Do you know who Neil Ferguson is? You should.
This whole fiasco started with a modelling prediction from him.
His report is what all countries (except Sweden) based the lockdowns on. He predicted that unless the entire planet locked down for 18 months in complete isolation, there would be massive deaths. His report stated that just isolating the vulnerable elderly population would only reduce deaths by half.
Unfortunately, no one checked his background.
He had already demonstrated on numerous occasions that he was unable to predict anything. In 2002 he predicted that 150,000 people would die of Mad Cow Disease, but only 2704 died. His estimation was 55 times higher than the real number. A few years later, he predicted that 65,000 would die of Swine Flu and only 457 people died, his estimate was 142 times higher than the real number. His prediction that 200 million would die of the bird flu was 439,560 times higher than the real number of 455. He has a long history of overreacting and overpredicting.
He predicted that by June 2020, there would be tens of millions dead of covid. But by that time, the real number was 494,179, not tens of millions and even this number is questionable. This time he was off by millions.
The average age of death for covid is 80, with almost all who died having comorbidities. The virus has had little effect on young, healthy people.
Mr. Ferguson resigned in disgrace when he was caught having his mistress over for sexy time when he was supposed to be locked down and isolating, like the rest of the population was doing on his recommendation.
We are trapped in a lie. And the powers that be are desperately trying to make it seem like this was all worth it.