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Originally Posted by jfman

I’ve pointed out before the scientific evidence we followed in March pointed to that. There’s no real evidence to discredit that modelling that anyone has made available.

You can ignore the evidence as often as you please as it’s particularly uncomfortable for you, however in the absence of improved treatments or mitigation (of which lockdown is the ultimate mitigation) that’s where we end up.

I’m at a loss to who wins by wilfully ignoring the science. We aren’t going back to normal so we are stuck in limbo, where the village idiots think it’s a deep state conspiracy, and rational people want to avoid death for them and their loved ones. Is there someone out there hoovering up or shorting stocks? I’d genuinely like to know...

I’ve got a perfect grip of the issue at hand. It’s others floundering from one stance to another in denial, to what end is a mystery.

Here you go.

Indeed, Ferguson’s Imperial College model has been proven wildly inaccurate. To cite just one example, it saw Sweden paying a huge price for no lockdown, with 40,000 COVID deaths by May 1, and 100,000 by June. Sweden now has 2,854 deaths and peaked two weeks ago. As Fraser Nelson, editor of Britain’s Spectator, notes: “Imperial College’s model is wrong by an order of magnitude.”

Indeed, Ferguson has been wrong so often that some of his fellow modelers call him “The Master of Disaster.”

https://www.nationalreview.com/corne...s-in-disgrace/