Shutting the borders in January would have bought us time, but it might have simply postponed the epidemic until the winter. Cummings is therefore wrong to suggest that it was "obviously" the right thing to do.
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So do the vaccines not work then? That's the impression you'd get from the way various members of SAGE are carrying on, warning of new waves and new variants and the need to delay the end of lockdown even further.
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At Lockdown Sceptics, we've asked our in-house doctor to take a look at the latest NHS data to see whether we really are on a 'knife edge' because of the Indian variant. Answer: Not even close.
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Following further pressure from SAGE on delaying Britain's unlock, the Prime Minister has said that Number 10 may have to "wait" for more data before pushing ahead with ending the lockdown.
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SAGE has laid the seedbed for more lockdowns in the future, warning that current Covid vaccines are unlikely to protect against new variants of the ever-evolving virus, the eradication of which is "extremely unlikely".
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In spite of a last-minute lobbying campaign by various SAGE panjandrums to postpone step three of the Prime Minister's roadmap, most parts of the U.K. will be easing restrictions on Monday. Praise the Lord.
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A central assumption of SAGE's latest model of doom is that the lockdowns are holding back the flood. When will the evidence from free states like Florida, Texas and South Dakota break through the groupthink?
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SAGE's claim that the Indian variant could mean 10,000 hospital admissions a day in mid-July assumes that between 30% and 60% of the U.K. population could become infected with the new variant in a single week. Yeah, right.
We've taken a look at the new modelling from Imperial, Warwick and LSHTM that led to headlines earlier this week saying SAGE was no longer predicting an apocalyptic 'third wave'. Unfortunately, it's not all good news.
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Ian Gallagher and Peter Hitchens have written a couple of good pieces in the Mail on Sunday about Professor Susan Michie, a leading member of SAGE. Why is this hardline Communist advising a Tory Government?
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