Those of us who are opposed to lockdowns, masks, tiers etc are often labelled conspiracy theorists, deniers and nutcases. The truth is, in order to believe that lockdowns are having any positive effect, you need to believe a whole range of completely mad things. Here are just 2:
1. That the virus was in the UK in November 2019 - this has been confirmed - and had already spread around the country and was killing people. BUT it stopped. It decided to wait. Even though Christmas was happening and families were travelling all over the country hugging and
kissing, the virus said, "No. Hold on. Stop killing people. Stop spreading. We haven't even been given a name yet. Let's wait until the world leaders start announcing us on the news and putting measures in place to 'control' us and THEN.. then we'll really get to work."
All of the graphs, all of the data, all of the projections only ever meant anything when we assumed that the virus arrived here a couple of weeks before the pubs closed for the first time. It didn't. Stories confirming this have been appearing over the past few weeks, though you
would be lucky to find them. They are some of the most significant stories of the year but the media seems to treat them like interesting side notes. Why did we get the big spike in April? There are many possible causes besides the virus suddenly hitting our unprepared shores.
Completely shutting down frontline care, for example. Suddenly turfing infected elderly out of hospital into care homes, for example. Obsessively shoving everyone who coughed onto a ventilator, for example. One thing is certain, that spike can't have been because the virus
suddenly shouted, "ATTACK" after twiddling its thumbs for four or five months.
2. That Sweden is a fictional country.
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