A visiting medical professor from the UK shocked radio host Ben Fordham by taking harsh aim at lockdowns, quarantines, masks and Covid vaccines.
Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at the prestigious St George’s University in London, who also sits on the European Commission’s Cancer Board, said Fordham Australia’s response to Covid was “absolutely appalling”, “crazy” and “shameful.”
His unconventional views fly in the face of the recent Covid Response Inquiry verdict that “Australia fared well compared to other nations that experienced greater loss of life, health system collapse and more severe economic crises.” “.
But Professor Dalgleish insisted Australia failed in its response to Covid.
He was also scathing about Britain’s handling, saying that “Australia, New Zealand and Canada overreacted in exactly the same way.”
“The only ones who got it right in the long term were Sweden,” said Professor Dalgleish.
“They didn’t have any lockdown mandates, they didn’t have any other mandates, the vaccines were for people over 70 and they have the lowest excess mortality rates in the Western world.”
Sweden relied on voluntary social distancing, wearing masks, working from home and avoiding public transport, and 80 percent of the country said it was in compliance.
Angus Dalgleish, professor of oncology at the prestigious St George’s University in London, has taken strong aim at almost all Covid measures employed by Australia and other countries.
Professor Dalgleish attacked the mandatory wearing of masks outdoors.
“That’s absolutely crazy, the only reason people are made to wear masks is to instill a state of fear in them,” he said.
‘I said from the beginning that with the best mask, the smallest hole is three times bigger than the largest virus. There is no science behind this.
“Masks are used in operating rooms to avoid coughing into someone’s abdomen, it is not for viruses.”
He also believed that blockades achieved practically nothing.
“We know it’s respiratory, so lockdowns don’t make any sense, especially when there’s no quarantine (which there wasn’t in Britain at the start of lockdown).”
He believed hotel quarantine was a “complete waste of money” and did not believe it would “save any lives” because it only delayed natural herd immunity, which was always the best defense against Covid.
“When you contract the virus naturally, you can develop innate immunity, and they denied that,” Professor Dalgleish said.
Professor Dalgleish said he did not believe lockdowns, quarantines, masks or even vaccines saved lives.
Fordham questioned whether lockdowns were necessary to protect older people, but Professor Dalgleish praised the Swedish approach as much more pragmatic.
“They say ‘your grandmothers and people are at risk, but be careful, don’t get too close to them,'” Professor Dalgleish said.
‘They didn’t lock everyone up, so that society wouldn’t be strangled by the throat.
‘And it worked very well. Why did they have to lock up young, fit people who couldn’t work?
He also criticized controversial vaccine mandates.
“I think it was absolutely shameful. It was totalitarian, it was a descent into an Orwellian dystopia,” he said.
‘Especially because we knew that when the vaccines were launched, the virus had completely changed.
‘I don’t think (the vaccines) have had any beneficial effect because the virus changes, mutates very quickly.
Sydney talk radio king Ben Fordham was clearly taken aback by some of the professor’s claims.
‘We know that when our vaccine program was launched, the wave of infection was naturally declining. “He didn’t need any help to cushion the wave,” he said.
“The same thing happened with the lockdown: we introduced it when the first wave was flattening out and if there had been no lockdown it wouldn’t have made any difference.”
Fordham, clearly bewildered, asked Professor Dalgleish if he thought the vaccine was not saving lives.
“They arrived too late and gave the impression that they were saving lives because they arrived in the middle of a wave of people who came in and died,” he responded.
‘They may have been very few, they may have been less than one or two percent, but they are not significant compared to what they wanted to do with them.
‘(That was) rolling them out for everyone and mandating vaccines when there was no evidence they prevented transmission at a time when the disease was killing 0.085 percent of the population with an average age of 82.
“It was complete blindness and madness.”