Neil Ferguson, the epidemiologist who produced the wildly exaggerated COVID-19 death forecasts that helped ratchet up the COVID-19 fear campaign and rationalize draconian lockdowns.31 As Schwab mentions, Farrar was at the heart of the earlier fiasco involving avian flu, generated around the delusory fear that the virus would cross the species barrier.32 Ferguson is the modeling impresario at drumming up phony pandemics. His curriculum vitae includes: In 2005, Ferguson predicted that up to 150 million people could be killed from bird flu.33 In the end, only 282 people died worldwide from the
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