The knee jerk reaction, assuming any questioning of the lockdown demonstrates a cavalier, uncaring disregard is puerile. Grown adults shouldn’t simply believe everything they are told like mindless idiots. Critical thinking and asking questions is never “bad” under any circumstances whatsoever.
Civil Liberties
“This is the worst interference with personal liberty in our history. For what is by historical standards not a very serious pandemic except for particular categories of vulnerable people who can isolate themselves voluntarily.”
-Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Judge
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https://www.statista.com/chart/21240/enforced-covid-19-lockdowns-by-people-affected-per-country/
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“The supine capitulation to a de facto police state in a country long regarded as a cradle of liberty has been one of the most depressing spectacles I’ve ever witnessed. In a matter of days, busybodies are ratting out neighbours for going for a run twice; these people would be pigs in muck in the GDR. The police taping over of isolated park benches and harassment of sunbathers or sea swimmers without a soul within 100 feet have no basis in epidemiology. “
“Barely a day goes by without a politician saying that they will be ‘led by the science’. But what we are seeing with Covid-19 is not ‘science’ in action.”
The mass arrest of anti-lockdown protesters in Berlin shows we have given up our freedoms far too easily.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/16/coronavirus-whatever-happened-to-the-right-to-protest/
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Germany protests lockdown
Germany is now starting to protest the lockdown. The organizer, medical lawyer Beate Bahner, was later arrested and committed to a psychiatric institution.
Lawyer Beate Bahner, a Medical Law specialist in Heidelberg Germany, recently filed a lawsuit against the German government’s lockdown measures. She was arrested and committed to a psychiatric institution after organizing a protest.
References:
Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained for opposition – UK Column
Advisers to scientific group reviewing lockdown are alarmed at police closing parks and threatening to arrest sunbathers
- 00:58-How to minimize the risk of COVID-19
- 03:52-Comparing the responses to a global pandemic
- 08:53-Who is most at risk
- 13:44-Is our global response warranted?
- 17:17-Comparing COVID-19 to the flu
- 20:55-Is the risk really that high?
- 23:53-What is the fatality rate versus other common risk factors?
- 25:29–00:58-How to minimize the risk of COVID-19
- 03:52-Comparing the responses to a global pandemic
- 08:53-Who is most at risk
- 13:44-Is our global response warranted?
- 17:17-Comparing COVID-19 to the flu
- 20:55-Is the risk really that high?
- 23:53-What is the fatality rate versus other common risk factors? 25:29-The risk of labeling COVID-19 as a ?pandemic?
- 26:14-Are the COVID-19 tests reliable?
- 28:58-Should we be concerned about herd immunity?
- 30:16-On the chances of getting a vaccine
- 31:47-The return of ?measles parties??
- 34:30-Breaking down the pros and cons of herd immunity
- 37:25-Is lockdown making the problem worse?
- 40:01-How to really hashtag Flatten the Curve
- 45:45-Can we really trace the exposure for every person?
- 48:06-Is authoritarianism growing in the name of public health? 50:37-Who can we trust when this pandemic is over?
- 54:54-Industries? roles in the pandemic
As Parliament keeps the whole population under house arrest, there are very few voices of dissent
It’s a question of liberty, not epidemiology
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/voice-people-you-flout-coronavirus-21851920
See commentary from UK Column about this headline.
“Yes this is serious but the real question is: is this serious enough to warrant putting most of our population into house imprisonment; wrecking our economy for the indefinite period; destroying businesses that honest and hardworking people have taken years to build up; saddling future generation with debt, depression, stress, suicides and unbelievable distress inflicted on millions of people who are not especially vulnerable and will suffer only mild symptoms or none at all.”
Andrew Mather, a mathematician and financier based in the UK, offers a series of videos analysing the COVID-19 data released by various governmental and health bodies.
In this video, he presents how the government had access to data that the case-count growth rate was decelerating long before the UK lockdown.
Curve Analysis
His Primer on Curve Analysis may also be useful.