Boris Johnson is Still in Denial About Lockdowns
When he appeared at the Covid Inquiry this week, former Prime Minister Boris Johnson had a golden opportunity to get to the heart of the issue and denounce lockdown as unnecessary and harmful. But he blew it, says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya in UnHerd. Here’s an excerpt.
As a vocal Covid dissident and lockdown opponent throughout the pandemic, watching the U.K. Covid Inquiry these past few weeks has been a depressing experience. One gets the sense that both the people leading the inquiry and the vast majority of those questioned — the architects of the U.K.’s disastrously failed Covid policy — have learnt nothing.
At one point on Wednesday, Boris Johnson had a golden opportunity to get to the heart of the problem. The lead inquiry lawyer, Hugo Keith KC, asked the former Prime Minister whether the late March 2020 order to lock down the country was “absolutely necessary”. This was Johnson’s golden opportunity to confess the cardinal error of the U.K.’s pandemic strategy: that it imposed lockdown in the first place.
Instead, he averred that the U.K. had “no other tool” than lockdown available. Under questioning about his involvement in pandemic decision-making in January and February 2020, the ex-PM’s mea culpa centred on his regret that he had not “twigged” the seriousness of the Covid threat earlier.
One major problem with this reasoning is that by the time February 2020 rolled around, Covid was almost certainly more widespread than anyone realised because it had arrived earlier than anyone realised. In 2019, Chinese authorities delayed reporting the existence of the virus to the world. Studies of antibodies in stored blood and stored wastewater from across the globe — including Italy, the U.S., Brazil and elsewhere — found traces of Covid’s presence in autumn 2019, long before the world knew about it. Even a January 2020 lockdown would have been too late: our fate was sealed once the virus was abroad in the world.
“The inquiry has been marked by a studied lack of curiosity about the great control group of the pandemic: Sweden,” Dr. Bhattacharya continues. “But Sweden did better than nearly every other country on earth in protecting human life. It has among the world’s lowest cumulative age-adjusted all-cause excess deaths since the start of the pandemic. And it accomplished this feat without lockdown.”
Worth reading in full.
For the full story on early Covid spread, see here and here.
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Johnson has had so long to prepare for this day.
But he is SO LAZY and actually quite dim.
Knowing he was walking the steps to the scaffold anyone else would’ve been soaked in preparation
As Jay says his ‘get out of gaol’ card was “It was a mistake – here is the evidence”
”It was those pesky scientists wot did it”
But a media figure and light entertainment star was unlikely suited to High Office and difficult choices
I hope that is ‘au revoir Doris’
See also Ukraine.
Or his script producer/coach did not do a proper job. Who believes that he thought it through on his own?
U.K. had “no other tool” than lockdown available because the U.K. had “no other tool” than Boris Johnson as Prime Minster available.
I think he might be the biggest tool we’ve ever had…
This site’s loyalty to the ex-PM is quite remarkable.
I never expected him to recant. Why would he?
“I never expected him to recant. Why would he?”
Because it was his get out of jail card – he was under huge pressure from Whitty and Vallance and everyone knew he was instinctively against lockdowns. The reality is that the controllers behind the scenes closed off that option for him in order to maintain the deception.
I meant I never expected him to recant now, to say lcckdowns should not have happened.
Considering how swiftly Lizz Truss was beheaded by ‘the markets’ (ie, people holding sufficient government debt obligations to make an impact if they start selling them in numbers), I doubt there’s a jail Johnson could get out of.
Question which keeps nagging in my head: Who found him this woman and what persuaded her to stay with him? Or maybe the other way round: What did he agree for this to happen? Of all things which could exist on this planet, democratic politicians in love is IMHO about as probable as Transexual unicorn cavalary came to the resuce!
The “independent” Bank of England led the charge against Truss.
‘It was just a cockup’.
A coordinated G20 Medical Nazism was ‘just a cockup’.
All those planning sessions, all those confabs, the exact same messaging, words, change of the MCCD process, the endless rivers of money to report Rona cases and deaths, the paid fear porn…..all just a cockup.
His masters told him what to say.
Theyre all like a bunch of mob henchmen sticking to their story, if they know what’s good for them.
They know that if they break ranks it won’t be pretty. Exhibit A: Andrew Bridgen.
“…the architects of the U.K.’s disastrously failed Covid policy — have learnt nothing” I am sure somebody in the background has learnt everything they need to know. ie 1) how to manipulate the media and the public 2) how to suppress anybody that disagrees with the narrative 3) how much the public will comply with 1) and 2) and the mandates.
A cunning plan…
Excellent comment
“For the full story on early Covid spread, see here and here.” Should any novel, deadly disease spread around a country, there will unavoidably be a marked increase in deaths in that country. If there is no such increase, there is no such disease. Every week the German Statistics Office (Statistisches Bundesamt) publishes an Excel table with the number of daily, weekly and monthly deaths in Germany, covering the past 5 years. These data show that the number of deaths were initially lower in 2020 than in earlier years: this situation continued until November 2020 when deaths started a steep rise – hardly surprising considering the closure of hospitals and the associated cancellation of 908,000 operations (including 52,000 cancer operations) since March of that year. Angela Merkel had no data in March 2020 to support her announcement that a novel, deadly disease was spreading around the country. (Generally speaking, the Statistics Office data are available and roughly 90% correct after only 2 weeks.) Government data from other countries, e.g. Austria, Romania, Slovenia, also show no increase in deaths until late 2020, whereas, for example, France, Italy, UK do show a marked increase in deaths in March/April of 2020. Bearing in mind that viruses… Read more »
They said Sweden made the same “mistakes” with care homes, I wonder how common place this was across the West. The use of Medazolam has to be considered.
They did. But they didn’t make the same mistake with lockdown, instead relying on personal responsibility to deal with what was happening there. In the UK BIG state is the order of the day, regardless of the flavour of govt.
Intuitively, Johnson was against lockdowns and this was public knowledge at the time. Then something changed. We are told that his Covid hospital experience is what changed his mind, but that’s a sleight of hand; his supposed Covid hospital experience is what allowed him to change his mind. He became aware of something not in the public domain and was provided with a plausible excuse to change direction.
So were all the scientists against Lockdown, then, on the flick of a dime, they were all for them. So what changed. We know around March 16th they downgraded Covid from HCD to medium level threat, but that was about avoiding giving therapeutics ready for the jab rollout. The WHO pushed the Lockdowns in the World, they just didn’t think they could get away with it in the West until the “countermeasures” in Italy with the fake pics of bodies in a Hanger. Total Psyop. Maybe Boris close to death was faked too, who knows, that Nurse will know wherever she is.
“ We know around March 16th they downgraded Covid from HCD to medium level threat, but that was about avoiding giving therapeutics ready for the jab rollout. “
Correct. And this suggests that Big Pharma was running the show from way back. Appalling.
Nor will this be dissected at the
inquirywhitewash“Then something changed”
The orders from above.
Is it possible that the releases were unauthorised, happening a couple of years before planned and before all of the desired legislation was in place, and the people at the top decided in March 2020 to go early even though that meant being manipulated by those who had lost the vote?
Jennifer Arcuri on Boris’s crimes against humanity on GBN, say it isn’t so!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fe1SFiyDJCc
The inquiry decided before it officially started that we should of locked down earlier, harder and for longer so nothing Boris could of said would make any difference to the outcome of the inquiry.
Even if you disagree, are a lockdownista and ignorant of Sweden’s existence (btw, what happened to Belarus: no lockdown at all, football matches etc. all the time- is there anyone still alive?!) this farcical inquiry even omits to ask the really impirtant question about the one disastrous thing which only the UK did:
Making it’s health system COVID only for a year!
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“But he blew it, says Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.”
“Blowing it” is Johnson’s speciality, starting with the complete mess he made of Brexit
The Establishment wants the power to impose lockdowns again. That’s all the “Inquiry” is about.
Johnson’s best argument would have been “Sweden;” the Great Barrington Declaration and the support of the non-aligned Scientific Community. But he hopes to resurrect his political career sometime in the future and recanting over the economy-wrecking lockdowns would kill his hopes off forever.
It’s not that they’ve learned nothing.
They do know what they did, so do we.
It’s that they must cover up everything.
Thank you Jay you’re a hero in every sense. If only ….
He is a man without a country now. Moral of the story? When you try to please everyone, you ultimately end up pleasing NO ONE.
“Boris the Johnson”, sung to the tune of “Boris the Spider” by The Who, lol.