Larry Hughes ✒ Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good horror story.

The year 2020 has certainly been a bit different to say the least. Since having to book a second flight to get home from Asia in late March, after a two-year teaching gig (first flight cancelled by the airline without refund or even the ability to contact them) it has been disbelief all the way. Standing in the Airport in KL a very few people were wondering about some military germ warfare virus having escaped from a lab somewhere and ‘they’ weren’t telling anyone the truth. Conspiracy theory on day one! That was one young woman’s initial fear who hailed from Birmingham,England and was trying to get home quickly before all hell broke loose.

Having a contract signed for April 12th at a school in Moscow I was hopeful a month or so might rectify the situation. The ‘experts’, or at least the government favorites, had other ideas. How long ago that all seems today in mid-November. As the year comes to an end, we now seem to have two main view points on this virus. One is that it is lethal and anyone who disagrees is a granny killer and a selfish conspiracy theorist. 

The designated government ‘experts’ in USA, Ireland and UK (Fauci Holohan and Witty) are all on the same page, the page of the four (or three) horsemen of the apocalypse and doom and gloom for breakfast lunch and supper is the only thing on their menu. We are All ‘going for our tae’. This has been supported by a MSM which has permitted no alternative narrative or even debate. The BBC, for the last eight months has been nothing more than the 24/7 Covid19 self-harm station. The other viewpoint, is that the government got it all wrong on bad advice, that there was no need for the lock downs or mask wearing and if those who are vulnerable were cared for properly life could continue as close to normal as possible. So, what are the facts rather than the hysteria? Let’s just look at the man behind the lockdown strategy for a start. Then some of our ‘leaders’ behaviour during this life and death crisis.

The Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson was initially opting for containment rather than an attempt to eliminate the Covid-19 virus. Talking herd immunity. This policy was changed after Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London presented the hapless Boris with a Modelling report which claimed 500,000 Brits would die if lock down and other drastic measures were not introduced quickly. If guidelines on lockdown were implemented then this could be reduced to 260,000. If enforced for two or three years as few as 20,000 a year may die from Covid19. As far back as May 17th The Mail On-Line was running a story on how Professor Lockdown Ferguson had already resigned and other experts in UK and USA were basically trashing his modelling and exposing it for what it was; incompetent and outdated by at least 13 years with zero basis in fact.

‘Modelling from Imperial College London epidemiologist Professor Ferguson, who stepped down from the government's Sage group at the start of May, has been described as 'totally unreliable' by other experts. The coding that produced the sobering death figures was impossible to read, and therefore cast doubts on its strength, The Telegraph reported. It is also some 13 years old, it said’.

Neither the resignation of Ferguson from SAGE or the other countless science experts and Medical professionals who disagree with or even dispute the official narrative in a limited or moderate way can get an airing on MSM. So, as Peter Hitchens suggests on Talkradio November 16th 2020, it would seem the government has been panicked by Ferguson, then panicked everyone in the UK and now having grabbed the Covid19 tiger by the tail and committed to lockdowns, are refusing to concede they got it wrong. They are going to flog this dead horse to death all over again and again in the cause of personal political survival, which is quite ironic, but hardly new. Ferguson has gone and his work has been totally trashed yet none of that is worthy of exposure. When other scientists have tried to replicate the findings using the same model, they have repeatedly failed to do so.

Prof Ferguson's model is understood to have single-handedly triggered a dramatic change in the Government's handling of the outbreak, as they moved away from herd immunity to a lockdown. Competing scientists' research - whose models produced vastly different results - has been largely discarded, they claim. David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco said the Ferguson model was a 'buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming'. He said: 'In our commercial reality we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.'

So much for Ferguson. If the saying ‘actions speak louder than words’ means anything then let’s look at the actions of those in government. Dominic Cummings drives the length of England to visit his parents who are in their 70s and surely ‘vulnerable’? The Scottish health minister, or chief medical officer, no less, drove to her second home Twice for a beak during the first lockdown. Irish TDs, 90+ of them, attended a golfing dinner and piss-up only hours after telling everyone else to stay home and isolate. Some other Irish minister flew off to Italy early on for a family holiday. Oh, and yes, Professor Lockdown himself… well he has also been having his cake and eating it.

Professor Ferguson stepped down from his role on Sage, the board of scientists advising the government through coronavirus pandemic, at the start of the month after it was revealed he had broken lockdown rules he helped to inspire. It was revealed Professor Ferguson had invited his lover, Antonia Stats to his London flat, while the British public was being told to stay home.

It is really a case of do what I say and not as I do. But remember, there is a lethal virus outside your door just waiting to get you. Apart from convincing people on the back of false data and make believe in the case of Ferguson’s modelling that people without symptoms are sick and a disease riddled menace to the general public, getting people to applaud the NHS each Thursday evening while cancer patients, those in need of dialysis and cardiac patients were all left without treatment was a master stroke. Pure genius I suspect from the unelected reptile Cummings who has now vacated 10 Downing Street and left Boris in hiding for two weeks to get over the shock. Boris already had Covid-19, seemingly, and a test would quickly confirm if he was OK. However, two weeks R+R is the choice for Boris. Like Boris and the BBC and MSM I am being lazy and focusing on one ‘expert’ mainly, Lockdown Ferguson. If people want to be scared witless or are just enjoying a year off work, fair enough, just Carry On Covid and refuse to let the facts get in the way of a good ‘horror story’.

You know you Love It.

Professor Neil Ferguson - who led the team that helped to convince
ministers to introduce strict rules on social distancing -
breached them himself by meeting his married lover.
Photo Daily Mail

⏩Larry Hughes is a history and politics enthusiast who casts a cynical eye over the "scamdemic". 

Carry-On Covid-19

Larry Hughes ✒ Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good horror story.

The year 2020 has certainly been a bit different to say the least. Since having to book a second flight to get home from Asia in late March, after a two-year teaching gig (first flight cancelled by the airline without refund or even the ability to contact them) it has been disbelief all the way. Standing in the Airport in KL a very few people were wondering about some military germ warfare virus having escaped from a lab somewhere and ‘they’ weren’t telling anyone the truth. Conspiracy theory on day one! That was one young woman’s initial fear who hailed from Birmingham,England and was trying to get home quickly before all hell broke loose.

Having a contract signed for April 12th at a school in Moscow I was hopeful a month or so might rectify the situation. The ‘experts’, or at least the government favorites, had other ideas. How long ago that all seems today in mid-November. As the year comes to an end, we now seem to have two main view points on this virus. One is that it is lethal and anyone who disagrees is a granny killer and a selfish conspiracy theorist. 

The designated government ‘experts’ in USA, Ireland and UK (Fauci Holohan and Witty) are all on the same page, the page of the four (or three) horsemen of the apocalypse and doom and gloom for breakfast lunch and supper is the only thing on their menu. We are All ‘going for our tae’. This has been supported by a MSM which has permitted no alternative narrative or even debate. The BBC, for the last eight months has been nothing more than the 24/7 Covid19 self-harm station. The other viewpoint, is that the government got it all wrong on bad advice, that there was no need for the lock downs or mask wearing and if those who are vulnerable were cared for properly life could continue as close to normal as possible. So, what are the facts rather than the hysteria? Let’s just look at the man behind the lockdown strategy for a start. Then some of our ‘leaders’ behaviour during this life and death crisis.

The Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson was initially opting for containment rather than an attempt to eliminate the Covid-19 virus. Talking herd immunity. This policy was changed after Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London presented the hapless Boris with a Modelling report which claimed 500,000 Brits would die if lock down and other drastic measures were not introduced quickly. If guidelines on lockdown were implemented then this could be reduced to 260,000. If enforced for two or three years as few as 20,000 a year may die from Covid19. As far back as May 17th The Mail On-Line was running a story on how Professor Lockdown Ferguson had already resigned and other experts in UK and USA were basically trashing his modelling and exposing it for what it was; incompetent and outdated by at least 13 years with zero basis in fact.

‘Modelling from Imperial College London epidemiologist Professor Ferguson, who stepped down from the government's Sage group at the start of May, has been described as 'totally unreliable' by other experts. The coding that produced the sobering death figures was impossible to read, and therefore cast doubts on its strength, The Telegraph reported. It is also some 13 years old, it said’.

Neither the resignation of Ferguson from SAGE or the other countless science experts and Medical professionals who disagree with or even dispute the official narrative in a limited or moderate way can get an airing on MSM. So, as Peter Hitchens suggests on Talkradio November 16th 2020, it would seem the government has been panicked by Ferguson, then panicked everyone in the UK and now having grabbed the Covid19 tiger by the tail and committed to lockdowns, are refusing to concede they got it wrong. They are going to flog this dead horse to death all over again and again in the cause of personal political survival, which is quite ironic, but hardly new. Ferguson has gone and his work has been totally trashed yet none of that is worthy of exposure. When other scientists have tried to replicate the findings using the same model, they have repeatedly failed to do so.

Prof Ferguson's model is understood to have single-handedly triggered a dramatic change in the Government's handling of the outbreak, as they moved away from herd immunity to a lockdown. Competing scientists' research - whose models produced vastly different results - has been largely discarded, they claim. David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco said the Ferguson model was a 'buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming'. He said: 'In our commercial reality we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.'

So much for Ferguson. If the saying ‘actions speak louder than words’ means anything then let’s look at the actions of those in government. Dominic Cummings drives the length of England to visit his parents who are in their 70s and surely ‘vulnerable’? The Scottish health minister, or chief medical officer, no less, drove to her second home Twice for a beak during the first lockdown. Irish TDs, 90+ of them, attended a golfing dinner and piss-up only hours after telling everyone else to stay home and isolate. Some other Irish minister flew off to Italy early on for a family holiday. Oh, and yes, Professor Lockdown himself… well he has also been having his cake and eating it.

Professor Ferguson stepped down from his role on Sage, the board of scientists advising the government through coronavirus pandemic, at the start of the month after it was revealed he had broken lockdown rules he helped to inspire. It was revealed Professor Ferguson had invited his lover, Antonia Stats to his London flat, while the British public was being told to stay home.

It is really a case of do what I say and not as I do. But remember, there is a lethal virus outside your door just waiting to get you. Apart from convincing people on the back of false data and make believe in the case of Ferguson’s modelling that people without symptoms are sick and a disease riddled menace to the general public, getting people to applaud the NHS each Thursday evening while cancer patients, those in need of dialysis and cardiac patients were all left without treatment was a master stroke. Pure genius I suspect from the unelected reptile Cummings who has now vacated 10 Downing Street and left Boris in hiding for two weeks to get over the shock. Boris already had Covid-19, seemingly, and a test would quickly confirm if he was OK. However, two weeks R+R is the choice for Boris. Like Boris and the BBC and MSM I am being lazy and focusing on one ‘expert’ mainly, Lockdown Ferguson. If people want to be scared witless or are just enjoying a year off work, fair enough, just Carry On Covid and refuse to let the facts get in the way of a good ‘horror story’.

You know you Love It.

Professor Neil Ferguson - who led the team that helped to convince
ministers to introduce strict rules on social distancing -
breached them himself by meeting his married lover.
Photo Daily Mail

⏩Larry Hughes is a history and politics enthusiast who casts a cynical eye over the "scamdemic". 

16 comments:

  1. The facts are that Covid-19 is ten times more lethal than ordinary flu; thousands had already died in Northern Italy and Spain before the inevitable mortality rate in the UK assisted in no small measure by superspreading evens such as Cheltenham Race Festival; Liverpool v Atletico Madrid Champions League fixture and Six Nations Rugby.

    Infections had been spreading in the hundreds rather than lower double figures (which is what Boris wanted us to believe) in the early months of this year yet Boris kept telling us that there was no problem with being in close proximity to each other and with shaking hands (cheery advice which nearly had mortal consequences for him).

    People with learning difficulties are six times more likely to die from Covid-19 yet shamefully are sixth in the queue for vaccination which is topped by the 'worried well' elderly.

    Because the UK government has handled the pandemic with monumental incompetence does not detract from the medical and social actuuality of it with a million deaths and counting world wide. Has Larry and other Covid sceptics read any stories from loved ones of those who have died before their time; BAME nurses and busdrivers for example.

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  2. Larry Hughes comments

    Neil Ferguson who I did the article on regarding fantasy modelling on covid19 has been brought back by Boris and is behind this new strain of virus theory which has led to this latest lockdown again on fantasy worse case scenario "modelling" and has now the UK "not Brexited" but isolated and refused entry by practically the entire planet.

    It seems his panic doomsday fantasy nuclear modelling was also responsible for every cow sick or not being culled in the 80s during the mad cow disease. If in doubt kill them all. Ferguson is a danger to society.

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  3. Barry,

    Has Larry and other Covid sceptics read any stories from loved ones of those who have died before their time; BAME nurses and busdrivers for example.

    Nope. But I have read the official documentation from the WHO , World Economic Forum. Bill and Melinda gate...John Hopkins EU. Throw into the mix countless reports from nurses and doctors arcross this rock who disagree with MSM and the line most, if not all governents are pushing. And once you actually do some research...You'll discover the scandemic was scripted years ago.....Here is part of the script in comic book form...


    Infected....(Publications Office of the EU)......

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    1. Frankie

      Why are you so attracted to and captivated by conspiracy theories? Just wondering.

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  4. As I have said before, I do trust the knowledge base around Covid-19.

    You can believe what you want to believe over the pandemic and live your life by it; just do not infect others with your nonsense ...

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      Barry

      Just don't infect others with your nonsense?

      How about instead of getting fools to applaud a devastated NHS the government sufficiently fund it and pay those employed within it? Maybe then it could cope with a nasty version of a seasonal flu. Also Barry if YOU want to hide under the bed that's your choice just don't expect us all to dive down in there with you. Panic merchants like you can't be permitted to prevent normal people living their lives... hey Barry what did you do during the covid19 WW3 ..oh I hid under the bed son and fukn wrecked society and local businesses.

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    2. Fecking great to have Mr Hughes back!

      "How about instead of getting fools to applaud a devastated NHS the government sufficiently fund it and pay those employed within it? Maybe then it could cope with a nasty version of a seasonal flu. "

      I agree but we'd need some serious funding, the likes of which the cunts can find no problem when they want a war.

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  5. Barry,
    Dr Gabbard from the WHO conceded the lockdowns have lasted far longer than anticipated and as a result the economic recession will kill far more people than the lockdown saved, if they saved any.
    Here's my question for you, any time I discussed this with you, you brought up BAME, clearly skin pigmentation was a factor for you and the implications were there that being sceptical of lockdowns was somehow racist. Now that the numbers are out and the countries in which poverty means death are primarily populated by black or brown people, by your own logic, does supporting lockdowns make you racist?

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    1. David

      As you have not supplied a reference to the said Dr Gabbard, I cannot give a proper reply.

      But it is an undoubted epidemiological fact that Covid-19 in the UK has had disproportionate on BAME communities and poorer socio-economic groups generally.

      I have never suggested that opponents of lockdowns are directly racist; they are primarily ignorant of science.

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  6. Larry

    My comment was actually directed at Frankie.

    Yes fund the NHS properly but there is no contradiction between that stance and agreeing with the scientific evidence that Covid-19 is a distinctive and deadly flu strain and not a seasonal flu and supporting the appropriating public health measures.

    Covid-19 is real and to paraphrase the public health on AIDS in the 1980s, I have no intention of dying of ignorance; particularly that of the anti-vaxxers, anti-lockdowners and Covid conspiracists. Do the death tolls in the USA and Brazil not tell you something?

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  7. 'Nearly 524,000 deaths have been registered in total compared to just over 442,000 seen in the same weeks, on average, in the last five years.'

    Ref: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55411323

    That's an 81,361 excess in the last 11 months
    79,351 of which mention Covid-19 on the Death Certificate
    Translates at almost 1,750 excess deaths per week in the UK

    As many excess deaths have occurred every fortnight in the UK as happened over the 30 year timeline of the conflict in the 6 Counties

    Take a moment to digest the import of those figures

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  8. Henry,
    People have been digesting these figures from the get go. I don't see why yourself, Barry and Steve and others can't see the damage these lockdowns will do.
    At the start I was giving people the benefit of the doubt but now the numbers are out I don't see your argument. 81 thousand deaths out of 60 million people over a year, that's lower than other causes of death of other illnesses. That's why you wanted to shut down a global economy, many deaths will that cause. I thought you were a globalist? Where's your global solutions for global problems mantra now? Western society hides under the bed bidding for a vaccine while the rest of the world can go fuck itself.
    These lockdowns were driven by irrational fear and self interest. If you're going to post death numbers to posture, contextualise them.

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  9. Barry,
    I don't know how to provide links. Can't be that hard to find. Julia Hartley Brewer has epidemiologists on her show just about everyday. None of them, pro or anti lockdown can provide empirical evidence that lockdowns saves lives, so what science are people ignoring?
    Back to the BAME are we? What about indigenous black and brown people across the globe, can they go fuck themselves? Does it not score as many points on the virtue signalling score board to defend them the way you do the BAME community in this part of the world, rather heroically.
    You're talking to someone from a poor socio economic community. Let me makes this as clear as I can, we don't need Guardian readers to defend us, we'll be alright, your dealing with a different mentality, we don't go to counseling if we think life's a bit unfair. You leave us out your pontificating, you stick to defending the BAME community, god knows what they would do without you.

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    1. just copy and paste the URL from the top of the page you want to link David. If you are like me you will rarely read them. We used to have a loopy lawyer here who would post links by the dozen but never one that contradicted what he believed. Saw no point in opening any of them

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    2. David

      I am merely contributing to a discussion on this forum; not speaking from a position of Guardian reading, do-gooding class mediated power; which you assume I do without any knowledge of my own circumstances. I bring my own insights, analysis and opinion, as do other TPQ contributors, which I try to evidence.

      I really cannot understand why you are so touchy. I suggest you own your stuff and not project it onto others.

      Yes lockdowns are having a catastrophic economic impact but the preservation of life and health must always be the Number One priorities of government.

      New Zealand, Taiwan, South Korea as democracies and China and Vietnam as one-party states have shown how to counteract the virus while lessening the damage on their economies because these countries have shared characteristics like social solidarity, active state and respect for scientific expertise.

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  10. "now the numbers are out I don't see your argument"

    Confirmation bias David or are you just blinded by your prejudices?

    Those are the figures for excess deaths, that's the number of deaths over and above the average numbers for the same period and calculated from the data from the preceding five years.

    Anyone with even the most basic of numeracy skills will surely be capable of differentiating between less and more
    The current death rate is 18.4% more than what might be predicted.

    If those figures are accurate, and I can't see valid reason to doubt them, there have been 81K+ more deaths, 81k+ over and above the rolling average of the previous 5 years
    79K+ of which have Covid-19 mentioned on their death certificates
    That leaves an increase in deaths from other causes, causes such as increased suicide or from hospital treatment interruptions, of 2k approx.

    2k verses 81k
    So the secondary excess deaths are about 2/3%
    Excess Covid related deaths making up 97/98% of the total excess

    Anyone blind the significance of those figures ought consider some general remedial help, or failing that to finding a copy of 'The Dumb Guide to Basic Maths'

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