Readers of this blog will be aware that I view events in January 2020 as the key to properly understanding the Covid-19 pandemic and the Covid-19 epidemic in the United Kingdom.
The World Health Organisation's disastrous and predictably deadly approach to pandemics is the container for the United Kingdom's disastrous policy on Covid-19.
For detailed criticism of the World Health Organisation's approach to Covid-19 see my letter to Helen Clark and Ellen Sirleaf, co-chairs of the WHO's Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Responsed here:
Letter of 7th December 2020 to the International Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
The correct approach of the United Kingdom Government to Covid-19 would have been to close the United Kingdom border in January 2020.
See, for example,
The United Kingdom's border should have been closed on 31st January 2020
The failure to close the UK border in January 2020 was due to disastrously bad so-called "science" in January 2020 by the New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group (NERVTAG) and by the Scientific (sic) Advisory Group on Emergencies (SAGE).
NERVTAG and SAGE also provided advice to the Scottish Government.
Nicola Sturgeon had legal powers in January 2020 to close the Scottish border to International Travel.
Those powers to close the Scottish border to International Travel were provided by section 94 of the Public Health etc (Scotland) Act 2008.
Closure of Scotland's border in January 2020, if properly coordinated, would have prevented entry of the SARS-CoV-2 virus into Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon abjectly failed to use the legal powers available to her to protect the Public Health in Scotland.
As a result of Nicola Sturgeon's failure to act decisively in January 2020 over 3,000 residents of Scotland have avoidably died from Covid-19.
Those avoidable deaths are key to understanding why I view Nicola Sturgeon's initial response to Covid-19 as being as abjectly bad as Boris Johnson's initial response to Covid-19.
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