[QUOTE=the other bob wilson;5554074]
Quote Originally Posted by TWGL1 View Post

“Gifted” because it was a word used by one of the “independent” thinkers on here to describe themselves and “smug” because most of you are with your certainty that you are forever being proved right and also the never ending “I told you so” posts - people who are in the nabit of getting things right most of the time do not need to advertise the fact by using that term, because others cotton n to the fact eventually - anyway, it’s only in your heads where you’re always being proved right.

You do it yourself in your latest post with your claim that the Government “scared the pants off anyone under 55”. It’s classic putting the cart before the horse. Within a couple of months of Covid officially arriving in the UK hundreds, and soon thousands, of people a day were dying. The virus hit Italy hard before it really took a hold here and there were stories daily about how hard that country was being hit.

Although there were signs that the virus hit older people more severely, you lot continually fall into the trap of thinking we knew then what we know now, it needed thousands to start dying a day to get definitive proof that Covid was killing so few younger people compared to the elderly. In mid March 2020, the Government were being widely criticised for not introducing the sort of lockdown measures seen in Italy and it was only when they saw modelling intervention that half a million could die without some sort of lockdown that they changed their minds from a policy of herd immunity. Within a fortnight of lockdown being introduced, you were getting hundreds dying a day (even the Prime Minister almost died of it) with the figure occasionally running into four figures, how do you think the country would have reacted if the policy had remained to let the virus tun free?

In time reliable data became available and, from a personal point of view, questions about the effectiveness of lockdowns grew until I was completely against the measures taken by the WAG in enforcing a ban on attending sporting events around Christmas 2021, but that was because of information which had come to light well after the spring of 2020 when such decisions had to be made with very little reliable data to go on - you lot never make any allowance for that, it’s all as if we knew then what we know now.


You make some valid points , many of which I agree with , however, I am of the opinion that the WHO instructed western governments to undertake lockstep policies asked on what was essentially a mild to moderate disease to the vast majority. Let’s say for example they tested everyone for Flu who sadly died within 28 days of a positive test and I’m sure the numbers would be completely similar to Covid at the time. Don’t forget this was a disease that people needed an inadequate test just to see if they had it. Why would you require a test for something and report it back - simply for data purposes and scaremongering.

It’s interesting that there was no “spike” for a significant number of huge anti lockdown demonstrations despite what the media was reporting.

I also disagree with your outlandish claim that there were 7 million deaths of just Covid , there simply wasn’t otherwise it would show a huge lag of mortality rates (taking into account population growth). If this was the case don’t you think the average Covid death would be lower that the average?

What is odd about it all that a significant number of people who didn’t buy into the propaganda have never had Covid or been vaccinated and are fit and well. Work that one out.

The whole think has led to a significant amount of the population to question the validity of government decisions and I sincerely doubt the compliance level would be as high when the next big thing comes along.I suspect you will get masked up and fall in-line though.