Over-reacting?
April 6 Hillsborough, Co. Down, N. Ireland
The average number of annual deaths in England from flu and deaths due to flu-related complications is 17,000 according to Public Health England. Some years the figures can be as low as 1,692 deaths as in the 2018/19 season, while in 2014/15 there were 28,330 deaths. We need to try to understand why this year is different and why it was thought expedient to tank the economy and, in practice, institute martial law in response to a type of viral illness we experience every year.
The prospects for the near future in the UK are mass unemployment, massively increased government debt, record bankruptcies, potentially higher crime levels, civil liberties permanently removed, etc. It's fair to say that there's been an over-reaction, and unfortunately we'll be paying for it for a long time in the future and life will probably never be the same again. It's hard to see the positives in all this.
It's flu. It may be a particularly virulent flu, but it's just flu. Why when we found that toxins in food were a cause of cancer did we not see a national campaign to ensure food reached our tables toxin-free?
Why was there no lockdown when evidence appeared which showed grooming gangs were raping thousands of young girls from vulnerable backgrounds across the north of England?
The authorities were reluctant to intervene, because they apparently were afraid of being labelled racist. So why the big effort now? There has been an unprecedented response from the authorities to the dangers of
Covid-19 because the special interests which have the exclusive ear of government will benefit big time from the lockdown. Pharmaceutical companies will have a bonanza when a vaccine is found and it will be presumably forced upon us.
The commerce from thousands of bankrupt small businesses will be swept up by large corporations. All those businesses supporting the surveillance state will gain a boost as we've seen in Israel, for example, where emergency measures have been passed which approves mass surveillance on civilian phones to track coronavirus patients.
Eventually this tracking will become commonplace globally and will include everyone.
Louis Shawcross