Tuesday 18 August 2020

Behind The Mask

Nothing has made me less depressed than the lockdown, one way and another.

But for those on whom it has been having the opposite effect, the solution to a mental health problem is not a physical health problem.
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  1. Anonymous18 August 2020 at 20:32

    The lockdown has killed far more people than COVID-19 ever did. Peter Hitchens (the state-sponsored panic of these times has killed more people than Covid ever did) notes: "the UK’s total COVID-19 death toll has been revised down from 46,706 to 41,329, a fall of 5,377. That, as you might have noticed, is an error of more than ten per cent, a huge admission. They were forced into this by the brilliant forensic work of Professor Carl Heneghan and his brave colleagues at Oxford’s Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, which showed that the previous figures were so loose that they could have included car-crash victims who once tested positive for Covid.

    A paper submitted to the Government’s own scientific advisory group, SAGE, estimated that 16,000 people had died up to May 1, thanks to missed medical care for other ailments following the shutdown of the country. They suggested another 26,000 could die by next March for the same reason.

    The scale of this error is so great that the mind turns away from it. Add to it the slow but relentless destruction of the economy and the catastrophe in the schools, and you have even more to weep over.

    Bit by bit, people are finding out what a recession actually means in terms of lost jobs, busted businesses and ravaged pensions. This is all now inevitable, and only weeks away. Meanwhile, thousands of teenagers have been robbed of an essential part of their education, which they can never get back.

    Thanks to bungles piled on top of folly, they now face stupid injustice, broken hopes and the cold face of bureaucracy. Those responsible for this have a terrible load on their consciences.""

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    1. David Lindsay18 August 2020 at 20:53

      He decided to cast himself as a "contrarian" in all of this. He has done himself immense damage.

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