Yesterday. As an (I hope) intelligent layman, I am finding this radio interview to be at a very helpful level, so to speak, of scientific complexity. There’s plenty of science, but it is well explained.
Ivor Cummins’s work experience, so his Twitter feed tells us, has been as a “team leader” and as a “complex problem solving specialist”, which I take it means that he has experience of leading people with very varied types of expertise. So, he has lots of practice in talking clearly, in plain English, to enable such teams to work together effectively. With regard to each particular type of expertise being deployed, all the other experts in other areas are also “intelligent laymen”, so the man in charge has to be good an explaining complicated stuff clearly, to people not expert in it. So, I believe Cummins’s background has prepared him for the historically huge role he is now performing. The world now needs people to pull all the expertise of others together and to explain it convincingly, and from where I’m sitting, Cummins, more than anyone else, seems to be the man who is doing this.
Boris Johnson thinks he’s now Churchill in 1940, or at least he did a couple of months ago. Cummins isn’t Churchill either, but he’s a hell of a lot closer to being Churchill than Johnson is. Johnson thought that the “Nazi hoards” equivalent now was Covid itself, and he probably still does. But the real Nazi hoard equivalent is the crazy, panic-stricken and politically driven over-reactions to Covid. That’s what’s now doing the serious damage. And Boris Johnson is more like Lord Haw-Haw.
Have you signed the Great Barrington Declaration?
Set up by 3 leading epidemiologists asking for a change of approach by governments. As of this morning signed by c 4000 medical professionals and another 45,000 members of the public.
Alastair:
Yesterday I was having email problems, and sometimes when you say your email they email right back, and then, they might not have got through, which might have invalidated my signing, because of me not confirming it, or some such thing. So did nothing yesterday. But just now, did this.
Thanks for the nudge.
Just out of interest, and feel free to ignore the question, but, have you signed this Declaration?
Yes I have
And also, there’s this tweet:
“The number of signees of the Great Barrington Declaration appears to be increasing exponentially. Imperial model suggests 8 billion signees by January if no action is taken to suppress it.”