The Guardian published a story this morning about the huge collateral damage caused by the cack-handed response of the UK Government to the coronavirus crisis, although, typically, it attributes this damage to to the pandemic rather than the lockdowns. If you can overcome your irritation about this basic journalistic failure – why not look at how much less damage the “pandemic” has caused in Sweden, for Christ’s sake? – the story is helpful to the sceptics’ cause. It’s based on a new report by the Royal Academy.
Britain faces a “Covid decade” of social and cultural upheaval marked by growing inequality and deepening economic deprivation, a landmark review has concluded.
Major changes to the way society is run in the wake of the pandemic are needed to mitigate the impact of the “long shadow” cast by the virus, including declining public trust and an explosion in mental illness, the British Academy report found.
Published on the anniversary of the UK’s first lockdown, the report brings together more than 200 academic social science and humanities experts and hundreds of research projects. It was set up last year at the behest of the government’s chief scientific adviser, Sir Patrick Vallance.
Ironic that Sir Patrick initiated an inquiry into the colossal harms that, in part at least, have been caused by his own mishandling of this crisis. If only he’d stuck to his guns and continued to follow the sensible course set out in the UK’s Pandemic Preparedness Strategy.
Given that the focus of the Royal Academy’s report – which you can read here – is the increase in inequality over the past year caused by the pandemic lockdowns, it will be interesting to see whether there’s a link between the rise in the Gini coefficient in different regions and the stringency of NPIs. Overwhelmingly likely I’d say, given that we already know there’s a link between the stringency of NPIs and economic damage – and the burden of that damage has already fallen on the least well off and will continue to do so over the next decade.
Worth reading in full.
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I seldom wish ill on other people but I wish decades of misery for Messrs Vallance and Whitty.
It seems obvious from their sudden change of direction a year ago from a sensible, pre-planned, approach of herd immunity, that they have been “leaned on” for whatever reason resulting in them supporting continued lockdowns, masks, unsafe and unnecessary vaccines.
But if that is the case they should simply have resigned instead of carrying on being the puppets for whoever is actually running this sh1show behind the scenes.
These bastards know exactly what they’re doing and i expect they’re going to be well rewarded for doing the master’s bidding, or they face being destroyed like the rest of us. Follow all the money in this. And all the connections. This really is evil.
Half the government deserves to be in prison, and most of the other half should be barred from ever holding public office.
Spot on.
‘Leaned on’ – or enticed???
They have both made a fortune from Gates alleged ‘research’ grants, eye wateringly millions actually and Unbalanced has personally invested £600,000 in Pfeizer so he is set to become a multi-millionaire from the vaccines. Neat eh?
I can’t wait for the state to start running the, “LOL, kids are resilient, they’ll bounce right back!” propaganda campaign.
Can I nominate ‘Everything Is Awesome’ as a new national anthem at that point……
If your alternative media wasn’t controlled, and there had been loud and incessant coverage of certain information (about which there must have been an order go out not to touch), this would have been nipped in the bud.
In one of the routine internet searches I do, I just found another new study demonstrating Covid-19 outcomes related to levels of ACE2.
This never has been about anything spreading, just capacity to be prone to what is a rare disease (in effect SARS [which they laughably claim just died out]). A report to follow (alike this older one, no doubt):
New Study Acknowledges Increased Levels Of ACE2 As Factor In Contracting Covid-19; Who Will Take Any Notice?
Of course, had Corbyn been Prime Minister presiding over all of this deception, lies and mess the MSM would be responding very differently and, hey presto, we wouldn’t have a pandemic at all.
Yes – Clearly, Corbyn would probably have been suckered, given present evidece – but that’s an interesting counter-factual, given that the try-out for the techniques of the propaganda blitz was the Labour/’antisemitism’ spoof narrative.
The sharp and honest cookies across the political spectrum saw that for what it was, whatever their traditional political position. The authoritarian manipulators didn’t – same old same old.
A Tony Benn or a Michael Foot would have been a useful contribution from Labour at this point.
That picture of Vallance and Whitty.
It screams : “We are liars”, doesn’t it? – No respectable scientist would advertise mask-wearing as a useful measure against a virus.
Especially if they had firmly stated that it wasn’t a few months ago.
“If only he’d stuck to his guns and continued to follow the sensible course set out in the UK’s Pandemic Preparedness Strategy”
to change course without a risk analysis is malfeasance at best and manslaughter at worst
… and whatever it is – it isn’t medical competence, whether displayed by useful idiots or venal manipulators (take your pick).
Para one: The Royal Academy? A first even for them. It’s the British Academy.