A quite brilliant spot from the Witterer in today's Telegraph letters.
The two letters in question are those from Andy Burnham and Jon Newman. From both, two extracts:
"All ministers take care to base any public statements on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer...."
Jon Newman, quoting Sir Liam Donaldson, Chief Medical Officer:
"The scientific advice on face masks is that they are of very little value. They get moist, which enhances the virus. And because the virus is so small it can go through the pores. They also give a false sense of security."
Then from the BBC we get a report of a public statement, in the Commons, from Andy Burnham that 226m face masks have been ordered!
If you check the BBC video, there it is from Burnham in the first 30 seconds.
And just to double-check, the quote from fatty Liam was, indeed, widely reported in April, such as here.
Professor Donaldson agreed that face masks for the public were of very little value, saying that scientific evidence had showed this to be the case: "They get moist and that enhances the risk of the virus transmitting. The virus is so small it can go through the pores in the mask and it gives a false sense of security."
Now, we know that Liam Donaldson's version of scientific evidence is a lot different to ours. He believes pharmaceutical industry bullshit, for example - like cunts tend to do. But forget that for a minute, as someone must be talking bollocks here, there is simply no other conclusion to be made.
If Andy Burnham won't make a decision without consulting clinically-obese Liam, and Liam says that face masks are shit ... why is the DoH ordering 226 million of them?
Or, could it be that Liam's confident scientific evidence has been shown to be donkey cock and he has changed his mind? In which case, Donaldson is shown up as someone who should have no more business in dictating public health than a verge-strimmer.
Of course, if Liam's pronouncement is correct (and it probably is, which would make a fucking change), it must obviously prove that Burnham is making it up as he goes along and/or wasting money for no discernible benefit.
Whichever way you cut it, these people are entrusted with guarding your health.
Feeling lucky, punk?