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Bad faith smears, such as this article, omits so much context, order of events and perspective, in order to turn Lockdown into a partisan issue.
Context like claims about 500K deaths, and 67 million people under house arrest for a year.
67 million house arrest years, and their as yet uncalculated second-order consequences amounts to vastly more lost QALYs than were allegedly lost to Covid19.
No lockdown sceptic I am aware argued against precautionary measures for the categorically vulnerable.
Moreover, the lockdown hawks have traded on rank fearmongering, leaving much of the public with the view that ~10% of the population had succumbed to the virus. There has been no effort from the official narrative to address that fear.
Here, Lawson takes Yeadon's comment, which is a statement about ONS's reporting of the week -- ONS's own claim of no statistically significant increase -- as a claim about the year.
https://t.co/J0ZBFKxfG4
He goes on to wonder what Yeadon was referring to, though Yeadon's Tweet was clear enough. The 5-week figures give some big number-drama to his story, but the daily death rate is less stark: 1,691 versus 1,397. Hardly heart-warming figures, but hardly the year 1349.
Context like claims about 500K deaths, and 67 million people under house arrest for a year.
67 million house arrest years, and their as yet uncalculated second-order consequences amounts to vastly more lost QALYs than were allegedly lost to Covid19.
No lockdown sceptic I am aware argued against precautionary measures for the categorically vulnerable.
Moreover, the lockdown hawks have traded on rank fearmongering, leaving much of the public with the view that ~10% of the population had succumbed to the virus. There has been no effort from the official narrative to address that fear.
Here, Lawson takes Yeadon's comment, which is a statement about ONS's reporting of the week -- ONS's own claim of no statistically significant increase -- as a claim about the year.
https://t.co/J0ZBFKxfG4
I\u2019ve called for a complete halt to PCR mass testing. Even if it was trustworthy, it serves no helpful purpose. We do NOT have EXCESS DEATHS. That\u2019s as it is in England & U.K. wide. People terrorised into staying home to die. Non-COVID excess deaths. Self-inflicted, due lockdown. https://t.co/M82gTgGpBm pic.twitter.com/c3CIfM7CZH
— Yardley Yeadon (@MichaelYeadon3) January 10, 2021
He goes on to wonder what Yeadon was referring to, though Yeadon's Tweet was clear enough. The 5-week figures give some big number-drama to his story, but the daily death rate is less stark: 1,691 versus 1,397. Hardly heart-warming figures, but hardly the year 1349.