Guy Hatchard: Pandemic policy became a political vanity project with caution thrown to the winds

Matt Hancock, former UK Secretary of State for Health and now reality TV performer, has published his tell all diary of the pandemic which is being serialised by the Daily Mail.

Throughout the diary, petty politicking and Cabinet rivalry is on show, along with a casual disregard for caution and for those injured by vaccination. I can’t cover this in its entire detail, it is book length, but you can find daily short extracts for free at the Daily Mail.

On Friday June 19 2020 Hancock, who is an economist by training, wrote in his diary:

“A massive blow-up with Kate Bingham [Head of the Vaccine Taskforce. A venture capitalist with a background in the pharmaceutical industry]. She simply doesn’t see the need to order 100 million doses of the Oxford vaccine – she wants 30 million – and can’t seem to grasp almost everyone may want or need it”

According to the diary:

“Kate pressed her argument claiming that the technology that underpins the vaccine Oxford is working on ‘is neither proven nor scaled’, and that she has ‘an expert team who are working round the clock, pushing hard’.”

Hancock wanted to accelerate delivery of the vaccine and commented:

“This only seemed to wind Kate up further, prompting a mini-lecture about the dangers of trying to go too far too fast. ‘The worst case is that we kill people with an unsafe vaccine,’ she said. ‘We need to tone government communications to register the fact this is risky and unproven.’”

Hancock won the argument with the support of Cabinet and finished with: 

“If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s being patronised.”

Curious language indeed, the leader of the vaccine project was striking a sensible note of moderation, safety, and ethics. Biotechnology was known to be risky. The unqualified Hancock was annoyed because he was being warned by someone beneath his presumed rank. Kate Bingham’s warning didn’t slow him down.

Hancock reveals that in early 2021 he feared the vaccine rollout would have to be cancelled because 3 out of the first 400 recipients had in the words of the UK Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty “a massive reaction”.

Hancock’s diary entry reads: ‘We may well have to halt the entire vaccination rollout… Still feeling nauseous, I slumped into bed, knowing I wouldn’t get a wink of sleep.’

But first thing the following morning a member of Hancock’s private office rang and relayed: “All three had a clinical history of anaphylaxis”.

“I can’t remember ever being so relieved in my life,” Hancock’s entry reads.

These massive reactions and the advice that the technology was unproven and risky did not stop the government telling everyone, including the young, to take the jab.

The serialised diary reveals that Hancock is extremely proud of his work to push the vaccine rollout ahead of safety concerns. By 26 August 2021, Boris Johnson was beginning to realise that statistics showed Covid wasn’t actually as serious as they first thought and their policies had been a “catastrophic overreaction”. Hancock was not about to change course, his commitment to universal vaccination added to his rivalry with Boris, led him to discount and ultimately ignore the growing concerns.

One can only wonder how much our government was influenced by the determination of the UK government to ignore early advice warning that the biotech jabs were unproven, possibly unsafe and even lethal, and then plough on regardless despite severe adverse reactions among the first batch and the realisation that Covid infection was not usually serious.

Our government has never publicly acknowledged the fact that biotech vaccines pose unquantified and unique risks to health, some of which may manifest in the longer term. Jacinda Ardern, like Matt Hancock, chose to present a picture of safety and efficacy to the NZ public that was not supported by known science. The government further denied that the vaccine was experimental in character, something that was obvious to qualified persons.

Unlike our newspapers and media, the UK Daily Mail sometimes seems to have the courage to say it how it is. It reports at length the whistleblower book by Dr. Andrew Huff, the former VP of EcoHealth Alliance, who confirms what the Hatchard Report and others have been saying for a year—Covid was genetically engineered and leaked from the facility in China. Fauci knew more than he was prepared to publicly admit.

“EcoHealth Alliance and foreign laboratories did not have the adequate control measures in place for ensuring proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, ultimately resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology,” Huff said.

The army veteran, from Michigan, said EcoHealth Alliance, which was funded by US NIH, taught the Wuhan lab the “best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species” for many years.

“I was terrified by what I saw. We were just handing them bioweapon technology.”

In his book, the infectious diseases expert claims “greedy scientists killed millions of people globally,” and goes as far as to claim the US government covered it all up. To this day, the US government is still publicly claiming the source of the virus is probably zoonotic. Another example of how the promotion and protection of political reputations is taking precedence over truth.

Reading these two first-person accounts from protagonists at the forefront of pandemic scientific work or decision-making, one in the USA and one in the UK, we can’t help but be appalled. It is clear that politicians were determined to override and cancel any scientists who spoke for caution, whilst biotechnologists involved were in turn going to make sure that no one found out just how deadly their work was. In the end, both sides cooperated and, with the help of the pharmaceutical lobby, dragged the medical establishment and the media into their deception. You can apportion blame as you wish, there is plenty to go round.