So Many Questions, No Logical Answers
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While trying to put together today’s post, it took me some time to work out why I was struggling with it.
With all that’s happening – and I’m talking specifically about the UK – it didn’t feel right to talk about my favourite holiday memories.
Up until now, I’ve made a point of keeping my blog free of certain topics, namely politics.
This may be political, I don’t know. But I do know that not saying anything feels tantamount to agreeing with what’s happening. And I don’t.
I’m not talking about Covid-19, which is, without a doubt, a serious disease and what those who contract it go through can be horrific with many dying alone without their loved ones present.
I am talking about the eroding of our liberties, freedoms we seem to take for granted and assume will always be there, regardless. But once taken away, how easily will we get them back?
We’re back in a second lockdown here in the UK. Day 3, to be exact. Unbelievably, the government’s case for, once again, depriving us of our liberties, began to unravel soon after it was announced at last Saturday’s press briefing.
Eminent scientists, not afraid to speak out, swiftly revealed the glaring errors in the doom-laden graphs that were used.
Errors which were laid out in the media. (I’ll only link to articles that can be read in full, not ones that are behind paywalls like the Telegraph and Spectator magazine.) Like this one by Ross Clark in the Daily Mail.
Which begs the question, if the virus is so deadly, why did the government have to lie to justify depriving us of our liberty again?
And that brings me to other questions to which I can find no answers…
Why is the PCR test still being used despite its sensitivity?
Why are we never told the number of people who recover from Covid who are then released from hospital and return home? Its as if once you contract Covid and are admitted to hospital, you’re there forever and no one ever recovers.
Why is debate not allowed? Why are dissenting views being shut down?
Social media, mainly YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, censor most videos and articles that question or outright criticise the official narrative. Not even preeminent scientists, recognised world authorities, are safe from having mud thrown at them.
Why are we still waiting for the findings of the Danish mask study to be published?
The aim of this unique study was to try and ‘clarify the extent to which the use of facemasks in public spaces provides protection against corona infection. [Yet] the finished research result has been rejected by at least three of the world’s leading medical journals… The Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine and the American Medical Association’s journal JAMA.’ What are they afraid of?
Why is the vaccine being touted as the great saviour when it has such a low bar for success?
I am not anti-vaccine in the slightest. But I am anti a vaccine being rushed out without the usual thorough testing, which normally takes around 10 to 15 years.
And why rush through a vaccine for a virus which, according to the US CDC, has a 99% survival rate? Which ties into another question – if, despite being fast-tracked, we’re told the vaccines are safe, why the no-liability clause?
The latest news is the discovery of a mutated form of the virus found on mink farms in Denmark.
I’m no scientist and I don’t regard myself as particularly clever but even I know it’s a biological fact that viruses mutate and jump between animals, and said animals includes humans.
I looked this up further – we don’t notice this jumping of viruses either because nothing comes of it or it becomes just another cause of cold or flu. Incidentally, that’s why we keep getting colds.
If it’s true that SARS-CoV-2 has done this jumping from human to mink and back again, won’t it keep happening? Will it just jump about in that one species of animal or will it spread to different species?
Seeing as how Denmark has decided to cull their entire population of mink – up to 17 million captive animals – does this mean governments will start slaughtering every animal species in which this common natural event occurs? Will that include our pets?
In the normal course of events, this wouldn’t even be noticed. So, why is it such a big deal now, leading to lockdowns and slaughtering of millions of animals?
According to the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, the mutated virus posed a “risk to the effectiveness” of a future Covid-19 vaccine.
Because it threatens the vaccine project. Even though the vaccines aren’t being developed to prevent transmission or lower the risk of death.
What an awful waste of life.
The world has dealt with virus outbreaks since before biblical times. And there are highly infectious diseases that still circulate and claim lives, the top one being TB, which, according to the WHO, ‘is one of the top 10 causes of death and the leading cause from a single infectious agent.’
But never has the modern world reacted in the way it’s reacting now – locking away the healthy along with the sick.
Shockingly, the government hasn’t carried out an impact assessment on the costs of lockdown. This all comes down to protecting and shielding the NHS. And that makes me so angry. The NHS is supposed to be there for us. Instead, people are dying for it.
Someone in the comments section on a site I visit every day to get my daily dose of sanity – Lockdown Sceptics – compiled this list of the harms caused by lockdown:
25 million GP appointments lost (source: Care Quality Commission)
3 million people backlog for cancer screening (source: Cancer Research UK)
350,000 patients with suspected cancer haven’t been referred (source: Cancer Research UK)
986,000 women not screened for breast cancer (source: Breast Cancer Now)
Nearly 2 million waiting over 18 weeks for planned surgery, such as knee and hip operations (source: NHS England)
111,026 patients waiting over 1 year for treatment (source: NHS England)
MD and cataracts have gone untreated leaving patients at risk of sight loss
Waiting lists in general for the NHS are at an all-time high
1 in 10 mental health patients has been waiting 6 months for help (source: Royal College of Psychiatrists)
Number of people drinking at ‘high risk levels’ doubled since February – now 8.5 million (source: Royal College of Psychiatrists)
Just over 1 in 10 of over 70,000 surveyed had suicidal thoughts or thoughts of self-harm during the first week of lockdown (source: Samaritans)
Calls to domestic abuse helplines surge (source: Refuge – For Women & Children Against Violence)
Off-licence alcohol sales are up 24.2% with beer sales up 66% (source: Kantar)
48% of UK respondents increased alcohol consumption and 54% increased drinking frequency (source: Institute of Alcohol Studies / Global Drug Survey Special Edition)
750,000 jobs lost March-August (source: ONS)
11,120 chain store outlets closed January-June (source: Local Data Company and PwC) 45% of businesses have less than six months cash reserves or none (source: NS)
673,000 fewer workers were on payroll in August compared with March 2020 (source: ONS)
Record fall in GDP (21.8%) during first half of 2020, greater than France, Italy, Canada, Germany, US and Japan (source: ONS)
Public borrowing of £173.7 billion in the first five months of the pandemic – more than triple all borrowing for entire previous year [£56.6 billion] (source: ONS)
UK national debt at record high of over £2 trillion for first time ever (source: ONS)
33% of adults reported high levels of anxiety (source: ONS)
Charities face £12.4 drop (source: Chartered Institute of Fundraising (IoF) and the Charity Finance Group (CFG))
Graduates less likely to find work/internships: 49% of small and medium sized businesses have cancelled internships or work experience, whilst 29% of larger firms have (source: The Sutton Trust)
I don’t know if this post will cost me some who visit my blog. But it’s become too big to not say anything.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve always been a goody-goody, listen to the authorities, always stay on the right side of the law. Having grown up in Malaysia, in the continent of red tape, that isn’t too difficult to do. I do like my birth country but it’s not big on liberties and you have to watch what you say.
Even so, I grew up free and was taught to think. My parents and aunts and uncles, however, lived through the Japanese occupation during WW2 and knew what it was like to have their liberties, which we take for granted, taken away.
But it doesn’t have to be an outside threat that takes it away…
To quote Lord Jonathan Sumption, author, medieval historian and former Supreme Court judge – “This is how freedom dies. When societies lose their liberty, it is not usually because some despot has crushed it under his boot. It is because people voluntarily surrendered their liberty out of fear of some external threat.”
At the end of the day, I’m not insisting that I’m right and anyone who disagrees is wrong, or to force anyone to change their thinking. If you want to believe all that stuff your government tells you, that’s up to you.