So, there you have it. We warned you.
Professor Mark Woolhouse is a member of SPI-M, SAGE’s modelling group, which advises the British government on lockdown measures.
SAGE has a reputation for forecasting apocalyptic COVID scenarios that never come close to materialising, such as last year’s prediction that Omicron might cause 6,000 fatalities per day in the UK if more limits are not imposed.
Omicron caused nothing like the same number of fatalities as SAGE suggested earlier in the summer, despite the fact that far stricter restrictions were not applied.
Woolhouse expresses sorrow for SAGE’s role in advocating lockdown measures that caused massive havoc but only served to slow the spread of the epidemic in a new book titled The Year the World Went Mad.
Woolhouse said “We knew from February [2020], never mind March, that the lockdown would not solve the problem. It would simply delay it,” and went on to say that no one in government seemed to realise the strategy’s failure.
“The early global response to the pandemic was woefully inadequate,” Woolhouse argues, adding that the WHO’s praise for China’s draconian “zero COVID” strategy laid the stage for future calamities....<<<Read More>>>....