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Lockdowns do not work
The Home Office still refuses to publish any impact assessment on *all the harms* of lockdown compared to not locking down (leaks suggest that they have this unpublished data)
I call this Covid tunnel-vision (or hysteria) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052527/Does-London-REALLY-need-Tier-Three.html
Lockdowns do not work
The Home Office still refuses to publish any impact assessment on *all the harms* of lockdown compared to not locking down (leaks suggest that they have this unpublished data)
I call this Covid tunnel-vision (or hysteria) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9052527/Does-London-REALLY-need-Tier-Three.html
“..official NHS data shows only one trust is busier than last winter and hospitals across the capital are quieter than usual.”
“NHS England statistics has revealed that, of the capital's 18 major hospital trusts, only University College London NHS Foundation Trust is busier than it was in 2019.”
“London's NHS hospitals are actually quieter than they were the previous two winters, on average, with 88.79 per cent of beds occupied in the week ending December 6 this year. It means roughly 1,500 beds are currently going unused every day in the capital.”
“But just 13 per cent of all patients in occupied beds were being treated for coronavirus — and up to a quarter of all infected patients in London's hospital may catch the virus inside NHS facilities.”
“Professor @CarlHeneghan, an epidemiologist and expert in evidence-based medicine at the University of Oxford, told MailOnline 'the lack of objective criteria' used to justify London's lockdown was 'a major problem.”
“It can also be revealed that up to a quarter of Covid-19 'admissions' listed by the Department of Health could be patients who caught the virus in hospital.”
“Gov. figures show there were 228 new coronavirus patients needing NHS treatment every day in London ..week ending Dec 12, on average. But only 172 of these – or roughly 75% – were admissions from 'the community', meaning they definitely caught the virus in their day-to-day life”
“But fears that the NHS will be overwhelmed this winter are receding, with official figures revealing the country is virtually free of the flu virus ahead of January — which is usually the busiest time for the health service.”
“One London restaurant owner revealed the move into Tier 3 had already cost him £42,000 in lost bookings, in addition to a week's worth of wasted stock. While other pub owners will have to pour any beer left undrunk down the drain if it is not sold by the end of today.”
“An estimated 70million pints of beer were poured down the drain when the country went into lockdown on November 5.”
“Kate Nicholls, the head of UK Hospitality warned:
'For those businesses directly affected it will wipe off £2.7bn from the London economy in the last two weeks of December.
'It's also put 160,000 jobs directly at risk just before Christmas.”
'For those businesses directly affected it will wipe off £2.7bn from the London economy in the last two weeks of December.
'It's also put 160,000 jobs directly at risk just before Christmas.”
Lockdowns destroy the lives & livelihoods of normal people, and the most vulnerable, while wealth concentrates at the top: with coporate revolving door politics, multinational tech oligopolies, billionaires & their “middle-men” contractors: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/jeff-bezos-increases-wealth-by-record-13-billion-in-one-day-bpzwv0zfw
Source for my claim that the government claim they do not have the data to publish a comparative lockdown ‘impact assessment’, while inside sources say they do: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secret-dossier-on-coronavirus-damage-f28c5nxg8
This thread can be found in one place via my Facebook page here:
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Perhaps a proper lockdown *impact assessment* would read like this heartbreaking thread: https://twitter.com/maajidnawaz/status/1337137957262782467
