<p>A Nobel Prize winning scientist, who correctly predicted in the early days of the pandemic that the initial models were overestimating how bad the outbreak would be, said over the weekend that he believes that the lockdown may end up costing more lives than it saved, and that the economic devastation from the lockdown will outweigh the lives that were lost.</p>
<p>The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/05/23/lockdown-saved-no-lives-may-have-cost-nobel-prize-winner-believes/">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial trajectory of the pandemic, sent messages to Professor Neil Ferguson in March telling the influential government advisor he had over-estimated the potential death toll by &#8220;10 or 12 times.”</p>
<p>The Imperial College professor&#8217;s modelling, a major factor in the Government&#8217;s apparent abandoning of a so-called herd-immunity policy, was part of an unnecessary &#8220;panic virus&#8221; which spread among global political leaders, Prof Levitt now tells the Telegraph.</p></blockquote>
<p>&#8220;I think lockdown saved no lives,&#8221; Levitt said, adding that social distancing measures, hygiene, and wearing masks should have been sufficient. &#8220;I think it may have cost lives. It will have saved a few road accident lives &#8211; things like that &#8211; but social damage &#8211; domestic abuse, divorces, alcoholism &#8211; has been extreme. And then you have those who were not treated for other conditions.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think that the real virus was the panic virus,&#8221; Levitt continued. &#8220;For reasons that were not clear to me, I think the leaders panicked and the people panicked and I think there was a huge lack of discussion.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;I think the lockdown will cause much more damage than the deaths saved,&#8221; Levitt added. &#8220;The problem with epidemiologists is that they feel their job is to frighten people into lockdown, social distancing. So you say &#8216;there&#8217;s going to be a million deaths&#8217; and when there are only 25,000 you say &#8216;it&#8217;s good you listened to my advice&#8217;. This happened with Ebola and bird flu. It&#8217;s just part of the madness.&#8221;</p>
<p>Imperial College epidemiologist Professor Ferguson, who had claimed that 500,000 people in the U.K. would die without a lockdown, resigned in disgrace earlier this month after he was caught breaking the quarantine that he had advocated for to allegedly have an affair with a married woman.</p>
<p>Politico <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/05/british-corona-expert-resigns-as-government-adviser-over-lockdown-breach-238732">reported</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>A government spokesman confirmed Tuesday that Neil Ferguson had resigned from the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), after the Telegraph reported he had received at least two visits from his married lover and therefore broken social distancing rules.</p></blockquote>
<p>“I accept I made an error of judgment and took the wrong course of action,” Ferguson said. “I have therefore stepped back from my involvement in Sage.”</p>
<p>David Richards, co-founder of British data technology company WANdisco, <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/imperial-college-britain-coronavirus-lockdown-buggy-mess-unreliable">told</a> the Daily Telegraph, that the model created by Ferguson was a “buggy mess that looks more like a bowl of angel hair pasta than a finely tuned piece of programming.”</p>
<p>Richards added, “In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.&#8221;</p>
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