Posted on 08/24/2020 2:48:35 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
A top British epidemiologist on the UK’s official panel of COVID-19 advisors just admitted the decision to lock down his country was a colossal error.
University of Edinburgh professor, Mark Woolhouse couldn’t have been clearer about how much he regrets the destructive measures he advised against COVID-19:
“Lockdown was a panic measure and I believe history will say trying to control Covid-19 through lockdown was a monumental mistake on a global scale, the cure was worse than the disease.
I never want to see national lockdown again.
I believe the harm lockdown is doing to our education, health care access, and broader aspects of our economy and society will turn out to be at least as great as the harm done by Covid-19.”
The UK may have been pushed into implementing the same suicidal response to COVID-19 as we were in the U.S. But at least their bureaucrats are admitting the obvious and trying to understand and prevent any such future self-inflicted catastrophe from occurring....
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
Gee, I have mixed feeling on this one.
The last time you Island Living Troggolidites gave us your opinion we suppose to expect 2.5 million Americans would die
Now you are saying”Not so Fast”?
Well, fast is what we gave you.
Now, FOAD... Go to Hell and Burn.
putting old people in nursing homes, denying everyone the cure, and the whole lockdown....not to mention the stupid mask wearing still after herd immunity has been achieved
not just asinine, but evil
It wasn’t a mistake it was a plan.
Lots of Freepers including me, have been saying that since March.
At least this bureaucrat in the UK has admitted his .mistakes.
Meanwhile, Her Doktor Joseph Mengele Fauci continues to push his totally discredited lockdown nonsense unabated.
Soylent Green is people. But we thought it was a good idea. Back to your regularly scheduled propaganda.
It’s tar-and-feather time, at the very least. Show some contrition, dude!
Governments have to do their job and stop acting like controlling parents
Will we be “listening to the science” on this one?
Well, somebody finally said it.
This will literally go down as one of the great disasters - not mistakes - of history.
That’s what happens when leaders listen to experts and do everything they suggest.
It’s not really leadership.
Democrats are just a death squad.what have they ever done well besides abortion.
24 Aug: Summit News: Oxford Professor Says People Have Become “Overly Frightened” of Coronavirus
“Get on with your lives!”
by Paul Joseph Watson
Oxford Professor Says People Have Become “Overly Frightened” of Coronavirus
“Get on with your lives!”
Heneghan was responsible for the UK government significantly lowering its official COVID-19 death toll after he revealed that health authorities were counting coronavirus deaths even if someone had subsequently died of other causes.
Urging people to “get on with your lives!” Heneghan said that exaggerated fears over the pandemic had led to “people going about their daily lives misunderstanding and overestimating their risk.”
“We reset how we calculate the death rates. We now need to reset how we communicate the risks of the virus,” said Heneghan.
“I am concerned people have become overly frightened and throughout this pandemic, the fear instilled in people has been a real problem,” he added.
“Many people misunderstand and overestimate their risk of Covid. This uncertainty is leaving them highly anxious and affecting schools, offices and how we go about our daily lives. The government needs to intervene to explain to people their true risks,” concluded Heneghan...
https://summit.news/2020/08/24/oxford-professor-says-people-have-become-overly-frightened-of-coronavirus/
link to video from Ivor Cummins’ tweet:
23 Aug: Breitbart: ‘There Is No Emergency!’ Spanish Doctor Challenges Coronavirus ‘Second Wave’
by James Delingpole
A Spanish doctor in a Madrid hospital has challenged claims Europe is in the grip of a second wave. The video is both revealing and hilarious, especially when the studio newsreader in the background mutters to his colleague “I think we’ve lost control.”...
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2020/08/23/there-is-no-emergency-spanish-doctor-blows-the-whistle-on-wu-flu/
Lots of Freepers including me, have been saying that since March.
At least this bureaucrat in the UK has admitted his.mistakes.
We never followed the data. The best treatment regime (if used early) was dismissed for politics and a vaccine push when a vaccine may not even work.
Mask were bad. Masks might help. YOU MUST HAVE ON A MASK!
Blocking travel from areas with high infection risks was xenophobic before it was good.
Sigh.
I don’t know what to believe about this virus anymore, but I am probably as accurate at this point as the doom doctors were because I also paid attention to highly educated and experienced critics who questioned our response.
In the end, I expect those critics, pilloried by bureaucrats, democrats, republicrats, and the media, will be shown to have been far wiser about this pandemic than those we listened to.
At this point, we should hire the health director of Sweden immediately. Pay him any amount of money!
Yes, but the unwashed yearn to be told what to do. Just look at the weather report on tv. These clowns tell you to drink water when you’re thirsty and put on your mittens when it’s cold outside.
bkmk
The interview with the Spanish doctor honestly deserves its own thread and everyone should view it. This is the attitude my doctor had about this as well over two months ago and she had it and treated many people who had it.
"The science" cannot tell you the best course of action in a bad situation. You have to keep options open, try multiple things and find out what works best.
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