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   On 14/02/2024 11:39, Bob Latham wrote:   
      
   > Surely you remember that we had professors of serious note like   
   > Sunetra Gupta who were completely shut out of the conversation   
   > because politicians had decided what the truth was going to be and   
   > only allowed doctors who agreed with the narrative to speak. Perhaps   
   > you were unaware of the group that formed of viral experts from   
   > across the globe offering an alternative view which was shut out.   
   >   
      
   Sunetra was significantly wrong, in that she underestimated the   
   infection fatality rate. I think with hindsight the lockdowns were bad,   
   but without hindsight they were the right thing to do.   
      
   Hopefully, for the future, politicians have come up with plans to   
   protect the elderly, so the rest of society can continue to function   
   with the need for lockdowns, if the same sort of disease strikes again.   
   Hopefully they have also come up with plans for different scenarios too.   
      
   > The models were from that well known Prof Neil Ferguson otherwise   
   > know as pants down because he didn't believe his own model when it   
   > came to his sexual desires and broke the rules.   
   >   
      
   The models were approximately right.   
      
   Ferguson had already been infected with Covid by the time he was caught   
   with his pants down. At that time, with few mutations, there was a   
   period of post infection immunity, in scientific terms he actions were   
   of negligible risk to himself, and very small risk to society. A bit   
   like the parties at number 10.   
      
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