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/

Trust me, @Pootle40 or Allison Pearson, whichever you are, you’re not “my columnist”.

I thought you had written that first post too op. Quotation marks are your friend here. I really don't think it would be in your best interests for anyone to think you had written that. The woman sounds like a fool.

Coming to the defence of Alison Pearson here. I didn't know much about her until a friend recommended the Telegraph podcast "Planet Normal" back in 2020 and I was immediately hooked. Finally, mainstream journalists questioning our response to the pandemic and highlighting the damage caused by lockdown. Having now spent over 50 hours listening to Alison I've come to admire her courage and compassion.

YY to acknowledging quotes OP.

She knows jolly well there were never the staff for nightingales, it was a big look at me doing something from the government.

I think we need to start putting two and two together about why we might have possibly needed vast clinical spaces with relatively few staff and facilities in March 2020, and look past the euphemism that they were 'field hospitals'. I think it might have been a bit too late for treatment by the time you got there!

Thankfully, because not many people seriously thought like Allison Pearson, we got by without needing them - although the excessive deaths we've had were and are disgraceful.

I think she has a point in some of what she says. There was a thread here a few days ago talking about all the OTT rules we had and closing off playgrounds was definitely one of them.
A lot of commentators are making this point now in Jan 2022 and I hear it as a common talking point on some radio talking heads bits.
I suppose if you were called a murderer etc for arguing in April 2020 that playgrounds should not be closed and now many people look back and agree with you, you would feel somewhat vindicated in your arguments from them and that you were right.

And arguing against closing playgrounds is not and never was or could be in a sane world “ an extreme right wing position”
Anyone that thinks that needs to give their head a wobble!

@sashagabadon

And arguing against closing playgrounds is not and never was or could be in a sane world “ an extreme right wing position” Anyone that thinks that needs to give their head a wobble!

If Covid had been spread readily via fomites, closing playgrounds, where it's reasonable to assume there would be lots of hand/mouth contact, would have been a fairly extreme but not insane precaution.

The problem we had, especially early on, was that the method of transmission was not well understood (some may say wilfully misunderstood) so many of the precautions were just plain wrong.

So Pearson has some relevant points, but much of what she says is scientifically illiterate and illogical.

@SnapSnapDragon Hi Allison

Great article and I really like Allison Pearson.

Very happy with my Telegraph subscription, it's kept me sane these past 2 years.

@SnapSnapDragon

Coming to the defence of Alison Pearson here. I didn't know much about her until a friend recommended the Telegraph podcast "Planet Normal" back in 2020 and I was immediately hooked. Finally, mainstream journalists questioning our response to the pandemic and highlighting the damage caused by lockdown. Having now spent over 50 hours listening to Alison I've come to admire her courage and compassion.

100% agree. And these posters who are labelling her right wing crack pot etc are demonstrating precisely what she is describing in her article.

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@Lilifer Anyone who think Allison Pearson has "courage and compassion" needs help.

I didn't know much about her

I've read Allison Pearson for decades. To say she has become rather strange in recent years is putting it mildly.