Despite all the doom and gloom about the impact of the Indian Delta Covid variant, Robert Dingwall, Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University and member of Government advisory group NERVTAG, says there is no reason to delay the end of lockdown. Professor Dingwall told Times Radio (as quoted in the Guardian) that “we have to push on” with unlocking because Covid no longer poses a great threat to society, whereas the “collateral damage” of lockdown does.
Personally, I don’t see any case for delay… from a societal point of view, I think it’s really important that we go ahead on June 21st, and I’ve not really seen anything in the data that would lead me to doubt that as a proposition on the evidence to date.
I think we need to recognise the way in which levels of fear and anxiety in the population have been amplified over the last 15 months or so.
We’ve got to look at the collateral damage in terms of untreated cancers, untreated heart conditions, all of the other things that people suffer from.
We’ve got to think about the impact of economic damage that would be caused by further periods of delay and uncertainty…
He added that because of the successful vaccine rollout, a slight increase in cases (due to the Indian variant) does not warrant the continuation of strict lockdown restrictions.
By the time we get to June 21st, everybody who is in the nine priority groups or the highest risk will have had both jabs, and would have had a period of time to consolidate the immunity.
What are we going on with is really running into younger age groups who are intrinsically much lower risk. Many of the scientists who’ve been talking over the weekend simply haven’t adjusted their expectations to understand that – (for these people) Covid is a mild illness in the community.
As the Director of Public Health Bolton was saying last week, the people who are going into hospital… it’s not like January, these are not desperately ill people.
They’re people who need a little bit of extra support with oxygen, they need access to the dexamethasone treatment, which is very effective.
They go in, stay in hospital for three or four days and they go out again. There is no realistic prospect of the NHS facing the sorts of pressures that it faced in January and February. And that’s why I think we have to push on with this.
Appearing on Lucy Johnston’s “Sketch Notes On A Pandemic” podcast on Sunday, Professor Dingwall also said (as flagged in today’s News Round-Up) there has been a “preference… throughout the pandemic to believe in the evidence of modelling rather than the evidence of the world”.
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And government won’t take any notice of what he says because they are too keen to retain the powers they have unlawfully stolen from us.
To make a minor adjustment – a slight increase in
casespositve test results after daily increases to testing, currently just under 1M tests per day. At a conservative 0.4% FPR (even Hancock said it was 0.8%) that is 4,000 false positives per day which puts today’s 3,383 “cases” into perspective.Good post Norman.
I think, and I do not endorse this, there will be trouble if restrictions remain in place after the 21st of June. Also, the London rally on the 26th will make last weekend’s massive rally, seem insignificant.
Think carefully Obergruppenfuhrer Johnson.
Hmmm – slight problem with your last sentence: ‘think’ and ‘Johnson’ in the same sentence!
Now, now….
Yeah I think you’re right. They’ve let off some of the steam building up in the pressure cooker but I think they have over-used the variant narrative. With many people out enjoying the weather and (hopefully) realizing that this is all BS it’s going to be a tough one for them.
So called non-essential businesses may be open but the operational nightmare that are masks/checking in coupled with most running at a fraction of their capacity will lead to very p!ssed off people.
Businesses aren’t checking details, they need income not admin.
As long as you reveal something, that’ll do, any name any number.
This man us SANE. A danger to society!
Yes expect him to take early retirement “to spend more time with his family”
either that or suicide by shooting himself twice in the back of his head
“a slight increase in cases (due to the Indian variant”
This, like all the other variant stories is pure fiction.
Lets’ not go after those who are advocating opening up because of a few semantics. Whatever he says, it doesn’t undermine his overall opinion that we are now at a stage where this virus should be treated the same as all the others we live with.
“we are now at a stage where this virus should be treated the same as all the others we live with” Indeed. I think evidence shows we were at that stage last summer.
Agree Dingwall is evidence based though no doubt the neurotic Nervtag mob will say he isn’t a life scientist with expertise on variants. They strangely remained silent while the behaviourists were clanging the plague bell.
Semantics do matter. The redefinition of the word ‘case’ is an example of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in action. As a rhetorical device, it has been used to wield power. I have no wish to go after this prof; he is a voice of relative sanity. But words have been weaponised.
I have just done the Yougov poll, which is normally heavily biased towards lockdown fanatics. This week’s was about delaying unlocking, to which the questions were loaded. To my surprise, every single question gave a majority in favour of unlocking completely and without any restrictions whatsoever. If the government are listening to opinion polls, take note. Maybe the tide finally has turned.
Link please?
This might get you there…
https://www.yougov.chat/channels/health/14368
I did the same poll. But if you were against delaying unlocking (first question) then it made it clear that the rest of the questions were only for those that had that opinion. So naturally, the percentages would have been higher. Bedwetters would have been directed to another set and no doubt feel vindicated by the results. It’s shocking bias confirmation and should be banned.
Yes I just did it and was surprised by the number if people saying 21st should go ahead as planned
I was out yesterday at an event, hundreds of people, not even one mask,its never happened before during this scamdemic.
JFC:
Steve Willis 1 Jun 2021 1:36PM
@Adam Hill What happened to your lockdown enthusiasm? Damascene conversion?
Adam Hill 1 Jun 2021 1:49PM
@Steve Willis @Adam Hill There comes a breaking point for everyone and this is mine.
Throw off your masks and be free.
Is this in the Telegraph?
Adam Hill is the name of one of the worst communist trolls around.
No way??
‘No reason to delay the end of lockdown,’ unless lockdown isn’t about public health. Lockdowns will only end when they’ve done what they were always intended to do, whether that’s the introduction of vaccine passports, a total financial crash, a social credit system etc. Rather naive at this point to cling on to the idea that this was ever about disease control.
100%.
Too many are obsessing about a date. There has been no mention of how the country can be healed economically, socially, spiritually.
I fear any easing will be nothing but a short interlude before the horrors of Autumn and Winter commence.
I find it hard to even enter into this debate about whether we should be freed on 21st June when I don’t believe we should have ever had a single day of lockdown in the first place. It’s pointless.
Australian government describes SARS COV 2 vaccine as a POISON on their own website!!!!!
Public Health Act 2016 (WA) – Instrument of Authorisation – Authorisation to Supply or Administer a Poison [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE – Australian Defence Force] (No.2) 2021
https://www.wa.gov.au/government/publications/public-health-act-2016-wa-instrument-of-authorisation-authorisation-supply-or-administer-poison-sars-cov-2-covid-19-vaccine-australian-defence-force-no2-2021
Video link with further info:
WTF ? AUSTRALIA HEALTH OFFICIALS AUTHORISATION TO ADMINISTER POISON [SARS-COV-2 (COVID-19) VACCINE]
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AAaPkZyN4SJJ/
the goal is the greta reset
to build back greta
no flights or travel or cars for plebs.. depopulation.. infertility..
so even if it relaxes on jun 21st.. it will be back for any one of thousands of variants come winter.
then it will become climate change lockdowns.. meanwhile blue states in the USA will continue to live as normal.. but they will get the same airtime as lockdown marches.. i.e. none..
you will have no heating and you will eat cheap vegan food and you will work from home or not work at all and you will be happy.
meanwhile.. China will continue to make everything.. burning coal.. etc.. laughing all the way to the bat.
Red states: colours other way round there; blue democrats, red republican. Easy to remember blue starts with b for
Bonkers and red starts with r for right (as in correct)
They’re protecting themselves from the repercussions that will come their way when people wake up and realize they’ve let themselves be conned into believing the lies and abuse that’s been thrown at them.
A right nest of vipers the lot of them.
In Chicago, left Britain on Monday. No lockdowns, some mask wearing, going to people’s homes, attending a pre rehearsal dinner with fifty family and friends, attending the wedding next day, 200 people in attendance. It feels like I have been released from prison. Shame on the UK gov’t and it’s irresponsible scientific advisors. They have ruined the country. And it is a complete and utter load of rubbish sold to the public.