Lol. Let’s see if others share that faith after recommendations from Imperial College’s models swayed BoJo into shutting down the UK. You don’t need faith in science to check it works, but it’s increasingly clear most people are dumb and will beg for their own servitude if a computer model indicates they should. We would funnel people into ovens if a PhD advised us to.
Former IRA volunteer and ex-prisoner, spent 18 years in Long Kesh, 4 years on the blanket and no-wash/no work protests which led to the hunger strikes of the 80s. Completed PhD at Queens upon release from prison. Left the Republican Movement at the endorsement of the Good Friday Agreement, and went on to become a journalist. Co-founder of The Blanket, an online magazine that critically analyzed the Irish peace process. Lead researcher for the Belfast Project, an oral history of the Troubles.
Lol. Let’s see if others share that faith after recommendations from Imperial College’s models swayed BoJo into shutting down the UK.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t need faith in science to check it works, but it’s increasingly clear most people are dumb and will beg for their own servitude if a computer model indicates they should. We would funnel people into ovens if a PhD advised us to.
The shutdown should have two weeks earlier when it became that the UK's infection rate was tracking that of Italy.
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