It's incremental, inadequate & late action that leads into lockdowns. Pl. don't blame the scientists who've advocated for early mitigations to keep cases low when this inevitably happens. Direct your ire at those who opposed basic public health measures, making this inevitable.🧵
I see a lot of people in the media conflate basic mitigations with lockdowns. I guess in the UK you can be forgiven for thinking that lockdown is a first-line public health measure. It isn't though- it means you've failed to act early. We keep making the same mistake over & over.
I do think with the crisis unfolding now, a lockdown will be needed to prevent healthcare services being overwhelmed with the omicron wave on top of the delta wave. But never forget that none of this was inevitable.
We didn't need to enter the omicron crisis with 50,000 cases a day and 20 weeks of continuing excess mortality. It's frankly ridiculous we did this. And there was very little opposition from the media, and even many scientists.
The normalisation of the absolutely unscientific and immoral pandemic policy our govt has pushed - by both the media and some scientists has resulted in preventable mass death & suffering. Unless something radically changes, I feel very little hope for the UK right now.
I sometimes wonder what it might be to live in a country where fringe science and hopium hasn't taken over. Where policy is based on evidence. Where scientists aren't attacked for presenting facts. Where the media doesn't embrace exceptionalism but rather challenges it.
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