I saw @wesstreeting getting hysterical on the back of a question from a bedwetter in @bbcquestiontime last night. He dribbled all the usual nonsense out including overhwhelmed hospitals and "long COVID". Here's some facts for you...
Yes, as @JuliaHB1 very correctly (and phlegmatically) stated, Havering is the only London borough with any discernible COVID mortality. Havering had the latest Spring peak in London but now has 0.13% COVID mortality with only Brent and Harrow with worse rates. It's done.
Hospitals were not overwhelmed. They did, however, clear out thousands of other patients and consultant episodes. Will you be taking responsibility for those decisions in your constituency when the inevitable consequences materialise?
Again, as @JuliaHB1 correctly states, this is the same pattern across the entire nation, even Sweden with completely different approach.
Those areas that did not get hit in Spring because they were so far from the London epicentre in terms of physical distance and remoteness, simply got hit in Autumn.
Unlike @TurnbullMalcolm and @anandMenon1 who really needed to study the data harder before coming on talking absolute, unsubstantiated nonsense about the effectiveness of masks, social distancing and lockdowns, the data shows unequivocably that they are not.
I don't know why I should have expected more from a @BBC programme after this year of hysteria trumps rational science. There was such an obvious abject lack of factual knowledge in both the panel and the audience, that the whole programme was a disservice to the thinking person.
#fionabruce and #bbcqt while you continue to broadcast opinions of ill-informed people instead of diligently researching and presenting the facts, you remain a core part of the problem.
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