We posted this again in 2020 because the man who advised then Prime Minister Tony Blair during this fiasco was, as many will know, Prof. Neil Ferguson of Imperial College—the same man who also drove the lockdown policy during Covid-19.
Ferguson was sacked by DEFRA late in the 2001 pandemic, but the damage had already been done. Despite this, Ferguson was awarded an OBE in 2002 for his work during the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
We are posting this again because the same grave errors persist. Lessons remain unlearned, and these critical issues must be brought to the attention of the public.
Imperial College's mathematical models were used as a pretext for millions of cattle to be unnecessarily, inhumanely, and unhygienically slaughtered to 'prevent the spread' of foot-and-mouth disease.
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