There is no evidence that lockdowns have done more good than harm.
The Government should be putting money into the NHS, to deal with the usual, annual problems due to lack of resources at this time of year and the “flu season” to come, rather than ruinously expensive, irrelevant, misleading and panic-inducing mass-testing.
Recommission the Nightingale Hospitals and staff them as a short-term solution if necessary and support healthier diet and lifestyles to improve ability to survive all and any infections. Protect the frail eldery and others who are vulnerable but with consideration for other priorities, eg. contact with family and friends for people isolated in Care Homes and Nursing Homes.
The default for normal living should be hand-washing plus “social distancing” with masks if people wish (very little evidence they do anything to reduce spread of infection outside of special care and contact environments, eg.hospitals).
There is no evidence that any country in the world is experiencing a “second wave”, ie. a rate of cases (people actually UNWELL) or deaths that remotely resembles the pandemic earlier in the year.
There is no evidence that we are on a trajectory to anything other than the “normal” appalling state of affairs, when there will be ambulances queuing outside hospitals because there are not enough beds - like there are EVERY WINTER. There are no signs at the moment that it will be any worse than usual - unless these Lockdowns continue.
The only way to make things better is to increase NHS capacity, improve public health, “hand hygiene”, social distancing, protect the vulnerable - and stop the politicians running round like headless chickens encouraging mass hysteria.
There are so many sites and videos I could link to in support of the above, none of them relying on anything other than established science and logic.
Just a few recent examples:
- “Covid diagnosis with PCR | Misinterpreting results | Cycle threshold explained” (Anthony Kuster)
- Key viral update Oct 30th (Ivor Cummins)
- “Maybe we got our measurements wrong” (Dr Clare Craig, Pathologist)