Lockdown has no impact whatsoever, let me show you some graphs, some data.....
Lets take UK, Spain, France, and Italy's epidemic curves, fairly recent data. Spain had a very hard lockdown, The UK less so and formal measures were introduced only after peak infections which was around 16th March.
Notice how they are largely superimposal regardless of measures. Once a respiratory virus is endemic (everywhere) you can't stop it's passing. It goes exponential until it infects most of the susceptible (sadly the elderly and those with underlying conditions). Then it drops. Natural phenomena. They have done for eons. Society has never responded in this way to respiratory pandemics of the past, so why now? Who (I could have written that in capitals and it would be still accurate) is driving this change? And why? For who's benefit?
Now lets look at 3 South American countries, very interesting..... Different pattern because of the different climate but
all superimposable regardless of restrictions. Brazil opened up after Bolsonaro sensibly said they should in the end and Peru had a military lockdown.
Can you honestly look at the graph and say that restrictions made any difference?
Finally UK and Sweden......
Log scale this time as UK is miles bigger than Sweden. Hmmmm, again...... standard shape for a seasonal virus in northern european countries. Why is that? It is because
you can't control a respiratory virus when it becomes endemic, and it was endemic here in Jan/Feb. Contact tracing pointless,
billions taken out from the taxpayer to give to private firms. Slight uptick at the end as this is a log scale, lets have a look for linear....
No rapid rise, 1 death per million people per day, horrible for the families involved, but nothing like March, when the NHS was massively stretched and hospitals were at bursting. But clearly not bursting enough to use the nightingale hospitals were they?
Can you honestly look at that graph and tell me that hospitals are many hospitals are going to be overflowing? I don't have time now but I will dig out some data on admissions, they are nothing out of the ordinary for this time of the year and admissions always rise in the autumn due to an increase in respiratory issues. There are also far more admissions for other respiratory issues than Covid. A few local ones may be overstretched but they often are at this time of year.
Remember that press conference with Whitty and Vallance and their ridiculous projection (if we didn't follow the rules), lets see how thats going.
Are we seeing a "steep rise", "rising cases" "explosion"? Absolutely not and this is entirely predicted by those who actually knew what they were talking about at the start of this epidemic. It is now plateauing on the 7-day average and will just drop down as the last few remaining susceptible people sadly fall ill (though this is cases and many will just be asymptomatic so not even a case necessarily due to the nature of the PCR test.
SAGE has to continue this charade as it has based its entire predictions on a crazy model which assumed 100% susceptible population as it was a "new virus". If that were the case we'd have been picking bodies out of the street in April. Humans have dealt with very similar viruses before using a range of immune responses yet SAGE now run models with an input of approx 10% infected. This is utter garbage. The human immune response has myriad defenses yet SAGE only want to consider the presence of antibodies as "proof" of infection. This is mangling science. They are either completely incompetent, or something else is at play.
We have a Health secretary (who studied philosophy, economics, and politics) who denies that any pandemic was ended with herd immunity! Science is heading back to the dark ages. Herd immunity is how pandemics end. This one already pretty much has, but the government (and media, and seemingly opposition) will tell you "cases are rising, we must lock down". The health secretary has openly talked about vaccines being administered, why? Maybe to the vulnerable, if the the virus becomes endemic which it may or may not do.
So let me ask you when do you think we will be out of lockdown? Johnson has mentioned another 6 months! Why? the virus has pretty much run its course.
Are you happy not being able to go down the pub with a large group of friends, in some areas not allowed to gather round friends houses, not allowed to see elderly relatives in care homes. Are you happy seeing businesses ruined? Livelihoods ruined? Communities destroyed? Because that is where we are heading sadly. "Cases of coronavirus" will still be mentioned even though with massive testing levels the numbers will be utterly pointless. However they will be used to keep communities locked down until an untested vaccine is unleashed. Do you really want that?
If I had written that a few months ago I would have thought I'd gone mad but that does look like where we are heading, certainly on pointless lockdowns (see the graphs above)
Final question for you..... What percentage of deaths today were with covid? Go on have a guess, or look up the number. After you've done that can you honestly tell me covid is currently a major cause of death in the UK?
