Article in The Telegraph

[Pootle40]

When the Resistance dared to suggest that some lockdown measures were disproportionate, crazy and unsupported by science, let alone common sense, we were reviled. That is no exaggeration. I regret to say your columnist was called, in no particular order, a Covid denier (I nursed my entire family through the virus), a granny killer (I didn’t see my own mother for 18 months) and a spreader of disinformation. When I protested on social media that putting padlocks on the gates of playgrounds was a terrible idea, back came a fusillade of vicious accusations: “You want people to die!”
To question the official narrative that nothing mattered except keeping people safe from Covid was heresy. Witches like me had to be burnt at the stake before we could spread our subversive ideas to all Sage-fearing people. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed (that’s why the Nightingales were shut without being used). And even those prophets of doom at the BBC finally acknowledged this week that half of “Covid deaths” since Christmas are not actually “from” Covid but “with” Covid.

www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/01/18/pilloried-lockdown-sceptic-now-clear-right-quite-things/

“The Resistance” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Oh Christ, it's Allison Pearson.

Say no more.

It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed (that’s why the Nightingales were shut without being used).

Eh? both these statements are completely false @Pootle40

I have no time for Alison Pearson. She has consistently spread disinformation and her libertarian rhetoric has cost lives. She is spouting bollocks. Of course the NHS was overwhelmed, and is. It is on its knees and even more so since covid. She knows jolly well there were never the staff for nightingales, it was a big look at me doing something from the government. Everyone knows about the incidental cases with Omicron; that doesn't make it so for past variants, far from it. I am so done with seeing people like her trying to rewrite history to put her in a better light and tell us that she told us so all along. I see her..I see the damage she and her ilk did.

Meh. Any of your other predictions came true too?

@leafyygreens

It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed (that’s why the Nightingales were shut without being used).

Eh? both these statements are completely false @Pootle40

I didn't state it!

I know - I'm just pointing out the paragraph you copied and pasted from a telegraph article contains statements that aren't true @Pootle40

@rainrainraincamedowndowndown

Meh. Any of your other predictions came true too?

Not my predictions......

But you posted it @Pootle40!

If you don't agree with it (or at least seem to want to distance yourself from it) why start a thread with just the article and no further comment?

Bet the columnist is now vaccinated. Which makes all the difference.

The Telegraph🙄font of all wisdom🙄🙄

There was a similar Telegraph report that stated:

“Call to phase out statistics comes as it emerges that up to 70pc of virus patients in hospital being primarily treated for other problems”

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/20/call-scrap-daily-covid-data-updates-amid-fears-increasingly/

It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed

Now why might that be? It could be:

a) because Covid was never that big a deal;

b) because a whole raft of mitigation measures were put in place, without which the NHS would have been overwhelmed.

@Thingstodotoday

“The Resistance” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

You win the internet, @Thingstodotoday. Nothing more to add, you've said it all.

@PuzzledObserver

It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed

Now why might that be? It could be:

a) because Covid was never that big a deal;

b) because a whole raft of mitigation measures were put in place, without which the NHS would have been overwhelmed.

I'd also suggest that, on the contrary, the NHS was overwhelmed. How many posts have there been about people not being able to get GP appointments despite GPs having held a record number of appointments during the pandemic?

A&Es have certainly been overwhelmed, with ambulances queuing for hours and people waiting at home for hours. Waiting lists are the highest they have been for many years despite very high activity.

The right wing media has done quite a good job of implying the NHS is lazy, and so many people have fallen for their lies.

Anyone who knows anyone who worked for the NHS in 2020/21 knows that it was overwhelmed. A hospital near me ran out of oxygen. The Telegraph should be ashamed of publishing lies, even in an opinion piece like this.

@TulipsGarden

Anyone who knows anyone who worked for the NHS in 2020/21 knows that it was overwhelmed. A hospital near me ran out of oxygen. The Telegraph should be ashamed of publishing lies, even in an opinion piece like this.

Yes.

We have heard it all before www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/25/nhs-hospitals-serious-shortages-vital-equipment
Hospitals are suffering serious shortages of vital medical equipment such as ventilators, pumps to administer drugs, and oxygen cylinders during the NHS’s ongoing winter crisis, the Guardian can reveal.

The surge in numbers of people needing care has also led to some hospitals running out of beds for patients to sleep in, mattresses to lie on and trolleys to use while they wait for admission.

Before I even looked I made a bet with myself that the word Nazis would appear in the first paragraph. Yay! What do I win?

How many posts have there been about people not being able to get GP appointments despite GPs having held a record number of appointments during the pandemic?

I actually doubt the figure about GPs seeing record numbers very much.

@Againstmachine

How many posts have there been about people not being able to get GP appointments despite GPs having held a record number of appointments during the pandemic?

I actually doubt the figure about GPs seeing record numbers very much.

www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/record-numbers-of-gp-appointments-in-england-reveal-an-nhs-at-breaking-point

She is not highly admired in scientific circles.

www.skeptical-science.com/society-2/alison-pearson/

Allison pearson is a rightwing airhead.

I wouldn't take a single word Alison Pearson says seriously - the woman's a total nincompoop.

@Pootle40

When the Resistance dared to suggest that some lockdown measures were disproportionate, crazy and unsupported by science, let alone common sense, we were reviled. That is no exaggeration. I regret to say your columnist was called, in no particular order, a Covid denier (I nursed my entire family through the virus), a granny killer (I didn’t see my own mother for 18 months) and a spreader of disinformation. When I protested on social media that putting padlocks on the gates of playgrounds was a terrible idea, back came a fusillade of vicious accusations: “You want people to die!” To question the official narrative that nothing mattered except keeping people safe from Covid was heresy. Witches like me had to be burnt at the stake before we could spread our subversive ideas to all Sage-fearing people. Funny how things turn out, isn’t it? It is now widely acknowledged that the NHS was never overwhelmed (that’s why the Nightingales were shut without being used). And even those prophets of doom at the BBC finally acknowledged this week that half of “Covid deaths” since Christmas are not actually “from” Covid but “with” Covid.

www.telegraph.co.uk/columnists/2022/01/18/pilloried-lockdown-sceptic-now-clear-right-quite-things/

Pootle, this reads like you've written it. Unless you wish to be seen as an extreme right-wing crackpot, perhaps have MNHQ amend your OP to reflect the actual author?