A leading UK oncologist has slammed Australia’s “disgraceful” Covid response, describing lockdowns and mask mandates as “total madness” and claiming vaccines were largely ineffective at saving lives while causing “a lot” of adverse reactions.

Professor Angus Dalgleish, head of oncology at St George’s Hospital in London and a prominent Covid sceptic, sat down with 2GB host Ben Fordham on Thursday where he rated Australia’s response to the pandemic as “absolutely appalling”.

“I was hoping for something better because it was appalling in the UK,” he said.

“And then what we find is that Australia, New Zealand and Canada all overreacted exactly the same.”

Prof Dalgleish said the only country that “got it right long-term” was Sweden.

“Sweden made the same mistake as the UK initially, putting all of the people from hospital into care homes without checking them,” he said.

“But apart from that blip,

they didn’t have any lockdown mandates, they had no … mandates, the vaccines were for people over 70, and they’ve got the lowest excess death rate in the entire western world.”

Fordham pointed out that “meanwhile here in Sydney we were told we weren’t allowed to go five kilometres from our homes, at one stage we were wearing masks even when we were outdoors”.

“That’s absolute madness,” Prof Dalgleish said.

“The only reason you get people to wear masks is to instil a state of fear [in] them. I said right at the beginning, the very best mask, the smallest hole is three times bigger than the largest virus. There’s no science behind it whatsoever. You wear masks in theatres to stop you coughing into somebody’s abdomen or something, it’s not for viruses.”

Similarly he said keeping people locked indoors was “total madness”.



“If you get the virus naturally you can build up innate immunity to it, and they denied this,” he said.

“You just get exposed and you get stimulated. I’m a very good example. I never had Covid, yet I was working in an environment where my junior doctors and nurses were going down off for weeks on end. I tested myself in the end and I’ve got a very strong T cell response to the virus. So I knew I had it but I never had any symptoms. I think the reason is that I dosed myself up with vitamin D as I advised everybody else to do. I’m over 70 so I’m a so-called ‘at risk’.”

but carl the pensioner from perth is more knowledgeable then a UK professor and more honest then cochrane (the gold standard of peer review) 

Good info in your posts this thread, baron.

Thank you.


It is almost like the official reaction to covid worldwide was a conspiratorial one,
and that the official reaction to covid was 'rolled out'
with the intention to justify governments worldwide,
buying vast amounts of VERY EXPENSIVE pseudo vaccines.

pseudo = = not genuine; fake, pretentious, or insincere.

The WA Wastewater Surveillance Program tests untreated sewage for fragments of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. The program is constantly adapted to provide the most relevant data to the Department of Health.

Hey Carl

You're obsessed

This is not helping your  hypochondria

The Stanford University physician and economist, known for opposing Covid-19 lockdowns, has been tapped to lead the $47 billion biomedical research agency.

President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford University physician and economist known for his controversial views during the Covid-19 pandemic, as director of the National Institutes of Health.

Bhattacharya, 56, has advocated for a major shakeup of the agency and accused former NIH leaders Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci of suppressing scientific debate and research during the pandemic.

“The rot, having accumulated over decades, was plain for all to see,” Bhattacharya wrote earlier this month on the British news and opinion site UnHerd, in an endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick for health and human services secretary.

Health officials failed the public during the pandemic by supporting lockdowns, school closures and mandates, Bhattacharya wrote, adding, “Yet the officials continue to deny their own culpability, avoiding a long look in the mirror.”

“Jay and RFK Jr. will restore the NIH to a Gold Standard of Medical Research as they examine the underlying causes of, and solutions to, America’s biggest Health challenges, including our Crisis of Chronic Illness and Disease,” Trump said in a statement announcing his choice.

In a post to X, Bhattacharya said he was “honored and humbled by President @realDonaldTrump’s nomination of me to be the next @NIH director.”

Bhattacharya said he’d work to “reform American scientific institutions so that they are worthy of trust again and will deploy the fruits of excellent science to make America healthy again!,” echoing one of Kennedy’s themes. Kennedy called the Bhattacharya appointment “spectacular” in a post to X.

Other supporters of Bhattacharya’s lockdown critique also praised Trump’s pick. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who sparred with top NIH officials, including Fauci, during the pandemic and plans to reexamine the U.S. response to Covid-19 when he becomes chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee next year, congratulated Bhattacharya on X and said he had “no doubt” he would “lead the bipartisan reform the @NIH needs.


More here- https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/26/trump-picks-nih-critic-jay-bhattacharya...