This is the guy who gave us the models that predicted 500k deaths in GB and 2.2 million deaths in the US which proved to be egregiously wrong. It is his information and advocacy that resulted in both countries being shut down.
Now it turns out that HE DOESN’T BELIEVE IN THE NEED FOR LOCKDOWN HIMSELF and it turns out that he’s closer to the CC movement than Joe Biden is to a young page. His trysts occurred on multiple occasions, the first of which was on a day when he gave a public press conference on the importance of the general public maintaining their lock down. In fact, he is nicknamed Dr Lockdown in GB.
His links to the radical left Climate Change contingent is quite concerning seeing as their goals appear to have been achieved with these terribly inaccurate models. Air travel is decreased by 95% and car use has decreased similarly.
It was already time to end the lockdown after we flattened the curve - that was all the Left said at the start. But now, they want more, even after achieving their goal. They want no deaths at the expense of the entire economy, and they have no endpoint other than the election (though they may try to get greedy for a full changeover to socialism).
I have said previously that I cannot remember an estimate being so far off and that an investigation was in order after this is done. Social distancing (especially as horrifically as we actually can do it) cannot account for the huge overestimate of deaths.
One has to seriously entertain the possibility that the estimates were intentionally bogus in order to achieve the goals of the radical CC people, and he needs to be investigated now.
Regardless of the results, we need to reopen now.
Link: https://nationalpost.com/news/world/british-lockdown-professor-steps-down-after-breaking-rules-to-meet-married-lover