It’s a communist one-party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought…and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.
This insight has allowed Ferguson and other advisors to promote control of the virus above every other consideration and to keep it there.
When governments take control of a new aspect of our lives, they assume permanent accountability for it in the public and media mind. They know that they are far more likely to be called to account for any negative consequences of later relaxation than they are to be praised for its benefits. That’s why new interventions are very rarely eased, even by those who opposed them in the first place.
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Lockdown in Europe
Temporary Government Programmes-24 January 2021. Updated 25 January 2021
https://lockdownsceptics.org/challenging-covids-new-opportunists/
at Professor Neil Ferguson’s now-infamous Timesinterview in which he said, referring to China:
This insight has allowed Ferguson and other advisors to promote control of the virus above every other consideration and to keep it there.
When governments take control of a new aspect of our lives, they assume permanent accountability for it in the public and media mind. They know that they are far more likely to be called to account for any negative consequences of later relaxation than they are to be praised for its benefits. That’s why new interventions are very rarely eased, even by those who opposed them in the first place.
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