[Margaret Pilkington]

I think that the way this whole thing has been handled from the very start has been nonsensical, illogical and has shown a lack of rational thinking.
They keep telling us that this is an unprecedented situation...yet this year more people died from seasonal flu.
What has been unprecedented has been the way the situation has been managed.

The government locked us down for three months solid, but took no controlling measures over who was flying into the country....no temperature checks, no checks on where travellers were coming from, where they had been, whether they had been in viral hotspots.
They allowed all and sundry to enter unchecked.

Cases of the suspected disease were cared for in District General Hospitals....they should have been cared for in isolation units until it was confirmed or refuted that they had the virus....they should have been looked after by staff who only worked doing that job.
Testing has been a fiasco.
Yes the virus killed people(some died with the virus, rather than of it, but the government made mileage out of these statistics...this seriously dents the integrity of information) of it was the fixation with ventilating patients that maybe killed them.

In spite of there having Benn this pandemic, the death rate for ALL deaths is lower than it has been for the last five years. (From ONS statistics)
Is that incredible?
We keep being told that the figures are rising.....but is that because they are counting tests(and some of these are done on the same person more than once) and calling anpositive test 'a case' whether they have symptoms or not?
A positive test in the absence of symptoms is NOT a case....therenis also a high level of false positives.
We cannot meet up with members of our family, but we can go to the pub....as long as we go home before ten pm.....it is the illogicality of these rules that calls them into question.
It makes the rules much less likely to be followed.

Fewer people are dying from this virus, fewer people are being hospitalised(regardless of what Matt Hancock tells us....have you noticed he is quoting percentages rather than hard figures).....yet we are being forced into local lockdowns.
We really need to get on with life....we cannot hibernate forever.