Professor Neil Ferguson: "It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought. And then Italy did it. And we realised

Professor Neil Ferguson: "It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought. And then Italy did it. And we realised we could." https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/people-don-t-agree-with-lockdown-and-try-to-undermine-the-scientists-gnms7mp98 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/people-don-t-agree-with-l... That's a direct quote from one of the principal architects of the lockdown policy. He is, not coincidentally, in an open relationship with a member of the hard left Extinction Rebellion group, and the SAGE committee that he sits on which advises the government also contains a member of the British Communist Party. The above are all unarguable facts. What you derive from them depends on prior intuitions.