A professor at Imperial College, whose discredited computer modeling led Britain to block earlier this year, is finally admitting where the inspiration behind the draconian measure originated. Tip: it is the same place of origin of the virus.
In an interview on Saturday with the London Times, Professor Neil Ferguson said that the inspiration for the blockade came from communist China. Ferguson said he was at first in doubt, then was surprised to see blockades implemented in Europe and then in the UK.
(Via The Times of London)
In 2019, around the time someone was infected with a bat, no pandemic plan by a European country seriously considered the prospect of putting a country on pause.
So, this is what China did. “I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control has changed dramatically between January and March,” says Professor Ferguson.
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“They claimed to have flattened the curve. I was skeptical at first. I thought it was a massive cover-up by the Chinese. But as the data accumulated, it became clear that it was an effective policy. “
Then, as infections spread across the world, appearing on the map like boils, Sage debated whether it would still be effective here. “It is a one-party communist state, we said. We couldn’t do it in Europe, we think. ”In February, one of these boils hit the Alps. “And then Italy did that. And we realized that we could. “
They saw the opportunity to seize power and seized it.
Ferguson published a report in mid-March using models that predicted that 2.2 million Americans and half a million Britons would die if the two countries did not implement rigid blocks. Faulty modeling played a critical role in the two countries’ decision to implement blockades earlier this year.