The scientists can’t bring themselves to admit they were wrong about Covid

May 2, 2024 by Jill

by Daniel Hannan, Daily Mail:

While Britons gladly gave up their freedom, Sweden got it right.

All the worst lessons are being drawn from Covid. In the event of a future pandemic, we seem set to make the same mistakes, only earlier, more aggressively and more repetitively.

Like generals gearing up to lose the last war, the world’s scientific and medical bureaucracies are doubling down on the remedies that failed last time: stricter lockdowns, compulsory vaccination, a bigger role for the World Health Organisation (WHO).

It was reported yesterday that, under the WHO’s proposed new pandemic treaty, due to be ratified in two weeks’ time, Britain would be forced to hand over a fifth of its drugs, vaccines and other ‘pandemic-related health products’ to the global bureaucracy.

The WHO is determined to be in control. Its initial draft contained a legal requirement for national governments to ‘follow its recommendations’ and force their citizens to do likewise.

Under pressure, those clauses have been made non-binding. But the direction of travel is clear. The WHO will lay down rules on quarantine, travel bans and the sharing of resources.

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