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Good to know there is still people with courage to question the business, abuse of power, scam surrounding coronavirus

"2 million, in the USA, will die by summer 2020 even with lockdowns", "The science is settled", "trust the science", censor everyone contradicting mainstream narrative. What a debacle. And the backtrack on the virus origin is just the tip of the iceberg of the incompetent experts

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> Good to know there is still people with courage to question the business, abuse of power, scam surrounding|coronavirus

Equally good to know there are only twelve genuine idiots.

There are millions who distrust the mainstream narrative, only a few reputable public figures that dare to do the same

For idiots just turn on the TV and you'll find them by the thousands

>2 million, in the USA, will die by summer 2020 even with lockdowns

Which scientific paper/organisation even made this claim?

Neil Ferguson, Imperial College London, "study", this and others were used to advise govs and WHO to classify as coronavirus as a pandemic

He predicted this wrongly, and previous "pandemics"/outbreaks too

And he is still advising the UK government

Hmmm, looking around for a bit I assume you are talking about this study here https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... which notes the 2.2 million as a worst case scenario where nothing is done to stop the pandemic, which is obviously not what happened. Although I would agree that the government should be taking into account his previous forecasting when determining the accuracy and significance of his model.

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