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DANIEL HANNAN: The scientists can't bring themselves to admit they were wrong about Covid. While...

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We were told during Covid that Sweden would suffer mass fatalities. Instead, it had one of the lowest excess mortality rates in Europe. Does that not suggest that our response was wrong?

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.

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. ‘It is very clear right now that we have no sustained human-to-human transmission,’ it declared on 14 January. In fact, all human beings have their assumptions and prejudices – experts as much as anyone else. Recall, for example, the bizarre letter by 1,200 American public health professionals in June 2020 declaring that, in general, people must not congregate outside, but that it was different if they were protesting for BLM.

Think about that for a moment. We built a huge edifice of restrictions, travel bans and vaccine passports on the assumption that the jabs were protecting others, not just ourselves. If, as now seems to be the case, that assumption was false, then the justification for those prohibitions collapses.

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