The Selfish Price of Lockdown - Battered Babies and Starving Children

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I’m taking one of my rare forays into the current state of life in the UK…

What is the cost of lockdown?

Who knows? The government’s inadequate cost-benefit analysis that was finally produced after much demand, didn’t do much to make the case for their beloved lockdown strategy.

The first two lockdowns didn’t work.

Solution?

Lockdown #3.

And if that doesn’t work, instead of finally accepting that it does not work, blame the public instead.

Much as I hate giving him ‘air-time’, in an interview in the Times (London), published 25 December 2020, which is behind a paywall, Neil Ferguson of Imperial College had this to say about copying China’s lockdown strategy:
“I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March [2020]… When SAGE [Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies] observed the ‘innovative intervention’ out of China, of locking entire communities down and not permitting them to leave their homes, they initially presumed it would not be an available option in a liberal Western democracy.
“[China] is a communist one-party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… and then Italy did it. And we realised we could.”

“We couldn’t get away with it… we thought”.

Who uses that language when discussing something that’s supposed to be for the common good?

Isn’t that phrase used by those planning on doing something wrong, usually criminally wrong?

And yet, not one MSM journalist or politician has questioned the strategy that’s straight out of the CCP playbook.

Let me pause on SAGE for a minute.

Who makes up this group that is having such a huge impact on our lives?

These include Chief Scientific Advisors in government; modellers/statisticians; experts in how to manipulate human behaviour; medical officers/directors; and those who hold senior roles in the 2 universities leading the vaccine race…

Interestingly, no immunologists.

There’s no doubt the behaviour experts have done their job well in frightening the people into compliance:
“A substantial number of people still do not feel sufficiently personally threatened… The perceived level of personal threat needs to be increased among those who are complacent, using hard-hitting emotional messaging based on accurate information about risk.”

As for the conflicts of interests – what an eye-opener.

Yet not a word about that from MSM.

I would rather listen to experts and scientists, leaders in their respective fields, who have no other interest other than the truth and who are in no way politicised.

The ones who are now regularly disparaged and vilified simply because they have integrity and refuse to parrot the narrative.

Experts like John Ioannidis, Michael Levitt, Sunetra Gupta, Sucharit Bhakdi, Jay Bhattacharya…

For those who believe lockdown is the answer, here are 26 international papers and analyses that show lockdowns do not work.

Those of us who have the audacity to question lockdown are accused of being selfish, of wanting to ‘kill Granny’.

I am fed up with being thought of as selfish and I am fed up with such accusatory, baseless rhetoric.

It is the lockdown lovers who are the selfish ones. Contrary to what they believe, they do not have the moral high ground.

Not when they expect everyone, including children, to sacrifice their lives.

Not when they take personal affront to anyone dying. But only if that person dies of Covid-19.

Did no one die pre-Covid-19?

And before anyone jumps on here accusing me of being heartless and wanting people to die, of course I don’t.

I’ve lost both my parents and I know the pain of such loss.

What people seem to have lost sight of is, the only certainty we have in life is that, one day, we die.

I’m not going to start quoting numbers and data of missed/cancelled medical procedures, including surgeries and cancer treatments; of businesses lost forever and livelihoods lost; of rising suicide numbers; of increasing dependency on medication for deteriorating mental health issues; of blighted education prospects and chucking children’s futures under the bus…

Instead, let’s look at the suffering of those who do not have a voice in this madness.

‘There was an alarming 20% rise in babies being killed or harmed during the first lockdown…
Sixty-four babies were deliberately harmed in England – eight of whom died. Some 40% of the 300 incidences reported involved infants, up a fifth on 2019.
… believes a “toxic mix” of isolation, poverty and mental illness caused the March to October spike.’

Aren’t these lives precious enough to warrant more attention?

‘The impact of the global coronavirus lockdown is set to plunge 100 million people into extreme poverty…’

And what does extreme poverty lead to?

Starvation.

‘12,000 people per day could die from Covid-19 linked hunger by end of year, potentially more than the disease, warns Oxfam.’

As people are dying from poverty and lack of food and adequate medical care, “those at the top are continuing to make a profit: eight of the biggest food and drink companies paid out over $18 billion to shareholders since January even as the pandemic was spreading across the globe – ten times more than the UN says is needed to stop people going hungry.”

I honestly have no words for that… none that are fit to print, anyway.

As a parent, I cannot begin to imagine not being able to feed my child. To instead be filled with guilt, frustration and heartbreak as I watch him slowly die without making a sound…
‘… children who are starving don’t cry or even frown. Instead, they are eerily calm; they appear apathetic, often expressionless. A body that is starving doesn’t waste energy on tears. It directs every calorie to keep the major organs functioning.’

How much longer can we continue to turn our backs on any of this?