DID we get plunged right into a devastating livelihood-destroying nationwide lockdown based mostly on falsehoods?
That appears a worrying chance after the discharge at this time of dramatic official figures by the Workplace for Nationwide Statistics downgrading the incidence charge of coronavirus per 10,000 people who Boris Johnson and his boffins used to inform us Lockdown 2 was unavoidable.
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Did falsehoods trigger us to be plunged right into a nightmare second lockdown?Credit score: PA:Press Affiliation
Boris Johnson and his boffins used dramatic figures to inform us Lockdown 2 was unavoidableCredit score: AFP or licensors
When the Prime Minister introduced the month-long shut down on Halloween, the ONS stated coronavirus in England had doubled from 4.3 per 10,000 on October 3 to 9.52 on October 17.
However the newest modelled ONS knowledge from December 4 has seen the determine for October 17 practically chopped in half to solely 4.89 per 10,000 individuals.
Their modelling reveals that in lockdown the incidence charge didn’t go increased than 6.62 per 10,000 on November 12, nothing near the nightmare determine.
Crucially, ITV’s Political Editor Robert Peston stated the ONS coronavirus survey “underpinned Boris Johnson’s controversial announcement on the finish of October to place England again into nationwide lockdown”.
The ONS responded to Peston at this time, insisting: “All our proof, together with positivity charges that are nonetheless over 0.9 per cent, present the pandemic was at a peak on the time of the Prime Minister’s announcement on October 31 on restrictions.”
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However we all know the downgraded incidence charge was not the one instance of dodgy knowledge used to justify the nationwide lockdown.
Already discredited is the terrifying headline determine in Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance’s doomsday dossier that the UK was on track to expertise over 4,000 deaths a day in December.
Professor Carl Heneghan, of the Centre for Proof-Based mostly Drugs on the College of Oxford, nearly instantly identified that modelling was based mostly on the wrong assumption that we have been already experiencing 1,000 deaths a day in October.
Because the Former Brexit Secretary David Davis stated on the time: “This isn’t the primary time that we have had deceptive forecasts.
“Again in March we had the Imperial Faculty mannequin, which was some ten instances larger than any potential end result.”
Belief is at stake right here.
Scientific proof is more and more backing up that lockdowns do not workCredit score: Alamy Stay Information
That couldn’t be any extra vital for the Authorities on this historic Vaccination Day, as they encourage huge swathes of the inhabitants to be jabbed for the larger good.
I’ve stated for months that lockdowns don’t work. More and more, scientific proof is backing that up.
Regardless of fixed claims from Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer {that a} two-week circuit breaker lockdown would have made all of the distinction, the result of simply that in Wales doesn’t again that principle up, with Welsh charges spiking as soon as the nation reopened.
As Professor Tim Spector – the scientist behind the ZOE Covid app – places it: “UK circumstances nonetheless slowly dropping at this time – however Wales now has three to 4 instances the speed of recent circumstances of the remainder of the nation.
“Appears just like the experiment of quick lockdowns and releases are a catastrophe to be prevented.
The Authorities is encouraging huge swathes of the inhabitants to be jabbed for the larger good on this historic Vaccination DayCredit score: AP:Related Press
“We now want regular insurance policies and recommendation over the following three months – keep forward.”
He’s proper: Lockdowns are a blunt instrument that don’t truly work.
I solely hope our leaders begin to get the message earlier than they give thought to Lockdown 3 in January.
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