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Government’s Response to Pandemic is Based on Flawed Assumptions, According to 133 Healthcare Professionals

by Toby Young
22 August 2021 3:55 PM

Covid19 Assembly, an anti-lockdown lobby group, has pulled together a powerful letter signed by 133 doctors, nurses, paramedics and midwives challenging the thinking behind the Government’s response to the coronavirus crisis. The signatories list 10 flawed assumptions, starting with the failure to carry out any sort of cost-benefit analysis of the lockdown policy before deciding to implement it.

1. No attempt to measure the harms of lockdown policies.

The evidence of disastrous effects of lockdowns on the physical and mental health of the population is there for all to see. The harms are massive, widespread, and long lasting. In particular, the psychological impact on a generation of developing children could be lifelong.

It is for this reason that lockdown policies were never part of any pandemic preparedness plans prior to 2020. In fact, they were expressly not recommended in WHO documents, even for severe respiratory viral pathogens and for that matter neither were border closures, face coverings, and testing of asymptomatic individuals. There has been such an inexplicable absence of consideration of the harms caused by lockdown policy it is difficult to avoid the suspicion that this is wilful avoidance.

The introduction of such policies was never accompanied by any sort of risk/benefit analysis. As bad as that is, it is even worse that after the event when plenty of data became available by which the harms could be measured, only perfunctory attention to this aspect of pandemic planning has been afforded. Eminent professionals have repeatedly called for discourse on these health impacts in press-conferences but have been universally ignored.

What is so odd, is that the policies being pursued before mid-March 2020 (self-isolation of the ill and protection of the vulnerable, while otherwise society continued close to normality) were balanced, sensible and reflected the approach established by consensus prior to 2020. No cogent reason was given then for the abrupt change of direction from mid-March 2020 and strikingly none has been put forward at any time since.

Worth reading in full.

Full disclosure: I am on the Advisory Board of Covid19 Assembly.

Tags: Bad Policy

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awildgoose
awildgoose
4 years ago

I always knew the Stones were superior to the Beatles.

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iane
iane
4 years ago
Reply to  awildgoose

That is known as damning with (very) faint praise!

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago

Spot on Mick.

The only deadly variant is next one out of Downing Street.

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fon
fon
4 years ago

It’s great.

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Monro
Monro
4 years ago

Legend.

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Annie
Annie
4 years ago

Mick Jagger just rocketed in my esteem so fast, Warp 10 isn’t in it.

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago
Reply to  Annie

I’m strutting around my kitchen in loon pants now. Yeah yeah.

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BJs Brain is Missing
BJs Brain is Missing
4 years ago

Good lad!

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Freecumbria
Freecumbria
4 years ago

I can’t get no vaccination

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Colinou
Colinou
4 years ago

Good fun but the lyrics are typically ambiguous. Indeed, the BBC has already given this song a positive review. Jagger has always known how to appear radical without actually committing himself to anything. That way he sells more records.

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Noumenon
Noumenon
4 years ago
Reply to  Colinou

My thoughts exactly. I fail to see how this can’t just be interpreted as chronicling the “effects of the virus” and general stupidity. Hardly coming out as a sceptic.

The journalism on here is going down the pan.

Last edited 4 years ago by Noumenon
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ConstantBees
ConstantBees
4 years ago
Reply to  Noumenon

Have to agree. I thought, great, Jagger’s a sceptic, too. Then I listened to the song. Not convinced in the slightest.

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Carrie Symonds
Carrie Symonds
4 years ago
Reply to  Colinou

Yeah but he’s trying
Don’t knock the lad (grandad).

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lanarkdavy
lanarkdavy
4 years ago

The original rebels finally speaking out. We need a modern day protest movement with millions out on the streets showing their defiance.

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olaffreya
olaffreya
4 years ago

Rocking 80 year old putting younger generation to shame. How refreshing it would be to see this generation emulating him and show some anger and revolt through song.

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manav95
manav95
4 years ago
Reply to  olaffreya

with pleasure my friend!

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Ross Hendry
Ross Hendry
4 years ago

I’m not sure the support of these degenerate cretins is needed. We need more like Fuellmich,Yeadon,Cahill and Sucharit Bhakdi.

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WorriedCitizen
WorriedCitizen
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Remember Dylan?

We need protest songs to connect with people, something I was only thinking yesterday; shame it’s an old fart from yesterday that’s first to step up to the plate.
If this was the late 1970s the “Yuf” would be in uprising!

Still, a good effort backed up by Dave Grohl no less (guitar & drums).

Oh the power of rock ‘n’ roll.

Last edited 4 years ago by WorriedCitizen
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Kymtr17
Kymtr17
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

We need another Them Crooked Vultures album, certainly …

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Woden
Woden
4 years ago
Reply to  WorriedCitizen

It’s not bad, but distinctly old skool rawk…

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silverbirch
silverbirch
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Can they sing?

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WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Hear hear!

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Woden
Woden
4 years ago
Reply to  Ross Hendry

Yeah, but it’s nice to have some tunes as well..

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A Heretic
A Heretic
4 years ago

Would have been a little more credible and useful if he’d done it a year ago.

Last edited 4 years ago by A Heretic
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Think Harder
Think Harder
4 years ago
Reply to  A Heretic

I’m not sure Bill Gates and Mind Control are fake! Certainly, the fear being propogated, the social conditioning all look like mind control to me. The fact Bill Gates is the major funding source for the WHO and large contributions to BBC health dept and Imperial College. Many, many other pharmas and media – all smells bad to me.

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TheFascistCoronaFraud
TheFascistCoronaFraud
4 years ago

Gillian McKeith has a great twitter page to show to reality deniers lol

https://twitter.com/GillianMcKeith

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WeAllFallDown
WeAllFallDown
4 years ago
Reply to  TheFascistCoronaFraud

Well that was a bit of a mind-bender.

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xen
xen
4 years ago

Oh dear oh dear… you guys managed to totally miss the target on this one. Mick is saying exactly the opposite of what you think he’s saying. In fact, he’s taking the piss out of you all!
And if you lack the ability to detect the sarcasm in his new song, just go a read the Rolling Stone magazine interview with him where he spells out the meaning of it for you. He is NOT on your side!

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Deborah T
Deborah T
4 years ago
Reply to  xen

Agree. Mick Jagger Talks New Song With Dave Grohl, Pandemic, Vaccines – Rolling Stone

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago
Reply to  xen

Good to see someone else noticed this. I wonder how many people read that last section of the article (picked apart in my comment below). It becomes more obvious by the day that the authors of this website are controlled opposition.

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xen
xen
4 years ago

Oh dear oh dear… you guys managed to totally miss the target on this one. Mick is saying exactly the opposite of what you think he’s saying. In fact, he’s taking the pi$$ out of you all!
And if you lack the ability to detect the sarcasm in his new song, just go a read the Rolling Stone magazine interview with him where he spells out the meaning of it for you. He is NOT on your side!

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Mike Durrans
Mike Durrans
4 years ago

Jagger for PM!

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Anonymous
Anonymous
4 years ago

Fully vaccinated Sir Mick Jagger considers anyone questioning the vaccination program here as an anti-vaxxer. For those waiting to see the longer term effects or what happens when the trials end in 2023 no discernment just straight into the anti-vax camp.

Bad enough that we fawn over celebrities even worse when they are openly ill-disposed to our views.

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J4mes
J4mes
4 years ago

However, lest you think Jagger has become a full-blown conspiracy theorist, there’s a swipe at some of the crazier fringes of lockdown scepticism in the final verse:

Toby Young

Here we go again with the whole ‘conspiracy theorist’ malarkey. Let’s have a look at the lyrics in that last verse:

Shooting the vaccine
Bill Gates is in my blood stream

Is Jagger (and Toby) denying Bill Gates has involvement in this sordid affair?

It’s mind control

Yes, yes it is. And no, I’m not talking about the unknown substance being pumped into people’s veins. I’m talking about the universal message reading out from every orifice of public life that there is a deadly virus and we all need to behave like we have it. Are you now denying this has been happening Toby? I’m sure Jagger is doing his bit right here with these lyrics…

The earth is flat and cold
It’s never warming up
The Arctic’s turned to slush
The second’s coming late
And there’s aliens in the deep state

Congratulations, Mick, you did a fine job conflating real, seriously important issues with turgid shit. Toby is applauding your efforts.

I’ll now go and sit in the naughty corner with my tin foil hat. Thank you.

Last edited 4 years ago by J4mes
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Woden
Woden
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Who gives a fuck what he, Doily Parton Elton John, McCartney think about sweet F. A. Oh, and that erbert from… Showadywaddy, it’s great to get inspiration from geriatric teddyboys.

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CovidiousAlbion
CovidiousAlbion
4 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Miles Mathis put Jagger down as another deep state asset, a while ago. His ideas usually seem too far out, when I read them, but then I later see some corroborating evidence.

Michael Caine’s been the one to upset me most, so far, in the propaganda campaign.

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PoshPanic
PoshPanic
4 years ago

This is an ad campaign for the upcoming, Gates funded “VaxLive”.

https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/media/vaxlive/

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B.F.Finlayson
B.F.Finlayson
4 years ago
Reply to  PoshPanic

HOSTED BYSELENA GOMEZPERFORMANCES BYJENNIFER LOPEZ EDDIE VEDDER · FOO FIGHTERS J BALVIN · H.E.R.
The list of VaxLive performers advocating global Jab-er-Woke probably meant nothing to most LDS readers. But if they read ATL here they should know ex-Nirvana tub thumper Dave “Eazy Sleazy” Grohl is the Foo Fighters front man & guitarist. Now, square the circle…..

‘With the lights out, it’s less dangerous

Here we are now, entertain us

I feel stupid and contagious

Here we are now, entertain us

A mulatto, an albino

A mosquito, my libido’

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JohnnyDollar
JohnnyDollar
4 years ago

Good on Him…..BRILLIANT

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