It's amazing, the shift of goalposts. First to "flatten the curve". When that was done, then to "stop the second wave". When that was done, then "to prevent overwhelming the hospitals". Turns out that, in the UK, they are running LESS full than the same time last year. Aha! say the lockdown lovers, that's because the lockdown had its effect. But the dates don't mesh. The latest curve in the UK was coming down before the measures were introduced. You can do a double-check against countries that have had no lockdown — Sweden and Switzerland. Also States in the US that have locked down vs those that haven't. The patterns of infections are all the same, lockdowns regardless. And in all places death rates are below the peak in March-April.
Doctors are slamming Boris & Co for scaring people into lockdown (or, now, "Tiers") via hospital occupancy rates that are bogus. And, by the way, that's without counting the Nightingale Hospitals, built specifically for Covid, which are lying empty and two of the seven closed down.
What's going on?? I don't t get it.
