Lockdown
Lockdown was never referred to as “lockdown” in March 2020. We were “asked” to stay at home for a few weeks, thus allowing our health services to get up to speed without being swamped. As we now know, a few weeks became months became 2021.
I simply cannot believe this was not planned. The logistics involved in keeping a country afloat after closing down the economy are extremely complicated. Months - if not years - of planning must have gone into this.
One of the strangest things about the first lockdown in the UK was the enforcement date of March the 26th, just one week after the government declared on March 19th that Covid-19 was being downgraded from a High Consequence Infectious Disease (HCID). The reason given for the downgrade was a low mortality rate……
Anyway, the world locked down. When it became apparent the lockdowns were going to stay in place until a miracle vaccine was discovered, the governments promised us detailed cost/benefit analyses would be conducted. They never were. But they very much should have been.
The principal reason they should, is all to do with deaths. Closing down the country also meant partially closing down health services to non-Covid patients. Inculcating fear meant many people were too scared to go anywhere near a hospital. Patients with cancer and heart problems stayed away - voluntarily or involuntarily. Many of them died as a result.
On the 19th of July 2020, the Daily Telegraph published an article based on Office for National Statistics figures, claiming two-hundred-thousand people could die (mid to long term) in the UK due to lockdowns. Similar figures were published in countries all around the world.
Here is a brutal truth. Governments which locked down, essentially stated the following: “We are going to murder XYZ thousand people. We undertake this crime because we think we might save other people from Covid-19 deaths.”
Even more remarkably, the death rates were completely normal before lockdowns were initiated. Lockdowns were not the forced result of having to deal with large numbers of deaths. Rather, large numbers of deaths were the forced result of government instructed lockdowns. It is difficult to understand quite why our politicians are not locked up for life after successful prosecution for Crimes Against Humanity.
Worse again, lockdowns enabled the Great Care Home Cull. Which means the government locked us down in the full knowledge this would kill people, and then utilised the lockdown to kill even more people in the care homes. It really is no exaggeration to talk about Crimes Against Humanity.
And it was all so unnecessary. Covid-19 presented no statistical noteworthy threat of death to the healthy – of any age. All the data between January 2020 and December 2023 (when this is being written) supports this statement. It is not a claim. It is not an opinion. It is a data-verifiable fact.
There was a world of lockdown difference between middle-class families and working-class families. Large houses with gardens afforded relaxation and contentment for the middle-class, especially so with monthly furlough scheme deposits pinging into their bank accounts on the first of every month.
The working-class were nowhere near as fortunate. Many found themselves unable to satisfy the government’s furlough scheme conditions and were rendered destitute as a result. Many lived in cramped flats without gardens. If they tried to escape for a walk in the local park, they encountered violently hostile policemen who were “only following orders”.
The consequences of lockdowns are all around us. Health services have fragmented. Waiting times are through the roof. Once treatable cancer and heart patients are dying before they can be treated. Suicides are up. Mental health problems are up. Educational standards have plummeted. Truancy rates have soared. Tens-of thousands of children have disappeared from school completely. Bankruptcies are rising. Child abuse soared during lockdown.
Conclusion: Lockdowns caused inevitable deaths. They enabled tens-of-thousands of “deaths” in the care homes we were unable to visit. Lockdowns saved no deaths because Covid-19 lacked sufficient lethality to kill anyone without one foot already in the grave. Lockdowns caused social, financial, and emotional misery for the most vulnerable. Lockdowns bankrupted nations whilst enriching the Western elites. They also caused huge numbers of death in the developing world, where children starved to death because the governments didn’t have the financial luxury of paying workers not to work. Truly, lockdowns were a veritable Crime Against Humanity.
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