Quote Originally Posted by life on mars View Post
What I found appalling was the opportunity politicians took to score points whilst folk were in need a real national consensus .

I the average death of Covid was and is still 83 .

I also think the government would have not had the lockdown measure they did apply it did if they hadn't worry about the fear whipped up by scientists , social media , TV media/Papers , unions , and opposition parties and the likes of Drakeford and Sturgeon looking for fame ..

There was a better way ( Sweden )

I think Covid lockdown may well kill more in the coming years , anxiety and mental illness on the rise , children never really come to ease with it effecting their long term confidence , human interactions , freedom to play and education ..



"" The latest attendance data from the Department for Education (DfE) revealed that absences in the spring term this year were still 50% higher than before the pandemic, while in 2021-22 more than one in five secondary pupils were “persistently absent” for missing 10% or more of sessions ""
I pretty much agree with this.

I think we all agree that the first lockdown was necessary. We didn't know what we were dealing with, it clearly helped to slow the spread and in all honesty I think for that initial period it even did us all some good.

The problem is that as it dragged on it became obvious to so many that enormous and prolonged damage was going to be caused, primarily to the vulnerable but also to society more widely. These opinions were too often dismissed as being anto-science etc, when in most cases they absolutely were not. They were either rooted in concerns based on the social sciences, they were often correct and there is also nothing remotely anti-science about questioning science. In fact, a trait of scientific advancements is that it always questioned the science that preceded it.

So first lockdown, fine, in fact if anything it was enacted a bit late But by the second or third I think we knew we were causing damage and those voices should have been heard more.

Personally I cannot think of a single positive change since Covid. Nearly everything is strained, weakened, damaged, hitting the vulnerable more, made more expensive etc etc etc.

Put bluntly, 'the science' has to include social sciences too..issues about society. It was too focused on medical science and needed to achieve more balance