Important stuff from Devi Sridhar on the role of the "scientific advisers" to the mad circus that pretended to govern the UK during #Covid.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/03/scientific-advisers-covid-inquiry-chris-whitty-scientists Personally I lost trust in them from the early weeks when they first appeared in public - I was traumatised by Vallance talking about herd immunity on 13.3.2020, see my chronology of the early days here: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2020/04/chronicle-of-disaster-foretold.html #CovidInquiry #DeathEaters #BoJo
I feared scientific advisers were being used by the government – the Covid inquiry shows they were
I told Chris Whitty at the time that scientists were providing cover for weak leaders taking harmful decisions, says Prof Devi Sridhar, chair of global public health at the University of Edinburgh