I have no problem with "expert" Neil Ferguson whose past predictions of doom (or "worst case scenario") has made Governments take stupid, extreme steps but I'm delighted to see him go. Perhaps now more moderate, sensible "experts" will begin to take control. Yes; this was a nasty virus, like Flu, for a small, targeted piece of society. Protection and treatment of that section (especially in care homes, hospices and hospitals) should have been far better and earlier. Instead, terrified by the media hype and exaggeration and influenced by people like Ferguson ("End of the World"), Governments clamped down, locked down, ruined millions of lives, directly caused deaths of cancer, stroke, heart attack, sepsis and other victims who should have lived, bankrupted companies, killed employees, provoked suicides and domestic abuse.

All because Ferguson and his bosses (Media - wanting "a good story") felt there was no harm in exaggerating. And politicians ("believe the experts" like "believe all false accusers") failed to see CONSEQUENCES of falling for the Hype.

GUILTY of murder.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52553229

This man may be foolish in terms of his romantic assignations - but there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that he didn't work on coronavirus, to the best of his ability

A highly experienced and reputable epidemiologist - who has worked on foot and mouth, MERS, ebola, dengue etc. - is somewhat unlikely to exaggerate his findings, for a media story.

Why would he? Experts like him build their reputations on being right, and ahead of the game - and although these chaps can't be right all the time - we're a lot better with them, than without them!


Trial and error (a lot of the latter) are an integral part of scientists' work - and they need a bit of luck too.

Like Fleming got, when he almost accidentally invented one of history's greatest drugs - penicillin.

Oh yes I don't condemn him for being seduced by Media Fame; I know how seductive it can be. I condemn government and gullible public for sucking up exaggerated stories and those "experts" prepared to predict the worst and warn against it as a "great story". He can romance who he likes; good luck to him. And her. Though I pity the cuckolded husband.

No, like you, Barney, happy not to examine the inflated tales - you are just a gullible idiot like the majority.

But when Governments also fall for it and unthinkingly accept "expert" opinions without examination or thought, despite constant evidence to the contrary, you get UK, France, Italy, Spain instead of South Korea, Greece, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan.

Trail and error and a load of buggy code that's so bad it's garbage. I am a retired software engineer btw. When they realised the output from their code was random garbage they just averaged the results

lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/