He’s just repeated the lie that we record “all deaths in all settings” in the official number. It’s no surprise people fall for it.
Off Topic Coronavirus
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Given the ONS data today aren’t we due another giant readjustment of the death figure, which I think they did last time the ONS released new info.
Watched a few. Seen some kiddie graphs they did and then had to change when people asked why they were misleading people. Apart from that these briefings dont really tell us much at all
Would be great if the spirit did continue. There are plenty of ****wits out there who will try to take the piss with this app. It could be a good thing but could also give totally false information. Not for me.
He hit it on April 30th by sending 40,000 kits out on that day...how many are back and have worked please?
75-78,000 again today
Why oh why, just say...we will try our best and we will increase the capacity each day as much as we can.
It is not a point scoring exercise....it is a doing ther best we can exercise
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It’s a protecting the party and positive propaganda exercise in the main. If they can save some lives it’s a bonus.
Can’t blame him for that.
Shame he didn’t resign for not being a very good disease modeller:
- 2001
Professor Ferguson worked on research that led to the mass culling of hundreds of thousands of farm animals during the 2001 foot and mouth disease epidemic. His work was later challenged in reviews by other academics.
- 2002
Predicted that between 50 and 50,000 people could die from exposure to BSE (mad cow disease) in beef. He also predicted that number could rise to 150,000 if there was a sheep epidemic as well. In the UK, there have been fewer than 200 deaths from the human form of BSE
- 2005
Prof Ferguson claimed that up to 200 million people could be killed from bird flu. In an interview with the Guardian, he compared it to the 1918 Spanish flu, adding: “There are six times more people on the planet now so you could scale it up to around 200 million people probably.” Only several hundred people died worldwide.
- 2009
The Imperial team predicted that swine flu had a case fatality rate of between 0.3 per cent and 1.5 per cent, with his most likely estimate landing at 0.4 per cent. A Government estimate based on his advice was that a reasonable worst-case scenario was the disease would lead to 65,000 UK deaths. Swine flu killed just 457 people in the UK, with the chief medical officer concluding in 2009 that the actual mortality rate was 0.026 per cent.
- March 2020
A paper produced by Prof Ferguson’s team predicted that the coronavirus pandemic could lead to 250,000 deaths in the UK unless stringent lockdown measures were implemented. His research is said to have convinced the Government to change direction.
- May 5 2020
Professor Ferguson quits the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies (Sage) after The Telegraph confronts him over his married lover visiting him at his home, thereby breaking the lockdown rules
He’s a bit of an attention seeker, now he’s got some.
