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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Do you think these learned men and women will have any effect on our flaccid government...or any governments, because these are scientists from all over the world?
a quick answer is a big NO. if they did it would completely lose face and careers of some would quickly come to an end. never forget the ferguson bloke, if he hadn,t done a paddy ashdown then he,d still be on the top table and we could be in a bigger mess than we are in if thats possible.
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I think that if these scientists and medics had done this on their own then, yes some of them may have been 'cancelled(that is the current term for such a thing)....but when over 4000 respected academics, scientists and professors come together and raise the issue(as they have been doing since March) then it is far harder to ignore.
Many of the people who have signed this declaration have expertise in the fields of virology, epidemiology, public health, so they have a better overview....a better concept of how to manage the issues.
Sweden had NO lockdown....and they have had no greater death rates, and no disruption to their local economies(yes, their economy has been affected by global issues).
I have been a dissenter from the outset.....I could see where things were being badly managed......like no block on people coming into the country from overseas....no health check for those coming into the country those with possible Covid infections being nursed in District General Hospital rather than designated isolation units.
Sending elderly patients into this environment for some other reason and then discharging them back to care homes with the infection, but not notifying the care home(that, in my opinion constitues a criminal offence).
Counting positive tests in the absence of symptoms, but calling them cases.
PCR tests fiasco(both using PCR for diagnosis and the fiasco of tests not being available...either through lack of staff in laboratories or at test sites.
The people who govern our country are supposed to be intelligent people....with educations that I could never dream of, yet they seem to have no concept of joined up thinking.
And please, please do not tell me that this was an unprecedented situation.
That it was is of no doubt, but many many common sense measures could have been employed to ensure we did not get into the mess we are in now.
Note....the quote is from Monkey Hanger in response to a post of mine...just so you know I am not replying to my own posts.