On Lockdown Sceptics we have highlighted before the reasons that restrictions don’t have the expected effect of suppressing COVID-19. Partly it’s because lockdowns don’t prevent spread in hospitals, care homes and private homes, where much of the transmission happens, especially that which leads to serious disease. And partly it’s because people who are infectious and symptomatic fail to self-isolate, perhaps because they cannot, or cannot afford to, or because they think it’s just a cold.
It’s not because asymptomatic infection is a major driver of transmission. Despite this claim being much repeated, including by public health authorities, the evidence is that (as with other similar viruses) asymptomatic infection is barely infectious and contributes very little to the spread of the coronavirus.
We now have some clear data on how many people who develop COVID-19 symptoms actually follow through with self-isolation. A large nationally representative survey of 53,880 people published this week in the BMJ finds that less than a fifth (18%) of people who have COVID-19 symptoms take a test and less than half (43%) of those with symptoms (and who don’t test negative) fully self-isolate for 10 days without leaving home. Even at the height of the January surge, when hospitals were being stretched, only 52% of people with symptoms (and no negative test) fully self-isolated.
The survey asked the reasons for breaking the quarantine.
The most frequently reported reasons for not fully self-isolating were to go to the shops for groceries or to a pharmacy (21.5%), to go to work (15.8%), to go to the shops for things other than groceries or pharmacy goods (15.6%), because symptoms did not persist or were temporary (15.2%), to go out for a medical need other than COVID-19 (15.0%), to go for a walk or for some other exercise (14.8%), believing symptoms were only mild (14.5%), because symptoms got better (13.9%), thinking it was not necessary to stay at home (13.2%), being too bored (12.2%), to help or provide care for a vulnerable person (11.9%), to meet up with friends or family, or both (11.3%), and being too depressed or anxious (11.2%).
It also asked about reasons for not requesting a test.
The most common reasons for not requesting a test were thinking the symptoms were not due to COVID-19 (20.9%), symptoms had improved (16.9%), symptoms were only mild (16.3%), having no contact with anyone who had COVID-19 recently (13.0%), thinking that only self-isolation was needed (11.5%), not wanting to use a test that someone needed more (11.1%), not thinking you were eligible to get a test (11.0%), and being worried about how colleagues or employers would react if a test result was positive (10.0%).
This confirms there is no reason to believe in the evidence-free concept of widespread asymptomatic transmission to explain why lockdowns don’t work. With more than half of people who have symptoms not fully self-isolating, that’s plenty of opportunity for symptomatic transmission.
In terms of evidence that lockdowns don’t work, we now have a new study to add to our ever-growing list.
Christian Bjørnskov, a Professor of Economics at Aarhus University in Denmark, has this week published a study, “Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison“, in the Oxford academic journal CESifo Economic Studies. The study explores “the association between the severity of lockdown policies in the first half of 2020 and mortality rates”. In a sophisticated analysis that draws on the Blavatnik Centre’s COVID-19 stringency index, Professor Bjørnskov addresses “policy endogeneity in two different ways” and takes “timing into account”, and concludes he can find “no clear association between lockdown policies and mortality development”.
This conclusion is confirmed by looking at how U.S. states have fared which eschewed lockdown orders or have recently lifted them.
The graph below depicts the positive case curves for six states which currently have no restrictions at all, whether because they never had them (South Dakota), because they removed them after the first wave in the spring (Georgia and South Carolina) or the autumn (Florida), or because they removed them in the last few weeks (Mississippi and Texas). All have seen positive cases and deaths tumble with no sign (yet) of a spring resurgence. Contrary to all the epidemiological models, the absence of restrictions and masks has not resulted in mass hospitalisation and death amongst the population, regardless of when the restrictions were removed. All have followed similar trajectories to one another as well as to states which imposed far more restrictions.
Below is a chart with the up-to-date Covid death tolls per million people for U.S. states. It shows that mortality remains lower on average in states which did not lock down (i.e., impose stay-at-home orders) during winter compared to those which did.
The evidence is clear: lockdowns don’t work, they aren’t necessary and they cause great harm.
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Who the hell are the satisfied 29%??
People whose in-laws recently sadlydied in NHS care?
The SuddenlyDied™ and the SadlyDied™…
And the 100%SafeAndEffectives™ …
The lazy, overpaid gits who work in it.
The satisfied are the Doctors.
I work in the NHS and, for the few (mainly Doctors), it’s a licence to print money.
They’ll pay lip service to the state of the NHS but behind closed doors they’re rubbing their hands in glee.
There’s only one reason for the present crisis and that’s the GP’s are in a sulk because they’re now expected to see and treat patients after their extended paid leave during Covid and it’s not going down well. In retaliation for being expected to work they’ve taken to diverting the patients to A&E, preferably in an expensive Ambulance. No one questions them and so the A&E car park is rammed with Ambulances, filled with trivial ailments that the GP’s refuse to deal with.
Their Doctor colleagues in A&E gladly accept them and keep their mouths shut so that they can all keep their snouts in the trough.
You’d think they’d have some shame after slaughtering tens of thousands during Covid but they know they’re teflon with the general public so can basically do whatever they please.
Whilst I was abroad a little while back, my wife had an accident. She snapped the ball off one her femurs bones. My neighbour Whatapped me to tell me my wife had had an accident, I could hear her whining like a beaten dog in the background.
Luckily I have for some great neighbours who stayed all of the 12 hours it took for the ambulance to arrive. The hospital was only 4 miles away from my house.
Although it was unsettling to hear my wife crying like that the thing that really scared me was if she moved and dislodged a bone fragment which could possible pierce her femoral artery and she would bleed in.
Speaking of unhappiness, here is an issue the NHS have been rubbish at tackling these last couple of years; loneliness.
Useless NHS!
https://rumble.com/vsgwlc-unvaccinated-man-feeling-left-out-as-all-his-vaccinated-friends-have-covid.html
And the solution is: Coronascrabble! Everytime you get a boring old cold, keeping testing until you finally hit the jackpot. Once you’ve managed to get a positive test, you may swap the old and boring L in C-O-L-D for a fresh and exciting V-I to make C-O-V-I-D and then, you belong again!
Masks not included.
You may have hit on something! “L” in Roman numerals is 50. “VI” is 6. The ratio is roughly 8.3. As a bit of a mystic meg, I wonder if between 8 and 9 “cases” of covid are actually colds?
Not quite. Roman numbers always proceed from large to small. If a small number is placed in front of a larger one, it’s meant to be subtracted from it. Hence LD = 500 – 50 = 450 and VID is probably a swapped DIV which is 504.
Assuming the 450 was placed in a cyclic, decimal shift register and rotated one place to the left, the outcome would be 504. Which gets me back to my original point: COVID is that The Science[tm] makes out of COLD with Fancy Computer Tech[tm]. Among afficionados, COVID is thus also informally known as Smart Cold, a disease globally deployed in numerous variants since 2020 and originally supposed to enable ModeRNA to finally come to market with some product based on their innovative As Dangerous As Useless[tm] (patent pending) mRNA technology. The codename for this was Operation Daft Sweep.
Conspiracy Theory Thursday: Why the mad drive to inject more and more people with covaxxes despite they’re not the least bit at a risk from COVID?
Answer: If everybody – or almost everybody – is vaccinated, especially a lot of younger people who are generally more robust wrt infections than members of the so-called vulnerable groups, then, nobody will notice that we have a real killer product here, at least for some time.
How many of the people who got the first round injections in Dec 2020/ Jan 2021 because they were deemed especially vulnerable are still alive?
Interestingly in the early 2000s research into coronaviruses used a PCR test to identify ~396 base pairs. The same tests are being used to identify ‘covid’…. How many of of those positive tests have found something which is similar?
A basic this is the science behind the process, so how the hell can what is claimed to be found be true?
Well, this is a real ‘No Shit Sherlock’ story isn’t it?
One assumes it’s quite challenging for most of the staff to remain motivated and cheerful as they come to terms with their blind cooperation in this grotesquely horrific medical holo-caust.
Does anybody know if there’s an increase in ambulance call outs in the UK ( or wherever you are ) still? Here’s Dr Bridle observing the significant increase in such calls in a part of Canada, way higher than when there was a deadly virus on the loose and no ”highly effective” pseudo-vaccines to protect folk;
”Notably, this increase correlates with increases in all-cause mortality around the world. Would it be worth considering the ‘elephant in the room’; i.e., the possibility that the COVID-19 shots might have a role to play here? Any experts who definitively say ‘“no” better have some solid data to prove it.
It would be great if we could get paramedic service data from all across Canada and other countries. Specifically, it would be helpful to know what call volumes looked like in 2020 (no shots but a ‘deadly virus that overwhelmed the medical system’), 2021 and 2022 (‘COVID-19 ‘vaccine’ rollout), and pre-pandemic (baseline).”
https://viralimmunologist.substack.com/p/call-volume-for-paramedics-went-down
I popped into my local hospital to find that you must wear a mask again. It’s mandatory! This is insane as not only do they do nothing in relation to any airborne virus but they are single use plastic. How much money has been spent on masks and who has the contract to supply them? In addition there was a poster saying something about ZeroCovid!!!! For **** sake, has nothing been learned in 3 years? Why is anyone pushing the insane idea that you can completely eliminate Covid and now? I now have a visceral dislike of any intent that involves the word ‘zero’. There is nothing good in it.
Mandatory only in some administrator’s warped view of the world with no knowledge of the lawful position on consent to a medical intervention – masking is a medical intervention – the simplest thing to do is to say that you’re exempt.
Also, the taxpayer will pay for these and probably for the management of procuring them as well as disposal. we paid for the ‘vaccines’ and we will pay for damages caused by the ‘vaccines’.
Well if doctors and nurses are still seeing fit to bump off old folk with their midazolam/morphine death cocktail then they won’t think anything of continuing to fly in the face of an Everest-sized mountain of contradictory evidence and keep dehumanizing patients in the face-nappy dept too. Because that’s basically how they see most patients, as subhuman, or so it would seem anyway. Here’s a documentary, for anyone who hasn’t yet seen it, on the whole morphine/midazolam thing. As much as I despise Handcockup, the buck stops with the doctors who prescribe this death sentence and the nurses who administer it.
https://odysee.com/@Belfasteye.com:9/aGoodDeath:1
Agreed, Net Zero the same. Did this start with Pol Pot and his Year Zero, which also sounds similar to a ‘Great Reset’?
Just refuse. Firstly as BB says these are a medical intervention and secondly ask to see written confirmation that they are mandatory and under whose authority because it is not government.
Of course the structural issues within the NHS were already there but the following piece of excellent journalism shows who was responsible for driving all the terrible decisions that have pushed many of our institutions into untenable positions. Perhaps there was intent in all this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPQJD-fQQI&t=0s
Amazing True Story: The Actual Origins of Lockdown ‘Science’ !
Here is a Short from this video showing a very key person – Bruce Aylward.
https://youtu.be/lbe1ISGHS4k
Here is Bruce Aylward being asked why Taiwan is not recognized by the WHO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlCYFh8U2xM
I hope the connection is clear?
let’s hope the public soon wake up to the real reason for the inadequacy of the NHS like all the public sector, is nothing to do with a lack of money.
More people, more money is the cry of those unable to think critically. The NHS already consumes 1 in every £10 of the tax take and employs 1 in 25 working age adults. How much more can we give it..?
“You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.” – Thomas Sowell
The NHS will never get fixed. Politically, Labour make out that it is a national treasure and the envy of the world and that “The Evil Tories” want to destroy; however, when they get in power they are clueless and fearful of reform (and upsetting the Public Sector unions). The Conservatives are so frightened of the media outcry if they even attempt reform that they just pump more money into it and continue the status quo.
It’ll take war or the government facing bankrupcy before real reform takes place.
What a wonderful job lockdown did protecting the NHS.
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Wonder how many would be outside every week banging their pots and pans nowadays…
Doesn’t pot-banging bring on ‘Sudden Death Syndrome’ or Sadly Died Syndrome first identified by The Science ™ in 1977 as a silent killer? (along with happiness)
Senator Babet is one to watch down under. He’s the same on other issues such as trans ideology and climate twaddle. Good man! But 97.5% Aussies over 16yrs have been jabbed though??
https://twitter.com/goddeketal/status/1638885872769679360?cxt=HHwWgIC-nZSBv74tAAAA
You have to wonder how much money would be enough for the 50% who think it doesn’t get enough.
The administrative bureaucracy of the management layer is now so dense no increase in funding money could ever reach the front line
Let’s hope people don’t think the problem is under funding.
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They do! There seem to be an awful lot of people who won’t be happy until 100% of our tax take is funding ‘our’ NHS.
Remember the psyop. Clap for the NHS. I thought it was daft then. It looks insane now! I honestly believe (and hope) that the NHS is finished. We need a new system that promotes healthy living and that is not beholden to big pharma.
I thought we were clapping the TikTok videos
Echoing Miss Dolly’s comment, whenever I mention the NHS and how difficult it is to see a GP (I havent seen one face to face for 4 years!!!!), my friends living in the countryside would say how wonderful their local NHS is! From GP appointments to hospitalisation, they are thrilled and satisfied. So, my question is, is it the London based NHS service that is failing us? But not the countryside? If so, why are the city hospitals and GP’s so incompetent?
“Majority of Public Unhappy with NHS for First Time…”
Just woke up have they?
Just shows what a nations of nitwits Britain is. They deserve all they get – or in the case of the NHS, don’t get.
Amazingly high level of support considering they have spent the last 2 years peddling a lethal injection for us. Wait till the majority understand the full implications of this crime….
Meanwhile staff TikTok routines are going from strength to strength
Very very depressing. Yesterday I “enjoyed” the company of friends from my old workplace . Without going into too much detail I had lunch with one lot and dinner with a different set. To a man and woman they were fully engaged with government policy over covid. All had been fully “vaccinated” and boosted and proud of it. The final coup de grace came when one proudly announced he has just bought an electric car!
Naturally, because of my views I was passed off as a conspiracy theorist and told I had “gone down too many ‘worm’ holes”!
Thank God for you lot!