In this exclusive interview (banned by YouTube), former Pfi.zer Vice President Dr. Mike Yeadon discusses his thoughts as to why the lock.down was/is a mistake, and why the government strategies to manage the pand.emic are only making things worse.
Dr. Yeadon has argued that governments are using “lethally incompetent” scientific advice in their C-19 response. YouTube has not surprisingly taken down multiple uploads of this video in which the immunologist explains his point.
The UK government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) has got many things about the C-19 pandemic wrong, says Dr. Yeadon. He is an expert in allergy, immun.ology, and respiratory diseases, with over three decades of experience, including working as Pfi.zer’s vice president and chief scientific officer for 16 years. Apparently his credentials amounted to nothing, though, when digital ‘censors’ at YouTube noticed that he was criticizing the prevailing narrative on the necessity of lock.downs.
For its modelling, SAGE assumed that the entire population was susceptible to SA.RS-Co.V-2 when it first emerged in China last year. And it now considers that only a fraction of the public has been infected so far, based on the detectable presence of anti.bodies in their blood. These premises are behind the harsh restrictions currently in place everywhere, which are designed to prevent a massive and "deadly" outbreak of C-19.
According to Dr. Yeadon, the assumptions are totally wrong, and the worst of the disease is over, with C-19 falling into the background as a relatively nasty but otherwise ordinary seasonal respiratory disease. A significant part of the population was actually not susceptible to the vir.us, thanks in large part to cross-immunity from previously being exposed to other kinds of coron.avir.uses. Those range from the relatively exotic but closely related SA.RS-Co.V-1, the path.ogen behind the 2002–2004 SA.RS outbreak, to human coron.avir.uses causing the common cold.
The large number of positive C-19 tests is not indicative of the number of active cases, Dr. Yeadon believes. The common P.C.R test detects R.N.A remnants of the coro.navi.rus, but it cannot tell if they came from live vir.uses or those long conquered by the immune system. There are also false positives. Mass testing causes an increase in those, he says, as people less experienced in how to properly conduct tests are recruited to run them.
On the other hand, the percentage of people currently immune to C-19 is seriously underestimated because it is measured by the presence of antibodies in people’s blood, Dr. Yeadon argues. Antibody levels rise when an organism reacts to an active infection, but immune response memory – which determines whether the immune system is trained to beat a disease – is stored in T-cells. So, a person perfectly capable of standing up to C-19 may test negative for antibodies, he concludes.
Dr. Yeadon has made his case and explained why he believes SAGE’s advice to be “lethally incompetent” in a number of interviews, including a 30-minute sit in with Unlock UK, a lockdown-skeptical media outlet.
Western tech giants have been relentlessly pressured by politicians and legacy media to fight against misinformation on their platforms. Their idea of what constitutes misinformation seems to be closely aligned with prevailing narratives, while complaints about censorship mount from those challenging the mainstream narrative.
This seems especially true for C-19 response coverage, as many people find restrictions at best controversial and at worst a government assault on liberties. Just this week, the UK’s top counter-terro.rism police officer, Met Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu, advocated punishing those who spread “misinformation that could cost people’s lives,” like anti-vac.cination cons.piracy theories.
Dr. Yeadon, incidentally, argues that mass vacc.ination against C-19 is unnecessary, because the outbreak has almost run its natural course before an efficient vac.cine was even available.
