I think lockdown is the new religion that cannot be challenged. Anyone who points out the peak of infections occurred before the lockdown and the curve was already coming down before the lockdown due to taking sensible social distancing measures must be silenced. Professor Carl Heneghan of Oxford Uni, director of the centre for evidence based medicine, has pointed out that the lockdown was unnecessary and is going to cause more damage than Coronavirus. Nobel prize winning scientist of Stanford Uni professor Michael Levitt, pointed out that mathematically the lockdown didn’t add anything. Professor Isaac Ben-Israel also found that a similar pattern of rapid increase in infections to a peak in the sixth week, followed by a decline from the eighth week, is common everywhere regardless of response policies. In NY they discovered 66% of new admissions related to people who were observing the lockdown. Sweden has a similar R number and a lower death rate than us with no lockdown. Why are we not hearing from these voices in the mainstream media?
The other thing they’re not telling you is that every previous Coronavirus has been seasonal, very transmissible from November to April, then dies away in the summer, why should this one be any different? This is potentially good news because it provides some breathing space, however the more successful you’ve been in suppressing the spread, the more people will be susceptible to the inevitable second wave in the Autumn.
So what about the economy? Millions unemployed, a generation saddled with a mountain of debt. All those extra deaths due to the recession this causes. Suicide rates. Cardiac cases. Cancer treatments cancelled and cancer cases going undiagnosed. That’s just the extra deaths caused by lockdown in rich countries, god knows how many are going to die in the third world due to the global recession.
So why aren’t our politicians telling us about this? In short, lockdowns are popular, most people have been frightened to death by the hysterical messaging in the media about a virus that mainly kills the elderly and frail. The politicians will take credit for the reduction in the Coronavirus deaths, but when the deaths caused by the lockdown occur, there won’t be a daily news conference for these people. The politicians will not be blamed for the recession so they don’t do anything to prevent it. Yes, they are that cynical.
So what should we be doing? Social distancing, hand washing and mask wearing. We know the people who are affected by this virus. The average age of a Coronavirus death is 80. 97,5% had underlying medical conditions. We know that overweight people are also strongly affected. Diabetes is also a major indicator. These people should be locked down, or at least informed that they are in high risk groups so they can then make an informed decision about how they want to live their lives. The rest of us need to understand that we’re all getting this virus sooner or later, and for the vast majority this will be a mild illness or we won’t even realise we’ve been infected, and our kids are largely unaffected. Until we reach the stage that sufficient numbers have developed antibodies and the virus can no longer replicate, we’re going to have to learn to live with it.
