Disastrously bad so-called "science" in the United Kingdom has caused tens of thousands of avoidable Covid-19 deaths in the UK

The background to this post is contained in a post on my Corona Shock blog: Disastrously bad so-called "science" at the World Health Organisation has caused over 1,300,000 avoidable deaths.

Disastrously bad so-called "science" at the World Health Organisation expressed in the International Health Regulations (2005) allowed the SARS-CoV-2 virus to spread freely internationally.

Without that failure at the WHO the Covid-19 pandemic would not have become established.

Without that disastrous failure at the WHO more than a million deaths from Covid-19 could have been (and should have been) avoided.

Do the failures by the World Health Organisation absolve UK scientists and politicians from blame for the tens of thousands of deaths in the United Kingdom from Covid-19?

I don't believe so.

The WHO failures allowed the pandemic to become established.

The UK scientists and politicians had a Duty of Care to protect the Public Health in the United Kingdom despite the existence of a pandemic.

To understand the criticism of UK scientific advisers that I seek to make in this post you need carefully to distinguish the Covid-19 pandemic from the Covid-19 epidemic in the United Kingdom. 

UK scientific advisers had no direct responsibility or ability to stop the Covid-19 pandemic.

UK scientific advisers, in my view, did have a direct responsibility, a Duty of Care, to protect the Public Health in the United Kingdom.

One part of that Duty of Care, in my view, was carefully to consider whether an epidemic of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom could be prevented.

My view is that the Covid-19 epidemic in the United Kingdom could have been prevented.

If the United Kingdom border had been closed on or around 31st January 2020 (with limited exceptions for essential deliveries of food etc), as outlined in June in this post: The United Kingdom's border should have been closed on 31st January 2020 entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into the United Kingdom would have been stopped.

If the SARS-CoV-2 had been stopped from entering the United Kingdom, Covid-19 infection in the UK would have been stopped and deaths from Covid-19 would not have occurred.

In other words, all, or essentially all, of the tens of thousands of Covid-19 deaths in the United Kingdom were avoidable.

Those tens of thousands of Covid-19 deaths could have been avoided by closing the UK Border (with tightly limited exceptions for essential food deliveries etc) on or around 31st January 2020.

In future posts I will seek to set out the reasons I see for the disastrously bad so-called "science" that has caused tens of thousands of avoidable deaths from Covid-19 by failing to secure a closure of the UK border on or around 31st January 2020.

In my view serious criticism can fairly be directed at

• Boris Johnson
• Chris Whitty
• Patrick Vallance
• The New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG)
• The Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE)
  

among others.

I expect it to take me multiple posts to set out all the disastrous mistakes which have led to so many thousands of avoidable deaths in the UK from Covid-19.