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The UK government has extended its lockdown for another three weeks. But could the shutdown of society be doing more harm than good? In fact, is there any evidence it is doing any good at all? Dr John A Lee, a recently retired professor of pathology and NHS consultant pathologist, has repeatedly called for a critical and dispassionate examination of the evidence in relation to Covid-19, raising questions about the government and its advisers’ interpretation of the data.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/17/theres-no-direct-evidence-that-the-lockdowns-are-working/
InProportion2 analyses the latest figures from Office for National Statistics, week ending 3 April 2020.
http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/collateral_judgement.html
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.
https://www.statista.com/chart/21240/enforced-covid-19-lockdowns-by-people-affected-per-country/
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Colleagues around the country report their clinics have never felt emptier or their workloads lighter as hospitals have gone on a war footing.
Yes, of course it is a war we have to fight with every weapon at our disposal. But I read, with a growing sense of outrage, a leaked report this week claiming that over the Easter weekend just 19 patients were treated at the newly-created 4,000-bed Nightingale Hospital in East London.
“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.
Heather Mac Donald, New York Times bestselling author and Thomas W Smith fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses the destructive consequences of shutting down society in response to Covid-19, and why the virus is likely to inflame the culture wars.
https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/we-are-living-in-an-era-of-global-madness/
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
Covid-19: four fifths of cases are asymptomatic, China figures indicate:
https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1375
British epidemiologist Tom Jefferson tells the BMJ, “The sample [evidence from China] is small, and more data will become available. Also, it’s not clear exactly how these cases were identified. But let’s just say they are generalisable. And even if they are 10% out, then this suggests the virus is everywhere. If—and I stress, if—the results are representative, then we have to ask, ‘What the hell are we locking down for?”
Tom Jefferson, is an epidemiologist at the Cochrane Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI) Group and writes for thebmjopinion.
School closure and management practices during coronavirus outbreaks including COVID-19: a rapid systematic review:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanchi/article/PIIS2352-4642(20)30095-X/fulltext
Summary from BBC News:
- While school closures help during influenza outbreaks, the same may not apply to coronavirus
- Data from the Sars outbreak (in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Singapore) suggest that school closures did not contribute to the control of the epidemic
- Recent modelling studies of Covid-19 predict that school closures alone would prevent only 2%-4% of deaths, many fewer than other social distancing interventions
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- 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?
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- 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?
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