I just heard Michael Gove, a UK Cabinet Minister, talking to a talk-show host and saying that they “had no alternative” to what they’re doing in the UK, the lockdown and all: now morphed into “Tiers", which are lockdown in drag....
The host said “of course you have choices”. And he said, well what? And the host said, well, Sweden is doing OK and hasn’t had lockdowns like us. To which Gove said: “no, Sweden has increasing deaths”.
The host didn’t push back, I guess because they didn’t have the stats. The stats are that Sweden’s death rates are sharply declining after a wave -- a similar wave, we note, to those in places like the UK that have had stringent lockdowns -- and are now averaging 6 deaths per day. That’s for a 10 million population, so multiply by six to get the UK and you’ve got 36, compared with the 460 per day in the UK, where they are bait to pass even more draconian measures.
Why I say “WTF?” is that this is the TOP politicians in charge of MAJOR decisions of life and livelyhood in the UK and he’s so misinformed. There ARE other choices, choices other than the destruction of young lives and livelihoods.
ADDED: Debenhams in the UK is closing 124 stores in the UK, throwing 12,000 out of work. Born 1778, died 2020. How many more? The High Street is dead. And people like Gove — who I’ve admired — are there’s “no choice”. There is. Boris is just too gutless to do it. And so more will be lit of work. More dreams and bodies dead.
