Daily Express

The damning truth about Covid deaths

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The World Health Organisati­on in Geneva has just published an intriguing list. The total death tolls from Covid nation by nation across the continent of Europe, per million inhabitant­s. No surprise to me, the bottom of the list was Sweden, the one that refused to be panicked into mass lockdowns or the hundred other life-wrecking miseries inflicted on us by the Johnson government.

What theWHO did not include in its research was the simple truth that Sweden refused to close down thousands of bars, cafes, restaurant­s and pubs; nor close theatres, cinemas or any form of entertainm­ent. The Swedes could continue to walk the streets, relax in the parks, swim in the pools.

Over here Boris Johnson, the obedient servant of blithering idiots from the SAGE Committee – now duly knighted as per the British tradition with public sector failures – did exactly as they told him and told the rest of us he was “following the science”.

LIVES were destroyed, careers wrecked, small businesses that young people had toiled to set up never recovered, shops with no customers went bankrupt and the entire civil service learnt the new lifestyle of “working from home” – meaning doing virtually no work at all. You may have noticed they still are.

On the altar of Covid our prized NHS was broken, as evidenced by the hundreds of thousands of people needing attention who were rebuffed as Covid became the only priority. The figures over here have still to emerge to reveal how many have died prematurel­y for lack of attention from an entire medical profession on work-to-rule. More than the real Covid death toll? Probably.

Today we are told at last that Covid need not be exaggerate­d and, with vaccinatio­n, we can learn to live with it as we do with annual flu and the common cold – both of which were once lethal. But the heritage of the Government’s panicstric­ken reaction to Covid is still with us in the crashed economy, the spiralling charges, taxes and prices.

The tales of misery among the very old and poor are at every hand.

Officialdo­m and government tell us it is all very sad but it simply had to be done or the half-million-dead prediction­s of the SAGE idiots would have come to pass.

But the figures from Geneva and Stockholm reveal this is all one big lie, or why are the Swedish figures the lowest in Europe?

Analyse a bit more and it becomes clear that everything we have suffered, are suffering and will continue to suffer for a long time yet derive from that single panicstric­ken misjudgeme­nt – how to handle Covid. It was far away the biggest single government­al cockup of my lifetime. In a fair society those behind it – politician­s, bureaucrat­s and pseudo-scientists – should never work again on the taxpayer’s payroll.

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Picture: PA

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