An Imperial College professor whose discredited computer modeling caused Britain to stall earlier this year finally acknowledges where the inspiration behind the draconian measure came from. Hint: this is the same place where the virus appeared.
In an interview with the Times of London on Saturday, Professor Neil Ferguson said the inspiration for the blockade came from communist China. Ferguson said he was first skeptical, then surprised to see blockages implemented in Europe and then in the UK.
(Via The Times of London)
In 2019, around the time someone became infected with a bat, no pandemic plan of a European country seriously had the prospect of putting a country on hold.
Then that’s what China did. “I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control has changed quite dramatically between January and March,” says Professor Ferguson.
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“They claimed that they flattened the curve. I was skeptical at first. I thought it was a massive coverage of the Chinese. But as the data accumulated, it became clear that it was an effective policy. “
Then, as infections spread around the world, appearing like furious furies on the map, Sage debated whether it would still be effective here. “It is a one-party communist state,” I said. We couldn’t get rid of it in Europe, we thought. “In February, one of those boils stole right under the Alps. “And then Italy did it. And we realized we could. “
They saw the opportunity to take power and took it.
Ferguson released a report in mid-March using modeling that predicted 2.2 million Americans and half a million Britons would die if the two countries did not implement strict blockades. Defective modeling played a critical role in the two countries’ decision to implement blockades earlier this year.