…says one chief executive who has had in-depth negotiations with the [UK] government on the issue [Lockdown].*
Finally! And from the BBC, until now a full-on lockdown supporter. Now asking the obvious questions, in “What the government is not telling us”.
Like, why doesn’t the [UK] government do a cost-benefit analysis as it does for every other major policy? Yet none was done for either Lockdown I or Lockdown II. Amazing! Full on countrywide economic shutdown and no analysis of what it would cost. Why aren’t we protecting the vulnerable? Why are we being fed wrong information? (Vallance again! He of the deadly duo, Drs Cassandra and Jeremiah).
Why is the government not more transparent with the figures? How full are the hospitals? (It appears they are below average occupancy for this time of year, the opposite of what Downing Street is saying). Why aren’t the much ballyhooed Nightingale hospitals being used? While increasing percent of infections are in hospitals themselves?
Why are we ignoring the very real and huge costs of Lockdown in life and livelihoods? Inter Alina UK GDP down 20% in Q3.
In short: is the cure worse than the disease? (This used to be a taboo question to ask. Now the BBC asks it).
Nick Tringle at the BBC is sounding much like the Great Barrington Declaration (GBD): “Focused Protection”. Protect the elderly and the vulnerable. Let everyone else get in with life. Life.
Via Simon Jenkins in the Guardian. When you’ve got the BBC and the Guardian questioning the Lockdown, you’ve got mainstream lockdown scepticism.
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*I reckon there’s only one way you can fully know these difficulties; what it’s like to lose a job, to lose a business. I’ve done that once by my own choosing and another by being retrenched. I went through very dark times. I sympathise, I empathise, with all those who have lost jobs and businesses. These are not “just” the economy, to sacrifice for life. These are LIFE.
