A significant part of the world’s population today is living with high levels of fear. Fear of death by Covid-19.
Confronted by stories of hundreds of new “cases”, deaths and horrifyingly mutated variants that will eventually sneak in and get them, average people are losing the will to live.
Small wonder. We’ve all seen the stories: The Delta variant is hugely worse than the original we were dealing with early in 2020. It spreads through people just passing each other. (Be sure to read Cam’s article from earlier today – “Delta Is Not the Boogey Monster the Government Is Trying to Scare You into Believing It Is“)
Just look at what’s happened in New South Wales. They seem to be getting three to four hundred new cases every day and their State Premier is emphatic about how serious the situation is.
According to that bastion of impartiality and balanced reporting, the ABC on the 18th August:
NSW records 633 new COVID-19 cases, three deaths as Premier warns state has not seen the worst yet
Surely NSW has seen the worst on a daily basis since they locked down, with Gladys Berejiklian (doing fairly obvious imitations of you know who), hosting daily self promotional press conferences alongside NSW chief health officer Kerry Chant (their version of Bloomfield without the slightest hint of his pleasant demeanour).
Seriously, what could be worse than overpaid politicians and bureaucrats (still on full pay by the way) banging on daily about how citizens must be locked down for their own good?
Welcome aboard. As of August 17th, we’re back there too.
Having already made clear our government’s intention to eradicate the virus, Jacinda Ardern has of course had to go straight to a Level 4 lockdown. The problem is (at risk of being accused of spreading misinformation as I’m not at the font of truth and haven’t been drinking the Kool Aid), there is no possible way (follow the science) that the virus can be eradicated. PERIOD. It’s a lame pipe dream to think that, and if we continue believing that, we’re doomed to spend the rest of our days in isolation from the rest of the world.
Let me be clear. I’m not a ‘Covid denier’ and I’m not an anti vaxer. I’ve had my two shots and I agree that every death is tragic (whether from Covid or not). I’m not an insensitive granny killer who doesn’t care about my “fellows” (non-binary version).
Indeed, it is because I do care so much about my “fellows” that I object in the strongest possible terms to the fact that most of the world while claiming to be doing so, IS NOT FOLLOWING THE SCIENCE – especially on the usefulness of lockdowns and the unintended consequences they deliver.
As professor Paul Hunter of the University of East Anglia said when addressing Britain’s all-party parliamentary group on coronavirus a week ago:
“We need to move away from reporting infections to actually reporting the number of people who are ill. Otherwise we are going to be frightening ourselves with very high numbers that don’t translate into disease burden.”
What could be more simple? Isn’t that exactly what we’re doing now? Where does lockdown fit alongside that?
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