The lazy thinking and ignorance and lack of understanding of evidence, historical precedent and proportionality in this article is something to behold. thetimes.co.uk/article/were-w…
The man remarks that Ferguson copied China while oblivious to the fact that he has just relied - without any analysis or even explanation (‘it is clear that’) on his modelling projections. Projections that don’t stand up to the slightest scrutiny.
He does not even consider whether the original measures were proportionate, simply making the facile assumption that they were because Ferguson said hundreds of thousands would die.
He fails to mention not only the abandoned pandemic plan but the lack of any historical example of locking up healthy people to prevent the spread of a virus.
And he fails - despise assuming proportionality - even to attempt to analyse the harms done by these unprecedented measures.
Yet then he realises that the new precedent we have set will make it easy to do this again. Well yes - thanks to the unthinking support of people who should know better. Like Danny Finielstein.
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