3/15/2023 0 Comments Blockdown conference![]() We were told we would die of AIDS, bird flu, of war in Europe after Brexit. ‘We now live in a culture saturated by fear. Parliament is delinquent, it declared itself non-essential by suspending themselves and sending MPs home while cleaners and bus drivers carried on as normal. Dr Lee Jones, reader in international politics from Queen Mary University of London, said: ‘This has been a highly disorganised response by a government making it up as they go along. They had all pored over the figures and facts, looking for the logic in government policies. Around 80 people attended in person while it was livestreamed to 250,000 around the world. There were 18 distinguished speakers, some who joined via video link from as far as South Africa and the US. The mission: ‘To critically evaluate the global response to Covid-19 and present a series of responsible pandemic exit strategies to help ensure that total harms are minimised.’ The conference was held at the Cavendish Conference Centre, central London, not far from the BBC in Portland Place. It was in an attempt to provide some perspective and sensible answers that Dan Astin-Gregory, the broadcaster whose Pandemic Podcast has consistently given a voice to scientists, doctors, economists, journalists and lawyers challenging the pandemic narrative, facilitated access to some of the brightest minds analysing how our world leaders have responded with Saturday’s event hosted by Question Everything. Investment minister Lord Gerry Grimstone said people were not under any legal duty to follow the app’s guidance and could still go to work while Number Ten said that businesses should be supporting pinged employees to self-isolate. Look at the latest advice on the ‘pingdemic’ caused by the NHS Test and Trace app sending into quarantine anyone alleged to have been contact with a positive Covid case. We have lost count of the number of U-turns the Tories have executed and are confused about the maze of restrictions and conflicting directives that change almost daily. It’s funny and astute, but the nightmare imposed on us by Johnson, Ferguson, Whitty and Vallance isn’t. Describing our volte-face Government, he said they had changed from ‘the Stasi to the Keystone Kops.’ MY favourite observation from Saturday’s Lockdown Summit came from Daily Sceptic editor Toby Young.
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