considers “the potential cost and deaths from having a lockdown and weigh them up.”<\/strong><\/p>\nProfessor Scally insisted that “you can’t have a response to this virus that doesn’t take into account the economic factors, social factors and the psychological factors” and his department would definitely take these factors into consideration.<\/p>\n
He reiterated the over-used mantra that the bottom line is that\u00a0“we have to stop the virus – we have to stop it spreading,”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0and a second national lockdown is the best way to do so.<\/p>\nHowever,\u00a0when pushed on the cost, Scally told Maajid he hasn’t seen it,<\/strong>\u00a0to which Maajid asked the epidemiologist after explaining that the sum is \u00a32.4billion a day whether such funds could be spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n“I would imagine as a public health expert you would have some idea,”\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Maajid noted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nAnd that’s when Scally lost all ‘science’ credibility and barked back at Maajid:<\/p>\n
“Oh, don’t be silly, you are really now being stupid…”<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\nWhich Maajid did not take kindly to the President of Epidemiology & Public Health at the Royal Society of Medicine’s response.<\/p>\n
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“Is the scientific evidence for why we need to go into lockdown being compared with the scientific evidence for what happens if we don’t and then the death that can come from lockdown versus the death that can come from not locking down compared and the costs compared so we can have a holistic approach to it. Have you done that work?”<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n“I would have done that work if I was a member of cabinet,” Professor Scally said, when Maajid Nawaz turned the screw.<\/p>\n
Watch the full cringeworthy interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n
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