Posted on 10/31/2020 4:32:15 AM PDT by C19fan
Boris Johnson is expected to announce a national lockdown next week after his scientific advisers told him it was the only way to save Christmas.
Scientists from the Sage committee yesterday presented No 10 with bleak figures showing that Covid is spreading 'significantly' faster than even their original 'worst-case scenario' prediction.
One member of the group this morning said the virus is now 'running riot' across all age groups and took aim at the 'naysayers' denying a second wave.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
And how does Sweden expect to handle it?
31 Oct: MSN: Daily Mail: Sunetra Gupta reveals how crisis has been ruthlessly weaponised
by Professor Sunetra Gupta, infectious disease epidemiologist and a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Her fee for this article has been donated to The Childhood Trust, a charity which fights to alleviate the impact of child poverty.
Lockdown is a blunt, indiscriminate policy that forces the poorest and most vulnerable people to bear the brunt of the fight against coronavirus. As an infectious diseases epidemiologist, I believe there has to be a better way...
I expected debate and disagreement about our ideas, published as the Great Barrington Declaration...
But I was utterly unprepared for the onslaught of insults, personal criticism, intimidation and threats that met our proposal. The level of vitriol and hostility, not just from members of the public online but from journalists and academics, has horrified me...
Of course, I do have deeply held political ideals — ones that I would describe as inherently Left-wing. I would not, it is fair to say, normally align myself with the Daily Mail...
At the heart of our proposal is the recognition that mass lockdowns cause enormous damage.
We are already seeing how current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health.
The results — to name just a few — include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health.
Such pitfalls of national lockdowns must not be ignored, especially when it is the working class and younger members of society who carry the heaviest burden...
I was also deeply concerned that lockdowns only delay the inevitable spread of the virus. Indeed, we believe that a better way forward would be to target protective measures at specific vulnerable groups, such as the elderly in care homes...
I am certainly not pretending I have all the answers, but these issues need to be discussed and thrashed out thoroughly.
That is why I have found it so frustrating how, in recent weeks, proponents of lockdown policies have seemed intent on shutting down debate rather than promoting reasoned discussion...
This refusal to cherish the value of the scientific method strikes at the heart of everything I, as a scientist, hold dear. To me, the reasoned exchange of ideas is the basis of civilised society.
So I was left stunned after being invited on to a mid-morning radio programme recently, only for a producer to warn me minutes before we went on air that I was not to mention the Great Barrington Declaration. The producer repeated the warning and indicated that this was an instruction from a senior broadcasting executive.
I demanded an explanation and, with seconds to go, was told that the public wouldn’t be familiar with the meaning of the phrase ‘Great Barrington Declaration’.
And this was not an isolated experience. A few days later, another national radio station approached my office to set up an interview, then withdrew the invitation. They felt, on reflection, that giving airtime to me would ‘not be in the national interest’.
But the Great Barrington Declaration represents a heartfelt attempt by a group of academics with decades of experience in this field to limit the harm of lockdown. I cannot conceive how anyone can construe this as ‘against the national interest’.
Moreover, matters certainly are not helped by outlets such as The Guardian, which has repeatedly published opinion pieces making factually incorrect and scientifically flawed statements, as well as borderline defamatory comments about me, while refusing to give our side of the debate an opportunity to present our view.
I am surprised, given the importance of the issues at stake — not least the principle of fair, balanced journalism — that The Guardian would not want to present all the evidence to its readers. After all, how else are we to encourage proper, frank debate about the science?
On social media, meanwhile, much of the discourse has lacked any decorum whatsoever.
I have all but stopped using Twitter, but I am aware that a number of academics have taken to using it to make personal attacks on my character, while my work is dismissed as ‘pseudo- science’. Depressingly, our critics have also taken to ridiculing the Great Barrington Declaration as ‘fringe’ and ‘dangerous’...
Yet of all the criticisms flung at us, the one I find most upsetting is the accusation that we are indulging in ‘policy-based evidence-making’ — in other words, drumming up facts to fit our ideological agenda.
And that ideology, according to some, is one of Right-wing libertarian extremism.
According to Wikipedia, for instance, the Great Barrington Declaration was funded by a Right-wing think-tank with links to climate-change deniers...
https://www.msn.com/en-au/health/mindandbody/sunetra-gupta-reveals-how-crisis-has-been-ruthlessly-weaponised/ar-BB1ayBze?ocid=msedgdhp
Because it worked so well last time.
So when is their election?
“Of course, I do have deeply held political ideals — ones that I would describe as inherently Left-wing. I would not, it is fair to say, normally align myself with the Daily Mail...”
And the idiot wonders why nobody will listen to her.
dr. martin kulldorff
https://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/martin-kulldorff-phd/
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
4000 deaths a day easily reached with socialized medicine and everything except the china flu. We are seeing the globalists at work controlling thier puppets
Bookmark.
great barrington declaration video
october 6, 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtiInz1DWuA
great barrington, ma
“for at least a month”. Riiiiiiiight. And then?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/MfJOyOUXKFGp/
The video is a long interview of David Icke of Great Britain, when you have time. There is an ad prior to the video interview.
What nonsense
Boris is being played and is too stupid to realize.
The UK is being held hostage by its Deep State, which includes the NHS.
Let’s hear it for socialized medicine.
If you’re not going to lockdown schools, then the lockdown is useless.
That’s the problem with lockdowns. You can’t lockdown the places that need to be locked down.
Gee, it didn’t work the first time, so let’s try it again.
“At least a month”—Watch them move the goal posts when the month is about up.
I highly doubt that. Sounds more like he was made an offer and took it. Sounds like he’s fully complicit now.
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