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Infectious Diseases Expert Says UK Lockdown is Not Working
Summit News ^ | 21 January, 2021 | Paul Joseph Watson

Posted on 01/21/2021 6:03:18 AM PST by george76

Infections higher after lockdown went into place..

Infectious diseases expert Professor Steven Riley says current data shows that the national lockdown in the United Kingdom is not working.

Riley, who is professor of infectious disease dynamics at Imperial College London, cited a React study which shows “the prevalence of infection increased between 6 and 15 January,” after the national lockdown was announced on January 4.

“It’s long enough that, were the lockdown working effectively, we would certainly have hoped to have seen a decline,” said Riley.

The professor added that current research “certainly doesn’t support the conclusion that lockdown is working.”

As we highlighted last week, a peer reviewed study by Stanford researchers found that mandatory lockdowns do not provide more benefits to stopping the spread of COVID-19 than voluntary measures such as social distancing.

The researchers found “no clear, significant beneficial effect of [more restrictive measures] on case growth in any country.”

While numerous studies show that lockdowns have no impact on reducing the spread of viruses, an avalanche of data shows that they cost lives.

Academics from Duke, Harvard, and Johns Hopkins have warned that there could be around a million excess deaths over the next two decades as a result of lockdowns.

Thousands of doctors and scientists are on record as opposing lockdown measures, warning that they will cause more death than the coronavirus itself.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Germany; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: lockdown; lockdowns; orders; uk; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 01/21/2021 6:03:18 AM PST by george76
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The obvious answer must be to lockdown harder.


2 posted on 01/21/2021 6:05:06 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (I'm sorry the Q thing didn't work out. We were wrong about that.)
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To: george76

If lockdowns even remotely worked, California would be in a better position. One thing we haven’t looked at-— the virus is being re-released deliberately as a biological attack.


3 posted on 01/21/2021 6:05:26 AM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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“As with Communism, lockdowns have failed because they weren’t totalitarian enough!”

#ExcusesExcuses


4 posted on 01/21/2021 6:06:05 AM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: george76

Maybe a double secret lockdown is in order.


5 posted on 01/21/2021 6:08:06 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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So forcing people into confined spaces, while one or more of them go out to purchase essentials, get infected, and then bring the infection back to the confined space doesn’t stop the virus? Color me flummoxed.


6 posted on 01/21/2021 6:08:29 AM PST by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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I thought those arrows on the floor would cure everything.


7 posted on 01/21/2021 6:09:06 AM PST by RushCrush (Prayers up for Rush Hudson Limbaugh)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Are you talking about a ultra-super-duper-triple-hard lockdown? /sarcasm off/

The other day, I read a piece on the Brit numbers and someone suggested that a vitamin D deficiency (because of limited sunlight throughout the year anyway)...might be chief problem in the UK spiral.


8 posted on 01/21/2021 6:09:38 AM PST by pepsionice
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Infectious Diseases Expert Says UK Lockdown is Not Working

In the immortal words of some guy I met as a child on the playground - "No sh*t Sherlock!".

Let's send that weasel Fauci over there to "advise" them. He won't be ANY help, but we'll be rid of him.

9 posted on 01/21/2021 6:10:55 AM PST by The Sons of Liberty (“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction". It is dying on Our Watch.)
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The obvious answer must be to lockdown harder.

Beginning with the District of Corruption!

10 posted on 01/21/2021 6:13:00 AM PST by Don Corleone (The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth)
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To: Hazwaste

This already arose in NYC, when months ago they reported 2/3 of all new cases were among people quarantining.

The silver lining (hastened demise of cities) is nice...


11 posted on 01/21/2021 6:14:02 AM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: george76
Locking people indoors together spreads infections.

I have moonbat extended family that haven't left their house in months, have groceries delivered with everything wiped down with alcohol, and they quarantine all packages in the garage for 9 days.

Modern culture is messed up. When everyone lived on farms you never heard of germ freaks. The first time that they had to shove their arm up a pregnant cow's ass, cut off a chicken head, or slaughter a pig cured them of that.

12 posted on 01/21/2021 6:15:25 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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They should be quadruple masking!


13 posted on 01/21/2021 6:16:27 AM PST by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns is are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic)
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To: george76
Before you can say something is "not working" you have to be clear on what they are trying to accomplish.

At most you can say they are not achieving what they claim is their goal.

Never take leftists at face value.

14 posted on 01/21/2021 6:17:59 AM PST by Salman (It's not a "slippery slope" if it was part of the program all along. )
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Not sure what data they are looking at. The Worldometer clearly shows a decrease in the 7 day moving average from Jan 8 to Jan 19.

Is this due to mandatory lock down, or they could had the results with common sense? I will go with common sense if people have friends who get very sick they will take precautions.

Worldometer for UK
15 posted on 01/21/2021 6:20:52 AM PST by DEPcom (Impeach Illegitimate Biden/Harris )
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Infections are up but how many people are actually getting so sick that they need to be hospitalized? This is number that seems to have disappeared from all of the reporting.


16 posted on 01/21/2021 6:26:49 AM PST by Petrosius
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To: george76
virus-vexex


17 posted on 01/21/2021 6:36:21 AM PST by The Louiswu (Dylan is right once more...”The times, they are a changing”)
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To: yldstrk

Once everyone is exposed, herd immunity will be fully kicked in. They can “re-release” it all they want.


18 posted on 01/21/2021 6:39:36 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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Translation: Nothing is working so let’s keep doing it more


19 posted on 01/21/2021 6:40:40 AM PST by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
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Someone tell the commisars!


20 posted on 01/21/2021 7:12:39 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Allegations of vote fraud cause you to 1)Provide contrary evidence or 2)Censor and erect razor wire)
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