THE POSITIVE PROFESSOR
SOCIAL media’s voice of calm Karol Sikora has been signed up by the Daily Express. Readers can now enjoy his soothing advice in these troubled times that have won him hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. If you need reassuring everything’s going to be all right read Professor Positivity.
IT’S so frustrating for some people to talk about lockdowns like it’s a switch you can turn on and off again with no consequences whatsoever.
Let me be clear. I fully supported the first lockdown, it was an unknown virus and we were fighting blind.
Totally restricting movement and activity to buy time to better understand the virus and its effects was necessary.
Whether that time was used effectively to prepare is another question and getting into that debate now doesn’t achieve much.
Our current situation couldn’t be more different. There is still a lot we don’t know, but we know far more than we did in March. We know what slows the spread, we know who is worst affected and we know the damage that lockdowns can cause. Politicians need to pause and reflect on the consequences of their decisions more.
Locking down again will be a disaster. We are still reeling from the last one and even then the full ramifications of that won’t be known for years. History will judge us all very unkindly if we act for the sake of acting.
What is the Government’s aim? Total suppression of the virus? Sadly, that just isn’t possible alongside a functioning economy. Should we hide away, waiting for a vaccine that may never come?
Politicians should stop threatening us with further restrictions and focus on getting the testing system working properly ( taking into account the false positive issue).
We desperately need a world- beating system to protect those who are most vulnerable to this virus, and we do now know who that is.
Even a two- week lockdown wouldn’t work, we all know it wouldn’t be just two weeks.
In my opinion, it’s time for a fundamental rethink about our overall strategy.