothing. The NHS uses the screening, especially at laboratories 

Don't forget, Sunak was involved in the decision to blow holes in our economy by locking society down (couldn't avoid lockdown because there was no genuine test-and-trace going on and there were no facemasks for the man-in-the-street.)
~ We've had one of the least life-saving pandemic responses of any technocratic country while spending the most money possible in the process. The PM and Health Minister dismissed "doomsayers" in 2020 while the WHO was feeding them its "no evidence of human-to-human transmission" lie (which first appeared in 2012 regarding MERS-CoV and was never corrected.) There was contempt for non-communist Asians with MERS experience who had worked out a way to contain covid spikes ASAP without locking down. ("We consult with the WHO!" and it was given £55 million as a bonus in April 2020 on top of the half-billion we send it annually. UK care homes couldn't afford PPE at the time.)

Wasn't it another Peppa moment? Any comparison between Brits doing Brexit and Ukrainians defying Russia is an academic one at best. (Is Johnson needing to lead an army against the EU?)

Isn't it beyond ridiculous that Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested the Ukrainians 'have been willing to overlook Partygate (therefore, why can't Brits do the same?') What next? Will he draw a comparison between Ukrainians overlooking Partygate and Boris' overlooking 81 executions on the day he tried to get a deal from Saudi Arabia.

The sequence was:

1. Deny, deny, deny until mid-March 2020.

2. Late March 2020: "Lock 'em all down and wait for the vaccine-makers do what they always do."

3. "Party 'til it's over."

In 2020, we lost 70,752 people by 18 December while South Korea lost 587 by 14 December. 

"China has reported fewer than 5000 fatalities throughout the entire pandemic"

Pretending now to be as effective as South Korea has been, China had/has CCP operatives working as WHO staff. They strove to make travel bans seem pointless by again pushing the "no human-to-human transmission" myth. But how easily did our intelligentsia fall for it! (and the WHO still gets its £half-billion per annum.) 

27/03/2022

Anthony Fauci just now appeared on BBC 'Sunday Morning' which has no Facebook page. It was notable that Fauci goes nowhere near talking about South Korea or why it has a very small deaths total. (He still suggests a purely natural origin for SARS-CoV-2, not willing to hear that there might have been some basic genetic engineering going on 24/7 in a Chinese lab with cheap staff.) 

Nobody mentioned (ever does) that the WHO came up with a "no human-to-human transmission" message in 2012 regarding MERS-CoV, and that China 'came up with the same idea' in 2020 for SARS-CoV-2. The WHO happily broadcasted the idea as one of its first covid-19 observations. (Fauci makes no mention of the coronavirus diseases that weren't called 'SARS'.)

Could it be that Trump was greatly disappointed when he realized that Fauci hadn't woken up to the WHO deceit quickly enough in January 2020 (i.e. that the virus was 'not contagious'?) Could Fauci have prevented the CDC from wasting 6 weeks on trying to make its own test instead of using the one that was available from the WHO? 

Now, Fauci makes sure he doesn't upset Biden by ever suggesting that the WHO did, in fact, help China to cause the outside world to greatly underestimate covid-19. 

Rt. Hon. Nadhim Zahawi - knighted last year - was on the show after Fauci. His popularity stems from the way he turned pandemic talk into something up-beat and cheery, but he shows no concern for humanity at large: He argued with determination that we should not give spare vaccines to anybody outside the UK. - He created one of his 'famous analogies' to show why we should hang onto every vial.

Why was it so vital that we leave the EU BEFORE taking any steps to become less vulnerable to Russian supply of fuel? We have so many political intelligentsia but none of them warned that Putin might do more of what he did to Crimea and Syria? While the South Koreans had perfected a penny-pincher way to tackle SARS-CoV-2, we were given lockdown and had our money "sprayed" at contractors.

It's said now that MPs "didn't notice" the regular parties at No. 10.

In 2020, we needed them to notice which country was a friend with coronavirus experience, i.e. South Korea. 

(It's obvious that when they did get up to date on South Korean science, they prevented the story from being mentioned on BBC TV while families in lockdown might see it. They boycotted all other channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4)

We needed them to notice that enemy CCP had influence in the WHO and it was defying logic with its "no H2H transmission" message: (The £half-billion that's sent annually to the WHO could be reconsidered?)

We needed MPs to look at securing our national fuel provision before committing all efforts to sorting EU conflicts. 

Channel 4 to be privatised

During the 2020 lockdown, it was Channel 4 that gave us a balanced account of the first months of the pandemic. https://channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus. Its mid-evening documentary of May 13 leads us to see that the WHO had misled the world with "no evidence human-to-human transmission" in order to make travel bans seem pointless (to 'protect China's economy'.) To this same end, the WHO had made sure we didn't notice the urgency and simplicity with which South Korea had acted, after restricting travel. MPs then kept silent about Taiwan and South Korea every day on the BBC (and their boycott of all other channels made sure most people watched the BBC) so that they could have an easy time by simply locking the country down and spraying money at contractors. (They still send the WHO a half-billion annually.)

Two BBC documentaries at the end of 2020, called 'Lockdown 1.0' and '54 Days', showed that the WHO had put Western countries off-guard by re-asserting its long-held fabrication that 'zoonotic respiratory coronaviruses do not seem to spread human-to-human' (implying: 'they are caught directly from animals'.) It's notable that Tedros Ghebreyesus didn't say "Test, test, test" until 16 March.
Unfortunately, the BBC programs couldn't be watched on iPlayer for long but a similar report was made beforehand by Channel 4 and is still available: https://channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus.
MPs kept silent every day about the quick responses of Taiwan and South Korea. (MPs boycotted all TV channels but the BBC so that people seeking official pandemic guidance would be drawn to BBC TV and away from any news about South Korea.) They didn't want to be challenged regarding their simple approach which kept people away from work while money was sprayed at contractors (and the WHO still gets a half-billion Sterling annually.) 

Deaths occurred because of the PCR centre that issued 43 thousand false-negative results.

"It means the total number of deaths in the UK within 28 days of a positive test now stands at 169,095." Compare with South Korea's total - because their quick response protected their economy as well as it protected people from infection. Those who followed the WHO mostly paid no attention to SK, as desired by Chinese communists (some of which work inside the WHO.) SK battled to keep the same level of protection as the need to resume travel forced open the gates for variants from outside its border. Google it though: Have they lost 10,000 yet?

Nicola Sturgeon accused of 'virtue signalling'.

Sturgeon told Scots not to pay attention to the pandemic stats of other countries. It's fairly obvious that Devi Sridhar would have suggested that attitude. Sridhar was consulted more than once in Channel 4’s documentary about South Korea's exemplary progress which had been ignored by the WHO. (https://channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus) It was unsettling then to see Sridhar never mention SK when she appeared very often on BBC Breakfast, except once when she chose it as her example of a country 'showing mistreatment of people' in its response. 

Fines for No. 10 parties.

How did they end up having so much spare time for parties? 1. They did nothing to start with, while South Korea was busy isolating people who tested positive. 2. Then they made people go home to wait for vaccine production. There was little else for them to do.

Sturgeon criticized for attack on Johnson:

Both Sturgeon and Johnson took pains to keep the prowess of the South Korea response out of the limelight. (Both subscribe to the WHO and it has always ignored South Korea - too pally with Taiwan.) Sturgeon was advised by Devi Sridhar to say there was no point in watching the pandemic stats of other countries. 

If we keep funding the WHO at £500-million PA, it must be made clear that it failed the World as a health sentinel in January 2020. Based on a false assumption about coronavirus transmission, the WHO denied the obvious to make it seem that travel bans were inappropriate (because the bans would "cause China to become economically isolated".) How many could have been saved if the WHO didn't ignore South Korea which was using its system for MERS containment very effectively against covid-19?

Lets save half-a-billion Pounds and stop funding the WHO. It stalled pandemic responses by suggesting the virus didn't spread human-to-human and it ignored what S. Korea was doing (because S. Korea is a friend to Taiwan) so that Westerners almost never clicked on to the clever system that had worked for MERS-CoV. Hancock et al. took pains to keep knowledge of that system from being mentioned on the BBC throughout the first lockdown.

Partygate distracts us from the real dereliction: Letting the WHO guide us away from travel bans and a quick response, and away from the system that the South Koreans had developed in 2015 (ignored by Ghebreyesus because S. Korea is Taiwan's close ally.)

Waiting for Boris' reaction to fine:

He "shook hands with everybody!" at a hospital on 03/03/2020 (go to 28:53 in https://channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus) and locked most of the national workforce down twenty days later, simply because hospitals might have floundered if PHE was wrong about it being, "(only) some older age groups" that were "more severely affected" in China. - 26:35.

Hancock didn't bother to shield our care homes in spite of what PHE said about "older age groups". It was just hospital logistics that he saw fit to work on. (Not very Hippocratic was he?) Small and medium-sized businesses floundered and now we have the CoLC (https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/plymouth-news/finla-coffee-closing-down-citing-6935811) With the Health Secretary as a scientific front man, it was known we'd all 'play the game' and trust their instincts about lockdown?

Chris Whitty said on March 12, 2020 that he'd never intended to do more than one 'phase' of containment:

Weren't we misled into having a lockdown in the first place? Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said on March 12, 2020 that there was never going to be more than one 'phase' of virus containment in the way that South Koreans do it. He spoke quickly and there was no repetition or elaboration: "First of all, we are clearly now stopping the contain phase of this operation, that we've always said from the beginning, there were four stages to this: contain, delay, research, mitigate, and the 'contain' finishes from today." (https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus/on-demand/71452-001 - Reverse back to to 34:55 mins.) Whitty's declaration was made with the PM standing next to him, who'd just said briefly and with emotion that loved ones were going to die before their time. "Track and trace" (later called "test and trace") continued to be mentioned in the news as if it was an ongoing activity. Few realized that Korean-style testing and tracing had been stopped permanently. (All further testing was to be done only for diagnosis.) We soon started to lose a lot more people than South Korea did (71,000 vs. 600 in the first eleven months of the pandemic) but Johnson later proposed a knighthood for the man who paved the way for the "simple" lockdown of the national workforce instead of an active containment policy.  p.s. The WHO ignores South Korea because it's always supported Taiwan. The WHO didn't come up with the slogan, "Test, test, test" until March 16 and it still never mentions South Korea.

Weren't we misled about having a lockdown in the first place? CMO Chris Whitty ended South Korean-style testing and tracing on March 12, 2020 in favour of doing a simple lockdown instead. (He said that the tracing/containment was only ever meant to be the first phase of a four-phase operation: "contain, delay, research, mitigate".) The UK then lost 70,752 people by December 18 while South Korea lost 587 by December 14.

April 2022: Sunak puts heating into his swimming pool.

The "world-beating" four in February 2020 were Johnson, Hancock, Sunak and Cummings. They ignored the Hippocratic oath when they took no effective steps to safeguard care home residents, never mentioning anywhere that/how South Koreans had stopped MERS-CoV from spreading inside hospitals in 2015.

On 12 March, it was Chris Whitty who announced the end of the 'contain phase' of their 'four-part operation' (details of which remain a mystery.) He was standing next to Johnson who'd just said with emotion that "loved-ones were going to die before their time". What Whitty was saying was that there'd be no more tracing and isolating of disease contacts. (From that day, tests would only be used to confirm infections inside care homes and hospitals.) The plan was now very "simple" (Johnson's word): They'd lock the workforce down and wait for the private sector to provide a vaccine.

Was Chris Whitty a containment denier? He stopped the 'contain phase' of his 'four-part operation' on 12 March 2020, saying it was only ever meant to be 'the first phase', the other three phases being: 'delay, research and mitigate' (regardless of how worrying SARS-CoV-2 turned out to be?) https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus/on-demand/71452-001 - Reverse back to 34:55 mins.) Four days later, the WHO was belatedly saying, "Test, test, test" but we were already on a "simple" (BJ's word) path which included no further tracing of disease contacts.

Too many countries underestimate the effect that the CCP has on what the WHO communicates. Trump realized that but Boris Johnson took a different path and sent the WHO a bonus in April 2020. Countries listening to the WHO were not made to realize that South Korea faced a situation in 2015 which could have made its hospitals non-viable: MERS was a quick killer with a high case fatality rate and the hospitals with outbreaks needed to stop it from spreading. Observable symptoms are not always displayed when a person is carrying a virus. Test-trace-isolate was South Korea's solution to that and it did save the hospitals. (Coronaviruses all have respiratory transmission and the miniaturization of sampling/testing apparatus was key to South Korean success.) It's sheer bunkum when Matt Hancock says that the contamination of British care homes occurred because, 'We didn't know that a virus carrier could be asymptomatic'. (He could start instead by admitting that there was deference to the WHO in 2020 which didn't lead to good decision-making.) The WHO disregards the science that South Koreans do because they have always been Taiwan's best ally against China. Trump was right about this: We should no longer send the WHO half a billion Pounds per year. 

01/05 Millions of chickens in Iowa culled to prevent bird flu.

The US has been seeing big culls of domestic fowl now because it's decided somewhere that a positive result in a bird-flu test makes culls unavoidable. What's not generally realized is that no avian flu has caused more than 450 human deaths, between 2003 and 2021 according to the WHO. (Some of the 450 might have had other health issues at the time?)

In 2020, the decision to cull millions of mink was based on opinion, not policy: Some WHO scientists had implied in January that Wuhan's pneumonia was spreading 'animal-to-human'. They said there was no sign of human-to-human spread and the CCP was insisting that the people with pneumonia were only those who'd handled animals in wet markets. When a visiting Taiwanese doctor warned that there certainly was 'human-to-human transmission', the WHO ignored him: Its chairman was doing his best to prevent travel bans because they, "might isolate China economically". As long as there continued to be, "no evidence of human-to-human transmission", he could say that there was no "evidence" that travel bans would slow down the spread of the disease.

A virologist will tell you that a zoonotic virus might come into existence when a mistake occurs during viral replication and the offspring/'replicants' inherit, by chance, the ability to infect humans. Of course, subsequent replicants can then infect humans or a 'dead-end infection' will have occurred, the mutant strain lasting only one generation.

Under pressure to appease the CCP in January 2020 (Maria Van Kerkove called it, "the diplomacy that we use"), the WHO scientists 'forgot' their virology and were leading people to think that a zoonotic virus is one which transmits animal-to-animal and frequently undergoes local mutations, each mutation conferring the ability to transmit animal-to-human, but not human-to-human.

The WHO kept quiet when Denmark culled its mink. (Was it a 'Danish thing'? Remember that giraffe at Copenhagen Zoo, dissected to keep visitors entertained?) The mink cull helped make the WHO's original 'mistake' in January seem less ridiculous, i.e. when it implied that animals would give you the coronavirus, not humans. (The CCP had built its policy from this 'mistake' and locked up doctors who tried to let the truth be known.)

It's no small matter that the WHO fully supported the CCP's "no H2H transmission" fallacy with its own, very similar, tweet. Prior to that, a WHO update in 2012 had suggested that MERS-CoV might not be transmitting human-to-human. Circumstances in South Korea in 2015 proved that there was human-to-human transmission but the WHO seemed not to notice.

There has been persistent omission of useful information, e.g. The WHO never alerted member countries in 2015 that South Koreans had contrived a way to track down virus carriers when they are not displaying symptoms yet. That 'test-and-trace' routine came into existence because of an urgent need to prevent the spread of MERS-CoV inside four hospitals. (See the blog.

Video of March 5th, 2020 clearly shows Whitty warning that most carriers will be asymptomatic at any given time.  The video shows Whitty on March 5th. When he appeared on the BBC next to Boris Johnson on March 12, his demeanor was changed, as if he'd decided to man-up and tow the party line. (https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus/on-demand/71452-001 - Reverse back to 34:55 mins.)

The PM had just said briefly that loved ones were going to die before their time. Then, Whitty said that 'containment' was 'finished' (that there never was going to be more than one 'phase' of virus containment in the way that South Koreans do it):

"First of all, we are clearly now stopping the contain phase of this operation, that we've always said from the beginning, there were four stages to this: contain, delay, research, mitigate, and the 'contain' finishes from today."

"lockdown-breaking"? The best way to "break lockdown" was to ramp up face-mask availability and have social distancing. But there were no facemasks in March 2020 so we got a lockdown instead.

You can tell the general public has never realized 'test-and-trace' was invented in 2015 when S. Korea had a coronavirus that was spreading inside four hospitals. Koreans didn't muck around saying they 'didn't know' that virus carriers often can't be detected easily. They were determined to come up with new materials and methods, or the hospitals would be ruined. There is no way that Hancock can honestly say, 'We didn't know there were people carrying it without showing symptoms'.

£0.5-billion still goes to the WHO after it ignored the South Korean ingenuity for five years and assisted the CCP with its portrayal of a virus that was only caught when handling animals in wet markets.

On March 12, 2020, Johnson addressed the nation with the words, "Many more families are going to lose loved ones before their time". The South Korean leadership would never have said anything like that because they were too busy fighting the spread of the virus with the intention of saving everyone they could. They closed nursing homes in February and, by December 14, had lost 587 people. By December 18, we had lost 70,752 and we have fewer people per square mile.

20/05/2022.  If the Ukraine has been so important to the MPs, why is Greenpeace now trying to stop the sale of Russian diesel at our big retailers? "Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco: Stop selling Russian diesel." Just over two years ago, another big matter was withheld from public consumption during our lockdown. i.e. No news from South Korea was allowed on BBC TV until lockdown was over. It was the MPs' only channel. They boycotted all the others and not one of them ever said, "South Korea". The cover-up was perhaps more effective at duping the public than anything the CCP did that year

Our MP's are too mindful of a country's 'G rating'. 21/05/2022
South Korea isn't 'G7' so it's brilliance with respiratory coronaviruses since 2015 was totally side-lined in 2020. Also, the MPs should have considered who might have political influence over the WHO - very keen to make things go in ways that suited China in spite of the massive stipend received from the UK. (£0.5-billion PA.) 

Monkeypox gets the WHO back to work. 21/05/2022

Why did the "work" of the WHO not yield good guidance in January 2020? Why did the WHO never acknowledge the work that the South Koreans did with the coronavirus disease that came before covid-19, particularly since they could then improvise in order to minimize lockdowns in 2020? 

Tories start talking about raising the income of people who rely on benefits. 21/05/2022

The UK gave £464-million to the WHO in the year spanning 2018/19.

31 million pay tax in the UK.

464/31=14.97.

It's safe to say that every UK tax payer gave more than £30 to the WHO over two years during the pandemic. (A £55-million bonus was sent in 2020 and the same again in 2021, that we know of.)

At its moment in history (January 2020), the WHO fed us a false impression, preferring to serve China's desire for "calm" by delaying warnings and criticizing travel bans (by promoting China's suggestion that there was 'no evidence of human-to-human transmission'.)

Partygate photos emerge. 24/05/2022

Will we get the truth if we ask whether he and his MPs boycotted all non-BBC television channels during the lockdown so that people like Piers Morgan wouldn't get a chance to mention that South Korea was containing the disease without locking down? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pf_Om88Yg.) The WHO was also ignoring the Korean response, as it had when the Koreans contained the MERS coronavirus in the same way in 2015. Why did the WHO get a £55-million bonus after its delays and diversions had helped China cover-up the threat so that other countries might not restrict travel? 

The PM says booze helped win WW2 but is fighting the spread of a disease in any way like warfare? Were the losses in care homes a form of 'collateral'?

Beergate?

 Labour quietly accepted Hancock's, 'sit back and wait for a vaccine' approach in place of the more involved test/isolate/trace system that had proved itself in South Korea with MERS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. That system was ignored outright by the WHO and Whitty said on 12 March, 2020 that the 'contain phase of this operation' was now 'finishing', adding that it was only ever meant to be of short duration. In other words, all became 'simple' and much boredom would follow through the months at No.10, relieved by socials. Labour had their own HQ where they also found that beer helped endure the waiting-game. ......... link to video is at bit.ly/conwho

A Guardian article says we have the 2nd lowest no. of hospital beds per capita in Europe. Is that why Whitty panicked Johnson into a national lockdown? 

The UK sends about £500-million to the WHO every year and some nations send more. For covid-19, the WHO delayed warnings, assumed there was little or no human to human spread, and argued that places like Taiwan were wrong to ban travel. Government was complacent but then grew fearful that the hospitals might become crowded. The CFR was 1.7% (it could kill 17 people in a thousand if everybody caught it) but there was maximum economic disruption in the West while the simple logic applied in S. Korea avoided that and saved more lives. (They'd handled the spread of MERS-CoV when the CFR was 37%.) 

Relevant links are: csis.org/analysis/timeline-south-koreas-response-covid-19 and https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus/country/south-korea (see 9th fig./chart) Note here that S. Korea has had a scary looking covid spike this year, pushing up their total losses from less than 7,000 in February to about 24,000 today. Our PM invited their President to Cornwall for the G7 in 2021 - and persuaded him to soften border controls as soon as he could?

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Chris Whitty formally "finished" Korean-style containment on March 12, 2020. Our destiny was to rely solely on vaccine. Having also dished out vaccine, the S. Koreans have become less driven to do test/isolate/trace this year (2022) and their covid deaths all-time total jumped from under 6000 in January 2022 to over 24,000 this month. 

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=392089229621130&set=a.336009175229136

Did you watch BBC Question Time this week? The NHS cleaner described the grim things she saw in 2020 while parties were on at No. 10. The Tory supporter then said: "There wasn't a book" (to tell the No. 10 team to take things seriously?)
Even 'without a book', there was a way to ask the South Koreans how they contained the mers coronavirus in 2015: Just have Hancock pick up a phone and ask them!
Before it was axed, THRCC could have garnered the basics about the mers outbreaks inside S. Korean hospitals and written its own book. Some basic planning would then have made all the difference, even if left until early in 2020, e.g. stockpiling facemasks and setting up an information network. That way, there wouldn't be film of Johnson playing the whole thing down in March 2020: https://channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus (go to 26:35 mins)
THRCC was a Tory expenditure. It could have started writing its own instruction book before 2019. Perhaps Johnson was right to trash it then (to "slow down on things" that didn't serve Brexit)?  #bbcqt

Dewani was saved from the dogs by a white judge who was a friend of a schoolmate of mine. If it was left to the Tories, he'd be rotting in South African jail now. 

$487-million was an amount given by Whitehall to the WHO last year. It got "$500-million" the year before "for COVAX" and a £55-million "bonus" in April 2020. Biden did similarly because he also disregarded the fact that the WHO had put CCP wants ahead of the common good, helping sustain the illusion of a weakly-contagious, 'animal' virus.

"There wasn't an instruction manual" emerges again in 2022.  Do the ex-THRCC members have an excuse for never observing that South Korea came up with a new way to contain a coronavirus in 2015?

There didn't seem to be any real efforts by Hancock in 2020 that might have helped make the expensive lockdown-option avoidable. ... Mr Johnson said two things on March 1 that were true: "Most people seem to recover from this quite well". 2. "It's aged people who seem to be affected most". Why then "finish" the "contain phase (i.e. test-isolate-trace)" on 12 March in preparation for a massive national lockdown on 23 March, while leaving the aged in care homes wide open to infection? The Guardian suggested that the spending cost by September 2020 was "£210 billion". https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/08/uks-public-spending-watchdog-estimates-210bn-coronavirus-bill Who knows what losses through business inactivity have been?

Not mentioned anywhere else:
The journal link is ourw - scroll to the 9th image/map/graph
By deduction: test-isolate-trace was very effective at keeping deaths down in South Korea (much more so than lockdown was in the UK.) After vaccination targets were then reached in South Korea, they slowed down on the test-isolate-trace this year and their deaths total suddenly climbed from below 6,000 on 01/01/2022 to more than 24,000 by 25/05/2022. It reveals that we in the UK would have suffered far fewer human losses with a well-run test-based containment, rather than with just a lockdown.

A new graph which shows indirectly that lockdown was not the effective way (almost 200,000 Brits lost):
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10228527871929557&set=a.1332983292410

Just as we had too many deaths for more than two years after 12 March 2020, i.e. when we "finished the contain phase" (the test-and-trace) "of this operation" (Whitty's words), so South Korea has seen its deaths total quadruple this year after it put an end to its test-and-trace that worked so well. https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10228527871929557&set=a.1332983292410

1 July 2022: Ann Widdecombe says Tory party must pull itself together.

Ann Widdecombe favoured test and trace, not lockdown.

There's a new spike in covid cases and the ambulances get detained in hospital log-jams. A pity we had our 'contain phase' (Chris Whitty's name for test, trace, isolate) stopped in its tracks on 12 March 2020. Surely something could have been developed from it when you compare SK stats with those of the UK year by year...

A pity we had our 'contain phase' (Chris Whitty's name for test, trace, isolate) stopped in its tracks on 12 March 2020. Surely something could have been developed from it when you compare SK stats with those of the UK year by year.

Jeremy Hunt is in a new video on the Mirror Politics Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 No other Tory MP had said "South Korea" since March 2020.

"Why weren't we copying South Korea?", says Jeremy in this video.

07/07: Johnson resigns

Gove was a faithful snake at least. Video shows him praising BJ "100%" and saying our pandemic response was simply the best. Look at South Korea and it's plain to see that their test-isolate-trace system reduced case numbers like nothing else can. They stopped doing it once everyone was vaccinated and the deaths total multiplied fourfold between January and June this year.

New spikes in UK covid case numbers in July 2022:

Something like this happened in South Korea this year: Thinking that its people had been sufficiently vaccinated and the containment system could be turned off, its all-time covid deaths total shot up from below 6,000 on 01/01/2022 to over 24,000 in June. (Don't forget, it was decided that deaths totals would stop being announced in the UK some time ago.)

Biden turfed the Churchill bust out of the Oval Office.> Johnson built some lavish lodges for Biden at the G7 in Cornwall: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=10226152053575583&set=a.1332983292410

16/07/2022

Did you see BJ in the House two days ago bragging again that we got the vaccine first. Yes, by a matter of weeks but we lost many more people (than S. Korea, for example) due to having no TIT (test-isolate-trace) and we continued having very high daily deaths for another year at least, for the same reason. Is it regular that BJ pulled Bill Gates so close for a £400 million deal on a green project in October 2021 while our budget was enduring historic stress and strain? (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-and-bill-gates-launch-400m-partnership-to-boost-green-investment). Bill Gates had a little road-show running in 2015, saying that the WHO doesn't prepare us for epidemics, only monitors them. He didn't notice that the South Koreans developed a new system that contained a respiratory coronavirus inside four hospitals that same year. Neither did the WHO. Gates' dedication to the WHO makes him its second biggest donor. We were the biggest in 2019 but Biden makes the USA donate more now. What was noticed about the WHO while Trump was in office was no trivial matter .....

20/07/2022, BJ attends his last PMQs and says that it was insane that people used portable BBQs during the heatwave:

"No. 10 should have declared a ban on open flames in public a few days ago. Only done it today."
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Boris, asleep at the wheel..............once again
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The last time he dozed off, the long term effect was 200,000 killed by covid-19. His pandemic team preferred the unconditional love that Bill Gates has for the WHO over Donald Trump's condemnation of the way the WHO backed the CCP cover-up. Whitty, Hancock and Johnson must have known that vaccination of the public would slow the infection rate only in a gradual way and that many more people would die because TIT (test, isolate, trace) was "finished" by them on 12 March 2020.

22/07/2022 Rishi Sunak says we were hours away from starting a second lockdown in Dec 2021.

The first lockdown could have been avoided but Whitty announced on 12/03/2020 that "the contain phase finishes from today" ('as we've said it would from the start!') How could they imagine that a need to contain the virus (through test, isolate, trace) would no longer be needed after 12/03/2020? Was Bill Gates involved in this - giving 100% backing to the WHO which had ignored the South Korean system in its entirety since 2015? 

There was no commiseration from MPs for those families who lost everything to fires in the heatwave. See the mindless nonsense spoken by lords in the old green and brown Chamber: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0019g5m/politics-uk-22072022 According to these sages, we over-reacted to the 40-plus temperatures and had no need for reminders to drink water or keep out of the direct sun. ('We' all knew that already because of our inherited 'common sense'.)

Presumably, those who lost homes couldn't be better off today if there'd been a single mention of a possibility of fires/fire crews becoming over-burdened? (Those who attended the pre-heatwave COBR meeting had never heard of the fires in Spain, France, Canada, California...?) 

Did a similar stupidity prevail over our pandemic response: 

23/07/2022. WHO says Monkeypox is serious.

Did Bill Gates have influence during the pandemic? He saved the WHO when Trump pulled its funding and, like that organization, he has never acknowledged that South Korea's test-isolate-trace was the way to contain coronavirus spikes and avoid lockdowns. Perhaps his 2015 attempt to raise global awareness of epidemics kept him too busy to notice that the Koreans stopped the spread of MERS-CoV inside four hospitals that same year. But even now, he supports the WHO 100% and, like them, never mentions S. Korea.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-and-bill-gates-launch-400m-partnership-to-boost-green-investment

25/07/2022: Tories are now slamming China but they still subscribe US$500-million to the WHO after not challenging it for having done everything possible to avoid contradicting China's "no H2H transmission" message. (Tedros then acted as though he had grounds for saying that travel bans were not "evidence-based", but he was merely aiming to help the CCP prevent a limitation of travel over the Chinese New year.) The WHO hasn't been asked to weed out its employees who are CCP and who helped further the covid cover-up in January 2020.

WHO says window for beating Monkeypox is closing.

Quick work by non-communist Asians was containing SARS-CoV-2 in February 2020 but Tedros didn't update the WHO tweet which conveyed that 'humans aren't spreading it (therefore animals must be to blame)'. Tedros waited until 16 March before saying, "Test, test, test" and western countries assumed that the window had already closed for slowing the spread without locking down. (South Korea's early success was not acknowledged. Gates backed the WHO and 'everything Trump did was wrong'.) By 14 December, there were 587 known to be deceased in South Korea where everyone was so well connected on Samsung phones. In the UK by 18 December, it was '70,752' and Johnson's "World-beating app" was texting people if they'd been in a pub which an infected person had visited.

China warns of consequences if Pelosi visits Taiwan

Biden, Bill Gates and Boris made sure Tedros still had a job to go to after the following was discovered:

Taiwan tried to save us from the massive expense of locking down, wanted to warn us to close the border and use Korea-style containment. But Tedros ignored the Taiwanese expert because he wanted people to keep believing that there was "no sign of H2H transmission" (published as a WHO tweet on 14/01/2020) - That let him say that travel bans were not warranted ('people might carry it abroad but they won't spread it!'.) - He wanted to keep the CCP happy during the CNY, when many travel to and from China to celebrate with relatives.

'Follow the advice' for monkey pox.

The WHO had been running an information apartheid since at least 2015 and it meant we didn't learn how to avoid going into lockdown in 2020. It was 2015 when the South Koreans woke up to the fact that a coronavirus outbreak could be diminished by using a NAT (nucleic acid test) to see who was infected, so that they could be isolated, and that various means could be tried to ascertain which people might have had recent contact with the infected. The WHO simply ignored how this approach let the Koreans tackle outbreaks of MERS-CoV in four hospitals not far from Seoul and trace them to one man who'd been traveling in the Middle East. When the Koreans expanded their system to take on the spread of SARS-CoV-2, the WHO ignored that too and instead gave the CCP a platform for saying that this disease showed 'no human-to-human transmission'. (WHO had suggested the same thing about MERS-CoV.) Therefore, it's a bitter pill now when "follow the advice" means "listen to the WHO".

It was a Taiwanese expert who urged Wuhan's medics to admit that, 'Yes, this coronavirus is spreading human-to-human.'

WHO's Tedros Ghebreyesus ignored the expert's email and continued to say that travel bans were not warranted: "Travel restrictions isolate China economically". (Boris Johnson promised to investigate but instead WHO funding from the UK was increased at the soonest opportunity.)

We take it so lightly that Taiwan broke the stalemate that was engineered by the CCP and WHO ("no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission") and that our 'democratic leader' ignored official advice (from SAGE) to "copy South Korea", preferring to force us into lockdown. https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs..)

In terms of tech production, S. Korea beats us hands down but Tory MPs ignored its common-sense response to a respiratory coronavirus in 2015, expanded for the pandemic in 2020. Tory lethargy was exactly what the CCP and WHO wanted.

02/08/2022 Johnson has holiday during final weeks.

His 'World-beating' claims and hi-vis workplace stunts helped extinguish an interest in what South Korea achieved so quickly (having quelled MERS-CoV outbreaks in the same way in 2015.)

It was a Taiwanese expert who urged Wuhan's medics to admit that, 'Yes, this coronavirus is spreading human-to-human.' 

WHO's Tedros Ghebreyesus ignored the expert's email and continued to say that travel bans were not warranted, were "isolating China economically" (but WHO funding from the UK was increased at the soonest opportunity.)

We take it so lightly that Taiwan broke the CCP-imposed stalemate ("no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission") and that our 'democratic leader' ignored its ally, South Korea, preferring to force us into lockdown. 

Rishi Sunak says government he was in 'wasn't working'

If Rishi could see serious flaws then why did he agree to a lockdown with furlough when South Korea had a system which didn't thus hurt the economy and was many times more effective at "saving lives"? Was he the one who sent the WHO at least US$550-million extra in 2020/21?

04/08/2022. Thinktank says UK inflation is set to soar.

We needed a thinktank when Whitty gave his approval for turning off coronavirus tracing and throwing us into lockdown instead. As always, no explanation given for big decisions like that. (but at least one top Tory recently admitted that early decisions were wrong: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527

05/08/2022. Antonio Guterres condemns the British Petroleum profit but has never voiced any criticism of his WHO, now getting more money than ever from the USA, Bill Gates and the UK (in that order.) They all united against Donald Trump when he cut the WHO after it broadcast the CCP message that SARS-CoV-2 was "not spreading human-to-human" and then held back on health warnings, rather urging countries not to restrict travel. (Travel bans were "not evidence-based".) Many would be alive now if the WHO had not, for a long time, been ignoring medical findings that came from Asian countries not popular with the CCP, notably Taiwan and South Korea.

Bank of England says whole crisis can be blamed on Putin.

B of E man had a curious expression when he blamed everything on Putin. (https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/will-the-bank-of-england-say-sorry-?fbclid=IwAR2x-tRGd6Xdrw4tEdPsDGBUC4iF1qygvCpcfGD5iELH-Uj2pNl3U-P4UT4) Sending most of the national workforce home in 2020 and paying 80% of their wages didn't do things to the economy? Use link in blog to see an MP admitting that SAGE had advised to avoid locking down by learning from South Korea, but was ignored:

[NB. See a later BBC Panorama expose which makes it very clear that the energy price hikes were not caused by the Ukraine situation. The big companies have done it simply because they can: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bv5w/panorama-the-energy-crisis-whos-cashing-in]

Boris had us all clapping outside while the NHS were all indoors. He needed noise so nobody might think to ask "Why'd you ignore SAGE advice to copy South Korea?" BBC television wasn't allowed to discuss South Korea until after lockdown and MPs boycotted all other channels until then. Next, noise was created by walking around in a hospital without a facemask on. Then, the rumours of parties slowly became 'Partygate'. All to keep people's attention away from the bread and butter issues which now are all attributed to the Putin.

Biden has raised the US contribution to the WHO above $650-million. The No. 10 team raised the UK amount to near $500 million. Gates gives more than the UK does, almost as much as the US. (Blog link is at Gerry Lloyd) The WHO led its member countries to imagine there was little urgency. It wanted a slowness in their pandemic responses so that China's economy might not be hurt by travel bans. WHO never communicated about South Korea's way to minimize the use of lockdowns: 'Test, isolate, trace' was the best way long before Tedros Ghebreyesus said: "Test, test, test." (It was Taiwan that first warned the Koreans about the true situation in Wuhan.)

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 > How to say "We messed up massively and the cost was in £hundreds-of-billions" while still beaming with positivity. It was only days after this that Hunt was eliminated from the PM wanna-be list. (e.g. The Guardian reported £210-billion in Sep 2020: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/08/uks-public-spending-watchdog-estimates-210bn-coronavirus-bill)

Taiwan broke the deadlock created by the CCP over whether or not covid-19 was spreading 'human-to-human'. The false 'puzzlement' followed from a very similar fabrication being asserted by the WHO in 2012 for MERS-CoV. 

Much dust has settled since 2020 and it's clear that No. 10 joined with Gates and Biden in putting the WHO back on its pedestal. The WHO had ignored South Korea's example and Gates did the same thing. Johnson saw that his life could be made much simpler by tagging along with the big guys.... 

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  Hunt does seem amused but it's 100% verification: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (from 50 secs on.) You can bet that busy-body Bill Gates made contact with Johnson as soon as Trump cut the WHO (- hence the turnaround on March 12.) - We were the biggest WHO contributor in 2019.

• (More derision.... "Let me guess: A system that dishes out furlough must be a good one?")

The UK's a different place because Boris Johnson followed the 'WHO science' in 2020, ignoring SAGE (Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies) when it advised to ramp up testing and thus dodge a costly lockdown: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (from 50 secs on.)
For as long as it could, the WHO gave voice to the CCP assertion that covid-19 was only spreading 'animal-to-human', not human-to-human. Did, "Stick with the Americans" amount to helping Bill Gates and Joe Biden make the WHO even wealthier? (They all reside in Geneva, after all.) Since April 2020, the UK's WHO donation has been raised, bonuses sent and $500-million given to 'COVAX'. We have forfeited about a billion US Dollars in all. Bill and Melinda Gates gave $750-million: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-and-bill-gates-launch-400m-partnership-to-boost-green-investment = Just something concrete to show a Gates-Johnson relationship. Gates was too busy lecturing on what he thought he knew about epidemics in 2015 to notice South Korea's new way to contain coronaviruses. He persisted in ignoring South Korea in 2020, preferring to be a hero and save the WHO.

Liz Truss says that Trump said a lot of things that turned out to be true.

Donald Trump saw fit to stop funding the WHO after it helped the CCP cover-up the truth about the coronavirus in Wuhan. He didn't want to handle the matter in a measured way because that would probably have embroiled him in details that he had no patience for: He wanted the CDC to take care of covid-19 while he spent his time focussing on the upcoming election campaign.
Bill Gates would have made contact with Boris Johnson straight away because he needed a financial input from the UK to help 'save the WHO'. (We were the WHO's biggest donor in 2018/2019.) Gates has never expressed any interest in South Korea's handling of coronaviruses since 2015, in spite of his attempts that year to warn countries about the dangers of future epidemics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Af6b_wyiwI. He and his wife's uncritical devotion to the WHO led them to give it at least $750-million. They were not likely to praise South Korea when the WHO had never done that. They will have supported Johnson for having ditched our efforts to imitate the South Korean mass testing system.

Furlough made the Tories popular with many voters (who doesn't mind some time off with pay?) but it punched a hole in the economic dam wall. It also made people very tolerant of other peoples' losses?

Tories chucked out the simple system that was slowing the spread of virus in 2020. It was formulated in the country that makes half of the World's most wanted electronics.

It was the effect of lockdown furlough that shook the spreadsheets first? "£210-billion" spent already by September 2020. Was that anything like a normal government spend?

Did you see Jeremy Hunt on 4 July telling how we ignored SAGE in 2020 and thus ended up with the mind-blowing cost of lockdown? He was gone from the PM contenders list very quickly after this: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs.) It's believed that, by adopting South Korea's test-based containment system, we could have cut the rate of infection very well (not forgetting that the Koreans also did other practical things that helped, e.g. closed nursing homes on 21 Feb 2020.) The WHO shuns information from S. Korea and Taiwan (which are very supportive of each other) and WHO subscribers were kept in the dark about how they worked at a pace to slow down the virus. When Trump cut US funding to the WHO for delaying communications about the pandemic, Bill Gates' reaction to that meant that all criticism of WHO was set aside and knowledge of South Korea's system was still not promoted. In the first months of this year, South Korea's all-time covid-19 deaths total began to climb at a rate never seen before: quadrupled in under five months (from under 6000 to more than 24,000.) This happened because the containment system was turned off once vaccination targets had been reached by the end of 2021. A manoeuvre that helps hide certain failings?: It's not common knowledge that SAGE has become a WHO subunit this year. (British scientists now employed inside a WHO framework won't have their emails snooped? Beijing will see our 'confidential SAGE advice' before No. 10 does.)

So out of all the Countries in the World,the UK would suddenly plump for South-Korea's template,and everything would have been just fine. Brighton Pier burnt down years ago,and the Fortune-Teller has gone with it!!.

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  Jon Doe There is a reason that the UK is not alone for being so slow at the start. The WHO had been 'editing' things very carefully so that awareness of SK was kept to a minimum. UK was different in that its top advisory group was ignored.

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  Jon Doe This tweet had a big impact and made people chill: https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152
• • Tests on water in Italy,in October-2019,already showed signs of covid-19. The workforces from the leather goods,and weaving factories there,come and go from China all the time. So the flag up from WHO,wasn't just slow,it was pathetic.

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    Jon Doe Tedros Ghebreyesus was carefully maintaining the "No H2H" impression for as long as he could. Reason being, he likes kowtowing to the CCP and, "if there's no H2H, then people won't spread it when they travel, therefore I can impress China by criticizing countries who make unscientific restrictions on travel."

  Devi Sridhar has warned belief in conspiracy theories has increased in the aftermath of the covid pandemic.
• She was part of a cover-up which prevented people from talking about South Korea on BBC One during the lockdown. (MPs boycotted all other channels so that they couldn't be asked about SK.) She did break the rule once but that was only to mention South Korea as one of the countries that did brutal things to enforce lockdowns ("We are lucky here in the UK.") She had been in the Channel 4 documentary that clearly showed how open and friendly things were in SK. The head of the cult that broke social distancing rules there was not mistreated and later was found to have been embezzling his followers' money.

Labour surges as Tory fears grow over Truss’s tax cut agenda  

Truss might win the PM contest because the pandemic response which had a mind-blowing furlough expense was organized, in part, by Rishi. Wonder what South Korea spent on a response with no such furlough or closure of businesses? (We'd spent £210-billion by September 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/08/uks-public-spending-watchdog-estimates-210bn-coronavirus-bill)

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/it-s-time-to-lift-the-medical-student-cap?fbclid=IwAR1hs3zud6p1Uh4-E7Gt7dWUpDUpziOe_dhta_0SECr2RKYLdmnxD76HFuM

The above explains why there were no young doctors opposing any of Matt Hancock's ideas in 2020. - Imported doctors didn't care where the No. 10 team was taking us. us.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/23/twice-as-many-people-died-with-covid-in-uk-this-summer-compared-with-2021?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1EuFjuSj7BUliCtnk9g8teSqdvW9xcFE54lkG_48XTE9mB8ab9I2PemsE#Echobox=1661276326

John's Hopkins Univ. data this year (2022) showed that South Korea's all-time covid-19 deaths total began to climb in January at a rate never seen before: The total had quadrupled in under five months from below 6000 to more than 24,000 by June. It happened because the test-based containment system was no longer being maintained once vaccination targets had been reached by the end of 2021. (We turned our system off on 12/03/2020.) In other words, the benefit of mass vaccination is steady but slow. (South Korea's containment system saved its society while it waited for vaccine.)

Something else which nobody's going to make obvious: SAGE has become a WHO subunit this year. British scientists now employed inside a WHO framework might have their emails snooped: Beijing will see our 'confidential SAGE advice' before No. 10 does. 

Everybody in the UK should watch: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs.) .... Links to refs. have been gathered here: 

Remember 12 March 2020 when two things were said and nobody realized how important it was because the men spoke quickly and it all seemed 'scientific': 1. Boris: "Loved ones are going to die before their time", 2. Chris Whitty: "The contain phase .... finishes from today."

Eleven days later we began doing "something simple", i.e. staying at home and waiting for vaccine. We weren't locked down until 21 March because the WHO had (finally) declared a pandemic on 11 March. - Some distance was desired between that event and Boris' knee-jerk reaction to it.

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  G d please get off the internet for your own health

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  M B You have the titles but have enjoyed furlough, therefore certain facts are bad for your health? "John's Hopkins Univ. data this year showed that South Korea's all-time covid-19 deaths total began to climb in January at a rate never seen before: The total had quadrupled in under five months from below 6000 to more than 24,000 by June. It happened because the test-based containment system was no longer being maintained once vaccination targets had been reached by the end of 2021. (We turned our system off on 12/03/2020.)"

Sunak says the scientists had too much power in 2020.

Nobody forced Rishi to weaken the economy with mind-blowing lockdown expense. (£210-billion by the first September. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/sep/08/uks-public-spending-watchdog-estimates-210bn-coronavirus-bill)
Former Health boss Hunt wouldn't have stopped Korean-style test and trace: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs.) - Most UK scientists had no idea what the No.10 team was up to and that's how Hancock got it shut down.
Remember 12 March 2020 when two men stood side-by-side and there were two main messages, but nobody quite grasped that our system for slowing the spread of the virus was being shut down. (It was just the pretence of a 'Test and Trace' system that was still maintained for many months.): 1. Boris, "Loved ones are going to die before their time", 2. Chris Whitty, "The contain phase .... finishes from today." (This was said quickly and embellished with technical verbiage which didn't make a lot of sense: "As we have always said from the beginning, there were four phases to this operation: contain, delay, research, mitigate, and the contain finishes from today.")
Eleven days later we began doing "something simple", i.e. staying at home and waiting for vaccine. We weren't locked down until 23 March because the WHO had (finally) declared a pandemic on 11 March. - Some delay was desired between them saying that and Boris 'making his big decisions'.

At least he's made it clear that gagging was common: The big gag was the one that forced MPs to boycott any TV but the BBC, so that there could be tight control of what the people saw/heard on TV. (South Korea would never be discussed in any detail.) 

Lord sugar says jail Boris and Gove for Brexit bus lies.

Other lies: Getting NERVTAG to say that thermal screening doesn't work at airports. 2. getting Chris Whitty to say that "contain" was always meant to be just the first phase of a four-phase operation, when he ended it on 12/03/2020. 3. Saying that a shield was going to be put around the elderly in care homes. The rest was a series of false impressions crafted with gag orders and references to what the WHO was saying, also the dolling out of lucrative honours to people like Van-Tam. . bit_ly/conwho (put dot in place of _)

>> Jeremy Hunt said this on 4 July this year and then suddenly found himself out of the PM contest: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 esp. after the first 50 secs.

See how Gove wormed his way out of explaining the 'boycott' of all Channels but the BBC during the big lockdown of 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4 The boycott was part of a gagging system - protected MPs from facing curiosity over the way the S. Korean pandemic response was being thoroughly ignored once our similar test-and-trace system had been shut down surreptitiously on March 12. bit_ly/conwho (put dot in place of _)

Bill Gates and Samsung work together.

Bill Gates is now working with a top South Korean company (ranked equal to Apple by many) but is also one of the people who ignored what South Korea did with a respiratory coronavirus in 2015 (and again in 2020.) He was traveling and lecturing about a global lack of readiness for epidemics in 2015 and that seemed to make him too busy to notice how South Korea mastered its MERS problem. We could excuse him that time because the WHO seemed careful in all reports to avoid acknowledging that the Koreans developed testing and tracing or that it achieved anything worth mentioning.

It's tragic that Gates became consumed with rescuing the WHO from Trump's simplistic reaction to its duplicities in 2020 because, once again, he didn't pay attention to what South Korea was doing, this time to contain SARS-CoV-2. However, it's become more than tragic since then because Gates seems to have aligned himself totally with WHO behaviour which still never includes praise for South Korea and never recommended that any country try the Korean pandemic response method. (WHO never advised anybody about tracing and only said, "Test, test, test" on 16 March 2020.)

Boris has more ideas for the people to try.

  Top-level advice from SAGE was kept private in 2020 so that Boris could easily persuade us to follow his "simple" pandemic plan instead: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs..) Hunt soon got pushed out of the PM contest after he revealed this on 4 July this year. He's not been on TV since then.

  By 14/12/2020, South Korean covid casualties totalled 587.

By 18/12/2020, British casualties totalled 70,752. - We'd begun by copying the Koreans but then were switched to lockdown with furlough. The care homes were left to cope with a few advisories and no PPE. 

p.s. Remember how the Pound devalued the day we had that surprise Brexit referendum and there was that man on TV beaming with joy because he'd profited instantly? - devaluation makes our goods more 'competitive' (Tory fave word) because their price drops to an outsider.

BBC question of May 2020: "How scared should be be?"

What a question. It reveals that we'd had no contact with South Korea, that part of the free-world lying so close to Wuhan. Now we are £trillions down with many High Street shops gone (pubs next.) Government was not keen to take tips from Koreans, by March was still not aware of what they had been doing. It's the fault of the WHO that nobody realized how deadly MERS-CoV had been, with a CFR of 37% (it was 2% for covid-19) or that the Koreans had created a new way to slow its spread in 2015. The WHO also didn't pass on Taiwanese observer information about Wuhan's hospitals overflowing in January 2020: Tedros Ghebreyesus preferred to keep saying that travel restrictions had no evidential justification ("there's no sign of H2H transmission") and that such restrictions 'would isolate China economically' (heaven forbid.) Two years down: Should we fear the way the government wasted time and opportunity? Top-level advice from SAGE was kept private in 2020 so that Boris Johnson could assert a "simple" pandemic plan instead: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs..) Hunt disappeared from the 2022 PM contest after he revealed this on 4 July. He's not been seen on TV since then. By 14/12/2020, South Korean covid casualties had reached 587. By 18/12/2020, British casualties had reached 70,752. - We'd begun by copying the Koreans in a rudimental way but then were switched headlong to lockdown with furlough on March 23. The care homes were left to cope with a few advisories and no PPE. p.s. Remember how the Pound devalued the day we had that surprise Brexit referendum and there was that man on TV beaming with joy because he'd profited instantly? - devaluation makes our goods more 'competitive' (Tory fave word) because their price drops to an outsider.

Jeremy Hunt made a lot of sense on 4 July: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.) Boris kept the science hidden which told him how to avoid lockdown by copying S. Korea. He didn't care much about avoiding lockdown, he just wanted things to be "simple" (his own choice of words on 12 March.) Best of all, he was telling us what to do and nobody could defy him.

It's September 2022 and Bill Gates can finally rest from his pandemic work: Wired. He chucked $750-million at the WHO recently but still never mentions what South Korea achieved, health-wise, in 2020 (as before in 2015.) With all the money the WHO has received these last two years, the world is still assuming it to be a health sentinel and is only vaguely aware of the accurate method that saved Korean lives and protected their economy through the pandemic. (Did Gates also persuade Boris Johnson to put WHO financial needs ahead of domestic ones? - He has shown influence on Johnson's spending of taxpayer money : see 

09/09/2022

There is no go for a windfall tax on the collusive energy companies who timed their price hikes to make it seem Putin had caused them. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001bv5w/panorama-the-energy-crisis-whos-cashing-in) Truss says we must fix, "growth" in our minds and the only way to get it is by luring more of these shareholder-feeding giants to the UK. She is also giving us a new start by 'wiping the slate clean', i.e. helping us forget that Boris Johnson began killing small UK businesses (and some larger but vulnerable ones) with his decision to lock down in 2020. Jeremy Hunt recently revealed that Johnson was advised to rather copy South Korea but instead made himself chief of a "simple" system which stopped commerce in its tracks for months on end (except for the few lucky big names.) The taxpayer money given away (e.g. more than a billion USD to the WHO) must be historic. https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs..) Hunt lost his place in the PM contest after he revealed the above in July this year. It's interesting that Sunak was eliminated after he revealed that gagging techniques were used to stop anyone from suggesting that lockdown was problematic: 'In his Spectator interview, he said the negative impacts of lockdowns on society were "never part" of internal discussions, adding meetings were "literally me around that table, just fighting".' - 'Mr Sunak also said ministers were not given enough information to scrutinise analysis produced by official scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and internal opposition to certain measures from advisers was not reflected in official minutes of meetings."' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62664537?fbclid=IwAR2TV5axNR7r6gh6gLAiRePLBgELca834C9h_cluDajibR2JypuJ8H82LW0 (The proof of and purpose for media boycotts by MPs was discussed

What scientists have learned from covid lockdowns

SAGE advice would have kept us safe from lockdowns if British scientists in general could have seen the advice. That's what former Health Secretary Hunt said a few months ago: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (after 50 secs..) The PM's desire for a "simple" plan deprived us of the accurate system which saved South Korean lives more effectively and kept economic damage to a minimum.

This Nature paper only has one sentence which suggests that the study might have looked at South Korea's remarkable success with containment through testing and tracing: "A study11 of government responses in Asia also suggested that a ‘go hard, go fast’ approach was best." As such, it follows the WHO pattern which has always excluded Taiwan and South Korea (as a close friend of Taiwan) from the picture in spite of the many reports by Americans that showed them to be the first and most effective respondents outside China. British report is at: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus/

Reversal of Johnson's plan to outlaw 'meal deals' and keep chocolate 'hidden from children' in shops might upset health campaigners.

Some talk as if we're no longer suffering economic damage from Johnson's decision to lock down and pay 80% of tens of millions of people's salaries for more than half a year. Now, instead, we hear that Johnson and his men wanted to fight obesity by banning meal-deals and keeping chocolates out of sight. ('Seen many fat people in the London queues?) Two and a half years ago, an emergency group called SAGE told No. 10 what the best response to SARS-CoV-2 would be. In July this year, Jeremy Hunt took 50 seconds to make it clear that the SAGE advice was kept out of sight and we were put into lockdown instead. https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (i.e. the second 50 secs.) The WHO became the 'authority' to quote, regardless of the fact that it had made its statements in ways that let China do a cover-up. (WHO avoided contradicting the pretence that there was "no evidence of human-to-human transmission", said the same thing in an indirect way: "Travel bans are not evidence-based" - Ghebreyesus kept saying this for quite some time, even after China gave up the hoax.) It's been revealed that Sunak had issues with the locking down of the UK: 'he said the negative impacts of lockdowns on society were "never part" of internal discussions, adding meetings were "literally me around that table, just fighting"...... Mr Sunak also said ministers were not given enough information to scrutinise analysis produced by official scientific advisers on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), and internal opposition to certain measures from advisers was not reflected in official minutes of meetings."' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62664537?fbclid=IwAR2TV5axNR7r6gh6gLAiRePLBgELca834C9h_cluDajibR2JypuJ8H82LW0 There's little doubt that PPE was in short supply in the first quarter of 2020. The shortage made lockdown unavoidable (Whitty ended "the contain phase" on March 12 because Korean-style testing and tracing could not be done by people with no facemasks.) It was Cummings who said that there was no PPE at that time and Hancock denied it vehemently but, in the rush to catch up on things, Johnson was soon said to be, "spraying money" at contractors for PPE. (More than £8-biilion's worth is said to have been discarded as substandard.)

Kent brewery hailed as Brexit ‘export champion’ has one EU customer left

>> So the UK went from a market of 27 countries to a free trade agreement with us here in Oz and with the UK economy 5.2%, or £31 billion, smaller than it would have been had the UK stayed in the EU. Brilliant! 

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• >> It got worse because there was a 2-month drag before Johnson took the coronavirus seriously. He caught it in a hospital, passed it around by "shaking hands with everybody" and ignored SAGE advise to get busy using the Korean strategy. Lockdown was a nice "simple" way that appealed to him and there were no PPE stockpiles, so lockdown it was. He was right about one thing. People eagerly obeyed him and ran home to live on furlough, they still keep quiet and will keep voting Tory. https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (i.e. the second 50 secs.) .... The initial SAGE advice was kept out of sight and we were put into lockdown instead. The WHO became the 'authority' to quote, regardless of the fact that it had made statements which served to facilitate China's cover-up (avoided contradiction of CCP pretence that there was "no evidence of human-to-human" spread, said the same thing indirectly: "travel bans are not evidence-based".) 

  
  

  >> ...... “If the economy is 5% smaller than it would otherwise have been then we are all 5% poorer. It also means that taxes have to rise to fund the same quality of public services that we had before,” says Springford. I don't think Boris going around shaking hands had much to do with it.
• >> 'was merely adding that lockdown could have been avoided if we'd had a better PM. A lot of us do prefer not having a border that's wide open to anybody. I think it boils down to that. Lockdown delivered us a serious blow. There was little readiness to 'look to South Korea' because the WHO had successfully blind-sided its member countries regarding South Korean progress since 2015. Either way, our PM was mad to ignore SAGE, it's that simple. (Cost of lockdown crossed into the trillions zone, not "billions" as you suggest.) Maybe you also got furlough?

Average Polish family soon to be better off than Brits.

Am not saying that covid caused our inequalities (although it wasn't the well-off that had to keep working during lockdown, was it? - hourly-paid didn't get a farthing of furlough.) What seems obvious to me is that the enormous blunder of ignoring the disease for more than two months meant that we had a minimum of facemasks in March 2020 and that's what prevented Johnson from following SAGE advise to copy South Korea. As a result, we are trillions worse off now.

>>> There may be truth in the buddy-buddy allegations but the main point is that a great opportunity to avoid the cost of lockdown was lost because Johnson kept skipping COBR meetings and shunned direct advice from our top 'emergency' scientists.. OK, maybe their advice couldn't be followed easily due to a shortage of PPE but that's his/Hancock's fault. It's so obvious in video that he was not being careful. On 3rd March, he caught covid in a hospital and spread it around by "shaking hands with everybody, you'll be glad to know". 

Michael J. Ryan's protests were secretly videoed in January 2020 when the WHO was delaying and watering-down its warnings. (This was shown in a BBC documentary at the end of the year.) Maria van Kerkhove persuaded him that there was "diplomacy" to be observed. 

Johnson got holidays after subjecting the UK to half-a-trillion in pandemic expenditure. He had been advised by our top emergency scientists to avoid lockdown by copying the South Koreans (who had expanded a method which worked against MERS-CoV in 2015.) https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.) OK, there wasn't enough PPE in England to shield a test-and-trace team which would grow bigger until spread of the disease stopped increasing but whose fault is that? Johnson skipped all of the first COBR meetings and it's obvious in video that he was not careful: On 3rd March 2020, he caught covid-19 in a hospital and spread it around by "shaking hands with everybody, you'll be glad to know". Remember Biden did warn us about a "clone of Trump", but Trump didn't have such a grip on the political system. 

Baroness Fox (on BBC Question Time) said that lockdown hurt people and killed a friend. Rishi Sunak seemed to lose his PM chances after he revealed that he'd tried in vain to get some sense about negative aspects of lockdown. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-62664537?fbclid=IwAR2RSXp5vTGv6qLjsl8Eqs_eZEh8y-a5tU6JAD94uNxTqA4G7x5cDJM58js
Jeremy Hunt didn't mention the PPE shortage of January 2020 when he said that most scientists in the UK would have backed continuation of the test-and-trace system, rather than lockdown: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.) How could we "copy South Korea" without PPE? (or could we have made our own facemasks at home? some people did.)
The lockdown began on 23 March and we hadn't been told much about South Korea's alternative approach (it wasn't spoken about on BBC TV while the MPs co-opted it for giving their pandemic guidance.) It's not surprising that we didn't notice an important development there eight months ago.
By the end of 2021, S. Korea had more than 86% vaccinated (many to booster level) but suddenly there was a spike in deaths early this year. Reason? The Koreans had stopped running their test-based containment system, officially turned it off early in February.
Faced with the startling new deaths rate, they turned on the containment system again and waived vaccination pass rules to make sure anybody could be tested in centres: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/skorea-rolls-back-covid-19-vaccine-pass-infections-burden-testing-centres-2022-02-28/. But this spread of Omicron was fast and the all-time deaths total rose four-fold (from below 6000 in January to above 24,000 on 24/05/2022.) Moral of the story: test-based containment keeps deaths down while the power of covid vaccination is less predictable. 

Rees-Mogg has ties with Canadian pipeline giants and Palm oil deforestation.

His confidence in Canadian pipeline oil and deforestation palm oil giants gave Tories the mindset that a £400-billion lockdown was a sensible alternative to Korea's lockdown-free test-and-trace. We might have had enough facemasks to "copy South Korea" (https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527) if Johnson hadn't shut THRCC down in 2019. 

The current crisis was brought on by Johnson's lockdown, on which he spent £400-billion.
We had no facemasks in 2020 because he'd scrapped THRCC to 'save money' for Brexit.
Without facemasks, Johnson couldn't obey SAGE advice to get busy and copy South Korea at the start. Here's the testimony to that: https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.)
He couldn't have people doing test-and-trace if they had no facemasks to protect themselves. (Don't forget how many bus drivers got infected.) 

2022 in South Korea has seen a sudden and dramatic increase in covid deaths, quadrupling their pandemic total in under 5 months. (Other governments aren't looking at the Johns Hopkins data because it shows that test-and-trace was by far the best system before the Koreans abandoned it.)
At the end of 2021, the Koreans had vaccinated 86% of the population, many to booster level, and their deaths total was still below 6000. Their famous test-and-trace system was no longer being run because, 'vaccination was shielding them now'.
But they were still keen on surveillance and soon noticed a worrying increase in deaths this year. The increase was exponential and, by 24th May, they'd lost another 18,000 people. (They'd turned their original containment system back on late in February but the spread of Omicron was fast.) See graph and get links at bit.ly/conwho. They learned that the defensive power of vaccination can be slow and unpredictable.
covid deaths in the UK did not climb dramatically this year but we did lose more than 250 daily in the middle of January (which was what the Koreans would lose in 5 to 6 months in 2020.) "Swings and roundabouts" might spring to mind but let's not forget that our total is well above 200,000 now and our lockdown method involved government expenditure estimated at £400-billion.
The Koreans had focussed early on shielding their economy because minor lockdowns had hurt it in 2015 with MERS-CoV. Nobody's yet mentioned what our losses have been in terms of damage to businesses.

Liz Truss gets non-stop criticism.

Middle-class theorists decry her £50-billion spend on the Bank and pensions after keeping silent about Johnson's £400-billion lockdown. They liked the furlough he gave them. SAGE had advised to copy South Korea with its lockdown-free system. Hancock ignored how well Koreans "saved lives" (death toll reached 600 by December 2020 vs. our 71,000.) 

Why are nurses still quitting the NHS? (see Devon Live) They see now that Johnson ignored SAGE when it suggested copy South Korea. They saw the comfy middle class chilling on furlough while his 'system' amplified their burden by scrapping virus containment when it was most needed. Jeremy Hunt made it perfectly clear why the slack response followed by a lockdown generated a taxpayer bill of £400-billion (https://www.facebook.com/MirrorPolitics/videos/1392415111237527, esp. the second 50 secs.) 

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  Giving £37 billion to Dido Harding for a system that never worked and was much more expensive than the European system didn't help and still nobody knows how she spent that much money.
• This video somehow didn't get much attention: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=167983237965733. It makes it obvious why we didn't immediately chase down the virus as the South Koreans did (as recommended to No.10 by SAGE): How do you send a team of test-and-trace people out there with no PPE? What's shocking is that Chris Whitty concealed the expired PPE situation when he announced that "contain" was "finishing" on 12 March 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAE8-e5_EKY. He pretended that "contain" was, "from the beginning", meant to be just the first "phase" of a four-phase plan: "contain, delay, research, mitigate" (how odd that was, never explained.) When he said that there'd be no more testing except at hospitals, that made it clear to anyone who was paying close attention. Later, Whitty was knighted because Johnson recommended it. Why give a knighthood to a man who made it certain we would be locking down the national workforce for months on end and be losing a lot more people than South Korea did? The two men who detained him as a prank were sent to prison: https://www.cps.gov.uk/london-south/news/man-sentenced-assaulting-professor-chris-whitty

Much loss followed from Johnson's scrapping THRCC in 2019 so that there would be no distractions from doing Brexit. Jeremy Hunt then revealed that 200 million pieces of PPE were past their 'use by' date in 2020. That made it easy to spurn the SAGE idea of launching a Korea-style test-and-trace team (its operatives would need PPE.) The Party went into cover-up mode instead and told us to lock down ("loved ones are going to die before their time".) Then, it spent more time hiding South Korea's success story than it did worrying about our health and economy.

Sacked MP to be knighted.

Conor Burns remains a candidate for knighthood.

Prof. Jonathan Van-Tam got a knighthood simply for saying, "Don't panic. Leave that to us". (Somehow, he missed that the WHO had fed us a CCP story in January 2020 and didn't mind that we then gave it even more money.) His 'tent analogy' on TV lied that we'd become vulnerable if we gave any surplus vaccine to poor countries.

Chris Witty was knighted for saying on 12 March 2020: "First of all, we are clearly now stopping the contain phase of this operation, that we've always said from the beginning, there were four stages to this: contain, delay, research, mitigate, and the contain finishes from today." - compare with Jeremy Hunt's revelation that PPE stockpiles at the time were past their expiry date and that SAGE had strongly advised to "copy South Korea".

Today with Laura Kuenssberg, Nadhim was quibbling about "40 million Pounds" for a covid information matter but more than that was thrown at the WHO in April 2020 immediately after the exposure of its collusion with the CCP to deprive countries of true intelligence for as long as possible.

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Chris Witty isn’t a politician and we all know that advisors are just a show pony for politicians and their evidence and opinions are invalidated. He seemed traumatised throughout imo

I have nothing positive to say about tory politicians but he is not one

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Devi Sridhar was also very obviously keeping mum about S. Korea every time she appeared on BBC Breakfast, even accused SK of being brutal while neglecting to say China had hurt anybody. Sometimes the scientists were steered by the MPs but that's no excuse, is it?

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it’s a separate conversation I feel - and scientists don’t share the same privilege or position of power nor do i believe that they are an exploitative force equivalent to politicians

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I added Whitty simply to show the quality of Johnson's many recommendations.

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I don’t feel it’s fair on Chris witty - he was a very useful diversion strategy for the government I think. The public loved to laugh at him while they applauded the Tories

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Make no mistake, he made a good sum of money from it all. Sridhar earns big and therefore was careful to make her prattle conform to the limits set by Johnson and Hancock.

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I’m sure he did and exploitation often involves an exchange. I don’t know the man, i don’t have hard evidence, I have no reason other than instinct - but I have always felt protective over him as a scientist and felt it necessary to distance him from a “politician’s identity” - the media abused him and perpetuated a society attack on him and it felt like it served the politicians

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After all, he only shut down the system which might have kept us out of lockdown (which sucked £400-billion out of the public pocket 🙂

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are you saying Chris whitty shut down a system? I don’t think he is that powerful

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I just remembered there was also that NERVTAG scientist who made sure we got no thermal screening at the Eurotunnel and also none at the airports (to be consistent.) But he already had a knighthood so they've found some other way to remunerate him, no doubt. There never was a day when a covid case didn't cross our border as a result.

24 hour ambulance queues continue month after month in 2022

Straight after reading today (10/10/2022) of 24 hour queues at Derriford hospital in Plymouth, here's this video: https://www.facebook.com/jessica.mcmahon1/videos/1117113855847646 As a former NHS man says, "it's not all caused by covid, it's also under-staffing" but the under-staffing can be understood by looking more closely at decisions made in 2020 an 2021. The new 'norm' for ambulances has been minimally reported for quite some time now. Daily deaths to covid were not well reduced by vaccination in 2020 but test-based containment in non-communist Aian countries nailed it on the head. Test-based containment was stopped by Chris Whitty on 12 March 2020 and it was never restored in a way that made it powerful like the S. Korean system.

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2022/10/113_337682.html?utm_source=fa&fbclid=IwAR3B6LaDcU32Kb5N4sL8tZBmFJA36OgQ1zIMeznZkaCapk-DDc3tS60pMSE
Rather than just assuming that food-banks will 'take care of things' for them, their government cleverly keeps the retailer inside the loop (as it did in its world-leading pandemic response.)
Johnson blew £400-billion on lockdown instead of heeding SAGE and "copying S. Korea". Here's the testimony to that: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (in the second 50 secs.) 

The mastermind of our lockdown wasn't prudent and didn't care whether we understand viruses or not. £400-billion was blown by ignoring SAGE advice to copy S. Korea: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.) 

Jonson's speech in the USA? "Democratic Koreans had worked out in 2015 how to handle a respiratory coronavirus which was easily spread if an infected person interacted closely with another person. (The WHO insisted repeatedly that MERS was "not easily transmitted between people", still hasn't admitted that it hit people so hard that they stayed at home and didn't interact much, 37% died.) SAGE somehow became aware of the Korean know-how and told No. 10 to adopt it quick, but he kept the advice hidden.**
Koreans were also focussed on keeping interruption of trade and commerce to a minimum and it's almost too good to be true that their system was the best at slowing covid-19 down while making it possible to avoid lockdowns" <<< No, Johnson's drivel won't be anything like that. He probably dumbed them down with a loud mix of emotional clap-trap and details of all the support he threw at the WHO (in spite of Trump's action in that regard.)
**Here's the testimony: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (in the second 50 secs.)

It's said that Hunt began trimming the NHS of adequate PPE while he was HS. He was the one who later said that the national PPE stockpile had become expired by the time the virus arrived (first cases found on 29/01/2020): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=167983237965733 Shouldn't there have been a system for quickly activating PPE production rather than storing "200 million pieces" past their 'use by' date? 

In July this year, Hunt revealed that "government" had ignored confidential SAGE advice that the Korean way was best for slowing the virus down and keeping shops open: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (second 50 secs.) 

Johnson kept the advise hidden. He realized that 'furlough' would have mass appeal because people would enjoy some paid time at home. His way was "simple": Stop test-and-trace and lock things down, even if that did cause a big spend (estimated at £400-billion):  (Essential workers got no furlough. Some got some claps)

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Plandemic of Event201 many are ignorant of.

Only alleged respiratory pandemic that could make other respiratory illnesses disappear, and still the penny doesn't drop with many.

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• Gerry      Seems at first glance to fit well with the WHO's habit of making animals seem potentially a frequent source of disease 'by evolution' (an idea which appeals to CCP 'intellectuals'.) You wonder how many people lost pets in China because of CCP 'suspicions'. There was no scientific basis for the Denmark mink culls - it was initiated by the same type of scare-mongering coming from people who are given good money on the assumption that they are scientific. OK, now I just saw that the Gates are heavily involved - see the blog under 'Much of the WHO's extra funding came from the UK.'

Re: Hong Kong demonstrator dragged into Chinese embassy and beaten.

Would we be doing business with any other country that behaves like this?

Don't forget that Mr Johnson's decision to ignore what SAGE had told him ended up costing the UK about £400-billion to run a lockdown instead. ~ Link to blog is pinned at Gerry Lloyd
He gave close to a billion Pounds to the WHO during the pandemic and Bill Gates got money out of him too: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-and-bill-gates-launch-400m-partnership-to-boost-green-investment
Gates had set the stage on which the WHO let countries down with its slow and unhelpful reporting of Wuhan's health crisis. He and Melinda Gates had funded 'Event 201' in 2019 which had a preoccupation with 'zoonosis', and that seemed to encourage the WHO to publish what the CCP advised: "There's no evidence of human-to-human transmission", in other words, that the handling of animals was how people caught covid-19 (https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152.)
It was plainly obvious to southern Asian visitors in Wuhan that hospitals were overrun with contagious pneumonia cases, but it was another two months before the WHO declared a pandemic (on March 11.) The CCP's general message was: "Be calm. They're only catching it from animals". It was a distortion of the Event 201 emphasis that animals might become a frequent source of deadly diseases: 'Animal-borne viruses are constantly evolving into human-killers!'
The CCP simplified what the academics were saying into, 'Animals are the source of sickness' and the WHO conveyed this idea successfully to countries like Denmark.
Another CCP take-home was, 'If there's no evidence of human-to-human spread then there's no evidence that travel restrictions will achieve anything' and Tedros Ghebreyesus kept saying the same thing.
It wasn't long before millions of mink were slaughtered almost as though a very similar virus could have evolved at the same time in Denmark too. The CCP began an extermination of people's small pets.
p.s. Also see https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10226152053575583&set=pb.1465860619.-2207520000.&type=3 where Johnson splashed out in a literal sense.

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Our pandemic response was slow and extremely expensive. We had no facemasks until April 2020 and that's why they couldn't pursue the expansion of testing and tracing as done in S. Korea, as SAGE had recommended. (Operatives would need PPE, obviously.)

Jeremy Hunt made the above very clear in two short videos but his breezy manner this year suggested little regret: 1. The PPE we had was expired: https://www.facebook.com/Channel4News/videos/167983237965733/ 2. SAGE had made it clear that Korean test-and-trace was the best way to go, avoiding lockdown: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (esp. the second 50 secs.)

None of Johnson's detractors were any the wiser at the start of the pandemic. The WHO had worked carefully for some time in a way that prevented us from noticing danger in coronaviruses. In 2020, Tedros Ghebreyesus didn't want China's economy to be hurt by travel restrictions so he was happy to display China's idea that there was 'no h2h transmission'. If we'd fostered relations with S. Korea and Taiwan (which builds nuclear power stations) and been more wise to what the WHO expects of itself, we could have copied SK just as Jeremy Hunt testifies SAGE advised No. 10 to do: (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 see the second 50 secs.) Trouble was, how do you 'copy SK' if you have no PPE for your test-and-trace operatives to wear?

Response to a list of 'covid mistakes' seen on facebook:

bit.ly/conwho covers quite a few things in the list. However, it follows a different 'if, then', e.g. If we had noticed what democratic South Korea had been doing since 2015, then we'd have known what to do ASAP in 2020. (Yes, Tedros Ghebreyesus chanted "Test, test, test" on March 16, 2020 but South Korea had already got a major outbreak under control by then. The WHO excludes democratic Taiwan and ignored its emailed warnings in January.) If our initial SAGE advice had been respected, then we might still have managed to avoid lockdown. (Johnson said in his final PM Questions that Britain's economic "output" reached a decline not seen in 300 years.) It wasn't until this year that Hunt spilled the beans that SAGE had said "copy South Korea": https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 see the second 50 secs.

Sunak in No. 10.

In his final PMQ's, Mr Johnson said that Britain's "output" was lower during lockdown than it had ever been in the last 300 years.
Also in July this year, Jeremy Hunt revealed that SAGE had made it clear to the Downing Street team that South Korea had the answer and it would keep us out of lockdown. (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 see the second 50 secs.)
Johnson laughed at test-and-trace from the start, called it "legions of imaginary Clouseaus".

Wuhan locked down again:

Xi-Jinping flexing muscle any way he can?

He had the former President Hu Jintao publicly removed from assembly the other day.

"27 cities", "207.7 million citizens" are enduring the madness which is a way of saying, "Forget about South Korea."? 

27/10/2022, Sunak skips latest climate summit.

The head of the UN was quoted today as having "faith in the British people" regarding climate change. 

His WHO got a bonus from us in 2020 and more than £500 million extra for its COVAX project. 

Johnson didn't mind that the WHO's pandemic commentary had been circumspect, watered down and delayed so that China might not suffer immediate travel restrictions if countries knew the truth. He didn't fancy getting busy and following his SAGE advice anyway, preferred to satirise the test-and-trace method and do "something simple" instead when it became impossible to ignore British scientists any longer. A contented WHO would then be quoted often as source of "the science" that he was "following".

Johnson said at his final PMQs in July that Britain's productive "output" was at its lowest since 1722 because of lockdown (or was his "in 300 years" also a guess?) Sunak had blown £400-billion to fund the workplace abandonment. Also in July this year, Jeremy Hunt had revealed that top advice (from SAGE) to copy S. Korea had been shrugged off (probably with ridicule) at No.10 - see the short video, esp. the second 50 secs: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

Sunak blew £400-billion because Johnson locked the country down. Top advice (from SAGE) to copy S. Korea had been fobbed off: Omniscient Johnson said at his final PMQs that Britain's "output" was at its lowest since 1722. (Or was, "300 years" also a guess?

There was a nonstop supply of bubbly because "furlough!" was the magic button: The tired millions who suddenly received money-for-nothing weren't likely to query Johnson's choosing a lockdown over South Korea's test-and-trace containment, even if they became aware of the latter. The Korean economy-shielding system wouldn't have sent them any money, either. With furlough keeping people happy and the BBC never giving news of S. Korea's success, Downing Street could just chill and wait for vaccine mainly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTP2RUD_cL0

Guardian: With that sort of income, it's no surprise that he didn't bother attending 'Asian flu' meetings in January and February 2020 or working overtime to get a proper test-and-trace containment running as suggested by SAGE. We could just pay off the debt that a lockdown would bring us. Not his fault that our warehouses were full of expired PPE. He was jolly well getting his place in history as Britain's liberator from European affluence.  (p.s. the PM salary is £161,401 PA)

Re: Hancock saying sorry in 'I'm a celebrity...': 

Disease is a part of the natural order. When we heard about "the coronavirus disease", it wasn't natural to send everyone home but something persuaded Hancock and Johnson to do just that. (Was the power of TV something they felt compelled to explore?) Our emergency scientists had advised to "copy South Korea" but that didn't happen - see Hunt's two-minute testimony: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527.

Why'd Hancock and Johnson reject SAGE, go against nature and spend £400-billion on a lockdown which later caused Johnson to say that the country's "output" had dropped lower than at any time "in the last 300 years"? Tell us, Matt, please do!

p.s. covid-19 was showing a case fatality rate of about 2% while that of SARS was 37% in 2015. - The more sickening the coronavirus, the more its victims stayed at home, not spreading it. But who spooked Johnson into translating a 2% CFR into a shutdown of so many systems and companies? Was it the WHO? Other countries who locked down were those who also thought that the CCP-blown WHO cared about them. SAGE was the trustworthy crew but Johnson sent the WHO a £55-million bonus as soon as he could, with much more to follow. @ has the blog's link.

The WHO told its member countries nothing before 2020 about the preparations being made by South Korea for tackling respiratory coronavirus outbreaks. We had an advantage over many of those countries because British SAGE scientists were up to date on things regardless of what the WHO said or didn't say. SAGE advised government to save lives and the economy by 'copying S. Korea': facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527. However, Johnson and Hancock chose to wait and see if there really was a threat to public health: After all, the WHO had tweeted that there was "no evidence of H2H transmission" and Tedros Ghebreyesus was backing that by often saying that any decisions to restrict travel would not be "evidence-based" decisions. The nipping-it-in-the-bud moment went by and big spending ensued because the UK's PPE in storage had expired: facebook.com/watch/?v=167983237965733. No-one could know what the UK lockdown might do to the economy long-term. The WHO got a British bonus in April 2020 with much more to follow. The average Brit gives the WHO four times more than the average American does every two years. Blog link is at @

By the end of 2021, S Korea had lost 6000 people while our total was 205,000. (We have fewer people per sq. mile.) It was only this year that @JeremyHunt said we might have responded in a far superior way to the pandemic (see the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527)  Confidential SAGE advice had told Hancock and his boss to copy the South Koreans but the Downing Street duo avoided meetings and played things down until the only option was lockdown (There was a PPE stockpile but it was mostly expired. @) A priority in April 2020 was to send money to the WHO (which had kept quiet about SK) while care homes had no money for PPE: As tax payers, we still forfeit four times as much as the average American does to keep the WHO comfy in Geneva.

Matt and Boris ignored the advice that SAGE sent them in 2020 and then sent a £55-million bonus to the WHO. The British tax-payer forfeits four-times more than the average American does to keep Ghebreyesus comfy in Geneva. See how the WHO, by always ignoring S. Korea to keep the CCP happy, led us to being years behind on containment of coronavirus:

"Jeremy Hunt says Johnson’s £840-a-roll wallpaper is already peeling off"

BJ made us do lockdown because he thought it might look bad that there was no PPE in the country (the stockpiles having become expired: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=167983237965733), but also because he'd refused to look at the containment system suggested by SAGE at the start. - That fact was made clear by Hunt in July this year although he seemed little troubled about it. (See the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527)

"Net migration to UK hits record high of 504,000"

And Boris' determination to get Brexit done at the expense of all other pressing issues meant he ignored the pandemic threat for as long as he could, and then made us do an economy-killing lockdown. He'd refused to look at the way S. Korea avoided lockdown with a good containment system: (See the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527)

Matt Hancock gets £400k for being on 'I'm a Celebrity':

Where was Hancock's 'innovative side' in 2020? British scientists in SAGE believed that covid lockdown could be avoided but their advice to the Health Minister was kept hidden and ignored. Next, a £55-million bonus was sent to the WHO and the Downing Street team would say they were, "following the science".  (See J. Hunt in the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527)  We forfeit 4-times more than the average American to keep WHO execs comfy in Geneva. 

Matt Hancock paid £45k for an SAS reality show.

He realized in 2020 that being on TV a lot can be disconnected from what he does behind the scenes. British scientists in SAGE believed that covid lockdown could be avoided but their advice to him was afforded the same respect that the WHO gave to Taiwan's early warning. (See J. Hunt in the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) Next, the WHO received a £55-million bonus and he would soon say he was, "following the science". We forfeit 4-times more than the average American does to keep WHO execs comfy in Geneva.

British SAGE scientists believed that covid lockdown might be avoided with a good containment effort but their formal suggestion was afforded the same respect that the WHO gave to Taiwan's early warning. (See J. Hunt in the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) Next, the WHO received a £55-million bonus from Downing Street who would soon say he was, "following the science". We forfeit 4-times more than the average American does to keep WHO execs comfy in Geneva.

Matt Hancock says he couldn't get anyone to take covid seriously before the second week of March 2020.

It's a pity the grammar is bungled because this is a new revelation: "He (Hancock) said Mr Johnson’s attitude was shared by his chief adviser Dominic Cummings who thought covid was 'a distraction from our official withdrawal from the EU next week. That’s all he wants Boris talking about'." (probably should read: 'That's all I want Boris thinking about.')

Cummings tried to put blame on the others later but here it's said he was happy to keep Boris thinking only about Brexit.

[You can see Hancock had little sway over the big decisions. It's interesting that Jeremey Hunt made it clear in July this year that SAGE advice was kept confidential after it had told Boris to copy South Korea. Boris, obviously, ignored it and lockdown was all he wanted, being nice and "simple". See the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527.]

There's a short video of Jeremy Hunt from July this year in which he says that, yes, we should have copied South Korea and SAGE told Boris to do just that. (See the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527.) However, there is also a 2020 video of Hunt in which he admits that a massive amount of PPE in the UK was past its expired date when we needed it most. 

There are written accounts of a paucity of covid tests and it was some time before Lateral Flow tests would be around, which also makes it hard to imagine us 'copying SK'. Could there still be more to this than Hancock seems now to be revealing?

Boris was a pandemic denialist until March 2020, having no PPE stock and then "simpl"ifying our response into a £400-billion lockdown which left care homes unprotected.

Where's the inquiry into China's covid cover-up done with WHO collaboration? The British taxpayer forfeits 4X more than the average American does toward a fixed WHO contribution (before bonuses.)

Johnson was so preoccupied with Brexit that he shut down our 'THRCC' (Threats, Hazards, Resilience and Contingency Committee) which might have kept us abreast of South Korea's know-how in tackling coronaviruses. He ignored SAGE in February 2020 (see https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) and NERVTAG (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group, formed long before the end of 2019) seems to have had no good effect on early decisions (later backed the decision to have no thermal screening.)

And, craftily, NHS Test and Trace was presented in May 2020 as if it was an equivalent of what South Korea had been doing from the start. It was not tracking contacts down, only alerting people if they'd been in pubs, cafés and restaurants where cases had also been. South Korean test and trace was actively going after possible cases with a view to their confinement if they tested positive.

Behind the scenes, Bill Gates had paved the way for a slow and expensive UK pandemic response by ignoring what S. Korea had developed in 2015. Guess who was buddy-buddy with Bill in 2021 and giving more of our money away for one of his pet projects.

Bill Gates was going from place to place in 2015 and saying that there was a worldwide need to get ready for epidemics. He didn't seem to notice South Korea's response to a deadly respiratory coronavirus inside four hospitals that year. The WHO behaved as he did and never acknowledged that it was the Koreans who first used nucleic acid testing in the pursuit of virus containment. Come 2020, most countries had gained nothing from Gates' long talks because he didn't mention 'test-and-trace'.

In 2015, Bill Gates was 'telling the World' to prepare for future epidemics. He didn't observe that South Korea had made a breakthrough by using nucleic acid testing in the detection of MERS coronavirus infection. Gates, the WHO and Boris Johnson ignored the Koreans again in February 2020 when they were containing SARS-CoV-2 in the same way. (British SAGE scientists had advised Johnson to copy them.)
Gates gave $15-billion to the WHO in 2021 but Johnson was persuaded to throw in some British money for one of his pet green projects: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/prime-minister-and-bill-gates-launch-400m-partnership-to-boost-green-investment

WHO execs in 2020 were saying that travel restrictions would achieve nothing except misery for China's economy. 'The virus wasn't seen to be transmitting human to human,' therefore travel restrictions weren't "evidence-based"!

Early in 2020, confidential SAGE advice was rejected by the omniscient at No. 10. - see the second 50 secs of a video from last July: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527
Yesterday, it was reported we lost 50 shops daily last year (on average) and the trend began with the lockdown. Blame the Ukrainian war too but the rate of shop closures was the same in 2021 and worse in 2020, and can we assume that things were handled well before the war? e.g. Why'd Johnson ignore Trump's warning against reliance on Russian fuel supply? (After all, he was happy to take Trump's opinion on Brexit.) As a world leader, couldn't he have challenged other European countries that were getting so much from Russia?
What about windfall tax on fuel giants? The lockdown showed how unlikely that would be: the big names were the ones who had nothing to fear in 2020.

MP reveals what was problematic in the world's vaccine program:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hb_8T5GQs The "wilful blindness" described by Andrew Bridgen was what made it easy for Johnson to deprive us of a good containment system like the one in South Korea*.

As soon as the Korean's stopped testing and tracing at the end of 2021, they suffered an explosion in omicron cases and their national death toll was multiplied by four within 6 months, in spite of a very diligent vaccination program having given nearly 90% 'protection' to the nation.

N.B. "poacher paying the game keeper", i.e. drug regulators had conflict of interest. Starting at 14:00 in the video: "Members of the JCBI have huge financial links to The Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, running to billions of Pounds". That Foundation is "heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks." - This video suggests a motive for Bill Gates' never mentioning the South Korean virus containment system in his TED talks on epidemics since 2015: Vaccine supply was commercially much more of an opportunity than test-and-trace could provide (so to hell with test and trace.)

Johnson was mixing with Gates in 2020 and together they pulled the WHO back onto its pulpit after Trump had wised up and reacted to its role in helping China do a cover-up. Did they also jointly hatch the scheme that Britain would simply lock down until vaccine was available, regardless of what it did to the economy?

*The 'NHS Test and Trace' which was launched on 28 May 2020 was not one that pursued case contacts to get them tested. It only provided a (very expensive) snooping system that alerted people if they'd been in a public place where a known case had been at the same time. A cheap website run by a teenager in S. Korea achieved that by simply displaying the recent movements of people who'd tested positive. The only difference was people consulted his website rather than receiving text alerts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hb_8T5GQs
Bill Gates saw profit in vaccines and he gave the WHO money after Donald Trump withdrew funding. It was an ideal opportunity and he got Johnson to also help the WHO with money. With the two men focussing on vaccine supply and having the WHO for access to many countries' health systems, it's no wonder that our South Korean-style test and trace system was shelved on 12 March 2020 (the day after the WHO belatedly declared a pandemic.) It's regrettable because S. Korea was very good at slowing the spread of the virus, having fewer than 600 fatalities by mid-December 2020 when we were up past 70,000 lost.

It was the totality of Johnson's lockdown which set us onto a difficult future. Not only by stopping most of the economy in its tracks but also because he eliminated a system that would locate infected people and isolate them. Just compare South Korea's covid death toll by the second half of December 2020 with ours: 600 v. 71,000.  (Why did Johnson act that way? He and Bill Gates couldn't be bothered with an intricate containment system when so much money would change hands by simply focusing on vaccine supply? )

Sunak + Johnson = £400 billion pandemic spend, because they ignored SAGE: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (the second 50 secs.) 

Johnson decided against a test-based containment strategy for the UK before he was asking basic questions at PHE on 1st March. (He'd dodged five COBR meetings by then.) 

Had Bill Gates already encouraged him to go only where the money follows? (i.e. to hell with South Korea's mass testing system, just lock the herd down and wait for vaccine?) Is it just a coincidence that the Gates Foundation "is heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks." 

Tories couldn't avoid a £400 billion lockdown spend because Johnson wouldn't consider the alternative pandemic response which was a containment system as used in S. Korea. SAGE had advised the latter but Johnson 'knew better' in spite of having dodged five COBR meetings by 23 March (lockdown day.) Had he been on the phone to Bill Gates perhaps, who's always on the lookout for guaranteed profits and had ignored S. Korean ingenuity since 2015? - Vaccine supply is much quicker profit than any test-based containment could be and, "the Gates Foundation is heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks."

Will elderly billionaires become immortal?

Gates and others watch trends and figure out shrewd ways to keep the money rolling in, e.g. Gates immediately saw that the pandemic might bring more wealth because his Foundation "is heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks". He didn't sit back, jumped in to save the WHO from financial failure and persuaded Boris Johnson to focus entirely on vaccine delivery, shunning South Korea's clever way of slowing the virus' spread while avoiding lockdowns.

The mRNA type of vaccine was new when one was developed to work against covid-19. If you read the history behind development of the smallpox vaccine, you can forgive people for becoming concerned when young children are jabbed with any new type of vaccine.
A Mint article (https://www.livemint.com/news/world/covid-death-rates-much-higher-in-unvaccinated-former-who-chief-scientist-11672545400876.html) presents science stories that praise the outcomes of vaccination for Covid-19, one of which (from the univ. of Maryland) says: "Unboosted individuals are 18 times more likely to die if COVID+ compared to those who recently received a bivalent (omicron) booster." However, something that happened in South Korea last year (2022) suggests that a global picture might not be clear-cut: The Koreans had vaccinated approximately 90%, many to booster level, so they stopped doing virus containment by testing and tracing. In less than 5 months, their national covid-19 deaths total climbed from below 6000 to above 24,000. It was the test-and-trace routine that was keeping their death count low, not the vaccine.
Bill Gates and Boris Johnson preferred that we'd have no Korean-style containment system in the UK, preferred that all resources would be channelled toward vaccine production while we waited in lockdown. The Gates Foundation is "heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks."

In 2015, Bill Gates was saying that epidemic readiness was lacking worldwide but he didn't observe that S. Korea had a new way to slow the spread of a respiratory coronavirus. He should have mentioned what they'd achieved (not acknowledged by the WHO either) but his nose follows money and there's lots more to be made in vaccine supply?

Top Tories knew that the lockdown path they chose to get through the pandemic would have historic impact on the economy. They also know that the Section 21 system puts renters at risk of a merciless landlord. The best they could come up with was a temporary denial of possession orders? bit.ly/nohold 

Bill Gates saw in 2015 that Korean-style test and trace was not the kind of enterprise that the Gates Foundation would invest in. On the other hand, vaccine supply in 2020 would be big money. Johnson cut 'mass testing' short and put us into lockdown instead while we waited for vaccine. govuk

Money grabbers caused Britain's pandemic response to be less effectual than South Korea's was, for example. 

To people like Bill Gates, 'test-and-trace' was not something to invest in - Mr Johnson derided it as "legions of imaginary (Inspector) Clouseaus" and it was shelved before Whitty could put it to work en masse. Vaccine supply was the big money and lockdown was the way, 'hopefully', to limit the spread of virus while the vaccine labs got busy. (p.s. Rishi Sunak is said to be heavily invested in Moderna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNw3Gd10ZQ8)

We're such a trusting lot. Craftily, 'NHS Test and Trace' was presented as if it was doing what South Koreans had been doing from the start. However, it was not tracking contacts down. All it did was send you a text message if you'd frequented a place that a known case had also been to. (Launched on 28 May 2020, the 'NHS Test and Trace' did not pursue the contacts of known cases to get them tested. All it did was snoop where everybody went and then told you if you'd been in the same place, e.g. a pub, as frequented by a a known case.) We, conveniently, got the impression that everything possible was being done to "track" down and contain the virus. The phone app was praised as, "World beating" by Boris Johnson. (Cost-wise, that might have been true.)

p.s. A home-made website run by a teenager in South Korea achieved the same thing by simply displaying the recent movements of known cases before they'd been tested. The only difference was that the public consulted his website rather than receiving text alerts.

 That time in 2020 when the Danish killed mink by the millions, it was based on the WHO's opinion that SARS-CoV-2 was primarily moving animal-to-human in wet markets (an idea coming from the CCP.) Of course, that was the least likely way to explain all the cases but WHO top dogs wanted to keep up the pretence that travel restrictions weren't "evidence-based", to 'protect China' from becoming, "economically isolated".
It's appalling that nobody's set the record straight and that farmed animals have continued to be slaughtered by the million (e.g. super-massive chicken farms in the US where birds had their air cooling systems turned off even though the avian flu has appeared to kill very few people (and were those people already ill before infection?) https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct36b8

Johnson dodged all the COBR meetings and ignored our emergency scientists in 2020 when they suggested we avoid lockdown by using S. Korea's containment routine. (See the second 50 seconds of https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) Was he glad of the #Partygate outcome because it let him slip away from the chaos?

This Times article is dated Wed 25/01/2023: "Uk weekly death toll at its highest since Covid lockdown."
It's remarkable that, if you Googled, 'UK covid deaths' on 25/01/2023, you got a chart that showed zero covid deaths since 7 January 2023. That's eighteen days with no covid deaths and it's not happened before, according to the chart.
There is something else worth noting: Covid deaths in the UK in 2022 sometimes were extremely numerous if you consider that South Korea lost only 580 people between the beginning of records in January 2020 and 13 December 2020. Last year on 13 April, we had a daily loss of 212 people. In other words, there were times last year when we were losing as many people in a few days as the Koreans lost in the 11 months before they re-opened ports of entry (in December 2020.) High daily deaths in the UK were also seen very frequently in 2022. It's all down to the mass testing and tracing routine that the Koreans followed but which our top MPs have never spoken of. 

Chart which is referred to above (click it for full screen):

Mr Johnson said in 2021 that, as a result of lockdown, Britain's output was the lowest it had been in 300 years. Why had he made no effort to avoid lockdown when another way to reduce infections was already working well in S. Korea? https://msft.it/61805KIL2

Boris was still ignoring this Doctor's message on March 3rd, 2020 by "shaking hands with everybody, you'll be glad to know" in a hospital with covid patients: https://bit.ly/Wenliang 

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There are those in high circles who keep pointing at animals as a source of human disease. The WHO did this in 2020 by implying that there was only animal-to-human transmission of the coronavirus: "no sign of human-to-human transmission". Animals then were slaughtered by the millions, e.g. in Denmark and small pets were culled in China.
Look at the genetics and realize what they were omitting from the picture - A virus very rarely jumps to a different host species and, if one does, it's explained by a one-off mutation event which happens during the replication of just one virus that's inside a host animal/human at the time. In other words, if a human is unlucky enough to be infected by a newly evolved 'zoonotic' virus that's emerging for the first time from one animal host, that host will be THE ONLY animal that's become a source of the mutant virus. No other animals will become sources of the new virus because it has evolved to infect humans, not animals (unless, even more rare, it retains the ability to infect animals and can now infect both).
Furthermore, there is no proof that the original SARS-CoV-2 didn't emerge during the replication of a virus that was 'already' a human-infecting pathogen. (Zoonosis is often mentioned as though its involvement was a certainty.) 

The following story might be something that the WHO also disregards because they'd rather have us believe that the appearance of dangerous mutants is commonplace?: chinas-covid-surge-produced-no-new-variants

The culling of so many animals was spurred on by the WHO's irresponsible reluctance to assert that the spread of SARS-CoV-2 was human-to-human, not animal-to-human: NBC 

There was no indication that animals were a 'bridge' (catching the virus from humans and then passing it back to humans) but even isolated small animals in peoples' homes were culled and the WHO said nothing again (as with the Danish culls.)

Sturgeon resigns and rejects Johnson at the same time.

Her action/inaction in 2020 was just like that of Johnson, causing huge numbers to have no protection in care homes and directing public attention away from places that used a containment system very well.

Lockdown law breakers shouldn't be in office. (Rishi was fined too.)

It didn't worry them when we'd lost 71,000 people by mid-December 2020, a month in which they had seven Downing Street parties. (South Korea's deaths total was still below 600. SAGE had said to copy the SK containment system but Johnson parodied the idea: "legions of imaginary Clouseaus".) 

Vaccine supply was going to be the big-money mover and that was all they were interested in. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

Lockdown kickstarted the CoLC. SAGE was ignored and the COBR meetings skipped: Testing/tracing would be just, "legions of imaginary Clouseaus". Even the Wuhan doctor who'd been gagged by the CCP was ignored: "I shook hands with everybody" on 03/03/2020.

How did a £70bn “hole” become a £30bn “surplus”?

Is it a stunt: creating news to 'put the past behind us', e.g. the £37-bn spend on a sham test and trace system sold as an "NHS" thing on 28 May 2020? Sham because it did no pursuit of disease contacts to get them isolated, all it did was tell people if they'd sat in a pub where a carrier was subsequently known to have sat on the same day. Somewhere near half a trillion Pounds was taken from the public pocket under Sunak while Johnson told him what to do.

Lockdown kickstarted the CoLC. SAGE advice was binned and the COBR meetings skipped: Contact tracing would be just, "legions of imaginary Clouseaus" so he decided we'd have none. Even the Wuhan doctor who'd been gagged by the CCP was a doomsayer: "I shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know" on 03/03/2020.

That 'We didn't know there were asymptomatic cases' excuse has been aired again:

If Hancock and Johnson hadn't ignored their SAGE confidential advice in February, they might have realized that South Korea's very first case appeared healthy when she'd been detected on thermal screening at Incheon Airport. The Koreans decided straight away that anyone with raised body temperature should be tested and they began to do testing faster than any place on Earth. (The reason we began to hear the word 'test' so often was because 'asymptomatic' cases were assumed by the Koreans to be the norm, the only sign of infection often being a thermal one.) But SAGE would have made this clear: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - Hancock and Johnson just didn't want to copy South Korea because its response required strong leadership. Commencing on 23rd March, Johnson's "simple" system, i.e. just lock down and wait for vaccine, even ruled that there'd be no thermal screening at our border ports.

The Independent has an article about Johnson's dodgy arithmetic. Who needs arithmetic when bluster does the job? He didn't seem to register the difference between 587 South Koreans and 74,752 Brits in December 2020, just kept partying. (Factor in that S. Korea has 88% more people per sq. mile and you get 239 dying in the UK for every 1 in S. Korea. ~ Lockdown was the better way?)

Thanks to Oakeshott, Hancock's contempt for many people including police is now made known. Some people lost businesses through what he made the police do to them.

"BBC Chiefs say it’s ‘wrong to expose Boris Johnson’s lies because it undermines trust in democracy’"

Is that, in some way, why the BBC kept a deliberate silence about South Korea's quick and effective virus containment system during lockdown in 2020?

Johnson wants to nominate his Dad for a knighthood.

Boris was still denying the virus danger 3 months after that whistle-blower had died in Wuhan. He put SAGE advice into his bottom drawer, skipped the COBR meetings and then casually let us slip into 9 months of restrictions and lockdowns (and partied in December when we'd lost 74,000 people compared to South Korea's 580.) A small company's petty cash was a lot safer than the public funds were when he was on a spending spree. Shouldn't his Lords nominations be on hold until matters have been resolved?
https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/127/public-accounts-committee/news/150988/unimaginable-cost-of-test-trace-failed-to-deliver-central-promise-of-averting-another-lockdown/?fbclid=IwAR3XCrYe8Led8HpU_OZWRLIYCEbznAPqn9fhWdpS3Lf8vbY-sgMueahgyK0
While the BBC was made to suppress any news of South Korea, the truth unfolded slowly through impartial news articles and a Channel 4 documentary. (The two good BBC documentaries were given no time extension on iPlayer)

BBC showing bias by punishing Gary Lineker

The ruling Party made sure no non-Beeb journalists could get at tory MPs in 2020, by doing an MP boycott of all channels that weren't BBC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4.
BBC Breakfast made sure that no guests chatted about South Korea, which was only mentioned in lists of remote countries, except that time when Devi Sridhar used S. Korea as her example of a country being cruel to its own people (when, in fact, brutal lockdown enforcement stories had come out of Africa and China. S. Korea had avoided big lockdowns.)

"I support this review", but they'll never review the way Hancock and Johnson made the Beeb suppress news of S. Korea's massively superior pandemic response until after lockdown, and then it was screened late when the curiosity had moved to other issues, e.g. partygate. (The two good Beeb documentaries, "Lockdown 1.0" and "54 Days" were given no extra time on iPlayer.) It's almost reminiscent of the way the communists suppressed the Ukraine famine in 1933. They later had that Welsh journalist killed. (Just by coincidence, it was Lineker's comment about 1930's Germany that got him suspended.)

Boris is being questioned, but only about his lies concerning his lockdown parties.
Ask Boris if he read the BBC article about the Wuhan ophthalmologist who was 'rectified' by the CCP for telling other doctors online that a novel pneumonia was making it advisable to wear PPE. If Boris says, "No, but I heard about that", then ask why, a month later, he was "shaking hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know" in a hospital where "there were a few coronavirus patients." The article of 6/2/2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51364382. In effect, the PM did nothing until there was proof that it could kill many Brits too: 

More about Lineker: There is some validity in making comparisons with the 1930s, e.g. The Tory's made the BBC keep us in the dark about South Korea's limitation of COVID deaths in 2020 when our necrology was exponential. We had lost 71,000 people by mid-December vs. 590 in S. Korea. Tories also shielded MPs from probing questions by applying a media boycott on any news provider that wasn't BBC. (Use Ctrl+F for 'boycott' in bit.ly/whofibs) In that film 'Mr Jones', we see that the Communist Party in 1933 was determined to keep Ukraine's famine deaths a secret and they later killed Mr Jones in Afghanistan for having exposed them.

google 'Boris Johnson 2020' and you get: 

1. He scoffed about virus victims for as long as possible: "It will probably go away" and, "shook hands" in a hospital on 3rd March.

2. rejected SAGE's first advice (ref. Jeremy Hunt: facebook com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) and made sure nobody mentioned South Korea (contact tracers were, "legions of imaginary Clouseaus"), 

3. took the route of mass control (just lock 'em down) and held boozy 'thank you' socials when 71,000 had died vs. 590 in S. Korea (which has 88% more people per sq. mile.)

The BBC was Johnson's loudspeaker during the lockdown (all other channels were boycotted) and nobody was given room to talk about South Korea. We'd lost 71,000 by late December before S. Korea had yet to lose 600. Devi Sridhar obeyed the rejection of the Koreans but accused them ludicrously of social oppression in their pandemic response, "we are lucky here in the UK", she said.

The BBC was Johnson's platform. No other channels had access and his MPs never talked about South Korea. We'd lost 70,800 when S. Korea had lost 590. Devi Sridhar kept mum about that too and said S. Korea was brutal: "we are lucky here in the UK". 

Govt scraps Covid updates as cases surge, 2023

The whole system has always been a pale shadow of the things they could do in S. Korea. That's partly because big chaebols like the Samsung people got behind a system called RIGHT (Research Investment for Global Health Technology) in 2018. Bill Gates was involved but then turned his back on the Koreans to develop collaboration with the WHO that would streamline vaccine supply (the Gates Foundation is, "heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks")

The World Health Organisation has learnt from its mistakes during Covid-19. Whether it can make the necessary changes, however, is up to us

Nothing to learn really. Its "mistakes" were conscious ones. It was acting in China's political interest: ignoring those that China doesn't like (esp. Taiwan and S. Korea.) Ghebreyesus preferred to indirectly back China's "no evidence of human to human" message by saying that there obviously was therefore no "evidence" that travel restrictions would help anything - thus helping prevent poor China from becoming "economically isolated".

p.s. It's fairly easy to calculate that we've chucked a £billion at the WHO since January 2020 but that promised investigation of its role in the initial covid cover-up doesn't get mentioned any more. (We've always given the WHO much more per capita than Americans do, until Gates came along, and that's also suspicious.)

New genetic data from the Wuhan wet market appeared to tip the balance slightly in favour of the argument that the virus had a natural, rather than laboratory, origin.

2020: "China is saying that they can't see any human to human spread, therefore go ahead Denmark and kill all those mink. - It obviously comes from animals in Denmark too and the shed workers could not have caught it from each other in the breakroom. It's parallel evolution, not something that gets around on planes, trains etc. p.s. Don't restrict travel! That hurts China and, obviously, is not called for". Blows the mind how well duped people like Biden and Boris were, or were they?
2023: "The genetics now suggests a natural origin, not lab-engineered, therefore we were correct to point the finger in the animals direction, although we have learned from our mistake!"

A new critique of "British Public Broadcasters" which assumes that lockdown was the correct response, only criticizes the timing of its enforcement.

The BBC was Johnson's loudspeaker during the lockdown (other channels were boycotted, including ITV talk shows: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4.) Shielding his MPs from other media journalists helped Johnson conceal his moves and influence what he wanted the public to imagine was happening behind the scenes. It was a way to prevent the public from seeing any discussion of South Korea or the border port situations, especially at the Eurotunnel.
71,000 was our toll in December 2020 when S. Korea had yet to lose 600, but Devi Sridhar (on BBC Breakfast very often) cooperated with the censorship and told no Korean good news (even after she'd been consulted on the Channel 4 documentary: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus.) She ludicrously mentioned S. Korea as a country showing brutality in its pandemic response. "We are lucky here in the UK", she said. (The defiant sect leader she sympathized with was soon found to have been embezzling his followers' money.)

Did Tories elect Truss ahead of Sunak to make it less obvious that their pandemic response had been an all-male opportunity? (£$) Cummings, Van-Tam, Zahawi, Whitty, Vallance(?) ... are missing from the photo. Compare it with South Korea where there were female leaders who came across well in Channel 4's documentary: https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-country-that-beat-the-virus (S. Korea consciously prevented profiteering in its response.)

On 30/12, Li Wenliang warned doctors to wear PPE against a fast-spreading sickness that looked like SARS. It was in England before 29/01 but Johnson was "shaking hands with everybody" on 03/03. He stopped mass testing on 12/03 and sent us all home on 23/03. By 27/04, he was at war with an "unexpected and invisible mugger". Eight months later, he decided to get some booze, 'for the morale of his staff'.

"Being truthful is essential" Yes, but the WHO's preference for describing the coronavirus as 'animal-derived' led to a widespread misunderstanding of how it was getting around, and millions of animals were slaughtered in Denmark and China. Tedros Ghebreyesus was keen to say repeatedly, "If there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission then there's no evidence that travel restrictions will achieve anything - Stop hurting China's economy with travel bans that aren't evidence-based!"

Anyone watch BBC 2 last night? Taiwan took the virus seriously and had only 7 deaths in several months. Compare in detail at bit.ly/whofibs. Start by watching Jeremy Hunt: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - esp. the second 50 secs.

The Port of Dover was never mentioned in 2020 until the French closed the Eurotunnel out of fear for the UK's Alpha variant (because it had 40% - 80% higher transmissibility.) Alpha hit South Koreans hard because they'd resumed air travel at exactly the wrong moment: December 2020. From the start, Johnson could keep Dover open because he was shoving us into lockdown rather than doing Test, trace, treat (the Korean way) at full volume with the border well closed. 

Contracts, investments and Royal honours..... One way or another, some men found great wealth through Johnson's system (while in South Korea there was a vigilance that deterred profiteering.) Would Boris have been able to scoop millions from his American talks if he hadn't lost the PM job first? (His choice was 'keep the job or get very rich': what would you do?) He knew his lies would make him 'interesting' to Americans and money would follow. (Theresa May had made a million Pounds through talks after he'd taken her job, although she said most of it was given to the Party.)
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The opposition leader has been drawing fire:

Starmer said little about Johnson's bare-bones pandemic response until it started to run costs in the ten of billions. Then, he shouted a few things that made sense but followed that by making it seem that Labour backed more time in lockdown. His lack of clarity gave Johnson the chance to seem worried about the economy, was defending it from Starmer.

Responding to "Apps aren't for everyone"

That "World-beating app" was something, wasn't it. It cost £37bn and achieved almost no isolation of Covid cases. The irony is that it was downloaded onto many phones made by Samsung, a company that began funding health defence in South Korea in 2018. 

Gates tethered the WHO by organizing donations after Trump had stopped its funds in 2020, then he persuaded governments to focus only on vaccine supply, continuing to ignore South Korea's TTT strategy.
"Members of the JCBI have huge financial links to the The Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, running to billions of Pounds". That Foundation is "heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks."

"Conspiracy of silence" among NHS Trusts means most NHS employers recorded not a SINGLE Covid death among their workers during the first two waves

Did Johnson's behaviour gives cues for NHS managers to follow? He played a denialist game until 12 March 2020 (the day after the WHO finally declared a pandemic) and then the BBC didn't air any talk of South Korea's TTT response until after lockdown when people were back at work. Other channels couldn't ask MPs why we weren't containing the virus in the same way because there was a special MPs boycott of all media but the BBC.
The "unexpected and invisible mugger" couldn't get past NHS security and that's why most units didn't lose any staff to it? . . . The UK had lost 70,752 by 27/12/2020: https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-uk-records-30-501-new-coronavirus-cases-and-316-more-deaths-12173646 Use Ctrl+F to find '70,752' (S. Korea had lost 587 by 14/12/2020.)

Wet market theories get support but important details are overlooked:

The beginning of a contrived preoccupation with 'animal-to-human transmission' is evident in a 2012 update made by the WHO. It stated of MERS that, "the novel coronavirus cannot be easily transmitted from person to person”. (How was MERS-CoV infecting so many people? The answer: 'animal-to-human'.)
Carrying this 'zoonotic' notion forward with SARS-CoV-2 in January 2020, the WHO was implying that all transmission was probably animal-to-human because "there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission" (https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152)
The 2012 update was disproved in 2015 by the occurrence of MERS outbreaks inside four S. Korean hospitals which were traced to one man who'd visited each one. (He'd caught the disease in the Middle East, nowhere near any wet markets like those in Wuhan.)
But the WHO habitually ignores anything that happens in S. Korea because it's a country that's always supported Taiwan.
p.s. The WHO people have clearly not understood that the evolution of a 'zoonotic' virus is a one-off genetic event. - All human infections can be traced to virus coming from just one animal.

 The WHO's behaviour in January 2020 facilitated China's cover up of the threat to public health. The CCP's message was, "Be calm. It seems only that the people who went to the wet market are the ones who got sick from this virus". Whilst the theory of a wet market origin was plausible, it was pushed in a way that caused people to think of animals as the direct source of infection. Then, there was the WHO's, "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission": https://twitter.com/who/status/1217043229427761152 

Simplistic descriptions of 'zoonosis' would contribute to the rumour that the disease was animal-borne, and no clarification was offered by the WHO. (Zoonosis is likely a one-off event occurring in the genome of one virus inside one animal host cell and it will not ordinarily give rise to a variant that spreads from many animals to many people.) Mass culls of small animals soon began but the WHO kept quiet (as it did when house pets became victims of the 'zero Covid' policy in China, e.g. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/15/1055831581/health-workers-in-china-are-killing-pets-while-their-owners-are-in-quarantine and https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-60038551 

From the start, the WHO sought to appease the CCP by suggesting that any restricting of travel by other countries was "not evidence-based" (If there was no "evidence" that people were spreading it, then why stop them travelling?) China's economy was to be protected from "travel bans" and there would be no resistance to the peak in travel that occurs during the Chinese New Year. 

The WHO 'didn't notice' email from Taiwan's top medic who had been to Wuhan. It delayed warnings and didn't recommend South Korea's TTT strategy to any country, therefore economy-starving lockdowns became the order of the day. 

How many would not have ended up in hospital if Johnson et al. had acted quickly on South Korean reports (they made sure there were facemasks, closed nursing homes in February), rather than waiting until March 12 when the WHO finally announced a pandemic? 

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1644776053490196480
Bill ignored South Korea's TTT system when it was slowing the spread of SARS-CoV-2 in 2020. Devi was on the Channel 4 documentary that showed how effective TTT was. However, back on the BBC, Devi never spoke of it and then said that S. Korea's response showed brutality.

Johnson put the HS2 project ahead of the need to have a good pandemic response (ignored SAGE when they said to copy South Korea, dawdled for weeks and  a month. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) The WHO's behaviour facilitated China's cover up of the threat to public health and then Johnson began a series of WHO bonus donations, giving a total near a billion Pounds. 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/08/upsetting-china-governments-biggest-taboo-found-hard-way/?fbclid=IwAR046XlD-JaJLy6Tcpwka_iX1K7b_IXga3P502Naa_KOkOjQLk1WA6Rq8bE : Oakeshott and Hancock each had a "Shut up about China" experience because 

China = nuke power stations, HS2 contracts etc. (Taiwan makes better power stations.)

Biden wants Irish people to remain proud of Michael J. Ryan, the man who gave up begging fellow WHO execs to let the world know about Covid-19. - The execs were hiding behind "the diplomacy that we use" while making sure they didn't blow China's cover up. (The video of Ryan was in the BBC's "54 Days".)
Biden's response was to make everything Trump did seem wrong. (Trump had reacted by stopping payments to the WHO.)  What neither side mentioned was how the WHO had, since 2015, consistently ignored South Korea's experience with respiratory coronaviruses and the TTT strategy they devised to slow the spread (and avoid lockdowns.)

Trump saw that the WHO played a disinformation game with the West in order to help China conceal the potency of its pneumonia outbreak. Biden ousted Trump, praised the WHO and put it back on the payroll. Nobody made the point that South Korea's new answer for MERS-CoV in 2015 was working well against SARS-CoV-2, and again it was not recommended by the WHO, never explained by them in a comprehensive way.
SAGE advised Johnson to "copy South Korea" but no other Western countries seemed to get that advice from anybody and Johnson ignored SAGE. (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - esp. the second 50 secs)
Ghebreyesus declared a pandemic on 12 March and said, "test, test, test" on 16 March. (If he'd said, "Test, trace, treat" would that have upset the CCP by acknowledging its 'capitalist' rival?) Johnson had Whitty "finish" the mass testing program on 12 March. He locked the country down 11 days later and so began many months of considerable economic self-harm. Only non-communist parts of southern Asia saved lives (much more effectively) with systems like the one in S. Korea and allowed trade and industry to continue almost as normal.

Sunak's pushing maths education again.

With a little mental arithmetic you can guess that 70,753 ÷ 587 is about 120. 120 times better is how well South Koreans were saving lives with their TTT strategy in 2020, i.e. With our lockdown strategy, we had lost 120 times as many people to Covid by mid-December. But there's more: factor in that there are 88% more people per square mile in S. Korea and 120x becomes .... you work it out, 225x? Therefore, how did Johnson quickly calculate that what the Koreans were doing was, "whistling in the dark"?

Top Tory says UK should not “pull the shutters down” on China

Also see https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1648333498846003202 - 'Britain gives nearly £400 million to China'. Look carefully through the WHO website and you'll realize that it also receives a basic donation of nearly £500-million. (It's not obvious to see at first but use Ctrl+F for 'Much of the WHO' in bit.ly/whofibs)
The WHO and the CCP pretended that Wuhan's pneumonia outbreak was nothing to worry about. (They didn't want other countries to impose travel restrictions.) CCP deleted genuine info from Chinese websites and made doctors sign gag orders. The WHO provided a tweet that would display: "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission".
What does Downing Street do? It ignores our own SAGE people at the critical moment and sends the WHO a series of bonuses, the first one being £55-miilion in April 2020 when care homes were going into debt to get PPE.

The Trump-Johnson party turned sour

Did Bill Gates quickly drive a wedge between Johnson and Trump after Trump had cut America's support for the WHO? Gates wanted his Foundation to make money in vaccine supply and he persuaded Johnson to ignore South Korea's TTT strategy so that our resources would only go to the vaccine program? Unlike Trump, Johnson was still happy to keep the WHO ensconced and it would soon be a partner in the great vaccine supply event. ('To hell with Trump's objection to WHO/CCP collusion.') Having ignored his confidential SAGE advice to "copy South Korea" (see https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527), Johnson could speak of the WHO instead and still seem to be "following the science". OK, Johnson never gave TTT a second thought anyway but you do wonder why Gates was over here quite early in 2020, waving his hands in the air all the time and saying, "It's like a war zone".

BBC chairman resigns under a cloud.

The BBC made use of WhatsApp (to 'prepare' guests) in shielding Johnson from questions that would reveal our lack of a 'Test, Trace, Treat' strategy in 2020. (Use Ctrl+F to find 'boycott', 'sridhar' in bit.ly/whofibs) He'd played the denialist until 12 March and put us into lockdown eleven days later.
Why 12 March? That's the day after the WHO declared a pandemic, forcing his hand.. It hadn't mattered what British SAGE people had said to him in their confidential advice long before then: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

Johnson caught not wearing a seat-belt.

3 March 2020 and he "shook hands with everybody, you'll be pleased to know" in a hospital "where there were actually coronavirus patients". (Li Wenliang had warned fellow doctors to use PPE in December 2019.) 11 March 2020 and the WHO declares a pandemic so he goes on TV the next day to say, "loved ones are going to die before their time." He'd scoffed at his confidential SAGE advice which suggested avoiding lockdown by copying South Korea's TTT strategy ASAP.

A beginner's guide:

Tories controlled us in 2020. Fed us illusion to keep us calm. In China, people were just told to be calm.

Tories lazy and preferred lockdown so arranged it that we would not know about TTT.

And made it suddenly seem like there was a threat on 12 March because the shitbag WHO had declared a pandemic the day before....... 

It was mind control the whole way with BBC assistance. 

Use Ctrl+F to find 'boyco' in bit.ly/whofibs - the BBC was closely controlled in 2020 because so many people would be at home in the daytime, away from their jobs, and it would be 'in their interest' not to worry why was South Korea having such a low death toll when it ordinarily has more travel to and from China and 88% more people per square mile?

South Korean female scientists in February 2020 were all, "Let's contain that virus!".

UK experts every month in lockdown were all, "Let me talk at length on Zoom!"

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Thought provoking. We need government that doesn't deceive the public 'for its own good'. Take the way the Tories ran a puppet show in 2020. They kept the SAGE advice to "copy South Korea" completely hidden and we'd never have heard about it if Jeremy Hunt didn't spill the beans on 4 July last year: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (this excerpt has only had 3500 clicks.) The WHO got away with systematically deceiving us about the obviously dangerous virus and then was referred to constantly as a scientific guru on the BBC, which was under Tory control. By isolating cases and tracking down the spreaders, as the South Koreans started doing in Feb 2020, why shouldn't we also have been counting deaths in the hundreds by December? Instead, we were counting them in the tens of thousands. 

Johnson's laid-back approach came at enormous economic expense that still unfolds daily.

This photo says it all: Why save lives by containing the virus when you can just lock 'em all down and let market forces speed the supply of vaccine?

The Brexit team sprayed money at the WHO which had been insisting that the coronaviruses transmit animal-to-human, rarely human-to-human. 

The WHO was 'defending China's interests' when it held back news of South Korea's clever response - that response included the use of travel restrictions, "economically isolating China".

'They wanted people to get coronavirus', like in the old days when there were 'chickenpox parties': Sky, 02/11/2023.

'By coincidence', Boris Johnson was shaking hands with everybody in a hospital on 3rd March and there's film of him making scientists shake his hand on 6 March. He was 'helping spread it for herd immunity's sake'! By 27 April he must have wised up because he called the virus a "mugger".

    p.s. By 29 April our deaths total was suddenly 26-thousand but Dominic Raab said there was "no surge" - see bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52478085bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52478085 (the total at the end of March had been approx. 1,900.)

Boris Johnson's legacy is going up in smoke.

Did anyone notice his unwavering support for the WHO? He sent it a £55-million 'bonus' in April 2020 while our care homes were in debt for PPE. (Conveniently, the Russia TV page detailing that and other donations is now blocked.)
The WHO had made it seem there was no prior history of controlling a coronavirus. Having read what's on the WHO's website, China said this one was only caught by people in the 'animal market' (it was in fact a fish market) and the WHO tweeted the same message two weeks later: "no clear evidence of H2H transmission". More time went by but Ghebreyesus seemed up to date when he said "Test, test, test" on 18 March. He'd never said "Test, trace and treat" because that was S. Korea's strategy and China isn't fond of a country that has helped Taiwan so many times. (Ghebreyesus also ignored S. Korea when it tackled MERS-CoV the same way in 2015.)

Ghebreyesus didn't like "travel bans" - 'How dare those countries act so independently, not caring about China's economy?' Johnson was in no hurry to restrict travel (and lose popularity with the jet set?) and he made sure the airports and Eurotunnel had no thermal screening, not even ear thermometers. He went "shaking hands with everybody" at a hospital on 3 March and there's film of him getting scientists to shake his hand on 6 March. - https://news.sky.com/story/covid-inquiry-civil-servants-wanted-people-to-get-coronavirus-days-before-lockdown-was-announced-12999063?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter&fbclid=IwAR0O3ynVU20VPkEaQ3At-nwkyQ76d13upjdSrrBMiXcanOZ7nQOh5QPLCXk It transpires now that he was keen to 'improve herd immunity', spreading the pathogen by hand when possible. - Remember, they had 'chickenpox parties' in the good old days.

08/10/2023 at the COVID Inquiry.

Lord Sedwill explained away the focus on "possible worst case outcomes" but he didn't suggest that "likely outcomes" might have been worth considering. Why'd they all ignore the death of Li Wenliang in early February?: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51364382 - he was a medically alert 34 year-old. In effect, they helped the CCP sustain its cover up until the WHO forced their hand by declaring a pandemic on 11 March, and even then they waited another 12 days before doing their lockdown thing (why wait even one minute?) The WHO had been very effective in snuffing interest in South Korea's TTT which began saving lives in the first week of February (in which "everyone" mattered and nursing homes were closed in February.) Will we still be funding the WHO so grandly for the next decade? (In 2018/2019, the average UK taxpayer gave it more than 4-times what an American taxpayer forfeited - you can do this math after looking at the WHO website, although they have spread the details in strange ways across different pages.)

21/11/2023

We were told to stay home on 23 March and Chris Whitty says it was "a bit late" but that there would have been nothing to gain from locking down "a bit early".
Our first two cases were found on 29 January. If we had locked down then, the obvious benefit would have been a restriction of the virus' chance to spread, giving us time to get a TTT task force together like S. Korea had done (It was advised in the PM's confidential SAGE advice at the outset: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - see the second 50 secs.)
Whitty played with words on 12 March when he, Johnson and Vallance first said that the outlook was, suddenly, grim (the PM was recently still shaking hands with numbers of people, e.g. with some scientists on 6 March: bit.ly/whofibs.) "The contain phase... finishes from today", said Whitty, "as we've always said that it would", i.e. because it was only the first of a four-phase strategy: "contain, delay, research and mitigate". (Yes, the explanation was mystifying if you noticed it and the four 'phases' were never spoken of again.)
NOT BEING DISCUSSED: The Eurotunnel never got thermal screening (explaining why the airports got none, i.e. 'to be consistent'.) Covid testing of inbound drivers only began in April 2021 and was only for those who were spending more than 48 hours in the UK. Try figure out why a 48-hour delay on testing would be helpful!

The experimentally large lockdown was run by a PM who gave up Science in school at the age of 15. Just now, BBC Breakfast showed a clip of Chris Whitty dissecting the 'issues around' acting/not acting in the early months of 2020. In January, SAGE advice to copy S. Korea had been shunned and soon it was the WHO that was referenced on TV with regularity. The WHO had ignored South Korea's "bali bali" (quick quick) action just as it had ignored their first use of test-isolate-trace against MERS-CoV in 2015. The photo attached suggests Whitty was quite the kingpin among the MPs, not the mild and quiet person he seemed onscreen.

Patrick Vallance says that Boris quit Science at age 15. Where did he get the notion to tell Cummings that testing and tracing was "whistling in the dark", "legions of imaginary Clouseaus"? Conveniently, the WHO was still ignoring South Koreans who first came up with the bones of a 'TTT' strategy in 2015. Ghebreyesus did say "Test, test, test" on 16 March but he'd never once told member countries about "Test, Trace and Treat": He spurned anything South Korean or Taiwanese out of preference for what the CCP wanted.

24/11/2023

Just now, Jeremy Hunt said, "I think it was right" to have a furlough system and save jobs in 2020.

Why'd he wait until 4 July 2022 to speak up about the right way to respond to a coronavirus? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - see the second 50 secs. (bit.ly/whofibs)

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/ex-tory-mp-invites-discredited-31528637?123=&fbclid=IwAR10EgffX6j3VEmmWzY4dYJEYsA3pLOiv0yF6ibjRNGyDsCrrsgciJ3WaG0
One thing Andrew Bridgen exposed was the relationship between the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation and the medical regulation authority in the UK. The Foundation is, "heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry stocks" and was keen to see a vaccine rolled out ASAP in 2020. Also on Youtube: "Members of the JCVI have huge financial links to The Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, running to billions of Pounds". Vaccine supply was guaranteed earnings and Gates was happy to see Britain committing everything in that direction. He had posed as an epidemics guru in 2015 but didn't speak of South Korea's progress with 'testing and tracing' that year (when MERS-CoV was spreading inside four of its hospitals.) More 'TTT' in 2020 was not going to be the giant investment opportunity and Gates wanted nothing that might diminish enthusiasm for the vaccine program in the UK. Jeremy Hunt testified in 2022 that "government" didn't heed its initial SAGE advice which had said, in so many words, 'copy S. Korea': https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (watch the second 50 seconds.) More is at Mongoose McQueen

29/11/2023

Gove's been handling Covid spin since 2020. See his excuse for the MP's enjoying a boycott of all reporters who didn't work for the BBC that year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4 It was a move which stopped anybody from saying what Jeremey Hunt said in 2022: "Why weren't we copying the South Koreans?" (see the second 50 seconds of: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 ) More's at Mongoose McQueen

Bridgen joined hard-right Reclaim Party after being lent MILLIONS by party’s backer

Andrew Bridgen let it be known that "Members of the JCVI have huge financial links to the Melinda and Bill Gates Foundation, running to billions of Pounds". If true, it explains why Gates was here in 2020 and hobnobbing with No. 10.  Gates persistently ignored everything South Korea achieved with MERS-CoV in 2015, just as the WHO did. He made no comment about the TTT strategy which evolved from that in 2020 (which SAGE said should we should emulate - see the second 50 seconds of: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 ) Gates was keen to see the vaccine supply rolling ASAP, a test-and-tracing strategy might slow things down so just quash the idea?

Today it's Dame Jenny Harries.

Will anyone ask Jenny Harries why NHS Test and Trace cost £37-billion but, in spite of its name, it had no powers to make people get tested or isolated? Her system spent magnificently because it traced the movements of potentially everybody and then sent text messages to those who'd been in a public place at the same time/after a Covid case was visiting it. Her system was not doing what TTT did in S. Korea, not by a long chalk. - The Koreans tracked infected people down and isolated them. (A teenager there had provided case location information on a website he'd created - it didn't cost £37-billion 😃 )

p.s. Regardless of what Harries says now, the WHO said, "Test, test, test" far too late (on 16 March) and never advised countries, rich or poor, to copy South Korea's Test, Trace and Treat strategy: bit.ly/whofibs 

30/11/2023

"We didn't know we were putting asymptomatic cases into care homes"?
The South Koreans saw straight away that they should test every potential case because their first one, at Incheon Airport on 19 January (confirmed the next day at a hospital), had no visible sign of being ill: They'd only examined her because of her temperature reading.
Not only did Hancock pretend he'd 'never heard of such asymptomatic cases', he also had NERVTAG build an argument against using thermal screening at the Eurotunnel and airports. (That way, nobody could later say, "Why didn't you further monitor those arrivals who had high body temperature?")
Hancock is keeping the following out of focus: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - Jeremy Hunt saying in 2022 (in the second 50 secs.) that British scientists would have favoured "copying South Korea" if they'd only known that such advice was coming from SAGE. It was rejected and kept confidential by Matt and Boris. bit.ly/conwho

06/12/2023 - Johnson to be questioned

If he "got the big decisions right" then why had we lost 71,000 people by mid-December 2020 when S. Korea hadn't yet lost 600? (they have 88% more people in the average square mile.) "We got the vaccine first" by a small margin but data from S. Korea for the first 6 months of 2022 showed that their TTT strategy was what kept deaths down - the positive effect of vaccine provision was slow to develop and they had a super-massive spike in deaths as soon as they stopped TTT on the assumption that an 86% vaccine rollout was now protecting the people. bit.ly/conwho

"I didn't twig", but he's keeping quiet about the certain fact that the WHO had helped China prevent many countries from 'twigging'. He defied Trump's sanction on the WHO (after it helped the CCP to make the virus seem unremarkable) by sending extra money as soon as he could. We taxpayers still give four-times more to the WHO than the US taxpayer does (because there are four-times as many taxpayers in the US.) bit.ly/conwho

11/12/2023

Sunak must have seen that Johnson (who quit Science at school, age 15) was scoffing at the test and trace story coming from non-communist East Asian countries 'because they are third-world and repressive'. Sunak didn't care either way and lost vast sums to online fraudsters.

14/12/2023

A "conspiracy of silence" among Tory and Labour MPs was mentioned by MSP Angela Constance (on #bbcqt last night), but not the one in which they all have ignored how expensive the pandemic was made for us. Expensive because No. 10 shunned the technique used in 'repressive, third world' South Korea*, even though SAGE had said straight away to copy it (Jeremey Hunt attested to this in 2022: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 <video is under 2 mins long.)

Devi Sridhar's narrative on the BBC through 2020 showed her compliance with a rejection of Taiwanese and South Korean communications**. She excluded truthful mention of S. Korea whenever she was on BBC TV (but not when she was in Channel 4's revealing documentary), breaking the silence just once to suggest that the sect leader whose massive indoor gatherings caused the big outbreak in Daegu was treated harshly by government. "We are lucky here in the UK", she said. (Use Ctrl+F in bit.ly/whofibs to find 'Devi'.)

*The UN waited until July 2021 to admit that S. Korea has a 'developed economy': https://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_international/1002230.html.
**Taiwan could get no meaningful response from the WHO's 'IHR focal point' regarding the new SARS-like cases in Wuhan: https://www.cdc.gov.tw/En/Bulletin/Detail/PAD-lbwDHeN_bLa-viBOuw?typeid=158 (Likewise, China responded only by sharing a press release.) The WHO ignored a warning on 31 December that Taiwanese doctors had colleagues in Wuhan who were falling ill, providing strong evidence of H2H infection: https://www.france24.com/en/20200409-us-criticizes-who-for-ignoring-taiwan-virus-warnings

Has anybody examined, was his lockdown done in a legal way? Of course, most will keep mum who received money-for-nothing furlough, but that's what "no tool" Johnson knew in the first place when he scoffed at the obvious strategy recommended to him by SAGE (see the second 50 secs of facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) Don't forget, he wrote to Dominic Cummings in April 2020 that Test, Trace and Treat was "whistling in the dark", "legions of imaginary Clouseaus" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/25/pm-said-test-and-trace-would-be-like-whistling-in-the-dark-says-cummings He quit school science at the age of 15 but could see straight through South Korea's nonsense?

20/12/2023

A new doctors' strike has begun today. Johnson let the NHS have insufficient PPE for emergencies, pretended to start a test-and-trace program which Whitty then said "finishes from today" on 12 March 2020. (Did anyone ever see somebody who had a role in "the contain phase" and actually did trace the contacts of someone who'd tested positive for the virus? Whitty lied and now enjoys top honours.)

Korean TTT was scoffed at because it wasn't the big gravy train that vaccine supply was guaranteed to provide.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/29/uk-ministers-asked-to-explain-fourth-delay-to-covid-wine-cellar-report?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR1Dx-kWhL_cFcTaQinm63HX6XPF_ZKiOsIoQZxkCnNotKdMXXJuvuiKjrM#Echobox=1703860314

They had seven parties in Downing Street in December 2020. The year's death toll had reached 71,000 but fewer than 600 had died in S. Korea (which has 88% more people per square mile.) Of course, those who thought the world of Johnson's furlough project won't find that puzzling. Mongoose McQueen

Truss' resignation Honours are bestowed and 7 of the 11 recipients are Tories. (30/12/2023)

They put Truss in before Sunak to break up a pattern: At least three years in which Brexit and the pandemic response were run by male MPs - In contrast, S. Korea had some clever women in positions of health leadership (and no big lockdown.)

The WHO's Jan '20 tweet proclaims that, with no discernible "evidence" to the contrary, it was safe to assume the novel virus wasn't spreading person-to-person. (WHO had posted such an assumption for MERS-CoV on their website without statistical backing.) Rejecting his confidential SAGE advice, B. Johnson then sent money to the WHO (in defiance of Trump) while saying he was 'following the science' (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - see after 50 secs.) http://bit.ly/conwho

WHO acted in big brother ways when they stubbornly excluded evidence of human-to-human spread of MERS-CoV, even in 2015 when S. Korea had decided to stop it from spreading inside hospitals. In their January 2020 tweet, WHO proclaimed that, with no discernible "evidence" to the contrary, it was safe to assume that the novel coronavirus wasn't spreading person-to-person. (Their assumption rested on their skewed description of MERS-CoV, still viewable on their website today.) Rejecting his confidential SAGE advice (to copy S. Korea), B. Johnson began sending money to the WHO (in defiance of Trump) while saying he was 'following the science' (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - see after 50 secs.) http://bit.ly/conwho

Floods in the first week of January 2024

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Remember the last time there were severe floods in January? Johnson, "ignored pleas to visit parts of the country devastated by floods in the New Year.." after he'd had Xmas in the Caribbean. He also bunked out of five COBR meetings and ignored SAGE advice to copy SK's clever Covid response (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - after the first 50 secs)

05/01/2024 Johnson slams Met Police for investigating the IDF

Johnson slams the Met now but it was the Met who backed his pandemic response by fining people heavily for breaches of the rules while giving MPs insignificant small fines for their breaches.

Remember how people were fined for inconsequential breaches of lockdown measures? e.g. fined for going to rural places for some fresh air and exercise. Recently on ITV 1, a series rerun showed a man getting a £4500 fine at Heathrow in 2021, for avoiding PCR tests. ("More than 100,000 fines have been issued since March 2020":: https://www.itv.com/watch/heathrow-britains-busiest-airport/2a3168/2a3168a0049)
While there were plenty of Covid-related fines at airports and elsewhere, Mr Johnson had made sure that there was no thermal screening at any border ports. He didn't want the legal headaches that might follow from trying to control people who were arriving in the UK with the most easily detected sign of Covid, a raised body temperature. (South Korea's first case was spotted on thermal screening at Incheon Airport. Without that screening, it would have been some time before there was 'official' confirmation that Covid-19 was spreading across borders. bit.ly/whofibs)
Having seen it all now on ITV 1+1.... the man who got the fine had neglected to arrange PCR testing which was a requirement because he'd visited a red-listed country. Government had made travellers pay £170 for their tests, 'to lessen the burden on the NHS'. He was ardently against making such payment, "to the Tories". Two police had marched over with power to issue fines of up to £10,000. (Did any other freedom-loving country inflict fines on that scale?)

Mr Johnson saw that lockdown would T-bone the economy. Treacherous under pressure, Pat Vallance said Johnson couldn't even grasp how a lockdown "can flatten infection rate". (Even a child would find it easy: 'If we all stay at home, we won't catch germs'?) It was too late for Johnson to do a U-turn and obey his confidential SAGE advice which was aimed at averting lockdowns wherever possible: bit.ly/whofibs

"Stop the boats"? "Slow the virus", said SAGE but was Rishi shown that confidential advice? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527. Anyway, his hedge fund profit was fed by vaccine sales. The faster the virus, the more secure the demand for vaccine, so "Ignore South Korea!" bit.ly/whofibs

19/01/2024 Sturgeon tells the inquiry she deleted all her WhatsApp messages

She told Scots that there was no point looking at pandemic responses in other countries. She used to tweet a lot with Devi Sridhar who also never praised the S. Korean response even after she'd appeared in the Channel 4 report about its TTT strategy. bit.ly/whofibs

The story that's slipping out of sight? Johnson's neglect of SAGE advice led to the loss of many retail faces: bit.ly/conwho

When Johnson and Hancock said "following the science" in 2020, they had begun quoting the WHO quite frequently. They made sure nobody asked why Americans were angry with the WHO : bit.ly/whofibs

Their fibs (and the furlough) crafted acceptance of a response which shunned S. Korea's TTT so that all focus would be on vaccine supply - in which Sunak's hedge fund was invested.

Nicola Sturgeon message said Johnson was a '@?+*!ng clown'

She and Devi Sridhar had somehow worked out that nothing could have been learned from any other country's pandemic response. In that, they were helping the Tories cover their tracks: bit.ly/whofibs (Tories didn't want to try stop virus coming in through the Eurotunnel.)

Top warning today is that youngsters aren't keen to become lorry drivers any more and it will have serious impact on supply of goods. // Sturgeon and Devi Sridhar somehow worked out that nothing could have been learned from any other country's pandemic response. In that, they were helping the Tories cover their tracks: bit.ly/whofibs (Tories didn't want to try and stop virus coming in through the Eurotunnel, so the only response they'd try was a lockdown.)

Aha! Paula Vennells says, "We had no evidence of that" just as the WHO said there was, "no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission" ... but then Westminster sent the WHO about £1bn to help it through the pandemic: bit.ly/whofibs

Mordaunt adulates Sunak: https://twitter.com/i/status/1750488054656065954

She's a Gates' mate. Gates (like Johnson) wanted no South Korean TTT in the UK, he just wanted to see a lucrative supply of vaccine. That's why Whitty "finished" the UK's mass testing with tracing (did he really do any?) on 12 March 2020.

Sturgeon was guided by Devi Sridhar who was helping No. 10 to keep the BBC quiet about the good pandemic strategy in S. Korea.

29/01/2024 Michael Gove says the union of England/Wales/NI with Scotland has been strengthened by 14 years of Conservative leadership.

In 2020, he suggested that a Scotch egg was a substantial meal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4 (The media boycott queried by Piers was one of the tools used by Tories to keep the BBC-watching public unaware of South Korea's progress: bit.ly/whofibs) #Tory #Gove #BorisJohnson  

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/george-freeman-conservative-minister-mortgage_uk_65b7db20e4b01c5c3a37a20b?d_id=7237450&ncid_tag=fcbklnkukhpmg00000001&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&utm_campaign=uk_main&fbclid=IwAR03jU4MNbF7UPWUWPWM7kzP9NJ3NRALH1ja_MLT5z72Sr2f2b4bYuUe-hI What a coincidence. Freeman said on BBC Question Time last year that "a hundred and twenty thousand people" had died worldwide from Covid-19: bit.ly/whofibs (use Ctrl+F to find freeman).

31/01/2024. Nicola Sturgeon gets tearful at the Covid inquiry.

She might have been BoJo's opponent but was like him in more ways than one - Use Ctrl+F in http://bit.ly/whofibs (e.g. she said there was nothing to be learned from other countries' pandemic responses.)

1 Feb 2024 Yesterday, the BBC summed up how the British pandemic responses measured up against each other and against those of other countries. As always, they left out the best response in the world, judging by how much infection was faced at the start: South Korea's 'TTT'. (Devi Sridhar was obeying the BBC ban on talking about SK whenever she appeared on BBC Breakfast during lockdown. 'By coincidence', her chum Sturgeon said it in black and white: "There's no point looking at the pandemic strategies of other countries".)

Inspired by: https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=872464057963221&set=gm.1719353825141066&idorvanity=1101084560301332

I would thank Andrew Bridgen... See https://twitter.com/.../status/1753483707862905016/photo/1

Remember, Johnson did say he would "f%$k business". What better way than an eight month lockdown after telling S. Korea "no thanks" when it was offering to help get TTT running in other countries: https://eastasiaforum.org/2021/03/11/k-quarantine-exporting-south-koreas-covid-19-management-strategy/ (published on the day the WHO declared a pandemic.) bit.ly/whofibs

A paper written in Taiwan last month explains why the country's 'containment' of the coronavirus was ended in March 2022: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664623003455 Another source of information reveals that a huge surge in cases soon followed the end of 'containment', catapulting the cases total from 24,033 on 2 April 2022 to beyond 10-million before the end of February 2023: https://covid19.mohw.gov.tw/en/sp-timeline0-206.html People had received their Covid vaccines but it was too soon to rely on that alone for protection.
The same thing happened in South Korea after testing and tracing was abandoned in January 2022, officially shelved in February: Their human losses jumped from below 6,000 to above 24,000 in less than 5 months.

Video: StefanovicJuniorDoctors

"Management of the economy"? BoJo rejected early SAGE advice which was based on S. Korea's experience of MERS, including the expense of lockdowns.

- Take it from Jeremy Hunt in July 2022: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 Johnson dallied for "weeks and months" and then, "had no tool" because he'd squandered the chance to get control of viral spread. (Testing and tracing "is whistling in the dark" he wrote, "legions of imaginary Clouseaus".) Many were happy to get the furlough but surely they knew who was going to have to pay for it?

13/03/2024: Wales' Mark Drakeford is drilled by the Inquiry

I remember his antipathy for Johnson ("He's horrible") after he bullied the French into re-opening the Eurotunnel in spite of the UK variant.. But what of those countries who didn't lock down because they found that trace-and-test was very effective? "  "Evidence-based analysis" shows that lockdown was not the correct approach for COVID-19 (or for the Spanish Flu and other pandemics that have occurred), because its negative effect on public health could have caused 20-times more people to die than would have because of viral infection: USAgov. (This conclusion was drawn in 2022 after a systematic 'scan' of at least 230-thousand scientific papers on COVID-19 was done to find the authors who were most likely to have provided appropriate information.)

The Inquiry hasn't asked anybody why the SAGE advice to 'copy South Korea' was ignored at the start. (Sturgeon said after consulting with Devi Sridhar that there was no point looking at the Covid response of any other country.) In fact, the Inquiry gave Johnson the opportunity to tell another lie this year: "I had no other tool (but lockdown)".

Grant Shapps said in May 2022 that partygate was all just trial-by-media and the journalists should be quiet: indy100.com/news/grant-shapps-partygate-defence-boris. The S. Korean response can be traced back to their handling of MERS-CoV in 2015, but Shapps and Jenrick argued that there was "no instruction book" for slowing the virus down. They also said "we didn't know about asymptomatic cases" when asked to explain how carriers were moved from NHS hospitals into care homes. (A quite old definition of a carrier on nih.com is, 'A carrier is an individual with no overt disease who harbours infectious organisms.' - The first officially detected Covid-19 case outside of China was noticed on thermal screening at Incheon Airport in January 2020. She had seemed healthy so the S. Koreans decided that they'd strive to test every contact of a known case, whether or not they showed symptoms. They closed nursing homes in February.)

Gates ignored South Korea's CoV response in 2015 and again in 2020. He didn't want countries bothering with trace and test strategies because there was no great profit in it for him. Simple vaccine supply was where the money would come from.

29/03/2024 Video from BBC Newsnight: https://www.facebook.com/TheLondonEconomic/videos/7628023537209630

The presumption behind the "£400bn" lady's summary is, "There was no other tool", which was a totally dishonest thing for Johnson to say this year. Just watch Jeremy Hunt tell the truth in 2022, the second 50 secs of this clip is sufficient: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - "Why weren't we copying South Korea?" and, "I think that's something we should be thinking about" The WHO had been pushing its "zoonotic" misunderstandings since 2012 and the US saw their game in 2020, but BoJo chose them as his frame of reference (sent them somewhere near £1bn through the weeks and months) after ignoring our own SAGE people: Mongoose McQueen It can't be ignored that Johnson came clean at his final PMQs when he said that Britain's output had reached a "300 years" low - he said it just to spite Starmer for asking for a longer second lockdown, otherwise he'd probably have held that fact back as well.

https://westenglandbylines.co.uk/opinion/the-hester-scandal-a-gaslight-too-far/?fbclid=IwAR0TF2hSLCKypsoQOeOLR4L6cuDYzfFpj26MSCVOk9Qo5QM85_I_MHOhXXk

You can trace the 'reason' for Johnson's rejection of his initial SAGE advice in 2020 to the fact that vaccine supply would provide a much easier route to profit than a trace-and-test strategy ever could? (The hedge fund that Rishi had created was receiving pay from Morderna: Why save people and protect the economy with TTT when you could just sit in lockdown and wait for vaccine profit?) Koreans consciously avoided profit-making in their Covid-19 response.)

https://www.facebook.com/ledbydonkeys/videos/1061935135107289

There's that "weeks and months" again. It was how Johnson described the time he did virtually nothing after rejecting advice from SAGE to save lives and keep businesses safe from lockdowns by imitating Taiwan and S. Korea. Here's the video testimony: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (see the second 50 secs)

20.03.2024: Matt Hancock used to say he was too busy "saving lives" to talk to reporters and now Rishi says he "saved the economy" with his furlough paperwork. Too bad that Trace-and-test was rejected outright by a PM who quit school science at age 15. It would have kept things normal enough without a lockdown. S. Korea was even offering any country help to set the system up. (NHS Test and Trace, launched 28.05.2020, didn't visit suspected cases, only sent them sms and they could avoid testing by staying away from the venue where the system said they might have crossed paths with a carrier.)

... Add to that (the above) the fact that the so-called "NHS Test and Trace" did not imitate S. Korea or Taiwan and did not hold back the virus spread, mainly because it had no power to make anyone get tested (unless they wanted to return to the venue that it had warned them, by text message, was contaminated when they first visited it: If they did return to the pub, restaurant, café, they could be asked there for proof of a recent negative Covid-19 test result before being admitted.) Calling it, 'NHS Test and Trace' was a ruse to make Brits think government had 'resumed' going after the virus in the way that Taiwan, S. Korea, Indonesia and others had done from the start. The MPs knew that few people would notice the difference because so few had ever really grasped what 'Trace, test and treat' was in the first place.

Why'd they spend £37bn on a "NHS Test and Trace" system which had no power to make people get tested? 1. to make us think that they 'invest' in the NHS. 2. to make us think Britain had a proper trace and test system like the ones in S. Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia etc, WHERE THEY AVOIDED LOCKDOWNS. bit.ly/conwho (use Ctrl+F)

Why'd they make our pandemic response so restrictive and costly? More than one reason but did it also serve to conceal the impact that Brexit was having on businesses small and large? Add Ukraine to the mix and nobody knows for sure what damage can be blamed on Brexit.

Now earning upward of £91k and it doesn't bother her that the WHO still misleads with its website description of MERS-CoV or that it helped China give most countries a false sense of security in January/February 2020, while Taiwan and S. Korea were busy saving lives and avoiding lockdown.

Cameron said he thought we should remain and then set the ball rolling that guaranteed a withdrawal. facebook.com/MonMcq

Another £1bn was pledged to Moderna this year, 'to get us ready for the next pandemic': http://bit.ly/whofibs (S. Korea, with much fewer deaths and no general lockdown, actively guarded against profiteering from the pandemic.)

The Johnsons quite like China. It made its pandemic response even worse than the British lockdown and cared less for what that did to businesses. Of course, the negative effect of our lockdown on businesses conveniently masked what Brexit has done to them? Too bad for all the animals that were slaughtered because farmers couldn't get them to market. The WHO got more than £500-million extra taxpayer Pounds and it treated animals like dirt, accused them of transmitting MERS to people (in the "Middle East, Africa and southern Asia" all at the same time!) and then allowed the Danes to kill millions of mink without suggesting they first check whether humans can pass Covid-19 to them and also catch it from them..... (and they didn't tell the CCP to stop killing people's small pets either.)

Boris and Rishi made us rely on a few big retailers in 2020 after ignoring SAGE advice to keep life as normal as possible by copying S. Korea. Boris had quit school science at age 15, says Patrick Vallance.

Will any Tory leader revisit the issue of the WHO pretending that MERS-CoV couldn't transmit human-to-human and then backing China for saying the same thing about SARS-CoV-2? Bill Gates had us sending more than half-a-billion extra Pounds to the WHO, beginning with a £55-million 'bonus' in April 2020. bit.ly/conwho (WHO had also ignored warnings from Taiwan and didn't hint at copying S. Korea until 18.03.2020 when, out of the blue, Tedros said: "tracing every contact must be the backbone of the response in every country". NHS Test and Trace did some expensive tracing activity in June but its text messages had little persuasive power and not many of the traced 'contacts' travelled the miles to get tested.)

In 2015, the WHO reiterated its idea that MERS-CoV could not spread human-to-human but added that it might do so "when there is close contact". In 2016, Nature published a review of MERS and its 4th key point says that MERS progeny virus is not shed by people until late in the virus life cycle, well after harsh symptoms have developed and most people are confined to beds or in hospital. That explained why the spread of the virus between people was restricted but the WHO never updated its website information, kept implying that 'these coronaviruses' don't tend to spread human-to-human. bit.ly/conwho

See the video snippet where Hunt said in 2022 that "government" had shunned good advice from SAGE which told them to copy South Korea.: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 He's smiling all the way as though it was not an act of neglect which wasted the country's opportunity to avoid lockdowns. Johnson said this year that there was "no other tool" that he knew of: Somebody's lying and tens of thousands of businesses which are gone today from the high street might otherwise have survived, while the big names that were allowed to stay open made hay while the sun shone for them (thinking giant leaps in Tesco profit and see https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10232493003969676&set=a.4137699722864) At the outset: The WHO deceived us under the pretext of protecting China's economy from "travel bans". However, Johnson ignored Trump's clumsy reaction to that and made the WHO his reference point as though it was a reliable authority. The WHO still gets almost $half-a-billion from British taxpayers bi-annually (four times the amount that an American taxpayer forfeits) and it received a known £555-million extra from us during the pandemic: bit.ly/conwho

Is the Rwanda plan there to show us how 'innovative' the Tories are? Compare with 2020 when Johnson showed zero imagination and simply waited for the WHO to make the pandemic 'official', by which time it definitely was too late to follow his SAGE advice which had pointed out that Taiwan and S. Korea were doing fine (they never imposed comprehensive lockdowns.): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

The biggest recent example of it (media manipulation) was the total absence of any news of S. Korea and Taiwan on BBC One during the big lockdown of 2020. The MPs protected themselves from any questions about those countries by running a special media boycott of all other channels: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8pf_Om88Yg, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm1OJNJ4q-4

Our 'Test and Trace' didn't persuade any helpful numbers of people to drive to test centres (one person per car) just because a text message had told them there was possibly some coronavirus in the Dog and Duck last time they were there. All they did was stay away from that pub because they'd be asked there for proof of a negative test result if they did return.

The new restrictions on smoking:

Hancock in the London marathon, 21/04/2024: https://www.thenational.scot/news/24267761.bbc-chris-packhams-hilarious-response-matt-hancocks-appearance/

Here's how Hancock and Johnson managed Scotland during the lockdown. They made sure Devi Sridhar would be able to zoom on BBC Breakfast almost daily under the understanding that she never engaged in talking about S. Korea (she was a consultant expert on the Channel 4 documentary about SK's response on 12 May.) The London MPs had BBC television well under control after 'boycotting' all other channels. Next thing, Sridhar would tell Sturgeon to proclaim that there was no point in being interested in the pandemic strategies that other countries followed for containing the virus. Sturgeon did as our MPs did, very little while she waited things out. Mongoose McQueen Sridhar broke the silence on S. Korea once by suggesting that its fraudulent Daegu sect leader was treated cruelly after campaigning against social distancing. "We are lucky here in the UK", she said. But then she showed animosity toward Johnson's decision to lock down again on 5 November. She called his approach a "rubbish path" on the News and was immediately replaced on BBC Breakfast by Linda Bauld.

In response to a reminder that Michelle Mone got a £200-million PPE deal in 2020, later followed by a royal title and the package that comes with it:

It was 28 May 2020 that 'NHS Test and Trace' was launched and began monitoring people who had the app when they visited pubs, cafés and restaurants. Some got messages to say they'd been in a place where the virus had been brought in and possibly made them a Covid contact. After that they could go and get tested or just avoid that café for a while. Of course, the system did other things too, e.g. running PCR tests for hospitals and the general public, and the cost climbed to £29.5-billion, (not "£37-billion", says the Fullfact website) but it was sold on the promise of preventing further lockdowns and that objective was not achieved. (Did its name make people think that Mr Johnson had made sure we were still doing what Taiwan and S. Korea had been doing since January?) bit.ly/conwho. At least it proved that Tories 'invest in the NHS'.

https://goodlawproject.org/government-ordered-to-disclose-sunaks-hedge-fund-emails/ .... "Why save people (and protect the economy) with a trace-and-test strategy when you could just sit in lockdown and wait for vaccine profit?" - Johnson had shunned SAGE advice which said that locking down might be avoided to a large degree if South Korea was imitated. Rishi had jumped in with furlough which would make lockdown palatable to most of the people with salaried jobs. Hunt recently claimed that furlough was "the right thing to do" in spite of the fact that he was the one who revealed what Johnson had done: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527.

Penny Mordaunt's now talking about "plastic patriots".
https://twitter.com/RickParkin/status/1783955130850718173 < Click here and see a fake jogging session exposed.
Always taking us for fools, his draconian lockdown ruined businesses and couldn't prevent an excessive number of infections. Find the 'video' link (red) in bit.ly/whofibs: Hunt says Johnson (who quit science as a 15-year old) spurned the advice from SAGE (the scientists chosen to safeguard our national interest) which said S. Korea and Taiwan had the answer.

I'd say the Tories most prominent in 2020/21 were masters of mass control and that was their priority, to bend the will of the people. While other sectors might feel a need to tell 'white lies' sometimes so that people 'stay calm' and behave as they want them to, the colour of our politics during the health crisis led to a high death toll. The following comes from a paper which doesn't even analyse how well things went in the Asian countries that took trace-and-test seriously....................: "The UK failed to act quickly in response to the emergence of COVID-19. There was no clear policy approach at the start of the pandemic, with initial contract tracing abandoned in mid-March and a significant delay before population-wide distancing strategies were introduced. Delays continued throughout 2020." https://www.bma.org.uk/advice-and-support/covid-19/what-the-bma-is-doing/the-public-health-response-by-uk-governments-to-covid-19#:~:text=The%20UK%20failed%20to%20act,Delays%20continued%20throughout%202020. p.s. It's a laugh that they say "initial contact tracing". Possibly they were also fooled into thinking that NHS Test and Trace which began 28/05/2020 was something like what the Asians did. - All it did was provide advisory text messages which most people took with a pinch of salt.

Johnson was given the correct advice by the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies. That's top British science people but he saw fit to swiftly dismissed their serious contribution, even though he quit school science at the age of 15:: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 < it's less than 2 minutes long and the second half contains the testimony. The testimony shows he lied again this year when he said: "There was no other tool that I know of". - The Inquiry did not challenge him on his "no tool" claim. It was the Inquiry which gave him the opportunity to spin this extra big porky.

He cared very little for people: The recommended S. Korean strategy was saving lives at least 100x better than our lockdown was. At times S Korea, was losing one person in the same time that we took to lose >200. As soon as S. Korea (and Taiwan) decided to stop tracing-and-testing in 2022, they had a nasty surprise because their deaths rocketed. S. Korea had its deaths total multiplied by four in the first 5 months of 2022. That's because they hadn't realized just how much infection was still being held back by Trace-and-test activity and they'd assumed their vaccine program had made it redundant. Vaccination is not the quick way to slow down a spike in cases, its effect on society is gradual.

That's exactly what China and the WHO had achieved together: many people like yourself thinking it was a 'brand new thing'. No, it was the fourth major coronavirus outbreak in a row and S. Korea had worked out a response in 2015. The WHO favours China which hates S. Korea and it kept the S. Korea story quiet while it pushed the idea that 'these are things that you catch from animals."

School-science-quitting Johnson rejected the early advice from SAGE - people who are colossally more qualified than himself, unless you think Jeremy Hunt is lying? (see it yourself: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) The rejection of the PM's confidential advice prevented us from copying S. Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia and others who kept deaths down in the hundreds when we had them in the tens of thousands, AND they didn't screw their economies with lockdown. By the way, it was Patrick Vallance who let it slip that Johnson quit science when he was 15.

Re. "in hindsight, many countries would.have gone down a different direction". Our govt was ready to go down the best route which was demonstrated by S. Korea in 2015. It was Boris Johnson who shut that option down and steered us into one of the worst achieving responses anywhere. Possibly (as a rule, Tories avoid explaining their decisions), he did it because govt had failed to keep a supply of fresh PPE (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=167983237965733). Couldn't they have dropped their 'clean and elegant image' rule for just a moment and made some use of the 'expired' facemasks, considering the seriousness of the situation? (Instead they decided to give themselves an easy time in lockdown so they could strategize and do contracts/money-spinning with tips and guidance from Bill Gates.)

Tories later defending him (his parties) pretended he locked down late because he was 'worried about the businesses'. One small point, he and Whitty shut down trace-and-test in March instead of expanding it. (Did they really get "the contain phase" going at all? No test-and-trace people were ever interviewed or shown working on TV.) - You can't just let the virus run free if you're going to try and avoid a lockdown. Even small children can understand this. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0929664623003455

sunak-under-pressure-to-grant-amnesty-to-unpaid-carers-fined

Between March 2020 and July 2021, more than 100,000 big fines were issued to people who failed the rules imposed by Matt Hancock for lockdown and at airports. Nobody in government suggested any sort of amnesty, e.g. for the coffee shop owners who didn't close for the second lockdown on November 6 and 7 and were hit with a total punishment of £42,000 (only a month before Rishi, Boris and others attended parties and, after an inquiry, got £50 fines.)

Re. Cummings to oust the Tories: He should have broadcast what the Tories were concealing in 2020, i.e. they had been told how to protect the economy and save a lot more lives but they preferred to wait a while and then lock down big time: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

Cummings and his boss saved a few people? Was that because Hancock "finished" what he called "the contain phase" on 12 March, the day after the WHO called it a pandemic? Were people safer after tracing-and-testing was "finished"? Did Hancock really do any at all? We never saw any people doing it.

11/05/2024 Sunak's pushing 'science' now, a subject which Johnson gave up at the age of 15. He and Johnson rejected the advice, 'copy S. Korea' from the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, and used draconian lockdowns instead. Were we so apathetic about being locked down because we got Stockholm syndrome: the captive coming to identify with their captors? facebook.com/MonMcq

"When I introduced the furlough scheme" it was because Boris had ignored the SAGE advice that S. Korea knew what to do. He said their trace-and-test was, "whistling in the dark", meanwhile hoping that 'herd immunity' would make "it ... probably go away"

They made the pandemic response about as costly as it could be by ignoring the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies when it said "copy South Korea". Hunt himself is the only tory to admit this - find the red 'video' link in bit.ly/whofibs

One of the biggest elephants in the room is the expenditure of hundreds of billions and ruination of untold longstanding small businesses with lockdowns spanning 12 months when Johnson had been advised by our Sci Advisory Group for Emergencies to learn quick from SK and Taiwan, i.e. avoid lockdown. (While he was keen to promote herd immunity by "shaking hands with everybody", he called Korean trace-and-test "whistling in the dark". He quit science at school aged 15.)

25/05/2024. Last night on BBC Newsnight, 70 Tories have synchronously stood down from Parliament. They get together in WhatsApp groups and make such decisions. Some decisions shouldn't be made that way. You could see in the pandemic that WhatsApp helped them work together, fooling us into accepting draconian lockdown without a whimper, even when reality was clearly being denied. (e.g. Dominic Raab denied that there was a "sudden surge" when the UK deaths total raced from 1900 on 1 April 2020 to 26,097 on 29 April: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52478085)

Was Starmer "the canary" who kept mum at the most critical moment? He never challenged Johnson for sitting on the good advice that SAGE sent him in 2020: South Korea was nipping it in the bud by using a nucleic acid test in a new way. Even Hunt has said it: "government" was wrong, https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 < see the second 50 secs. More at bit.ly/whofibs

~~ 71,000 dead but there were 7 parties in Downing Street. ~~ On 27 December 2020, our deaths total passed 70,752 while in S. Korea they hadn't yet lost 600. SAGE had told Boris (and Rishi, obviously) to copy the S. Koreans but Johnson wrote to Cummings that a trace-and-test approach would be, "whistling in the dark". He was keen on the idea of herd immunity, however, and went around "shaking hands with everybody" (in the spirit of those 'smallpox parties' of the eighteenth century.) 

30 May 2024: Sunak's proposed military call-up for young people is discussed on BBC Question time.

Wes Streeting said recently on BBC QT that young people have already made sacrifices, comparable with military service, to facilitate the lockdowns which were, "for a good reason".
If we had not been deprived of a genuine attempt at a trace-and-test strategy (like those of Taiwan and S. Korea) as suggested to Johnson by our SAGE early in 2020, we might have had only limited and targeted lockdowns, not the lethal and business-ruining blunt instrument kind. Jeremy Hunt attested to this fact on 4 July 2022: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-13480329/BORIS-JOHNSON-liberal-hit-job-political-Trump-victory-likely.html
Look who's going to say, "I told you so" when the Capitol stormers get to celebrate Trump's victory?
Boris quit science at school, aged 15, but cleverly saw he could scorn the trace-and-test strategy used by democratic Asian states, "whistling in the dark", "legions of imaginary Clouseau's". Don't forget that when Trump made noise because WHO/CCP had collaborated to pretend there was no human-to-human virus threat, Boris immediately sent the WHO a £55-million "bonus" (in April 2020 when some UK care homes couldn't afford PPE.) Soon, more than £half-a-billion was sent for the WHO to build COVAX in partnership with the EU.

Mr Hunt's the only MP who eventually admitted Johnson was wrong to ignore the early 2020 advice from SAGE. It tried to explain to the school-science dodger that the methodical strategy which S. Korea (and Taiwan) had rolled out was working well.

Our 'democracy'? Voting for Tories opened the door to draconian lockdown but nobody's using that fact against the Tories now, and many influential people (e.g. Wes Streeting) argue that lockdown was a good measure. - Many enjoyed the time-off with furlough that, somehow, will get paid for (and failed businesses restored?); and we don't have scientific assessment like the big one done in the USA which concluded that lockdowns kill more people incidentally than they save from a fatal virus infection (bit.ly/conwho). On 4 July 2022, it was shown that Jeremy Hunt voluntarily attested to the fact that our very well qualified Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies was ignored outright by Johnson (who quit Science at 15) and his chums: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527. SAGE knew that there was a way to avoid lockdowns or at least keep them localized and short-lived.

Patrick Vallance, now a very rich 'Sir', stated in an interview that it was Johnson's "democratic" right to ignore scientific advice. How absurd that, by democratically ignoring a certified group of top-level experts, Johnson could simply wait for the WHO to actually 'declare' a pandemic (on 11/03/2020) and then make us sit at home for the good part of 12 months. The Inquiry last year, let him tell his biggest lie ever: "I didn't know what other tool (apart from draconian lockdown) I had".

BBC election debate of 06.06.2024

Kudos to Carla Denyer for saying that certain people got rich in the pandemic milieu. Sadly, no-one mentioned that 12 months of productivity and growth were dashed because Johnson shrugged off SAGE advice which said hold back the virus with a genuine trace-and-test strategy. (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527)
Penny fought well and Tories have a lady PM every now and then, but no woman was seen or heard in the first months of the pandemic. Some smart ladies had key roles in S. Korea where they'd lost 587 people by 14/12/2020, vs. our 70,752 lost by 27/12/2020. http://Bit.ly/whofibs

There was a generous number of sometimes ruinous fines that British people received after breaking the rules that Johnson and Hancock had set up: bit.ly/whofibs (use Ctrl+F to find key words.) In contrast, South Koreans kept busy chasing down the virus with trace-and-test, and they didn't have time for ramping up some 'pandemic legislation'. They didn't even have the power to punish that sect leader who preached disobedience to social distancing, because there was no law in place at the time of his offences. (see BBC)

Hancock destroyed Andrew Bridgen's political standing in January 2023 by labelling him "antisemitic". Andrew had, for some time, argued that the eagerness to get people vaccinated for Covid-19 had put the health of some at risk, because it was a new type of vaccine and normal precautionary steps were being omitted. This was all the more concerning because the Gates Foundation had worrying levels of influence in the British JCVI*, he said, and vaccine supply can obviously be financially very rewarding. Our pandemic response as a whole had become totally dependent on vaccine supply because Johnson and Whitty had "finished" our alleged trace-and-test program on 12 March 2020, the day after the WHO belatedly declared a pandemic. bit.ly/whofibs
*"Members of the JCVI have huge financial links to The Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, running to billions of Pounds" (Also see: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969)

An article in Politico https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969 reveals the levels of power that Bill Gates and some of his mates achieved in 2020. They organized to control the pandemic responses of as many countries as they could. What's significant about that is Gates showed no interest in Trace-and-test (first used by S. Koreans in 2015 against MERS) - it just wouldn't be big scale money in his eyes. Click on the Politico link and you'll see he even chatted with the King. No wonder Chris Whitty was made to "finish" our trace-and-test ambitions after they had hardly begun (he implied there was trace-and-test activity in the UK until "the next phase, 'delay'" began on 12 March.)
The Politico article provides a way to understand what actually took place in the UK - Bill Gates was here early in 2020 and, no doubt, he told/agreed with our Tories that Trace-and-test wasn't much use. 'Rather see if it comes to anything first and then you can lockdown if necessary. I'll be organizing the vaccine worldwide.'
Below is a comment with regard to Matt Hancock's being sued at the moment for libel.
.... Hancock destroyed Andrew Bridgen's political standing in January 2023 by labelling him "antisemitic". Andrew had, for some time, argued that the eagerness to get people vaccinated for Covid-19 had put the health of some at risk, because it was a new type of vaccine and normal precautionary steps were being omitted. This was all the more concerning because the Gates Foundation had worrying levels of influence in the British JCVI* (Andrew said) and vaccine supply is obviously a good investment opportunity during a pandemic. Our pandemic response as a whole had become totally dependent on vaccine supply because Johnson and Whitty had "finished" our alleged trace-and-test program (Whitty called it, "the contain phase") on 12 March 2020, the day after the WHO belatedly declared a pandemic. bit.ly/whofibs
*"Members of the JCVI have huge financial links to The Melinda and Bill Gates foundation, running to billions of Pounds".
Gates' power during the pandemic was strongly enhanced with WHO assistance - They obviously persuaded our Tories to scrap Korean-style trace-and-test and only go with the big vaccine roll-out plans.

Isn't it more than inconsistent that the people who placed COVID-19 cases inside care homes received no punishment, but a man who arrived at Heathrow in July 2021 without having paid in advance for a PCR test got an FPN of £4,500? (bit.ly/whofibs - thousands of Brits were getting heavy fines under the new 'legislation'.)
Matt Hancock later argued that 'we' didn't know there was such a thing as 'asymptomatic' cases, but S. Korea's first case had no visible symptom, just a raised body temperature, which was why they embarked on a containment strategy based on nucleic acid testing of ALL disease contacts.
If the S. Korean story hadn't been suppressed in detail by the Tories, there'd have been no confusion about moving cases into care homes. (Tories also had a 'knighted scientist' argue that thermal screening at airports was unreliable and, therefore, not advisable.)
p.s.: The people fighting the spread of Covid-19 in S. Korea didn't have time on their hands to create new laws, therefore they couldn't later punish the Daegu sect leader who preached defiance of social distancing, but there were fewer than 600 dead in S. Korea at the time that our count was 70,752, i.e. 27/12/2020.

Johnson and Sunak pretended in 2020 that Taiwan wasn't the leader in a world survey of healthcare systems. Gates was their man because Gates new the "simple", profitable way: 'Just lock down and wait for vaccine. Take your time and control the BBC.'

Scots in care homes weren't inhaling gas, they were inhaling virus, as in England's care homes. Nicola said, 'Pay no attention to other countries Covid stats'. We didn't know that Taiwan was leader in a world survey of healthcare systems. Taiwan, being an island, was even more successful with its containment strategy than S. Korea was. (Case numbers soared when they stopped tracing and testing in 2022. - People were vaccinated but that didn't protect them well.)

23/06/2024. Jenrick says, "Get Boris on the campaign trail"

Johnson was advised by SAGE to copy South Korea in January 2020 - very short video: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 Once a science-quitting schoolboy, he didn't fancy it ("it's whistling in the dark") and he played the herd immunity game ("shaking hands with everybody") until 11 March. 11 March was the day that the WHO, belatedly, admitted it was a pandemic. His big lie in 2023?: "I didn't know what other tool I had" and so we had lockdowns spanning 12 months.

Why bother with a lockdown-beating trace-and-test strategy when Penny's good friend, Bill Gates, had made it so "simple": Just sit around and wait for vaccine supply!

First Brexit, then three lockdowns spanning 12 months. Barely a soul seemed to notice that Boris and his top MPs boycotted all media channels but the BBC in 2020. What for? They didn't want journalists asking why there was to be no urgent trace-and-test campaign, just a month and weeks of denialism followed by a business-ruining lockdown. bit.ly/whofibs (Ctrl+F can be used to find 'boycot') The delay tactics pleased people like Gates because the interest in vaccination would be very strong when people finally saw an up-to-date picture of the virus' spread. Who'd be bothered with trace-and-test then? A very cunning stroke: call the NHS' new system in June, "Test and Trace".

Nobody ever gambled with the UK's future like the Boris bunch did. Few noticed that they boycotted all media channels but the BBC in 2020 because they didn't want journalists asking why there'd be no urgent trace-and-test campaign. After UK cases were confirmed on 29 January, there was a month and 3 weeks of denialism ("shaking hands") followed by the first of three business-ruining lockdowns. bit.ly/whofibs (Ctrl+F can be used to find 'boycot')

The initial delay tactics suited people like Bill Gates because the demand for vaccine would grow very strong once it was then realized how much the virus had been spreading. Who'd be thinking about trace-and-test then? A very cunning stroke: Call the NHS' new system in June, "Test and Trace" when it had no power to make people get tested (unless they wanted to return to the pub, café or restaurant where their 'Test and Trace' message said they might have become infected.)

2 July 2024 - Johnson reappears to support the election campaign

In 2020, he behaved almost exactly as Xi Jinping was doing but with different verbiage: "Keep 'em calm, lock 'em down. Those phone-making S. Koreans talk a lot of fluff. (Who cares if Taiwan makes most of the world's microchips and has a health care system ranked No. 1 in the world for two years running?)" 

18/07/2024. Biden has Covid-19 again

He (Biden) reversed Trump's action against the WHO over its pandemic delay tactics that supported the CCP's cover-up. The UK's Covid Inquiry has yet to acknowledge that countries who did as S. Korea and Taiwan did, keeping case numbers low with a committed trace-and-test strategy, fared vastly better than we did until they quit the strategy in 2022 (in the belief that their people then had sufficient protection through vaccination.) A BBC Breakfast World Covid summary, given on a chart some time after that, excluded the data/success of those countries in the same way that they'd excluded it since early 2020 (Use Ctrl+F to find 'boycott' in bit.ly/conwho)

Dicovery Channel has a new show about Johnson

BoJo ignored the UK's emergency scientists (SAGE) at the start, then kept quoting the foreign crew (the WHO). Hunt said so in 2022: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (skip the first 50 secs.) They all bent the truth daily to keep us compliant.

On Sky News, 03/08/2024, Robert Jenrick MP tells young people that it is in their interest to be Conservatives. Is 'being a Conservative' in the country's interest, Mr Jenrick?
The Covid-19 Inquiry hasn't asked anybody why the SAGE advice to 'copy South Korea' was ignored at the start of 2020, and scoffed at by Johnson ("whistling in the dark!", he called it.). In fact, the Inquiry gave Johnson the opportunity to tell another lie in Dec 2023: "I had no other tool" (other than Draconian lockdown).
Grant Shapps said in May 2022 that Partygate was all just trial-by-media and the journalists should be quiet: indy100.com/news/grant-shapps-partygate-defence-boris.
The success of the trace-and-test response used in S. Korea (and in Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam ...) can be traced to S. Korea's handling of MERS-CoV in 2015, but Shapps and Jenrick argued that there was "no instruction book" (nothing out there telling them how to strive for containment). Schapps and Jenrick also said "we didn't know about asymptomatic cases" when explaining how carriers were moved from NHS hospitals into care homes. (A longstanding definition of a carrier, visible today on nih.com, was: 'A carrier is an individual with no overt disease who harbours infectious organisms.' - The first official Covid-19 case outside of China was detected on thermal screening at Incheon Airport on 19 January 2020. She appeared healthy so the S. Koreans soon decided that they'd strive to test every contact of a known case, whether or not they showed symptoms. They closed nursing homes in February 2020.) More at bit.ly/conwho

13/08/2024- Johnson attacks Starmer for his "stupid" way of talking about the WhatsApp-based street rioters.

"Reflect on the stupidity of Starmer", says Johnson.
Rather reflect on the effects of delaying the pandemic response after rejecting the urgent method of friendly Asian states who managed to keep lockdowns at bay: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (skip the first 50 secs)

14/08/2024 - Peter Stefanovic attempts a pre-emptive strike on the Tory practice of blaming public sector pay awards whenever an inflation hike is announced.

Tory hubris made sure our emergency scientists were ignored when they advised Johnson confidentially to get busy and copy Taiwan and South Korea (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527). That story was well and truly snuffed on the BBC until the end of 2020, and practically nobody in the UK ever noticed what happened when Taiwan/S. Korea halted their containment routines in early 2022: A super-sized spike in deaths occurred in both countries, because the vaccine wasn't protecting people as well as we've always assumed it does. Has anybody tried to tally what the combined cost of lockdowns, contracts and business failures is? -- guaranteed because Chris Whitty "finished" our "contain phase" on 12 March 2020 (did we really do any trace-and-test? No people were ever on TV who said they were trace-and-test operatives) and Johnson simply waited until 23 March to do anything (where was Hancock that day?) The WHO declared a pandemic on 11 March; Johnson adopted that as his cue to 'do something'. bit.ly/conwho

After discouraging the use of travel restrictions in 2020 (calling them "travel bans" which would "economically isolate China") and holding back its health warnings (giving the CCP time to delete online information, to silence doctors and to "calm" people down), the WHO began a micromanagement of the way people spoke about countries who had the most COVID-19 cases, e.g. India's variant had to be called 'omicron' ('to prevent a prejudicial attitude'.)
Do we now see another opportunity for the WHO to show its control of verbiage (e.g. 'the virus formerly known as monkeypox')?
p.s. WHO execs didn't mention the need for "the tracing of every contact" until 18 March 2020, and they were ignored by most countries: Even if Taiwan was doing well with trace-and-test, it was too late for those countries who had relied on the WHO to guide them. They opted to 'play it safe' and, simply, lock down. Bit.ly/whofibs

Tories snuffed the option to "copy South Korea" in 2020 (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - skip the first 50 secs). Consequently, there were 3 lockdowns spanning 12 months..... bit.ly/conwho

They could have begun tackling the spread of coronavirus in late January 2020 (rather than late March), to a level where we'd have kept lockdowns to a minimum, but BoJo scorned the method of the people who provide us with Samsung devices

"Bring back Boris Johnson"?

The same Boris Johnson who sat on crucial advice from SAGE in 2020? (see https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - skip the first 50 secs.) He scoffed at the people who provide our Samsung devices and all sorts of appliances, and partied at the year's end when our death toll was 71,000 (S. Korea's was 600.)

Boris was helping Bill Gates by making sure we had a vaccine-only pandemic response, no genuine trace-and-test effort (which he called, "whistling in the dark") and no proper closing of the national border (the Eurotunnel was busy throughout.)

He needed to make it seem that red-listing of countries was a top-notch protective measure, hence the giant fines for people who didn't take it seriously. bit.ly/conwho (use Ctrl+F to find 'fines, exce)

28/08/2024: Jeremy Hunt says Rachel Reeves's account of "£22bn black hole" is spurious and a political stunt, not borne of a true concern for the UK's economy.

In July 2022, Hunt said, "Why weren't we copying South Korea (in the first half of 2020)?" and he explained that "government" had kept the SAGE advice hidden so that scientists in the general population wouldn't become aware that the trace-and-test system was rejected immediately by Boris & Co.. (SAGE had hoped Boris would keep lockdowns at bay by copying Taiwan and S. Korea: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) We never actually saw any "track and trace" staff on TV before 12 March, did we? (the day Chris Whitty said, "the contain phase finishes from today".)
Jeremy changed his tune after Sunak appointed him Chancellor. Then, he only said that Rishi did "the right thing" by setting up furlough so that the lucky ones could sit at home for almost a year.

Boris the blamer (says Starmer is letting channel-crossers die). He persuaded Z to keep fighting and reject talks, even when the Pope had said there's no shame in talking with so many lives at stake. People died because his pandemic response excluded a genuine containment system (remember Taiwan and S. Korea?) to make way for a Draconian vaccine-only/lockdown-heavy "approach".

Johnson cut fire services in London before Grenfell, including call centre staff

In June 2020, he hired a large hall full of call-handlers, through a company called Sitel Inc., to take "Track and Trace" calls. It was almost eerie because the dozens of call handlers sat in silence, nobody calling them, and then they each were sent to 'work from home'. It was linked to the launch of 'NHS Test and Trace' (said to cost £38bn) which didn't do any real trace-and-test, was a charade to give the impression that government had begun to "copy South Korea". (That idea had been "finished" by Chris Whitty on 12 March: see Hunt's testimony: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - skip the first 50 secs.)

S. Korea, not far from Wuhan, took the difficult decision to prevent companies from making money on activities/products that helped it to contain the coronavirus. Our politicians simply quashed the stories of Taiwan and S. Korea. They fell in with Gates who, with three of his big-money buddies and control of the WHO, steered most countries on a 'simple' path: Lock down and wait for vaccine. The WHO was vulnerable because Trump had cut its funding, but also compromised by prolonged influence from the CCP.
Since more than a decade ago, the WHO has claimed that people became infected with MERS-CoV by means of camel-to-human transmission in almost every case (later conceding that perhaps some human-to-human infection might happen, but it wouldn't, "unless there is close contact".) WHO ignored a Nature review paper in 2016 which explains that the spread of MERS would have been moderate, not because it couldn't transmit human-to-human, but simply because patients' bodies were shedding progeny virus only after the symptoms of infection were full-blown, by which time patients were bedridden/ in hospitals. The WHO's habit of casting everything in terms of 'zoonosis' (while not defining that concept well or consistently) had consequence by giving false expectations concerning any novel respiratory coronavirus: 'Don't worry, this one's only being caught by contact with animals in the seafood market!'

Bill Gates handled the WHO's financial problems in 2020, and all he wanted to see was lucrative vaccine production, no 'containment' strategies like the ones in Taiwan and S. Korea. (politico.com)

Did ya watch Panorama last night? HS2 was devouring billions of Pounds wastefully, but Johnson voting to keep it because he didn't want the fail on his CV?

Tories are frustrated because "we could see" that a Rwanda-type plan worked for Australia. Remember when top journalists and our top level emergency scientists could see that S. Korea's trace-and-test strategy would help is avoid lockdowns?

£161-million so far for the multi-facetted Covid Inquiry /gravy train? That's at least half-a-million winter fuel payments.
The baroness never mentions that we might have avoided lockdowns if Johnson hadn't sat on his initial SAGE advice (so that nobody else could see it): facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (after the first 50 secs.) Johnson says, "There was no other tool that I know of" and the Inquiry simply moves on to another phase, spends more to gather "everyone's story".

26/09/24 On BBC Question Time, Nadhim Zahawi tells Labour how to handle refugees.

30/06 Jenrick's wife caught giving advice to Russian oligarchs after their assets were seized post Ukraine invasion.

Jenrick and Shapps both said on the same day, one on morning TV, the other in the afternoon, that Tories couldn't be judged for letting Covid cases be shipped into care homes. They both said: 1. There wasn't an instruction book (in spite of S. Korea's method developed in 2015 for the previous respiratory coronavirus). 2. We didn't know about 'asymptomatic cases'. (It was common knowledge since the Eighties that 'carriers' are people who carry a virus without suffering its symptoms.)

It suited Sunak that Johnson kept the SAGE advice hidden which said "copy S. Korea": facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 Sunak had created a hedge fund which received dividend from Moderna.

Why bother with trace-and-test when you can just sit in lockdown and wait for vaccine?

Reaction to Jenrick at the 2024 Tory Conference:

Jenrick reckons Tories failed at three things, the economy, the NHS and (I forget what the third thing was.) He forgot to say that 12 months of Draconian lockdowns had all sorts of undesirable outcomes. -- Before COVID-19, there wasn't much doubt about the power of vaccination, but something happened in Taiwan and South Korea which showed the Covid vaccine wasn't quick in protecting people. Both countries stopped their containment strategies (i.e. no lockdown, just trace-and-test) at the end of 2021, by which time their deaths totals were much smaller than those of most western countries. In the months that followed, both countries saw a massive surge in cases, even though most people had been vaccinated (many had already had boosters.) The total pandemic death toll in S. Korea was quadrupled in the first 5 months of 2022. The spike was worse in Taiwan (but they didn't publicize the matter much.) 'Trace, test and treat' had been protecting their societies well. It takes time for Covid vaccination to give a population much protection. ... bit.ly/whofibs

"Research is too important to let politics get in the way"

That's a laugh. Tens of thousands of scientists let Johnson put them into lockdown (with furlough, of course) while he ignored the excellent, practical science that S. Korea and Taiwan had put into action: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (after the first 50 secs.) bit.ly/whofibs "In 2022, it was estimated that 2.8 million people worked in scientific and technical roles in the UK, representing 8.5% of the workforce.14 Dec 2023"

Also see: https://news.sky.com/story/johnson-denies-mocking-public-with-claim-they-avidly-craved-lockdown-rules-13229975

Johnson likened his pandemic response to a war with an "invisible mugger", but it was the Taiwanese and South Koreans who kept calm and carried on, not eager to lock their economies down when both face hostile neighbour states.

Tories paid months of furlough to 2.8 million people in the scientific sector for doing no science at all, while the science that Taiwan and South Korea had put into action was rejected as "whistling in the dark". Facebook.com/MonMcq

The way to corner the 2019 coronavirus was to copy South Korea's method for extracting it from society, without locking down. Instead, it was given plenty of time to flourish and adapt? Johnson likened his pandemic response (beginning on 23/03/2020) to a war with an "invisible mugger", but it was the Taiwanese and South Koreans who'd kept calm and carried on, not eager to lock their economies down while they face hostile neighbour states.
Lockdowns have been studied in detail by Americans, and they've concluded that lockdowns do more harm than good. Facebook.com/MonMcq

Remember that Dominic Cummings wanted to shield Johnson from 'distraction' caused by the novel virus. Months went by and he sent him an email on 26 April 2020... "skim through" a list of reasons for abandoning plans to contain the virus in the way that the South Koreans had been doing. They'd had practice with MERS-CoV and they had a strong motive to keep people busy. - Their persistent enemy on the north side might see some advantage over them if they all simply locked down (likewise, in Taiwan.)
Anyway, Johnson replied that to hope we'd ever have a good trace-and-test operation was, "whistling in the dark" and that the people who'd do it were, "legions of imaginary Clouseaus with no plans to hire them". In January, he'd already ignored his SAGE advice to copy S. Korea (says Hunt: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 - after the first 50 secs.), and now he urged Cummings to persuade Hancock to give up the idea altogether. Lockdown had made the job simple for the MPs. They signed some contracts and then twiddled their thumbs. The tracing wing of NHS Test and Trace was going to be an advisory service only, with no way to make people get tested if they were thought to have become disease carriers. (A week later, photos of Matt and his mistress appeared in the papers.) https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/25/pm-said-test-and-trace-would-be-like-whistling-in-the-dark-says-cummings
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-matt-hancock-test-trace-plan-whistling-dark/
and bit.ly/conwho

All kinds of UK politicians seem to be attracted to the Trump campaign, Farage using other-peoples' money to fly over there (as did Truss.) Trump doesn't take on a problem in a serious way. For example in 2020, journalists were showing that the WHO had failed to warn anyone about COVID-19 when it knew that a quick response would be a better one. WHO helped China push a scientific fallacy which had been invented for MERS-CoV (by the WHO): that "these viruses cannot transmit easily human-to-human". (SARS-Cov-2 was, "just another coronavirus which people catch only if they handle animals".) Tedros Ghebreyesus campaigned against "travel bans" because they, "isolate China economically", but he gave no advice about the worldwide effects of lockdowns. Trump didn't want the detail, he simply stopped the WHO's funding and got on with his next election campaign. Next thing, Biden exonerated the WHO completely and boosted its biannual paycheck. Facebook.com/MonMcq

Another issue, of significance in Britain, is that vaccine supply was given so much priority that it was used as an excuse to only pretend that trace-and-test was being done. That 'whistling in the dark' technique from Taiwan and S. Korea just wouldn't please investors like vaccine supply was guaranteed to (with Gates driving it forward.)

Gates must have been aware of South Korea's new strategy for a respiratory coronavirus in 2015, but he's always kept silent about it. It wasn't ever likely to move money like vaccine supply does, and he knew that the S. Koreans avoid profiteering in the health sector?

Gates didn't want countries putting resources into the sort of trace-and-test responses which worked so well in Taiwan and South Korea. He and three mates cornered the World's market for vaccine. That's where the big money was.

Johnson's launching a new attack on our membership of the ECHR: https://conservativepost.co.uk/its-time-for-a-referendum-on-echr-that-blocks-britains-control-over-illegal-immigration-says-boris/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGRkR5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHebRjxwOiZQoUbtuCPp1w-T_EtZWOdug_zncfUv525N6ih7d5YHiRP_wkg_aem_-TlWVhvhxJMOm-yTUn6zGw At the same time, Robert Jenrick's been saying that Tories wouldn't have given "£320-million" to Rwanda, up front, if they'd known that the ECHR will make court cases out of all the deportations that they try to do. He says he has the anwer now: Let Tories first get the UK get free from the ECHR, then the Rwanda plan will work. The Tories are innocent, he says (they made an innocent mistake with the £320m), but that means they didn't notice Theresa May ranting about how the ECHR blocks deportations, years ago (before she was even made Home Secretary.) See bit.ly/MayVid

Kemi concedes that Tories, "forgot the Party's principles" when they partied seven times in December 2020. That's all she says about that year. Never mind that there was only a pretense at containing the virus as Taiwan and S. Korea were doing. (SAGE was ignored while the WHO received big sums from Downing Street). Never mind that opting for big lockdowns over a trace-and-test strategy was going to change Britain forever (with a £trillion in debt?) and it was something which the friendly Asian states avoided, especially with the PRC and N. Korea looking for weakness at all times. bit.ly/conwho

The man who neglected direct SAGE advice to copy South Korea in January/February 2020 (see facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) did so on the basis that he had more important things to do, i.e. get Brexit 'done'. Consequently, we drifted with other countries toward Draconian lockdowns which he recently wrote cost "trillions" (while blaming it all on 'suspicious lab activities in Wuhan'.) When you add in the strangulation of high street retail and folding of many small business, isn't the cost of his pandemic response also an elephant which nobody sees (because they enjoyed getting furlough?) bit.ly/conwho

Kemi says Partygate was "overblown"

In an ITVx program about Heathrow: "more than 100,000 fines" had been issued to Brits in 2020/21. A café near Plymouth paid £42,000 (and folded) for being open 2 days when the second lockdown began (on 5th November.) But there were 7 Downing Street parties in December, for which the average fine was £50 (and Rishi got one.) bit.ly/whofibs

Farage and Boris were the agitators in our Brexit adventure. Now, who's going to fix what it's done to people's businesses? Trump is fixin' to put big tariffs on the trade we do with the USA. He backed Boris and said, yes, break with the EU, but is anyone sensing a brave new trading future through Brexit? We'd surely have got a cheaper and more effective COVID response with a PM who wasn't saying to his Health Minister, "You keep an eye on it. It'll probably go away", subordinating everything to his Brexit agenda until the WHO, finally, declared a pandemic on 11 March? Facebook.com/MonMcq

19/11/2024 Farmers facing inheritance tax while having no cash to pay it, therefore needing to sell property.

Tories covered their tracks well with a crafty set of illusions. One was the £29.5bn structure they built, called 'NHS Test and Trace'. Obviously, people would think it was doing what S. Korea and Taiwan did earlier in 2020? No. The main difference is that the trace-and-test procedure used by the democratic Asians relied on being able to get people tested. Our system had no power to make anyone get tested. All it did was send a text if they might have become a 'contact' when they were in a pub or restaurant (supermarkets were exempt), and to suggest that they drive some distance to a test centre (which most people didn't do. It was only a requirement if they wanted to return to the pub/eatery in question.) Therefore. the NHS system did trace some probable COVID-19 cases, but it put none of them into isolation, because it couldn't go and test them. As far as 'containing' the virus was concerned, it was a show-piece of deception. See more about the ways the Tories pulled the wool over our eyes: bit.ly/conwho As for the current issue of taxing British farming into oblivion? Starmer saw all these things and did nothing. In fact, he called for longer lockdowns.

West Bridgford Wire News were still providing the UK's COVID-19 stats in April 2022. Comparing the same seven days in April 2021 and in April 2022, ten times as many people died in the seven days in April 2022. This suggested that vaccine wasn't at all reliable in protecting the 3% of the population who were likely to be killed by the virus. Losing 1,636 British lives in seven days in April 2022 was no small matter. (Even the 168 in seven days in 2021 amounted to 8736 per year.) South Korea had lost only 580 people between January and 13 December 2020 (nearly 11 months.) Had the UK lockdowns, which spanned 12 months, achieved anything apart from slaughtering our economic equilibrium? (American academics have shown emprically that lockdowns kill a lot more people than they save.) Taiwan and S. Korea were shutting down their trace-and-test activities at the end of 2021. They both saw a giant surge in deaths as soon as 'containment' was stopped. They too might have wondered if the vaccine was protecting anybody very well. bit.ly/conwho (use Ctrl+F to find 09/2022)

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The Inquiry is effecting a cover-up of the key mistake made by Johnson in January 2020. SAGE (our top emergency people) advised him copy Taiwan and S. Korea. He simply put the advice in the bottom drawer and then made sure no MP ever mentioned those countries during our lockdowns. (See the second 50 secs of https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) bit.ly/conwho

NHS was swamped in 2020 because Johnson et al. had ignored what SAGE told them, i.e. that they could keep case numbers low by imitating Taiwan and S. Korea (both countries had a need to avoid lockdowns because of grim adversaries on their northern frontiers.)

Biden pardoned the WHO in January 2021, and increased its subsidy as though there had been no delays or deception in January 2020. It was the WHO which had been pushing the fallacy that respiratory coronaviruses didn't transmit human-to-human, an idea which appealed to the CCP. South Korea and Taiwan weren't interested in what the WHO said or didn't say. Lockdowns wouldn't be wise with China and North Korea always watching them: bit.ly/whofibs

Nurse fired for saying, "scamdemic"

Catriona Taylor There's no doubt that vaccine rollout captured the imagination of Bill Gates and three other big profit makers (https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/14/global-covid-pandemic-response-bill-gates-partners-00053969), and Gates had ignored how Taiwan and South Korea kept case numbers down to avoid using lockdowns. (Big lockdowns wouldn't have improved their national security, with North Korea and China always watching them.) bit.ly/conwho

03 Dec 2024

Yoon seemed a bystander to the excellent pandemic response run by better parts of the government. He came to see Boris at the 2021 G7 in Carbis Bay (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10231615687963028&set=pb.1465860619.-2207520000&type=3). Johnson, otherwise, never said a word about the importance of avoiding lockdown in SK and Taiwan (important because NK and China watches everything closely.) bit.ly/conwho

SAGE advised No. 10 to copy South Korea and avoid the hardship that lockdowns inflict. Bill Gates came to London and he had wrangled $18bn to get the WHO delivering vaccine: "Why screw around with trace-and-test? There's no money in it."
It's how we came to lose 209,000 people while blowing a giant hole in our economy (with general lockdowns spanning a year.) facebook.com/MonMcq

Why is the Cabinet Office still trying to keep Rishi Sunak’s investments under wraps?

Our pandemic response amounted to locking down and waiting for vaccine. Sunak refused to say that his hedge fund drew profit from Moderna, and then he pledged a large sum for Moderna to make ready for 'the next pandemic'.

This one's revealing. From the man who came through it all with a big bank balance and a new mansion to pimp, giving it gold wallpaper and a swimming pool ('once that wretched council is beaten'.)

bit.ly/whofibs is improved when opportunity permits - start by watching Jeremy Hunt: facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (esp. after the first 50 secs.)

Johnson had Bill Gates (Penny Mordaunt's sweet "friend") here ASAP in 2020 - He'd wrangled $18-billion for the WHO to get vaccine rolling. "Why screw around with trace-and-test strategy? Vaccine is where the money is, not 'containment'. Just lock 'em down when the case numbers start to hit the roof."?

17/12/2024 Starmer says WASPI women can't be recompensed because it would hurt the tax-payer too much.

Labour's claim of a "£20bn black hole" seems modest. Remember, Sunak lost that amount to COVID fraud alone: https://news.sky.com/story/21bn-of-taxpayer-money-lost-in-fraud-by-government-since-pandemic-began-says-spending-watchdog-12845271 He spent vastly bigger sums on furlough, and businesses being killed off by lockdown must have created cost for the government? Labour never breathed a word about countries who managed to avoid lockdown. Starmer even called for longer lockdowns.

See Gates calling himself a health expert on 12/Apr/2020: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-52233966, while encouraging our government to put all focus onto vaccine supply, nothing onto the prevention system that he'd been aware of since 2015.

Why was 'trace-and-test' ignored by the majority of governments in 2020?
It's easy to imagine why Bill Gates never mentioned the South Korean method for containing a coronavirus in his monologs about virus epidemics (which began in 2015): Vaccine supply was, commercially, the great opportunity, not 'TTT'. The three health industry moguls who collaborated with Gates (see politico) wouldn't have have been drawn to investing in COVID-19 testing equipment when the demand for vaccine was, so obviously, going to run into billions of units. Furthermore, people were attaching stigma to the tracing practices seen in S. Korea, whereas nothing was going to impede the World's vaccine rollout.
Johnson was in contact with Gates in 2020 when he was working hard to get the WHO sufficiently funded (after Trump had reacted to its role in helping China do a cover-up.) Did they also, jointly, decide that Britain would simply have lockdowns until vaccine was available, regardless of what lockdowns did to the economy? - from bit.ly/conwho

The UK's pandemic response excluded the containment method used in S. Korea and Taiwan, which helped them avoid locking down (Johnson's talk of 'Track and trace' can be shown to be pure gas, and 'NHS Test and Trace', launched 5 months late, couldn't force anyone to obey its text messages.) Gates and three health industry moguls had simply ignored the clever Koreans, and the WHO had persistently played their story down. 'Trace-and-test' was nowhere nearly as investible as vaccine would be, with billions of doses to be delivered ASAP. (Furthermore, people had attached stigma to the way that tracing involved access to personal data, whereas nobody could challenge the vaccine rollout.) Thus, we sat through almost a year's worth of lockdowns, and saw labels disappear from the high street. Facebook.com/MonMcq

Look at the five years leading up to 2020. Bill Gates doing his monolog TED talks and ignoring how S. Korea tackled MERS-CoV in its hospitals. The WHO insisting that MERS was something you only caught by handling camels, and already 'protecting' China from travel restrictions. Come 2020 and the WHO, with Gates behind them in every way, agreed that China saw no human to human transmission, and travel bans were therefore "not evidence-based". OK, this just slowed down our response, but it also made sure we got no genuine trace-and-test teams. We waffled until March and then locked the whole Kingdom down. "After all", thought Gates, "governments don't like the sound of the 'tracing', with its access to personal data. They'd much prefer to let us push the vaccine, three shots per person, so they can get on with other matters". bit.ly/whofibs

So many caught it in the West because the heads of state were taking tips from the WHO (which they'd been giving money every year.) S. Korea and Taiwan knew that the WHO tends to look after China first, so they got busy with their own innovation.. ~~~ Look at the five years leading up to 2020:
Gates had warned us about epidemics with his TED talk in 2015, but he ignored how South Korea tackled MERS-CoV inside hospitals that same year. The WHO kept insisting that MERS was something you only caught from camels, and that China shouldn't be inconvenienced by S. Korean travel restrictions.
Come 2020 and the WHO, with Gates behind them in every way, agreed that China probably wouldn't be seeing human to human spread of the novel CoV, and Taiwan's travel ban was, therefore, "not evidence-based". This slowed our response, but it also made sure we got no genuine trace-and-test teams. After hearing about the COVID-19 cover-up, Trump cut the WHO's funding, but Bill Gates quickly wrangled $18-bn for it to work on vaccine supply. In the UK, our leader "shook hands with everybody" until mid-March, and then locked the Kingdom right down. "After all", thought Gates, "governments are uneasy about that 'tracing', with its invasion of personal data. They'd rather spend on vaccine, three shots per person, and then get on with other matters". bit.ly/whofibs

Furlough cost somewhere near half-a-trillion Pounds, and lockdowns killed droves of businesses and jobs, and the Inquiry is spending big while letting the PM say, "There was no other tool that I know of". Furthermore, China is to blame for making sending the message that there was no risk to public health, but it was the WHO's ideas that it was working from, and the WHO held back the useful information even when China had stopped doing its cover-up. Whofibs.blogspot.com (And we are still one of the WHO's biggest funders.)

The WHO made sure nobody took lessons from Taiwan in 2020.

In 2015, there was a new way to slow the spread of a respiratory coronavirus. and Gates should have mentioned what was achieved (not acknowledged by the WHO either), but his nose follows money and there's lots more to be made in vaccine supply. p.s. See J. Hunt MP testifying in 2022 that our own SAGE had told No. 10 to be, "copying the South Koreans (Taiwan's best friends)": https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 Also see how the WHO had been playing carelessly with concepts, so that people would think that a coronavirus tends to transmit, 'animal-to-human’. In 2019, we were giving the WHO more than the USA did. (whofibs.blogspot.com)

Similar people (to Musk) caused most countries to abandon their chance to copy Taiwan and S. Korea in 2020. The trace-and-test strategy just wasn't a money spinner of anywhere near the same proportion that vaccine was, so it was cast aside by Gates and the WHO, and at least nine other people became billionaires overnight: whofibs.blogspot.com UK leaders knew that they were rejecting the way to make lockdowns avoidable, so they injected narrative to make it seem that Britain did have a "test and trace" operation.

Not long ago, Johnson wrote that China had caused countries to lose "trillions" by covering up what it knew in January 2020. He won't mention that the WHO made sure nobody took tips from Taiwan, which was one step ahead of China. What he'll never drone on about is the fact that there was a new way to slow the spread of a respiratory coronavirus in 2015, and Bill Gates (the self-proclaimed "health expert") should have mentioned it. (The WHO didn't signpost it either. Gates' nose follows money and there's lots more to be made in vaccine supply.)
Furthermore, see Jeremy Hunt MP testifying in 2022 that our own SAGE had told No. 10 to be, "copying South Korea" (Taiwan's best friend): https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527
Also see how the WHO had been clipping concepts, so that people would think that a coronavirus normally "transmits between animals and people". It's where China got the idea to say there was no human-to-human transmission of SARS-CoV-2.
In 2019, we were giving the WHO more than the USA did, and Johnson doubled our donation in 2020, adding an extra half-billion so that the WHO could create COVAX in collaboration with the EU. whofibs.blogspot.com

Vaccine supply attracted people who wanted vast wealth. That's why it was done in a way that eclipsed the Trace-and-test approach (which was nowhere near as investible.) Following the example set by Bill Gates, government simply made sure that the success of trace-and-test was never spoken of on their chosen TV channel until the lockdown was over. Our government knew that some people here were more aware, so they took serious steps: 1. boycotted all journalists who weren't BBC TV people, and 2. controlled BBC daily reports closely, almost certainly schooling guests inside WhatsApp groups before letting them go live on TV. Johnson and Hancock also pretended that they were, in fact, copying South Korea, by having i. "The Contain phase". ii. "Track and trace", and then iii. "NHS Test and Trace" (Launched on 28 May, it couldn't make anyone get into a car and visit a distant testing venue, one person per car. Its text messages to 'contacts' had no effect on case numbers.) MORE TO THE POINT: Oxfam reported that nine people had become billionaires in 2021 by involvement in vaccine supply.

On BBC Question Time, 17/Jan/2025: "We must stop foreign influence in our politics", but it's OK that the WHO ignored early news of Wuhan from a Taiwanese expert, backed China's opinion that there was no H2H transmission (gave China that idea in the first place, (...more is at http://whofibs.blogspot.com), letting us drift toward lockdown, which "was a disaster for the NHS".

Indifference at the top in the first, "weeks and months"? The following old article showed it clearly - Trained people were available and ready to act, but Johnson was laughing off trace-and-test - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/apr/06/uk-missed-coronavirus-contact-tracing-opportunity-experts-say

Look at the five years leading up to 2020. Bill Gates had done his monolog TED talks and ignored how S. Korea tackled MERS-CoV in its hospitals. The WHO was insisting that MERS was something you only catch by handling camels, and was already 'protecting' China from travel restrictions. Come 2020, the WHO, with Gates behind them in every way, was happy to see that China claimed there was no human to human transmission of the latest coronavirus, said that travel bans were therefore "not evidence-based". OK, this just slowed down our response, but it also made sure we got no genuine trace-and-test teams. Johnson waffled until March and then locked the whole Kingdom down. "After all", thought Gates, "governments don't like the sound of the 'tracing' with its access to personal data. They'd much prefer to let us push the vaccine, three shots per person, so that Brexiteers can get on with other matters".

Considering what it must have cost to cover 80% of the salary of tens of millions of Brits for more than 7 months, debt from furlough is what's put us in the doldrums. No. 10 acted as though the trace-and-test response had been given a fair try, but there's proof that was not the case. (https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527) whofibs.blogspot.com Johnson has since blamed China for causing expense in the "trillions" to countries across the world, but it was the WHO's ideas that had made it obvious how to do a cover-up.

“America leaving the WHO is a mistake. When it comes to pandemics, no one is safe until everyone is safe”. That sounds like Tedros quoting South Korea's slogan which he never mouthed in the first ten weeks of 2020 🙂
It's easy to imagine that the CCP has access to surplus biology graduates which it could pay to run a lab that does genetic engineering around-the-clock. At the very least, the lab might get results that can go into journals, contributing to the commie quest for supremacy (biggest bridges etc.) There will also be CCP who find biological warfare interesting.
As such, did western leaders play right into their hands by remaining aloof to S. Korea and Taiwan in 2020? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

WHO in 2020 was all about protecting China's economy from countries using travel restrictions, when there was 'no evidence' that restricting travel would help. (Remember the 'infamous tweet'? "No clear evidence of H2H transmission"?) Everything WHO said was worded and timed in a way that obscured the fact that S. Korea and Taiwan had managed to avoid locking down. Apart from making them vulnerable to N. Korea and China, respectively, lockdowns hurt economies on a massive scale.

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No, I just quoted the WHO statement to start off the comment. Vaccine was important but what they (WHO and Bill Gates etc.) did was make sure most countries didn't bother to try trace-and-test. The WHO cleverly avoided making it known that S. Korea and Taiwan were doing well (and not locking down!) The vaccine money men wanted the whole opportunity for themselves. Gates never made conversation about trace-and-test or, if he did, he probably just said it wouldn't work because people wouldn't like the invasion of data privacy. 

Partygate was in no way 'overblown' if you study the fines. MPs got £50 fines for attending any of seven parties in December, after a café lost £42,000 for breaking the 'sitting inside' rule on 5 and 6 November (when lockdown no. 2 began.)

All Gates knew in 2020 was that the Taiwanese and S. Koreans were doing something which didn't promise him much profit. "Just tell politicians that contact tracing might hurt them politically, because of its aggressive invasion of data privacy", thought Gates. whofibs.blogspot.com

ameri24 suggests Gates is worth $100-bn but he borrowed $5-bn from USAID for his vaccine organization, 'GAVI'.

Kemi Badenoch said that Partygate was overblown, not really a serious matter. Let's remember that a café near Plymouth was stripped of £42,000 for seating people on 6 and 7 November 2020 (the first two days of the second lockdown.) The café had endured 7.5 months of Lockdown, and had seen Devi Sridhar call the second one, "this rubbish path". A few weeks later, MPs had 7 parties in Downing Street, and their punishment was just £50 each. whofibs.blogspot.com

The UK Covid Inquiry was told by Matt Hancock on 30/Nov/2023 that his efforts to ramp up COVID testing, were 'actively worked against' by No. 10. (https://inews.co.uk/news/uk-politics-live-hancock-covid-inquiry-2784209?)
'Well that's Hancock for you', but Dominic Cummings received the following in an email from Boris Johnson in May 2020: "The whole track and trace thing feels like whistling in the dark. Legions of imaginary Clouseaus and no plan to hire them" (https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/dominic-cummings-boris-johnson-matt-hancock-test-trace-plan-whistling-dark/). It's significant that Chris Whitty had stopped "the Contain phase" on 12 March (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAE8-e5_EKY at 13:10 mins, https://www.gov.uk/government/news/covid-19-government-announces-moving-out-of-contain-phase-and-into-delay#:~: ), meaning that a tracing team of "just under 300 staff" was told to down tools permanently (https://rehis.com/news/uk-missed-coronavirus-contact-tracing-opportunity-experts-say-in-the-guardian-news-article/?). Therefore, when Johnson said the "track and trace thing feels like whistling in the dark", he must have been referring to the trace-and-test that was still going on in S. Korea, Taiwan etc. In other words, he had always been against trying to contain the virus. He was in agreement with Bill Gates: Just lock people down and wait for vaccine.
It was quite a wait though, wasn’t it? The first jabs were done on 8 December, and a vast sum had been borrowed to furlough salaried folk since 23rd March. And we still blame everything on post-pandemic policies.
By the way, Hancock also told the Inquiry that he wanted to lock down on about 2nd March, not on 23rd. - So which is it? He wanted to get testing at a level where we would, in effect, be copying Taiwan and S. Korea (where lockdown was anathema and their communist neighbors would be watching with interest), or he wanted to do both: spend big on tracing and testing AND make commerce and industry endure lockdowns?
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'£121 to shake the hand of the millionaire ex-PM.'

He duped people into shaking his hand on 3rd and 6th March 2020, two months after Li Wenliang had warned medical colleagues to use PPE against the novel pneumonia which reminded him of SARS. BBC had made this clear on 6 February after Li had died: bbcli.

It's become obvious that Johnson secretly never intended to copy S. Korea (or Taiwan), only to create an illusion that we had a comparable strategy.

He recently laid all blame on China for the delays of information which cost "the trillions of economic damage" (faceb.) He's never admitted that the WHO was the source of ideas from which China argued that SARS-CoV-2 was only being caught by handling animals (Guard).

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In April 2020, Bill Gates was in the UK, calling himself a "health expert" and developing his plans to monopolize global vaccine supply. He made sure nobody paid attention to the 'containment' strategy in Taiwan and S. Korea. (whose 'privacy invasion' was to be avoided, wasn't it?) As a result, economies were hammered by lockdowns (7.5 months of it before we got our first jab.) A stupendous national debt was established and thousands of businesses were ruined, because N0. 10 scorned the democratic Asians who always need to keep an eye on self-preservation (not wanting lockdowns with China and North Korea watching them.)

05/03/2025: "There wasn't any science", said Nick Robinson to Sunak this morning on BBC Breakfast, not realizing that SAGE had advised Johnson to copy S. Korea (and Taiwan) because that country had a good method which had worked well in containing MERS-CoV. Sunak and Johnson fell in with Bill Gates in 2020, because he was hell bent on monopolizing vaccine supply, to hell with everything else.

Last year, the IFS accused Tories and Labour of conspiring to conceal the true scale of the national debt which was run up to do lockdowns with furlough. Starmer is blaming anything but the pandemic response which he supported, he even said the lockdowns should have been longer. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html

Boris wasn't entangled with some dubious men of wealth? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=023nN-tvADs&t=29s

"Democracy is not for sale" but was our way of responding to virus outbreaks already claimed by Bill Gates in 2019?

Sir Kier Starmer called the cost of sickness benefits, "devastating", but what's actually been devastating is the sheer scale of borrowing done in 2020 to finance the SAGE-defying pandemic response. Evidence of Bill Gates' influence over Matt Hancock has emerged recently, which you can see in the poster (3rd image in the blog: whofibs.blogspot.com) There's also been clear evidence that other Tories were matey with Gates in 2019, when he was on a mission to make a big noise in the sphere of infectious diseases. ~ He could see that vaccine supply was a very solid business opportunity. There's a short video of Jeremy Hunt, saying in 2022 that SAGE had told "government", i.e. Health Minister Hancock, to get busy and do what S. Korea, Taiwan and a few others were doing. Gates, on the other hand, had completely ignored what S. Korea achieved with MERS-CoV in 2015, the year of his long TED talk about future diseases. In 2020, Gates didn't want governments committing resources to trace-and-test strategies: He wanted all public funds to go to vaccine. All he needed to do was whisper in the right ears that 'contact tracing' was a hot potato, stigmatized, because it involved surveillance of people's locational data. "It's a political risk, isn't it? But if you just lock them all down, borrow vast sums and pay them a good furlough, you'll be home free." See https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html - Conservatives and Labour are accused of conspiring to play down just how much debt arose from the pandemic response (and now the US is banning those vaccines.)

The WHO wrote poor science in the years leading up to the pandemic. Its website still says that 'zoonotic' viruses will bring about situations in which lots of animals are infecting lots of people, and sometimes vice-versa. Bill Gates gained control of the WHO informally when it needed money after Trump ended US membership. Gates never payed attention to South Korea in 2015 when it beat MERS-CoV with its trace-and-test strategy. In 2020, he persuaded governments that all public finances should go only to vaccine distribution. "To hell with containment", he thought.

"It's like a war zone", said Gates on BBC Breakfast. He'd come to see Matt Hancock again, this time to talk about an actual vaccine rollout.

Judging by the cost of closing the country's businesses for nearly nine month in 2020 and furnishing the well-paid with 80% furlough, "£22-billion" sounds like a small piece of the pie, avoiding public outrage if they knew the true extent of borrowing in 2020? See the CNN article linked inside bit.ly/conwho

Tedros Ghebreyesus, Bill Gates, Joe Biden... see them all shaking the top-commie's hand. Why doesn't Bill Gates want people to know what happened in Taiwan and S. Korea at the start of 2022? Use Ctrl+F to find "A 2024 paper" in whofibs.blogspot.com (Clue: When the democratic Asian states stopped using trace-and-test to restrict the spread of coronavirus, they discovered that vaccine was providing barely a whiff of the protection we all assumed it would give.)

Now you see why Trump encouraged Boris to do Brexit ("The EU charges us 40%. It's pathetic"), even if it meant closing down an essential health system (THRCC) which would have responded properly (like South Korea) to the coronavirus. bit.ly/whofibs

08/04/2025

Bill Gates is being promoted on BBC One in a short video about inspirational people. Try post the following blog link in a comment on the BBC News page and you'll find that you can no longer access that page: Whofibs.blogspot.com It explains why Gates steered MPs away from copying S. Korea and Taiwan. BBC Television helped the MPs by keeping the East Asian trace-and-test story off the screen until December 2020, when the first big lockdown was over.

He let Gates develop his thinking... 1. Make a pretence of slowing the spread of the virus: Have a "contain phase" lasting a few weeks. (Add further phases to build a sense of structure: "delay, research and mitigate" phases). 2. just wait for Bill to organise vaccine globally, and pay furlough to the well-employed (appreciative types.) Use credit to cover expenses and pay the billionaires. Whofibs.blogspot.com

The WHO made no comment when Denmark culled millions of mink, and then kept quiet while the CCP was killing people's pets (while they were at work.) WHO had set the stage by insisting that people almost always caught MERS-CoV "directly" from animals (camels.) A review in Nature, 2016, had provided the correct explanation of the limited mobility of MERS. WHO never once mentioned any actual data of animals dying from COVID-19, they just continued to peddle their assumption that small mammals would be carriers... See more detail of what they did in bit.ly/whofibs

Billionaire Trump didn't like what the WHO did in 2020, but he had no patience for dealing with the consequences in a sensible way. Billionaire Gates jumped in and turned the whole thing into a profitable vaccine supply venture, which caused nine other people to become billionaires... Mongoose McQueen (Since 2017, Gates had been targeting MPs, particularly Matt Hancock, to build relationships that gave him control in our health sector.)

02/05/2025 Nigel Farage doing well in local elections. Might Farage have run a better pandemic response, not one driven by a certain billionaire who was chummy with Matt Hancock in 2019, had a financial hold on the WHO in 2020, called himself a "health expert" and cashed in on vaccine deals? (talked about "infection control" with Hancock but didn't ever discuss the S. Korean/Taiwanese approach.) Whofibs.blogspot.com

It seems unlikely the Inquiry will tell you about the unnatural influence of a certain billionaire who met quite often with Matt Hancock in 2019. He didn't want governments to copy what Taiwan and South Korea were doing, rather preferred that they only spent big on vaccines. He seized the day when Trump quit the WHO, raised $18-bn for it to support his control of global vaccine supply. It's why so many countries had long lockdowns and lost many more people than the East Asians did (until 2022 when they stopped using trace-and-test).

Use your Google and you'll find that almost 9 million British jobs were being furloughed in May 2020. If those jobs were only paying £1000 per month, that meant government would have been spending £7,200,000,000 that month. Of course, many people were earning twice that much, some even more, therefore quite a few would have been receiving the full £2,500 per month. Furlough lasted through to September 2021. Read in the CNN article (linked in the blog) that Tories and Labour were accused recently of conspiring to hide the true debt. With it standing at about £2.8-trillion, it seems that the money spent on furlough explains at least half that amount.... Whofibs.blogspot.com

Starmer, like Johnson, is dismissive of how well S. Korea, Taiwan and a few other states managed to avoid lockdowns, coming through with their economies unshaken, and with better human survival. If anything, Trump hadn't realized just how skewed the WHO's rhetoric on respiratory coronaviruses had been, making CCP happy with unsupported generalisations that animal-to-human transmission was the only significant risk.

Gates also saw how to exploit the yarn-spinning.

Nothing was allowed to hinder the man who had decided that trading in vaccines is a virtue, as long as it's on a big-business scale. Meanwhile in the UK, there's no vaccine program for bacterial meningitis, which recently caused a student to lose both arms and legs (story was on msn news yesterday - MSN/sky)

Boris said that, like a booster rocket, he launched the UK to new economic strata. Didn't he actually trigger economic crisis by sticking us into a year's worth of lockdowns, stopping trace-and-test on 12 Mar 2020 so that Bill Gates' vaccine supply system had no competition for public funds?

The MPs forget how well S. Korea, Taiwan and others in East Asia managed to keep lockdowns to a minimum, coming through with better human and economic survival.
Gates knew how to exploit the urge to dumb-down and lock-down: Dissuade leaders from using trace-and-test, just push vaccination to the hilt.
If anything, Trump doesn't realize that the WHO's five-year rhetoric about respiratory coronaviruses had been making CCP happy, with unsupported generalising that 'animal-to-human transmission' was the only significant risk.

29/05/2025

Further to the Truss/Farage comparison which Sir Keir Starmer has made... he signed a treaty last week which lets the WHO call lockdowns on us in the future. (Wasn't £1.5-trillion borrowed to make furlough possible? Our debt is beyond £2.5-trillion.) While last night's BBC Newsnight said that the right to free speech has less legal protection in the UK than it does in the US, there was obviously no mention of the official silence which has followed the promise that China's pandemic cover-up, 'justified' in WHO rhetoric and delays, would be chased up. MPs promised to challenge China at a later stage, but that was the end of it. Our lockdowns were Draconian in the full sense, small companies were fined into insolvency. The alternative strategy which democratic Asian states followed was excluded from BBC programmes for more than nine months after we were herded to our homes on 23/03/2020. IN YEARS BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, WE GAVE MORE TO THE WHO THAN EVEN THE USA DID. (Only the Gates Foundation and Germany ever gave them more than we did.) Instead of acting on the betrayal of our trust in the WHO, we are obviously still sending them generous funding, while cutting foreign aid this year.

Does the Labour spending spree keep minds off the national debt (£2.8-trillion), the bulk of which was accrued to run furlough? (see CNN article linked in the blog, https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html)
Sir Starmer's signed a treaty which assumes that the WHO will know when it's best to call more lockdowns. In 2020, its Director-General criticized East Asian countries who applied travel restrictions with a view to avoiding lockdowns. His logic ran as follows 'If there's no evidence of human-to-human transmission, then there's no evidence that travel bans will make any difference, so it's unscientific to hurt China with travel bans!'
WHO had been plying the "no human2human transmission" idea since they said MERS-CoV was caught, in the majority of cases, by contact with camels (and they ignored the sensible description of MERS in a Nature review article in 2016.) Ghebreyesus was still speaking against the use of travel restrictions in December 2021. Being so eager to 'protect China's economy', he never spoke about the extreme damage done to economies by lockdowns. We obviously are still a top WHO donor, once again giving it more than the USA does.

More than one top Tory had been "friends with" Bill Gates for more than a year, and they let his opinions guide them in 2020. It suited him that they did very little between 23 March and 11 December (the day that some people got their first jabs), while he organized his global vaccine supply scheme. (Follow the Politico hyperlink in whofibs.blogspot.com) He didn't want them copying technically advanced countries like S. Korea and Taiwan, because their trace-and-test approach didn't promise him easy profit. @MonMcq

A risky summary:

The main plot in 2020? Gates was worming his way among our MPs as far back as 2017. He was getting chummy with Matt Hancock in 2019, they talked about, "infection control", i.e. thinking about a slick vaccine supply scheme for 'the next outbreak'. But oops, why were Americans so amazed by S. Korea's pandemic response? Gates wanted governments to channel all their money to his scheme only. So he whispered in ears that the S. Koreans were known to be "aggressive" in accessing personal data... Hey presto, talking about S. Korea was taboo for the rest of the pandemic.

MPs approve the Assisted dying bill:

20.06.2020

They all backed lockdown over copying South Korea, and then suppressed the news of how well those East Asians were doing throughout 2020. Our deaths in December 2020? 71,000. In South Korea? 600.

22/06/25

Kemi says we're all being taken for mugs by Kier, but don't forget who told you to "stay at home" while they borrowed a trillion or two to dish up furlough for those with good jobs. They sent more of your money to the WHO, not caring that it had backed China's cover-up after providing CCP with the phoney premise that, 'CoV's don't spread H2H'.

01/07/2025

Sir Starmer's mistake has been to help the Tories conceal the gigantic debt they ran up, e.g. for making furlough in 2020. (see 'Conspiracy of silence' in https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html ) The way they handled the pandemic brought Britain's output to a "300 years" low (quoting Mr Johnson.) Jeremy Hunt revealed that they'd been advised to avoid lockdown by copying S. Korea.

02/07/

He was very pally with Bill Gates in 2019, the man who had plans for large-scale vaccine schemes, and no interest in trace-and-test containment... whofibs.blogspot.com

12/07/2025

What if a billionaire says that he's a health expert and, in 2020, he persuades g8 countries to do nothing but wait for vaccines? For months on end, their businesses have no activity, many are closed down, and then he bewails the fact that Trump cuts USAID money for GAVI which Biden had approved for further vaccine research. He says his GAVI has saved millions of children, but he didn't try to stop the vaccination of kids for COVID-19 when its CFR was 2 to 3% overall and younger people weren't likely to die if their immune systems were healthy. Should that billionaire keep appearing in little BBC videos as though he's a shining star, a victim of misinformation?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/covid-vaccines-children-uptake-uk-150404858.html
The CFR of Covid-19 was said to be between 2 and 3%, but the younger you were, the least likely you'd die after being infected. Without looking it up, were any healthy children under 15 years of age made very ill by SARS-CoV-2?
Therefore, any aggressive drive to get kids vaccinated is only 'justified' by the possibility that one might carry the virus to an adult who then dies. A similar logic was mouthed by Boris Johnson about "refusenicks" in 2020.

See that Gates had persuasion with Matt Hancock in 2019. He never said a word in 2020 about staying out of lockdown by copying S. Korea and Taiwan. He wanted all public moneys to go to vaccine, in which he had huge financial interest.... whofibs.blogspot.com It's how we came to lose 650,055 businesses in less than 2 years.

Gates' GAVI and COVAX influence caused many countries to lock down in 2020 instead of copying S. Korea/Taiwan. Many countries are now much poorer as a result, and debt everywhere is sky high (https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html)

Will the World still need humans?
"Uh, not for most things." (The world's billions will be watching TV most of the time, because food production, for example, will be a "solved problem".) https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1QPrwZ89aJ/
Remember that this man was 'educating' Matt Hancock in 2019 (see the tweet of January that year.) His GAVI and COVAX influence caused many countries to lock down in 2020 instead of copying S. Korea and Taiwan. Many places are now substantially poorer as a result, and debt everywhere is sky high: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html
In the UK, 650,055 businesses died in 2020/21 thanks to the lockdowns.
whofibs.blogspot.com explains how Gates helped the WHO propagate their opinion that respiratory coronaviruses are mostly caught "directly" from animals, 'therefore tracing human contagion won't help much: Just vaccinate, vaccinate, vaccinate.'

The UK is the biggest donor toward Bill Gates' COVAX scheme since he created it in April 2020. That man believed that he was saving the world with COVID-19 vaccines (three doses per person, and they still caught it.) See the poster below in full screen mode:

Starmer didn't try to stop Johnson from giving £548-million to COVAX in 2020, an organization directed by GAVI, which was Bill Gates 'philanthropic' system for pushing COVID-19 vaccine onto all people, everywhere. Care homes couldn't afford PPE at the time, and their human losses were being "airbrushed" out of the daily news. This year, the US government clawed back $2.6-billion from GAVI which Gates had solicited from the Biden administration. Of course, Gates was happy to see Britain's trace-and-test team being sent home on 12 March 2020. He wanted no funds going to anything that wasn't vaccine.

Did anyone see Jack Rankin MP just now, oozing so much indifference to the suffering in Gaza that he then said "revy" instead of "very"? He reckons that Conservative "principles" are what's going to pull things in the right direction.
As an aside and in reference to his suggestion that people must realize the value of "growth", did Tory "principles" make it sensible to wait 37 weeks for vaccine after locking down, ignoring the best British advice they could get at the start: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (VSV - very short video).
Did funding furlough not generate the biggest national debt ever seen in peacetime? (£2.6-trillion not long ago. https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/02/economy/global-debt-crisis/index.html) Tories only pretended to be running a genuine trace-and-test effort beyond 12 March 2020, which explains why Mr Johnson became so ferocious about anyone who didn't run along and get a jab in December.

Kemi Badenoch said the Lockdown parties were not really a big deal? Doctors in China who'd heard from Li Wenliang were donning PPE at the end of December 2019, but Boris Johnson was deliberately shaking hands with people on 1, 3 and 6 March 2020. - His motive? To play down the risk and delay announcements for as long as possible, because he anticipated a long wait (40 weeks) before vaccine would be available, and he had no intention of scaling up a genuine trace-and-test containment system. "Just lock 'em down", said Gates.

04 Aug. 2025 Plymouth Live says more big name shops are set to close soon (regardless of millions spent by the largely Tory council on a city centre 'facelift')

What's slipped past most people: 650,055 UK businesses were folded in 2020/21. (In 2019, it had been alarming that 85,000 "jobs" in retail were lost in a year.) Was locking down really such a good idea, all things considered?

There was no logical reason to kill the mink in 2020. (The Danes were assuming that the virus transmitted animal-to-human when there was no evidence of that. - It was an idea which the WHO had been pushing since MERS-CoV 'seemed' not to transmit human-to-human.) https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/30/denmarks-covid-mass-mink-cull-no-legal-justification-report 

and there was that giraffe they used for a public dissection.

12/08/2025

Frankly, she (Nicola Sturgeon) left the care homes unprotected and said there was nothing to learn from other countries responses to COVID (although she would have been told that by Devi Sridhar.)

Mongoose McQueen has the whofibs url. (whofibs.blogspot.com)

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  No it was BJ who held the meetings and all leaders were attending and following his lead! Then he cancelled the testing! Then they gave billions to cronies for non existent or useless Test and trace and PPE!

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  Yes, he led the way but NS enjoyed that 'laid-back' approach he developed. Why make special efforts if London wasn't?. By the way, somehow it's never been noticed how involved Bill Gates was in our pandemic decisions. The covid vaccine billionaires worked under his umbrella.

How much did the pandemic hurt British business long-term? At the end of last year, a BBC article announced the number of businesses closing down as: "25,000 .. highest in 30 years". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68140635?fbclid=IwY2xjawM8avFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHiCG3GgnRN-drsfmoRLjkT71blfkJ75mk_CiW7P3NZBTyn02e1mxO5a9cmbJ_aem_2SpOfR2g0iB5-1ay8H0wXQ The article doesn't let anyone know that the number of "business deaths" in 2020/21 was 650,055, according to the quarterly figures on an ONS page (not including December 2021):: https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/bankruptorpermanentlyclosedbusinessesduringthecovid19pandemic (just add the numbers, Sunak-style.) Skilful selectivity by BBC news in 2020 kept people from realizing how different things were in certain friendly East Asian states who were able to avoid lockdowns and prevent infections much more effectively.

Did Mr Johnson assume that South Korea and Taiwan had set themselves on a path to ruin when they chose to avoid lockdowns and work hard at containing SARS-CoV-2 instead? If he didn't assume that, then why did he ignore his initial SAGE advice which told him to 'copy them' (see video https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527), and then wait until mid-March to start 'delaying' the virus with lockdowns instead? Also, why then say to the COVID Inquiry that there was "no other tool that I knew of"? Did putting the economy through lockdowns spanning a year have no effect on our national security?
Roundly ignored since December 2021, the ONS published quarterly figures which showed that 650,o55 businesses were dissolved in less than two years (hyperlink's in the blog). BBC furthered the concealment of that unpleasant fact by saying that 25,000 failing businesses in 2024 represented the worst of such situations "in thirty years".
Let's ban lockdowns and scrap the treaty which Sir Starmer has signed which lets the WHO decide when to use them.

She (Michelle Mone) was a sign of the times. 

In S. Korea, they had an explicit policy that no companies would make profit on anything that helped them control SARS-CoV-2, but Johnson preferred Bill Gates' approach: lockdowns and lucrative contracts.

It's slipped past people how much influence Bill Gates had on the Tories even before 2020, guiding them to favour systems which promise easy profit for contractors. In 2019, there was his Event 201 conference at Johns Hopkins University, led by the WHO's Michael J. Ryan. In a speech, Ryan called on delegates to imagine a "SARS-like virus, germinating quietly among pig farms in Brazil before spreading to every country in the World". His colorful rhetoric did imply an amount of human-to-human contagion (once the virus had 'quietly germinated' among pigs), but it didn't really break ranks with the WHO's unvetted description of MERS-CoV since 2012: "spreading animal-to-human, not human-to-human unless there is close contact". By talking this way in 2019, they were formulating how they'd tell most countries to act when another respiratory coronavirus did appear, but Taiwan is not included by WHO, and South Korea wasn't that interested in WHO verbiage.

Quoting Aseem Malhotra (https://www.facebook.com/reel/1682699315751886): "They (the WHO and British MPs) said that lockdowns are not the right step forward, so why did they change their view?" Simple answer, Bill Gates had been mixing with Matt Hancock all through 2019, and his influence in England goes further back than that. The fact that Johns Hopkins is mentioned so often in the debate about COVID vaccine safety suggests that Bill Gates was heavily involved. It's no coincidence that Britain dumped its own SAGE advice on the day that the WHO declared a pandemic: PHE's virus tracing team was stood down because the trace-and-test operation was "finished". (Chris Whitty announced it all very quickly the next day in an otherwise long TV appearance, alongside the prime minister and Patrick Vallance, a man who would belittle the PM for trying to avoid lockdown.) Gates didn't want Korean-style activities to be getting government funding. He wanted countries to think only, "vaccine, vaccine, vaccine". p.s. his second home is Johns Hopkins and he currently has them eerily excited about research on 'Disease X'. He loves the place so much because Johns Hopkins was a philanthropist!

BBC said in 2024 that 25,000 British businesses had "gone bust" in the preceding year, and that the figure was a "30-year high" (i.e. "the highest number since 1993".) bbc.co.uk/news/business-68140635? BUT..... ONS showed how many businesses were "permanently closed" between the first quarter of 2020 and 6/12/2021, and the total was 650,055 (although you must summate the quarterly figures yourself.) https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/bankruptorpermanentlyclosedbusinessesduringthecovid19pandemic Have you ever heard BBC mention that the national debt was slightly over £1-trillion in March 2010, but it was £2.5-trillion by March 2023? Might it be a 'coalition' of men who 'guide' the BBC? (Ever popular with the Tories, how much input did Bill Gates have?)

I'd like to add that I met a man at a temp job who told me neither he nor his wife got jabbed, and they believe they didn't get the bug or were able to manage without much trouble. I know for a fact that COVID did kill people just as described by NHS nurses and doctors. I remember an American expert saying, "If you're vulnerable to this thing, it's going to find you". The question is, did the vaccine really keep any such people alive? By the time vaccine was available (8 December in the UK), were any such people still alive?

Labour's dilemma is that they can't own up and let us know that 3 lockdowns, together spanning a year, really did bring "Britain's output to its lowest on 300 years" (as Boris said in 2021.) Starmer liked Lockdowns so much, he's signed the treaty that makes the WHO the lockdown-caller of the future. The IFS in 2024 says clearly in a CCN report that Labour and Tories conspire to play down the true state of the nation's finances, and the only "tool" they have now is to keep raising taxes.

It was Bill Gates' quest to become the world's vaccine king that made sure the MPs didn't keep the UK's trace-and-test operation together after 12.03.2020, if we really did have such a team at all.

Watch it: facebook/reel/

Response to an abusive devotee of Bill Gates' saintly innocence:

You've obviously skipped over the part where his years of nosing around in Britain's health governance meant he could persuade Vallance/Whiity/Johnson to turn our pandemic response into a very long wait, 37 weeks from the start of lockdown, for vaccine. He'd ignored the South Korean method for MERS-Cov in 2015 - it was never going to spin money like vaccine does. He's not, and never will be, a "health expert". https://facebook.com/reel/1372736903851017/

The last time Mr Johnson spoke to the Covid Inquiry, he said that there was "no other tool that I know of", as though he didn't realise that Taiwan and S. Korea (both with high population density) managed to keep cases at low numbers without using lockdowns. Isn't it tempting to wonder if Matt Hancock didn't stop hospitals from shipping COVID cases into care homes because it would be convenient 'proof' that 'lockdown was the right approach' if those care homes were quickly overrun with infection? Who'd challenge them for ignoring SAGE when it had said, two months beforehand, to get busy copying S. Korea? https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527

The last time Mr Johnson spoke to the Covid Inquiry, he said that there was "no other tool that I know of", as though he didn't realise that Taiwan and S. Korea managed to keep cases at low numbers without using economy-damaging lockdowns. Isn't it tempting to wonder if Hancock didn't stop hospitals from shipping COVID cases into care homes because it would be convenient 'proof' that 'lockdown was an essential tool' if the care homes quickly filled up with cases?

What was Gates' subliminal message? "Don't bother with tracing and testing to contain the virus. Just lock them down and wait for the vaccine. It's a big opportunity with easy profit."

"Trace-and-test is just whistling in the dark", wrote Mr Johnson in April 2020.

Talking 'contempt', did they ship hospital patients to care homes "in good faith" or was it, conveniently, a way to show that the virus was a killer which justified locking everything down?
Mr Johnson was also contemptuous of the authority which had been set up for exactly the situation he was facing... He hid the advice which SAGE had sent him, because it told him to copy South Korea and thus avoid big lockdowns.

Not able to distinguish Johnson's "great plan" in 2020 from a genuine response which protects the economy while keeping viral spread to a minimum, Labour are still wasting money on the WHO while Bill Gates, its funding manager in 2020, is the force behind the quest to "prepare for disease x". 

Johnson's "great plan" which was enforced late in March 2020 brought on the worst financial state ever seen in the UK (apart from the US debt accrued during WW2). His thinking was Draconian and simplistic... pleasing to people like Bill Gates because it put all focus onto waiting for the vaccine. (There were soon nine covid vaccine billionaires while a million UK businesses were folded across 2020/22.)

Johnson ridiculed South Korea's trace-and-test method ("legions of imaginary Clouseaus") and made the BBC keep the success of their prevention strategy out of its daily conversations in 2020. By 2023, thanks to the use of furlough when your "only tool" is lockdown, the national debt had risen by 150% of what it was when Tories took over, and we can barely meet the interest payments.

11 Dec 2025
A comment about a new report of a French study which concludes that the COVID-19 vaccine caused no loss of life: EastAng

This report allays fears about possible harm done by the vaccine, but it also suggests that the vaccine didn't have much effect on human survival, because the vaccinated (in France) were only slightly more likely to be alive after the fourth year of the study. - See under Main Results: 0.2% fewer people had died (of anything) in the vaccinated group vs. in the control group. (Was there 0.2% more death in the unvaccinated group simply because people who got themselves vaccinated were generally more careful about self-preservation?) N.B. the control group was a lot smaller, about a quarter of the size of the vaccinated group.

Perhaps more important: vaccinated patients who were inside hospitals had a three-quarters smaller chance of dying with COVID-19. It's possible that France was quite a safe place to be, because they took the virus very seriously (e.g. they closed the Eurotunnel against the UK variant until Boris Johnson insisted that they reopen it), but it was more difficult to make hospitals safe. This probably explains why the study revealed a vaccine effect in the hospital environment, but not everywhere else.

It's good to read that the COVID m-RNA vaccine seems to have done no harm. However, there's been a global silence about what happened in S. Korea and Taiwan when both countries decided to end their trace-and-test operations after vaccination targets had been reached: The deaths rates took off like rockets because the vaccine wasn't as effective as people imagined it would be.

Something scandalous from Daily Mail this week:
https://mol.im/a/15359403 - Big pharma had given millions to twenty-six members of SAGE.
Remember, Chris Whitty shut down PHE's alleged trace-and-test operation on 12 March 2020 because SAGE had changed its advice. No longer telling the government to copy South Korea, SAGE was now only saying that vaccination was paramount, and that the country could just lock down in the interim. Money interest had killed the plan to achieve what S. Korea had.

p.s. Kemi Badenoch says she was traumatised by wearing a mask in 2020. Dominic Raab was outspoken against mask-wearing after the WHO had reacted to images of Boris Johnson walking inside hospitals with a bare face.

15 Dec 2025

Rishi was given a very easy time of it on Monday by the Inquiry guy. He had half his sentences completed for him, like a good little boy being helped along by a benevolent teacher. (Obviously, it's Boris who’s set to be 'the bad boy'.)

Across 2020/21, 650k UK businesses decided to fold when they saw that lockdowns were going to make them unviable. Another 345,000 folded in 2022. (ONS figures are shown in the blog.)

Big pharma had twenty-six members of SAGE dancing to their pandemic interest in 2020, it was revealed this week: https://mol.im/a/15359403

As a result, the MPs stopped trying to copy South Korea, and followed Vallance’s “simple” plan instead. Once they'd shut down the PHE's trace-and-test team on 12/03/2020, they spent a lot of time adjusting the story that families would see on BBC One. All other news channels were boycotted by the MPs.

18 Dec 2025

Mone was not alone in taking us for a ride. Sunak had established a hedge fund to receive profit shares from Moderna but he refused to talk about it. We assume that their vaccine had much helpful impact. We'll never really know because the virus had already peaked in the eight months before any vaccine was ready. (Mone bought a flat in Florida. Sunak bought a heated indoor swimming pool.)

Why isn't Europe (or the WHO) making noise about a surge in flu? Does government want us to see vaccines (and vaccine billionaires) as a paramount necessity since the pandemic? (Moderna got a billion-Pound pledge from Sunak/the taxpayer in 2022 to build a centre for responding to future epidemics.) Do the MPs want us to completely forget that some very successful East Asian countries didn't lock down in 2020, because they did have an "other tool" while waiting 8 months for vaccines?

This sort of talk is a convenient way to make vaccines and their billionaires seem to be a core necessity in life. Anyone who doesn't agree with the totally-vaccine method for handling epidemics is branded "anti-vax" (worse than lunatic.) It's because right-wing, Brexit fixated MPs ignored their own experts' advice to copy South Korea in 2020. (Four years later, Boris Johnson said that lockdown was the only tool for handling the pandemic.) Yesterday, another big retail name was said to be doomed (River Island.) The key to the whole thing? Governments realised they could make the pandemic as expensive as they liked by simply borrowing enormously and furnishing furloughs. Using lockdown, they knew that businesses would fold in their hundreds of thousands, but society would simply have to adapt afterwards. Daily items would quickly cost a lot more but they could blame a variety of problems, e.g. Russia, and indulge long arguments about the possibility that a sudden Brexit was a double-edged sword.

31/12/2025

A Tory shadow MP has been doing legal work for a pal of Putin.
bbcnews and skyNews
Don't forget what Hunt revealed: The Tories rejected SAGE when it said to copy South Korea: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527
Yes, we could have dodged lockdowns and saved 200x more lives, not caused a million businesses to throw in the towel, and not borrowed a trillion to fund furlough.
p.s. Why'd they scrap the trace-and-test approach? Everything suggests it was a multinational decision made through Davos association. It resulted in at least nine people becoming vaccine billionaires.

29/01/2026

We heard Mr Starmer just now in China, saying that a big deal he's got going with them for "billions" of Pounds involves Astra Zeneca. That might be good news but the downside is that China loved lockdowns and so did Starmer.

Remember also that the CCP was keen to keep people "calm" in January 2020 by telling them that the coronavirus did not transmit human-to-human. It was an idea which the WHO had pushed for MERS-CoV since 2012. The WHO backed the CCP, adding that the use of travel restrictions would hurt China's economy. As a result, countries weren't quick to realize what South Korea and Taiwan were doing: avoiding lockdowns by holding back the human-to-human spread of SARS-CoV-2 with a trace-and-test strategy. WHO enthusiasts (most of the World's countries) hummed and ha'd for a couple of months and, in the UK, it was decided that trace-and-test should be scrapped when it had only just begun, because lockdown was what we really needed while waiting 38 weeks for the vaccine to be developed.

Boris de Pfeffel Johnson made it clear. His 'great plan' for the pandemic brought Britain's output to its lowest in "three hundred years".

We heard Starmer just now in China, saying that a big deal he's got going with them for "billions" of Pounds involves Astra Zeneca. That might be good news but the downside is that China loved lockdowns and so did Starmer.

Remember also that the CCP was keen to keep people "calm" in January 2020 by telling them that the coronavirus did not transmit human-to-human. It was an idea which the WHO had pushed for MERS-CoV since 2012. The WHO backed the CCP, adding that the use of travel restrictions would hurt China's economy. As a result, countries weren't quick to realize what South Korea and Taiwan were doing: avoiding lockdowns by holding back the human-to-human spread of SARS-CoV-2 with a trace-and-test strategy. WHO enthusiasts (most of the World's countries) hummed and ha'd for a couple of months and, in the UK, it was decided that trace-and-test should be scrapped when it had only just begun, because lockdown was what we really needed while waiting 38 weeks for the vaccine to be developed.

The virus killed 2 or 3 percent of the people it infected, but Johnson called it an "unexpected mugger" and scrapped PHE's trace-and-test team, assuming that lockdowns would 'delay' the virus while we waited 37 weeks for the vaccine to become available. He said himself that Britain's output dropped to a "300 years" low, but didn't mention the hundreds of thousands of businesses which shut down because they could see they wouldn't survive, or the enormous amount borrowed to dole out furlough.

Junior doctor strikes dwouldn't have happened if the original SAGE advice hadn't been put in a bottom drawer. Quickly copying South Korea was likely to make lockdowns avoidable. This respiratory coronavirus killed 2 or 3 percent of the people who caught it (the previous one had a CFR of 57% in first reports.)

Trump's pandemic response was crap. He damned the WHO, said the Chinese "are doing a very good job", fixed nothing and got busy with his second election campaign, which flopped on him because hadn't worked out how to beat the system yet.

People will be shocked when/if they ever realize just how much the economy was going to suffer when Tories sat on the original advice they received from SAGE in 2020, regarding the way to prepare for COVID-19. Johnson's message was that we had "fantastic" systems for the surveillance and containment of the disease, and that people should carry on with their daily pursuits as normal, just as in South Korea. Then, on 12 March, the U-turn was total but very skilfully concealed with a system of gaslighting, and a boycott of any journalists who didn't work for the BBC (not forgetting the frequent cosplay by Johnson, in all kinds of heroic guises.) By ditching the SAGE advice and simply imposing Draconian lockdowns, they caused up to a million businesses to throw in the towel between 2020 and 2022, and the cost of furlough raised the national debt by 150% of what it was when they took the reigns. (Also, the public was fooled by the creation of an NHS system with a name that suggested it was resuming the trace-and-test approach: It cost 29.5-billion but it couldn't force anyone who might be a carrier to get tested.) It's a scream that we have to endure Tory opinions today as though they did a good job last time.

Johnson sees the Epstein revelation as a good time to turn his back on Gates? It doesn't take a lot of investigation to find that Gates was "friends" with a few Tories in the years leading up to the pandemic. In 2019, Matt Hancock posted a photo of himself with Gates on X, and they conferred about "infection control" several times that year. It's pretty obvious that Gates was pleased when our attempt to tackle COVID without locking down was scrapped on 12 March 2020. He didn't want to see us spending another penny on containment by trace-and-test, because he wanted funding in all WHO member states to be allocated only to vaccine supply.

08/03/2026

Robert Jenrick said today that Labour waste money! He must be the blackest kettle ever. (The link in the poster is bit.ly/mugTaxi, but also get a feel for how Tories turned the pandemic response into a financial killing field: whofibs.blogspot.com

Watching South Koreans clean up in the Olympic women's short track relay speed skating, it's tragic that Boris Johnson and his colleagues played down how effective they are at team work and innovation. Not a single MP in either party ever said, "South Korea" on BBC TV in 2020, 21 or 22, and it's stayed that way. We'll buy their cutting-edge phones, cars and appliances, but heaven forbid we admit they beat us in the medical sphere, as do the Taiwanese. (Johnson made a quip about "South Korea" once in 2020, but he wasn't talking about the pandemic.) Former health secretary, Jeremy Hunt spilled the beans in July 2022: "Why weren't we copying South Korea and thus protecting ourselves from an excessive use of lockdowns?" The lockdowns killed enormous numbers of businesses and kicked-started the 'cost of living crisis', but Starmer and Reeves also prefer that we don't really see it that way. - They are obviously still funding the WHO, something which the UK has habitually done much more generously than even the USA did. (Only Biden raised the US amount above our contribution for a while.)

March 2026: The UK Covid inquiry has started giving its conclusions. Boris Johnson still gets the criticism but Patrick Vallance and Bill Gates were shaping the decisions in 2020, implying that Johnson couldn't grasp the basic concepts. Vallance wanted to play it safe (don't trust the East Asian trace-and-test system - play it safe and just lock down) and Gates loved it that all money went to vaccine once our fledgling PHE tracing team was sent home (before 5,000 trained council staff were deployed).

Boris Johnson copied Trump. i.e. They both ignored the different approach taken in democratic countries close to China. (Johnson eventually derided the trace-and-test method, and said using it would be "whistling in the dark".) They didn't really get involved and the opportunity to keep lockdowns at bay was wasted. (Taiwan's health infrastructure was rated best in the world at the time.)

"Was Brexit a mistake?"

Health Secretary Hancock claimed that the MPs ignored the pandemic risk for almost two months, because they wanted to do nothing but 'work on' Brexit. Dominic Cummings saw the health risk as an unnecessary distraction to Johnson. Johnson had already prorogued parliament and cut the THRCC (...Health Risk .. Committee) "to slow down on things" which didn't help him get the exit done. A year later, Johnson said that the lockdowns had brought Britain's economic output to its lowest "in three hundred years". They'd scrapped the clever Korean-style system as soon as the WHO came clean and declared a pandemic on 11/03/2020.

From whofibs.blogspot.com: Never acknowledged by the WHO, the fourth 'Key Point' in a 2016 review paper about MERS-CoV (nature.com/articles/nrmicro.2016.81) reveals why that coronavirus did not spread at very alarming rates: The body of a MERS patient begins to shed progeny virus only after symptoms have become severe, by which time the patient is usually in a sickbed. In other words, (i) The disease got people 'off the streets', into beds at home or in hospitals. (ii) In most cases, patients didn't begin to have progeny virions in their breath/mucus/saliva until after they had retreated from day-to-day life. By comparison, people carrying SARS-CoV-2 would be shedding offspring virus before they'd noticed any symptoms of their own infection. They were far less likely to die (the CFR of COVID-19 was very much lower than that of MERS), but they were far more likely to pass the disease on to other people. The WHO has still not acknowledged the above information. In 2019, they had continued to let people think that coronaviruses simply have poor human-to-human transmissibility.

The Tories increased the national debt from £1-trillion in March 2010 to £2.5-trillion in 2023. While most people felt less well-off after the pandemic, the top Tories came through with new wealth. (Remember Rishi and his new indoor heated swimming pool?) Reexamine Johnson's response by looking first at the ONS report showing 650k "business deaths" across 2020/21 (hyperlink is in whofibs.blogspot.com) The BBC was closely controlled and, last year, it reported "25,000 insolvencies in the last thirty years". Most of the businesses who've ceased operations - about 1.5 million between 2020 and 2024 - didn't wait for the effects of lockdowns to make them insolvent.

The ONS provided data from which it's easily calculated that 1.5 million businesses shut up shop between 2020 and 2024 (see whofibs.blogspot.com.) Boris Johnson had ignored the South Koreans (who were very keen to protect their economy from lockdowns) for two months in 2020. He and Matt Hancock (with Chris Whitty in tow) shut down the PHE's fledgling team of contact tracers when it was realized that some hospitals were seeing scary cases and high numbers of them. Whitty announced it on 12 March (the day after the WHO finally admitted there was a pandemic), and thirteen days later they put the whole country into lockdown, even though it was noticed that some regions had virtually no cases. BBC One had to play along (avoid talking about SK for the rest of the year) and they reported in 2024 that "25,000" businesses had become insolvent "in the last thirty years" (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-68140635?). They never mentioned the 1.5 million who'd folded since lockdowns began, who didn't wait to become insolvent before quitting. (They'd seen that they wouldn't survive the disruption of supply chains and lessening demands for their goods.)

Did Trump fail to increase the level of COVID-19 testing in March 2020 (see Brut India video) because Bill Gates had persuaded him to forget what the East Asians were doing and to simply use lockdowns until vaccine was developed and ready? It's fairly obvious that Gates' friendships with key Tories gave him that sort of influence in the UK.

The chancellor said that the Tories doubled the national debt when, in fact, they raised it from £1-tn to £2.5-tn. She did that because her party has helped Tories conceal the true impact of ignoring South Korea in 2020. Labour asked for longer lockdowns, and preferred that the pandemic be handled with massive borrowing, rather than by containing the virus directly from the start. In July 2024, the IFS did accuse Tories and Labour of "conspiring" to conceal how badly Britain's finances have been handled.

22/04/2026

Highly animated on BBC Breakfast in 2020, Bill Gates wasted no time talking about dodging lockdowns as the South Koreans were managing to do...
Re: Today's segment on BBC Breakfast about getting vaccinated for bird flu .......
The BBC has been through a very long phase of stigmatizing anyone who criticized our pandemic response for eliminating the genuine trace-and-test operation to become devoted solely to vaccine supply (as suited Bill Gates). You can't raise an eyebrow without being thrown in with indefensible purveyors of misinformation or conspiracy theorists.
It's clear from the third segment in a recent compilation of old videos that Trump also failed to increase the level of "testing" in March 2020: https://www.facebook.com/reel/977188434984463.
(It was 12 March when Great Britain's Chris Whitty said to everyone that our mass testing and tracing "finishes from today".) Did Trump deliberately "fail" on testing because Bill Gates had persuaded him to ignore what the South Koreans were doing and to focus solely on funding vaccine supply? Like Boris, Trump put people into lockdowns until the vaccine was available eight months later (the CBS lady mentions that people aren't earning from work.)
It's fairly obvious that Gates' friendships with key Tories gave him that sort of influence in the UK. We had full-scale lockdowns, a deaths total of 71,000 by mid-December (when S. Korea had yet to lose 600 people), and the folding of perhaps more than a million businesses. (Gates had already been given material influence in our health governance before 2019. The Tories loved him like a long lost pal and liked to be in phtographs with him, esp. Penny Mordaunt.) See it at whofibs.blogspot.com

A certain billionaire was chummy with Matt Hancock in 2019, had a financial hold on the WHO in 2020, called himself a "health expert" and favoured vaccine deals to the exclusion of containment which could keep societies out of lockdowns (talked about "infection control" with Hancock but didn't ever discuss the S. Korean/Taiwanese approach.)

Hantavirus news on 6 May:

"Contact tracing" has been mentioned today. On 12 March 2020, Chris Whitty announced that contact tracing "finishes from today", because "the Delay phase" was beginning. (Contact tracing was quite 'easy' to do with SARS-CoV-2 because progeny virus is released relatively early in its 'life cycle'.) While the WHO said "Test, test, test" on 18 March, it was never going to explicitly mention that South Korea and Taiwan were doing a lot of contact tracing. (Bill Gates had never shown the slightest interest in 'trace-and-test' /containment since 2015, and he carried a lot of weight with the WHO after he rescued them from the effect of Trump's termination of US support.) Maria van Kerkhove was interviewed by BBC for the first documentary about the pandemic in December 2020, and she said that the WHO didn't challenge China's delay tactics in January, "because of the diplomacy that we use". It was already well known that China had an unusual amount of sway with the WHO. Tedros Ghebreyesus latched onto its narrative and said that travel restrictions were not called for (not “evidence-based”) because China saw no evidence that the coronavirus was spreading human-to-human. Countries who used travel restrictions promptly, he said, weren't “consistent or scientific” and were “economically isolating China”. (The same argument had been asserted for MERS-CoV in 2015, although nobody was applying travel restrictions then anyway.) He was still saying this in 2021.

8 May Election day:

Kwarteng this morning: "We are a professionally dressed party", wearing suits when what you needed to see was facemasks, and shutting down contact tracing when it had only just begun (making lockdowns seem unavoidable), and partying while you couldn't visit "loved ones", which Johnson had told you would "die before their time". bit.ly/conwho

Articles not read yet:

'Britain is governed by WhatsApp': https://www.telegraph.co.uk/radio/what-to-listen-to/helen-lewis-has-left-the-chat-radio-4-bbc-whatsapp/?utm_content=telegraph&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Echobox&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1KQK44c3uBJ4ntf8P6zI3kdOb6hK_cUbPzwn878tAG8wNotk2liCJPGY4_aem_AXb3Zc0t-cDIJPjFdtfKxWeyIpmcD5ce1vCVDx9mO0-b4wOQulNRdxoiQ1nQt5Xif0lSNUg2mj0xx2PL0KTtJAgu#Echobox=1713350323-1

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-51185836

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52573137

https://bylinetimes.com/2023/12/20/covid-cronyism-and-mone-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-byline-times-full-story-of-the-ppe-cash-carousel/?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwAR2sceGOdii1su1nyzSZ9MYp2bq-2WDvtad_MlECp6N2BAK1Ej36XOlLOEM#Echobox=1703588414

https://news.sky.com/story/covid-inquiry-boris-johnson-denies-he-was-manipulated-or-pushed-into-first-lockdown-12999568?dcmp=snt-sf-twitter&fbclid=IwAR0XmSjOYeVFW62FFsdoDVPIbKP1bj65bxldH_wDU9nfz7WpAYc7amxMuRw

https://unherd.com/newsroom/boris-johnson-is-still-in-denial-about-lockdowns/

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/comparing-covid-19-with-previous-pandemics#1981present:-HIV hospital outbreaks https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1306742 camel to human https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24896817/ transmission of mers https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1477893921002842 p to p of mers https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe1308724

offspring virions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23106710/

the capsid

9.1B: Nature of the Virion - Biology LibreTexts

Thought provoking. We need government that doesn't deceive the public 'for its own good'. Take the way the Tories ran a puppet show in 2020. They kept the SAGE advice to "copy South Korea" completely hidden and we'd never have heard about it if Jeremy Hunt didn't spill the beans on 4 July last year: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1392415111237527 (this excerpt has only had 3500 clicks.) The WHO got away with systematically deceiving us about the obviously dangerous virus and then was referred to constantly as a scientific guru on the BBC, which was under Tory control. By isolating cases and tracking down the spreaders, as the South Koreans started doing in Feb 2020, why shouldn't we also have been counting deaths in the hundreds by December? Instead, we were counting them in the tens of thousands. 

Johnson's laid-back approach came at enormous economic expense that still unfolds daily.

This photo says it all: Why save lives by containing the virus when you can just lock 'em all down and let market forces speed the supply of vaccine?

22 May 2026 on (2)Facebok - "Apart from immigration, how could Brexit have gone better?"... "I'm not a politician and it's not my expertise."

If the 2020 politicians had "expertise", one of them would have realized that leaving the EU meant leaving behind the work they did to protect us from Channel migrants.

Let's not forget that Dominic Cummings didn't want Boris Johnson to pay attention to coronavirus outbreaks. (He said it was a distraction from getting Brexit done.) Our first cases, from China, were detected on 29 January. Weeks went by and Johnson said on 2 March that there was a "great plan" and that we had "fantastic" systems to protect us. However, Chris Whitty then said on 12 March that the contact tracing operation (he called it "the Contain phase") was "finished", and that testing would only occur in hospitals henceforth. No MP ever said "South Korea" or "Taiwan" on BBC One after that. They boycotted all other journalists and locked us down on 23 March. Only then, could you buy facemasks in the supermarkets. The millions in storage were 'expired' (would a pilot reject a parachute in an emergency because it was past its shelf date?), and MPs didn't wear any to send the message that they were important. The first vaccines were issued on 8 December.

We'd lost 71-thousand people before Christmas, but S. Korea's total was 587 on 14 December (and they have 88% more people in the square mile.)

A million UK businesses had been dissolved by the end of 2022 and the debt for funding furlough was enormous. (It's all on the ONS website.)