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Originally Posted by OLD BOY

Well, some of us have. I accept you don’t, jfman.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...says-scientist

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. “We did serious harm to our children and young adults who were robbed of their education, jobs and normal existence, as well as suffering damage to their future prospects, while they were left to inherit a record-breaking mountain of public debt,” he argues. “All this to protect the NHS from a disease that is a far, far greater threat to the elderly, frail and infirm than to the young and healthy.

“We were mesmerised by the once-in-a-century scale of the emergency and succeeded only in making a crisis even worse. In short, we panicked. This was an epidemic crying out for a precision public health approach and it got the opposite.”



Not to mention the increased deaths and suffering that occurred through a failure to review the medical position of those who should have regular reviews, failure to carry out countless operations, the waiting lists for which will take years to recover.

Let's have another couple of paragraphs from further down the article, because sometimes the bits you select can say something quite different to whatever follows .

However, Woolhouse is at pains to reject the ideas of those who advocated the complete opening up of society, including academics who backed the Barrington Declaration which proposed the Covid-19 virus be allowed to circulate until enough people had been infected to achieve herd immunity.

“This would have led to an epidemic far larger than the one we eventually experienced in 2020,” says Woolhouse. “It also lacked a convincing plan for adequately protecting the more vulnerable members of society, the elderly and those who are immuno-compromised.”