Should we Continue to Cover the Hallett Inquiry?
We received many public and private replies when we asked for your guidance on whether we should continue covering the U.K. Covid Inquiry. They were all constructive and reasonable, for which we thank you.
Given the tone of some of the replies, we have decided to keep covering the proceedings, limiting our remarks to the inconsistencies and analysing evidence (if any) cited.
We realise that this can be very resource intensive, so we need your help spotting any problems in the proceedings and helping us to get more subscribers, especially payers, to keep us going.
We have reason to believe that our pieces are widely read, and we are conscious of the weight of history on us. An independent critique of the proceedings is necessary for future use, but we are not looking forward to the workload. To lighten things up, once the inquiry is over, we promise to write a medley of memorable quotes from KCs and witnesses, perhaps to coincide with the festive season.
We are writing an open letter to Baroness Hallett, which you will be able to read in Trust the Evidence, but our coverage henceforth will focus on facts, evidence, gaps and contradictions. WhatsApps, gropes in the lifts, spats, personal attacks and seven-letter words we are leaving to the media to report on.
So, we will do as some of you asked us to do, but we leave you with a riddle: what is the strange case of Mr. Case?
Dr. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.
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Fantastic work Carl / Tom. I am sure I speak for a lot of people when I say you have no idea how appreciative I am of everything you have done. The cognitive dissonance I experienced during the pandemic was very disturbing. I felt like I had been picked up and placed on an alien world where I no longer understood those around me. Your sane writings and cogent analysis helped assure me I hadn’t quite gone mad.
It’s a cover up.
I’d like to be kept informed on how the process is being / has been compromised.
My personal enquiries ‘findings’ are already certain: nobody goes to jail despite the devastation of our way of life, the ruination of children’s education, the lonely deaths of our old folk, the murder by vaccination of thousands, the channelling of of £Billions to criminals, and praise and honour to the politicians and scientists who made it happen.
You can see by her face just how drunk on power the woman is!
Drunk yes but sky high too, it’s like crack to her.
Has anyone asked the Russell Brand question about her…?
Rhetorical question I assume
Back in about 2021 Carl did a podcast with Brendan O’Neil. In it he highlighted the role of simple neglect, not deliberate, but induced by fear & ppe regs on staff, in care homes & hospitals & the deleterious impact this had on elderly vulnerable people.
I think the Prof has that rare ability to combine a practical, empathetic yet rigorously academic mind so lacking in the other public figures.
I imagine taking the line he has has been unbelievably difficult. He should be lauded. The fact that the Inquiry attempted to belittle him speaks volumes about Lady Hallett & her side kicks.
OK this riddle is bugging me, and I’m normally good at riddles. Do you think he means ‘missed a case’? Well if it’s an anagram the best I could do is ‘scream’. Bah..I give up!
Not remotely on topic, however, does it seem to you this Yousaf guy in Scotland has a certain bee in his bonnet? Maybe unfair because it’s only a short clip and more context would be a help, but what is he banging on about? ( 45secs )
https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1717178853322358827
This inquiry is, quite simply, the ruinously expensive self gratification of the British establishment; an unedifying sight.
The reputations of those functionaries involved will not survive it.
They are an absolute disgrace!
But it has to be held up to the light of day so that all can see it for what it is.
‘Sunak’s Cabinet Secretary is expected to be gone for ‘a number of weeks’ on medical leave. Given the absence is expected to be relatively short (ministers are due to be briefed by the Prime Minister this week) there is unlikely to be a single stand in.
The Whitehall chief – who has come under fire in the past over Partygate as well as his advice on Boris Johnson’s finances – had been due to give evidence to the Covid inquiry about the government’s handling of the pandemic in the coming weeks. It was lining up to be a blockbuster appearance after a string of embarrassing WhatsApp messages. These include describing the government as a ‘terrible, tragic joke’ and claiming that under Boris his wife Carrie was the ‘real person in charge’.
Mr S of course wishes Case a speedy recovery – and that his Covid inquiry appearance can be rescheduled to a date he can make…’
Spectator (Steerpike) 22 Oct
It is clear that Hallett and the KCs have been set on to do a specific job which involves absolutely nothing to do with either science or, indeed “enquiry” in any sense other than the evidence given in Stalin’s Great Terror trial.
I don’t know how long it will take but a reasonable version of the truth will certainly come out, to the enormous dismerit of eggregious lickspittals like Hallett.
Amongst the more blatant issues that can hardly be massaged away even today, are the jabbing of young children at zero risk of Covid harm but significant risk of “experimental jab” harms; the blatant dishonesty of the attempts to demonise cheap and effective non-patent ultra safe re-purposed medications ( and even Vitamin D!!).
And not forgetting Pantsdown’s record of wild and incompetent doomsaying coupled with computing skills that a bright fifteen year old would rightly hold in askance , not forgetting his immortal hubristic claim that “WE REALISED WE COULD GET AWAY WITH IT”.
Beautiful post plan to steal much of its content.
Yes the fetid corruption and stupidity of the establishment must be mocked and ridiculed at every opportunity. This is personified by the stupid and evil women running the so called inquiry.
This lady should be embarrassed to have her name any where near this clown show. An inquiry? No. A coverup? You decide.
Thank the Lord for Dr Carl Henneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson because without them the sham inquiry would be worse still.
It is perhaps leading to ‘we should have locked down earlier.’ Rather than ‘never lockdown again!’.
I know from working with young people and families that the damage effect of lockdowns and all fatuous rules was and still damaging in my view.
Good luck to these two brave docs.
What we need is a People’s inquiry. Truly independent, not compromised by any conflict of interest, or direct involvement with the institutions that managed this unprecedented, scandalous medical disaster in our lives.
We, the people, should choose the team, from lay people with unblemished integrity, and medical professionals that dared offer an alternative opinion to the official narrative.
Asking Jeremy Farrar, who was intimately involved with the Wuhan cover up, to give evidence, is preposterous.
We should work with similar teams from other countries like NZ, Australia and Scandinavia and others, that are more honest and perhaps have less censorship.
Our Government and Parliament is utterly bereft of integrity and frankly has no credibility in wasting £200m of our money on this farcical sham that congratulates those that have deliberately abused us mentally and physically for the last 3 years.
We want criminal proceedings like some of the states in the US.
We must dedicate the rest of our lives to ensuring that this atrocity can never happen again and those involved are given the most severe punishment possible.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Any idea how to make it as inclusive as possible, and something ordinary people can relate to? Most people know TPTB don’t have their best interests at heart. Our country, and especially the NHS has gone to the dogs. I’m thinking is could be a way to wake people up to consider a new start politically rather than feeling they are powerless.