🧵This is a very important video about the pandemic. Dr. Richard Horton is Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet , a United Kingdom–based medical journal. He's an honorary professor at the London School of Tropical Med, Univ. College London & University of Oslo
"The word 'experiment' that's been used is a very interesting word because the word experiment starts off from assuming a position of uncertainty. You do something in order to make a discovery or test a hypothesis, but that's not what we're doing here."
"We know exactly what is going to happen, by taking the course that the government has committed to. We know there will be an increase in infections. That's not an experimental hypothesis to test."
"We know that hospitalizations are going up. We know there will be an epidemic of Long Covid. And we now that we're creating the risks for new variants. That is not in doubt."
"So what we have is a government that is pursing an ideologically driven commitment to force the population to ACCEPT a level of MORTALITY and DISABILITY in order to release us from the situation that we are currently in."
"This has got nothing to do with data. Nothing to do with experiments."
"This is about ideology from the Libertarian Right. And I think until we confront that fact and explain that clearly to the public, that this is not about data. This is about ideology, then we're not understanding what this government is about."
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