The Stanford-based Professor of Medicine told me that lockdowns “will be seen as the single biggest public health mistake in history”.
At a time when all the U.K.’s main political parties backed lockdown vehemently, with Labour’s Sir Keir Starmer and Nicola Sturgeon’s SNP incessantly calling for Covid-related restrictions to be even more punitive, Bhattacharya’s words were not universally welcomed.
On the contrary, his efforts to promote “targeted shielding” – helping the elderly and others with medical conditions that make them particularly vulnerable to Covid, while letting the rest of us get on with our lives – were widely dismissed as irresponsible.
Even in that climate, when to question lockdown was to face social ostracism, Bhattacharya was warning of the “enormous collateral consequences” of keeping people inside and isolating them from their loved ones during the Covid-19 pandemic. He was supported by two more top epidemiologists – Sunetra Gupta of Oxford University and Martin Kulldorff, then of Harvard. …
I’m shocked – but hardly surprised – that the U.K.’s lockdown policies have been barely discussed during this election campaign.
There seems to be a conspiracy of silence between the main parties to keep quiet about lockdown, seeing as all of them agreed with and helped reinforce it. This position is now, at the very least, open to serious question.
Missed operations, economic scarring, compromised schooling and very serious damage to people’s mental health – not least among children and young adults – were just some of the problems stored up for the future by shutting down the country three times in 2020 and 2021. …
Amidst the election campaign and well away from the public eye the U.K.’s ridiculous “Covid Inquiry” rumbles on. The inquiry team is touring the country as part of the “Every Story Matters” project, allowing people to speak anonymously without giving formal evidence to the inquiry.
Our Covid Inquiry is astonishingly drawn out – having started in June 2022 and scheduled to take evidence until at least June 2026. It’s a lawyers’ bonanza, paid for by us – with costs exceeding £70 million last year alone and the final bill expected to reach almost £200 million.
Rather than addressing the central question – whether, if the U.K. faces a pandemic similar to COVID-19, we lock down again or not – this Covid investigation has instead become a ludicrously expensive talking shop.
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Just as worryingly, and I reference UK Column (10th May, and possibly today’s upcoming broadcast) is the reported rise in ambulance queues outside of hospitals. It is at least possible, or even likely, that this could be in part due to the number of vaxx ADRs being reported (or should that be under-reported?).
The current government MHRA figures are difficult to interpret at source, but the UKC’s new resource makes it possible to view and most importantly interrogate the MHRA Yellow Card figures (remembering that due to under reporting these are likely to show only 10% or less of actual ADRs being experienced in the UK by the government’s own admission).
Similar to June last year when the ONS were reporting fewer deaths than the 5 year average, first in London but soon spreading to the rest of the country.
Significantly not reported in the MSM who preferred to divert our attention with Cummingsgate and even Madie McCann.
“This suggests Sweden’s “spring wave” was largely a casedemic, with any real Covid killing those who were already approaching the end of their life.” From the article it doesn’t seem to do that.
I noted that during the winter and Spring we didn’t seem to have the usual ‘norovirus’ issues but suddenly the symptoms of coronavirus included vomiting and diarrhoea.
They are playing us like fiddles, it’s time the strings were snapped.
The list just kept growing…. you name it, it was another symptom. What an amazing virus, to manifest itself in such a variety of ways! And of course vomiting and diarrhoea are symptoms! How could you possibly doubt it? It will have been proven by those amazingly accurate PCR tests
I think Will is correct that the second winter peak in Sweden could have been a scandemic. There was no increase of excess mortality and ongoing mass testing in the increased hysteria in Sweden since November last year (when hysteria finally affected Sweden with increased NPI measures without any effects).
But were there not many severe cases in ICU C-19 in Sweden during the second winter peak? Yes, but where they actual C-19 cases? Difficult question .PCR test in Sweden should now be coupled with symptoms in order to be indicative of C-19 infection. But what happens if the current bunch of patients in ICU in Sweden have PCR test positive and symptoms but caused by another respiratory virus,as PCR reflects something 3 months earlier?
There could be a massive amount of people infected over the winter carrying fragments of virus several months and now having another virus infection falsely attributed to C-19.It would be interesting to know the Ct values of all hospitalized patients, in fact, why are these data not available?
There could be a lot of European countries with a second peak in the winter seasonal wave which also did not have excess mortality where this could be another virus.
And then we have the strangest country in the world, Hungary with the highest C-19 mortality in the world but not any excess mortality. There is a lot of puzzling things going on if we don’t have Ct values of hospitalized/ICU/deaths before we can be sure of the current data.
Stop using the word “wave” in this context would be a start
peyrole
3 years ago
I can confirm exactly the same situation in France. A lot of noise about high numbers of ‘cases’, hospitalisations, ICU numbers etc etc. Graphs and numbers reported to Worldometer etc that appear to show a continuing threat all through the winter and spring.
Yet a quick glance at all couse deaths 2021 shows the numbers each month and cumulative exactly the same as 2019. Even to monthly and seasonal variations.
Its nbeen a casedemic in France since the start of 2021. Many tests in the 20-40 year group to keep numbers up I presume.
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NOT A WAVE!!! A cesspit of crap PCR test results!
Yes, a lot of vulnerable people finished off by the “vaccines” weren’t there?
Just look at the huge jump in reported deaths (in England and Wales) – 3 weeks after the first full week of “vaccination”(18 December).
That was my first thought.
Yes – it slaps you in the face.
Just as worryingly, and I reference UK Column (10th May, and possibly today’s upcoming broadcast) is the reported rise in ambulance queues outside of hospitals. It is at least possible, or even likely, that this could be in part due to the number of vaxx ADRs being reported (or should that be under-reported?).
The current government MHRA figures are difficult to interpret at source, but the UKC’s new resource makes it possible to view and most importantly interrogate the MHRA Yellow Card figures (remembering that due to under reporting these are likely to show only 10% or less of actual ADRs being experienced in the UK by the government’s own admission).
https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports
Oh but look now
THE VACCINE HAS ABOLISHED DEATH!
that must be it
Similar to June last year when the ONS were reporting fewer deaths than the 5 year average, first in London but soon spreading to the rest of the country.
Significantly not reported in the MSM who preferred to divert our attention with Cummingsgate and even Madie McCann.
Oh dear. William – stop confusing ‘cases’ with real meaningful data.
It really does fog any argument.
And that short term average really is a bummer as a baseline, given what we know. It minimises the unremarkable.
“This suggests Sweden’s “spring wave” was largely a casedemic, with any real Covid killing those who were already approaching the end of their life.”
From the article it doesn’t seem to do that.
I noted that during the winter and Spring we didn’t seem to have the usual ‘norovirus’ issues but suddenly the symptoms of coronavirus included vomiting and diarrhoea.
They are playing us like fiddles, it’s time the strings were snapped.
The list just kept growing…. you name it, it was another symptom. What an amazing virus, to manifest itself in such a variety of ways! And of course vomiting and diarrhoea are symptoms! How could you possibly doubt it? It will have been proven by those amazingly accurate PCR tests
I think Will is correct that the second winter peak in Sweden could have been a scandemic. There was no increase of excess mortality and ongoing mass testing in the increased hysteria in Sweden since November last year (when hysteria finally affected Sweden with increased NPI measures without any effects).
But were there not many severe cases in ICU C-19 in Sweden during the second winter peak? Yes, but where they actual C-19 cases?
Difficult question .PCR test in Sweden should now be coupled with symptoms in order to be indicative of C-19 infection. But what happens if the current bunch of patients in ICU in Sweden have PCR test positive and symptoms but caused by another respiratory virus,as PCR reflects something 3 months earlier?
There could be a massive amount of people infected over the winter carrying fragments of virus several months and now having another virus infection falsely attributed to C-19.It would be interesting to know the Ct values of all hospitalized patients, in fact, why are these data not available?
There could be a lot of European countries with a second peak in the winter seasonal wave which also did not have excess mortality where this could be another virus.
And then we have the strangest country in the world, Hungary with the highest C-19 mortality in the world but not any excess mortality. There is a lot of puzzling things going on if we don’t have Ct values of hospitalized/ICU/deaths before we can be sure of the current data.
On the same theme: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2021/03/20/covid19-hidden-figures-and-ooda/
Stop using the word “wave” in this context would be a start
I can confirm exactly the same situation in France. A lot of noise about high numbers of ‘cases’, hospitalisations, ICU numbers etc etc. Graphs and numbers reported to Worldometer etc that appear to show a continuing threat all through the winter and spring.
Yet a quick glance at all couse deaths 2021 shows the numbers each month and cumulative exactly the same as 2019. Even to monthly and seasonal variations.
Its nbeen a casedemic in France since the start of 2021. Many tests in the 20-40 year group to keep numbers up I presume.