Scientist demonstrates Pandemic lockdowns are “only for the little people”.
The Leona Helmsley moment for science has arrived. From the bigger they are, the harder they fall department comes this epic fall from grace by a deified idiot thinking with his non-science head.
From the UK Telegraph:
Exclusive: Government scientist Neil Ferguson resigns after breaking lockdown rules to meet his married lover
The scientist whose advice prompted Boris Johnson to lock down Britain resigned from his Government advisory position on Tuesday night as The Telegraph can reveal he broke social distancing rules to meet his married lover.
Professor Neil Ferguson allowed the woman to visit him at home during the lockdown while lecturing the public on the need for strict social distancing in order to reduce the spread of coronavirus. The woman lives with her husband and their children in another house.
More here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/05/exclusive-government-scientist-neil-ferguson-resigns-breaking/
Mind you, this is the guy with the COVID-19 virus computer model that single-handedly destroyed the global economy, by initially predicting huge amounts of deaths. The fear produced a world-wide lockdown and economic devastation.
Oh, and his mistress, Antonia Staats, is a Soros-funded activist at the climate-wackadoodle organization in the UK known as Avaaz.
Josh of course, had something to say in a cartoon:
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SAGE secrecy:
28 Apr: Daily Mail: ‘Partial’ list of SAGE members WILL be published amid backlash at secrecy and complaints No10 chief Dominic Cummings attended meetings
•A ‘partial’ list of SAGE members will be issued shortly amid secrecy backlash…
•Sir Patrick Vallance said names of all those who agree will be released soon
By James Tapsfield
Chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance revealed this morning that a list will be issued ‘shortly’.
However, he insisted only the experts who are ‘happy to have their names published’ will be included…
Sir Patrick, who chairs Sage, has previously argued that the decision not to disclose its membership was based on advice from the Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure, which warned of lobbying.
Sir Patrick said representatives from a number of different institutions, including the Food Standards Agency and Public Health England, sit in on Sage meetings.
He added: ‘And we also have officials from Whitehall who listen in to the meetings, and can ask questions if they wish to…
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8260923/Partial-list-SAGE-membership-published.html
4 May: Guardian: Government names dozens of scientists who sit on Sage group
by Rowena Mason
Downing Street has published the names of the more than 50 scientists who sit on its Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies to discuss coronavirus, after criticism of the secrecy surrounding the group and the Guardian’s revelation that the No 10 adviser Dominic Cummings had attended meetings of the group.
The list of names was made available on the government’s website (LINK), showing that around half of the experts come from universities and another half are made up of government chief scientific advisers, public health officials or NHS senior staff…
The scientists include university professors such as Wendy Barclay, Ian Boyd, John Edmunds, Sir Jeremy Farrar, Neil Ferguson, Julia Gog, Peter Horby, Dame Theresa Marteau, Graham Medley, Andrew Morris, Cath Noakes, Michael Parker, Venki Ramakrishnan, Andrew Rambaut, Brooke Rogers, James Rubin, Calum Semple, Sir David Spieglhalter, Russell Viner, Mark Woolhouse and Lucy Yardley.
Two participants refused to be named. Membership lists of several other advisory groups were also published.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/04/government-names-dozens-of-scientists-who-sit-on-sage-group
4 May: Guardian: Public’s trust in science at risk, warns former No 10 adviser
Ex-chief scientific adviser sets up rival panel of experts over Covid-19 ‘lack of transparency’
by Hannah Devlin
Prompted by growing concern about the lack of transparency around the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), ***Prof Sir David King has convened a panel of experts that he says will act as an independent alternative.
The group, which will broadcast live on YouTube and take evidence from global experts, will hold its first meeting on Monday…
The group, which includes a range of leading scientists working across public health, computer modelling, behavioural science and intensive care medicine, aims to present the government with “robust, unbiased advice”.
King argues that the official Sage is compromised by the fact that 16 of the 23 known members of the committee, including the prime minister’s strategist Dominic Cummings, are employed by government.
The Independent Sage meeting will cover seven areas, including the criteria for lifting lockdown, testing and tracing and quarantine and shielding policies for vulnerable groups. It will formally submit its recommendations to the health and social care select committee, placing pressure on the government to explain the advice behind its lockdown exit strategy, parts of which are expected to be unveiled in the coming week.
King said that the biggest potential pitfall in weeks ahead would be to relax lockdown measures too soon and that he believes the government’s so-called five tests for whether it is safe to ease restrictions are inadequate.
“My own feeling is that the extent to which the virus is still in the population means we are not yet close … to coming out of lockdown,” he said. “Undoubtedly the biggest potential pitfall is removing lockdown too early and too quickly.”
A second peak, he said, could not only increase casualties, but could also lengthen the overall period of time before the country is able to fully exit lockdown. “If you go into a second peak, it just becomes more and more difficult to end the pandemic,” he added.
King previously held the chief scientific role, now occupied by Sir Patrick Vallance, between 2000 and 2007 and served as the UK’s climate envoy from 2013 to 2017.
The independent advisory group will include some vocal critics of the government’s Covid-19 policies, such as the global public health expert Prof Anthony Costello, as well as ***former and existing Sage experts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/03/publics-trust-in-science-at-risk-warns-former-no-10-adviser
***will Ferguson be joining David King’s group?
6 May: BBC: Coronavirus: Lockdown adviser quits, climate change warning and ‘new normal’
Here are five things you need to know about the coronavirus outbreak this Wednesday morning. We’ll have another update for you at 18:00 BST.
1. Prominent adviser quits
Back in March, it was Prof Neil Ferguson’s modelling of the virus’s transmission that persuaded the UK government it should impose the lockdown. Now, though, he’s been forced to quit as an adviser after admitting undermining those very social distancing rules. A reminder of them here…
2. UK warned over coronavirus climate trap
Funds earmarked for the post-pandemic recovery should go to firms that will reduce carbon emissions. That’s the message from government advisers today. We know that we’re living through an unrivalled drop in carbon output due to the economic slowdown – as these five charts explain (LINK) – but how could a “Build Back Better” strategy work? (LINKS TO HARRABIN BELOW)
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-52552299
political propaganda:
6 May: BBC: Climate change: Could the coronavirus crisis spur a green recovery?
By Roger Harrabin
I’ve just had a light bulb moment. The feisty little wren chirping loudly in the matted ivy outside my back door is telling us something important about global climate change.
That’s because, intertwined with the melodious notes of a robin, I can actually hear its song clearly.
Normally, both birds are muffled by the insistent rumble of traffic, but the din has been all but extinguished in the peace of lockdown…
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52488134
7 May: Politico: What COVID-19 scientists can learn from their climate change colleagues
The epidemiologists and virologists helping governments are now thrust into the public eye — which also makes them target
by RICHARD BLACK
(Richard Black is director of the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit. He was formerly BBCscience and environment correspondent for 12 years)
The late climatologist Stephen Schneider titled his memoirs “Science as a Contact Sport” — and for him and his colleagues, either side of the explosive 2009 U.N. climate summit in Copenhagen, life was exactly that.
Knocks on the door in the dead of night; security threats serious enough to mandate personal bodyguards at science conferences; postings on white supremacist websites pointing out researchers’ Jewish heritage.
All this abuse for merely flagging up what their science showed to be true: that humankind’s greenhouse gas emissions were changing the face of the Earth in ways likely to be overwhelmingly negative and possibly catastrophic, and that a different way forward, free from untrammelled fossil fuel use, was feasible and desirable…
One thing that COVID-19 scientists have in common with their climate-change peers is that neither body of experts is monolithic…
Such is the divergence between scientists that David King, a former chief scientific adviser to Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, has set up an alternative group of experts to cast their own judgment on the available evidence and provide a fresh stream of interpretation and advice…
And hence the defenestration of Imperial College London’s Neil Ferguson by newspapers whose comment pages speak to an abhorrence for lockdown policies. Newspapers happy to call a scientist whose advice probably saved many thousands of lives “the bonking boffin” and “Professor Lockdown.”…
Climate scientists have been at this a lot longer than their coronavirus peers. So what can the latter usefully glean from the formers’ experience?…
The detractors of climate science no longer have currency anywhere it matters (outside the White House) because their claims, whether “climate change is all natural” or “reducing emissions is economic suicide,” have been clearly shown to be wrong.
COVID-19 science, as Ferguson has just found out, may currently be a contact sport. But the experience of climate science suggests it is a sport that good scientists will eventually win.
https://www.politico.eu/article/coronavirus-what-covid-19-scientists-can-learn-from-their-climate-change-colleagues/
Al Gore and David Blood formed Generation Investment Management in 2004.
GenerationIM web site from March 28 2009
http://web.archive.org/web/20090328131153/http://www.generationim.com/sustainability/challenges/pandemics.html
More:-
http://web.archive.org/web/20091123011347/http://www.generationim.com/media/pdf-generation-thematic-research-v13.pdf
Browse the above pages, follow some links for the full effect. Note the references to Global Warming,water and pandemics.
Also remember who planned our Murray Darling water trading regime, that the farmers are so unhappy with, under a merchant banker as Minister for the Environment. Well it was not designed to keep the farmers happy. Markets are created for people to make money.
Check out who planned our water market. Some familiar faces.
https://wentworthgroup.org/members/
And so to the Corona Virus.
Secret models, hidden code. Sound familiar?
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/04/23/delingpole-why-must-covid-19-decision-makers-be-clouded-in-secrecy/
If you have rats in your walls you do not have to watch them to know what they are doing.Doing rattythings, living ratty lives. It is what they know, what else would they do? For politicians and merchant bankers it’a all about your money. It is what they do. I don’t know how Fat Albert and his henchmen are making money from a pandemic, but it is what they do. Goverments that should be doing due diligence and running ‘one rule for all’ societies are co-opted to support one gravy train after another.
The western world is lacking investigative journalists, there are so many obvious avenues of enquiry.
Well, even if he wasn’t thinking so well with the brain that’s inside his skull, at least his two little brains came up with something.
Your headline said “He is deified idiot who is not thinking with his head”
I suggest he was thinking with another part of his body some distance from his head
Do Americans use the expression we have in Australia of calling an idiot a “dickhead”? It seems very appropriate for this bloke.
Brings a whole new meaning to Dickin’s Cider.
Good old British ‘Carry On’ comedy strait out of the Pinewood Studios
Professor Sid James’ (Neil Ferguson) mother-in-law Hattie Jacques (Eileen Pirie) enter stage left to join Barbara Windsor (Antonia Staats) and her ‘odd’ hubby Kenneth Williams (Chris Lucas)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8294009/Neil-Fergusons-MOTHER-LAW-comes-defence-saying-believe-vilified.html
That Josh cartoon is really memorable.
I am certain Ferguson believes everything he says. He just believes it doesn’t apply to him, only us proles and drudges who are incapable of thinking for ourselves.
Only human
Anyone still maintains that the COVID farce was NOT a plot to accomplish a specific goal?
Apparently he did practise social distancing , he used a condom !