Thread by @karamballes

@RachelSJohnson on @LBC has a guest saying that restrictions are slowly down Covid's evolution into a mild endemic illness...
"Its well on the way to doing this"
More comments about Omicron being more mild

There is no data for this, just some anecdotes, said same about Delta...

Ah the guest was hereditary Tory peer Matt Ridley, looking at his track record I think he's done enough damage to this country without taking Pandemic advice from him

Ridley is a great example of the damage the privileged aristocracy can do

Educated at Eton, Zoology degree, becomes a writer for Telegraph, then gets a place on the Northern Rock board where daddy was boss...
Well that worked out well

Doesn't believe in resource scarcity, and made a speech at Hayak Lecture, very right wing Austrian libertarians who have shacked up with Thiel on a project to privatise cities

https://twitter.com/bakerstherald/status/1434732302429523969?t=DQaJqlOUu-ygn8sDcuPFlQ&s=19

Also questions climate change while having a coal mine on his land

And got in trouble for cheerleading shale fracking without disclosing his linked personal interests

But hey let's trust this guys advice that letting it rip will solve everything