It is entirely possible that our government has fucked up and will keep digging the hole bigger rather than just admitting they fucked up. They’ve done it before - Brexit springs to mind. As does Boris Johnson still leading the country.
Usually when we fuck up, the rest of the world stares at us in a puzzled way and wonders what we’re doing. Before shaking their head and walking away to leave us to our self destructive tendencies. However, we’re not the only country undertaking these measures. All countries are. All countries have tanked their economies. You don’t do that if every country in the world isn’t scared shitless. These are governments that are far right, far left and everything in between. Yet they’re all equally shitting it. Even countries without social media or with state controlled media.
The stats are quite frankly ridiculous. The number of deaths are what we have to date but we’re not out of the woods yet. We won’t know the full tally for many, many years. At which point we can examine that this number died as a result of covid (or secondary causes that covid caused such as illnesses that weren’t present before someone caught covid). We can also then examine all the deaths that occurred as a result of lockdown - those people who died at the hands of abusers; those who missed routine health appointments; those who had delayed screenings or were too scared to go to the hospital; suicide. It is at that point that we can determine the full effects. Although, it’s worth bearing in mind you will only have modelled data to go for in understanding what the death toll of covid would have been as all countries have reacted to the threat at some level.
It is also worth bearing in mind that the vast majority of covid deaths have resulted when mitigation measures have been place. When we have been told to practice social distancing, when we have been on lockdown, when we have been washing our hands and using sanitizer. All those deaths still occurred with those mitigation measures in place. The number of deaths would almost certainly be higher if we hadn’t been trying to protect ourselves from this.
Dominic Cummings' wife is commissioning editor of the Spectator.
Pretty much this. Given that Dominic Cummings, and his wife Mary Wakefield, broke lockdown in such a blatant way, yet this isn’t addressed in any Spectator articles that I’ve seen. Since all other officials/aides/scientists who broke lockdown were sacked and Cummings kept his job, I’ve felt that Mary Wakefield must have something over Johnson to stop her husband being fired. Taken from the spectator’s website:
Our writers have no party line; their only allegiance is to clarity of thought, elegance of expression and independence of opinion. Our writers opinions range from left to right, their circumstances from high life to low life. None make any pretence at being impartial: our motto is "firm, but unfair".
Given they have no allegiance to the left or right, they’ve failed to address the lack of trust from the general public that has resulted from the PM’s aide breaking lockdown restrictions.