By avoiding this more reassuring message, by frightening everyone into compliance, the Government has painted itself into a corner. How can they say to people that, last week you couldn’t drive two miles to walk in the countryside, or go to the beach, or go to a restaurant, or lie in a park sunbathing, in order to prevent the spread of this deadly killer disease …but this week you can?
Sunday, April 12, 2020
What happens when you panic …
… The lockdown is NOT a way of beating this virus | Dr. Malcolm Kendrick. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
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We cannot go around killing each other. This Easter, we got to celebrate in the New Testament way, small gatherings in households, even by facetime and Zoom. We did this because there as death out there.
ReplyDeleteHe brings up Boris Johnson, who went around shaking hands. He ended up in ICU, safe to say, because of that. What's not being told, is that he effected many more people, by creating a sickness and death pyramid, many more people downline from him than just those he contaminated skin to skin.
We cannot be killing each other. What got us into this is poor preparation, not listening to the epidemiologists who knew and warned us. And then when time got so late, the pandemic was almost upon us, not listening to China in December.
The politicking of this continues. But the fear factor has had so much effect in scaring people into denial, helped by media outlets who try to find ways to say that it is okay to run in the park, This is happening while the studies are now in, that cycling and running spread the virus to distances far greater than the 6-feet.
How about this quote from the article, "There is hardly anything said about the fact that the average age of death is around eighty, that the vast, vast, majority of those dying are old (92% are aged over sixty) The great majority of them have several other serious medical conditions."
Screw this guy. I'm over 60, and planning to live to over a hundred. You've lived to nearly 80, which means on average, you;d be around us another decade anyway, well on your way to a hundred. We don't need this sociopathic journalism.
The fellow who wrote the piece is an MD. I myself find fear unbecoming, and it is certainly an unsound basis for the formation of policy. I take commonsense precautions, but otherwise go about my business as usual. My death is in the hands of the Author of Life. I was taught, starting in grade school, that every day could likely be my last. As a Catholic, death has been on my mind all my life. As for the experts, they have been all over the place regarding COVID-19, so we should take what any and all of them have to say with a generous pinch of salt. I have leaned from the beginning to a more moderate estimate of the problem, if only because worst-case scenarios and best-case scenarios are likely to be wrong, simply because they are at the extremes. I am certainly not inclined to place much trust in unelected bureaucrats and not much more in our political class. The WHO has not distinguished itself in this. When it's over — and I suspect that will be sooner than they are predicting — we should ask if this was not an over-reaction. Or, are we to shut down everything again come October 1 and the start of the next flu season?
ReplyDeleteIn the meantime, I have no intention spending my time cringing.