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<\/p>\nBoris "Bozo" Johnson asked top scientists if you could kill Covid by blowing a 'special hairdryer' up your nose.<\/p>\n
The former PM allegedly sent a YouTube video of a man demonstrating this to a WhatsApp group that included Sir Chris Whitty and Sir Patrick Vallance.<\/p>\n
He asked the men, serving as England\u2019s chief scientific adviser and chief medical officer, what they thought, according to Dominic "Knobo" Cummings. Bozo\u2019s former chief adviser turned nemesis made a series of claims in his witness statement handed to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry.<\/p>\n
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He wrote: "A low point was when he circulated a video of a guy blowing a special hair dryer up his nose 'to kill Covid' and asked the CSA and CMO what they thought."<\/p>\n
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Knobo also claimed Bozo had asked him to find a 'dead cat' to get the coronavirus pandemic off the front pages as he was 'sick' of it. A so-called dead cat strategy is the circulation of striking claims in order to divert attention away from an unwanted story. <\/p>\n
Knobo said that Bozo had asked him in autumn 2020 to 'put your campaign head back on and figure out how we dead-cat Covid'. The adviser, who worked with Bozo on the Brexit campaign, says he replied that "no campaign could 'dead-cat Covid'".<\/p>\n
Knobo also repeated a suggestion that Bozo was working on a biography of William Shakespeare rather than the pandemic on a two-week holiday in February 2020.<\/p>\n
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"He was extremely distracted," Knobo wrote, adding: "He had a divorce to finalise and was grappling with financial problems from that plus his girlfriend\u2019s spending plans for the No 10 flat.<\/p>\n
"An ex-girlfriend was making accusations about him in the media. His current girlfriend wanted to finalise the announcement of their engagement. He said he wanted to work on his Shakespeare book."<\/p>\n
Representatives of Bozo have been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
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