Jordan Peterson on covid-19: what the evidence says · JRE #1769
SUBJECT: COVID-19
The short answer
Peterson claims that COVID rules were suspended at the COP26 climate summit in the UK so that attendees could meet. COP26 was held in Glasgow in November 2021 under a formal UK/Scottish Government COVID mitigation framework, not a suspension of rules.
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That was the big climate meeting in the UK just a few months ago. You know, the one where all the COVID rules were suspended so the important people
What the evidence says 01 / RECORD
COP26 was held in Glasgow in November 2021 under a formal UK/Scottish Government COVID mitigation framework, not a suspension of rules. Delegates were exempted from Scotland's vaccine-passport requirement (which mandated proof of vaccination for events of similar size) and instead had to show a negative lateral-flow test each day to access the conference venue, alongside physical-distancing and mask guidance and quarantine tiers for arrivals from COVID red-list countries (10 days unvaccinated, 5 days vaccinated). The UK Government's official statement on COP26 COVID measures describes a bespoke set of protocols, including funded quarantine and vaccination support for delegates who could not otherwise access vaccines, framed as adapting standard rules to the international-summit context rather than lifting them. So while COP26 delegates were carved out of the general public vaccine-passport rule in exchange for daily testing and other protocols, current evidence does not support a wholesale suspension of COVID rules for attendees; it points to a substituted, still-mandatory testing-based regime.