Can I ask again who, in SAGE, or I SAGE, or the govt, or epidemiology circles, takes account of the NON-COVID health and emotional harm done from decisions taken around covid.

I see many medics get cross at people who discuss this, label them quacks.

But this is real harm.

And our job should always be to take account of the whole person.

People laugh at "covid sceptics" but I bet this lack of consideration of very real and profound other harm drives quite a lot of it.

We can't count it easily, so it's forgotten.

I see decision after decision taken that makes little sense, and with almost no mention ever, apart from occasionally Chris whitty, mentioning the harms from lockdown?

It's a balance, it has to be a balance, but no one is looking at what is on one half of the scales.

And people criticise and mock those who question lockdown, as if they are wishing people to die, come to harm etc. I have had some awful things said.

But actually some are asking incredibly valid questions based upon the harm they see in the course of their work or lives.