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2020-05-25 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Lockdown saved no lives and may have cost them, Nobel Prize winner believes
[The Telegraph] Lockdown caused more deaths than it saved, a Nobel laureate scientist said on Saturday, as he predicted the UK would emerge from Covid-19 within weeks.

Michael Levitt, a Stanford University professor who correctly predicted the initial trajectory of the pandemic, sent messages to Professor Neil Ferguson
[an A1 wanker]
in March telling the influential government advisor he had over-estimated the potential death toll by "10 or 12 times".

The Imperial College professor's modelling, a major factor in the Government's apparent abandoning of a so-called herd-immunity policy, was part of an unnecessary "panic virus" which spread among global political leaders, Prof Levitt now tells the Telegraph.

Prof Levitt, a British-American-Israeli who shared the Nobel prize for chemistry in 2013 for the "development of multiscale models...[subscription req'd]
Posted by Clem 2020-05-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ]  Top

#1 At the very beginning, Levitt predicted that CV19 will kill, at most, 10 people in Israel.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 01:36||   2020-05-25 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Young people are indeed leaving areas overlord controlled ares. Locating in states having more freedom and less infection. No masks. No social distancing. Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost.
Posted by Dale 2020-05-25 04:19||   2020-05-25 04:19|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ Police ticketing actively to restore revenues lost.

There as well eh ?
Posted by Besoeker 2020-05-25 05:50||   2020-05-25 05:50|| Front Page Top

#4 Follow the Science!

What Science?

The Science we agree with!
Posted by Dacama  2020-05-25 07:02||   2020-05-25 07:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Levitt did get a Nobel Prize after all.

Oh, wait, but so did Obama...and al-Gore. Never mind.
Posted by Clem 2020-05-25 12:42||   2020-05-25 12:42|| Front Page Top

#6 #5 In biophysics - his area are quantum processes in macromolecules.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-05-25 13:20||   2020-05-25 13:20|| Front Page Top

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