‘No more lockdowns - I don’t give a sod!’
Sharp-witted and full of vigour, an 83-year-old from Barnsley yesterday spoke more sense than has been uttered by our Government, broadcast media and official scientific advisors for the last eight months.
Sharp-witted and full of vigour, an eighty-three-year-old from Barnsley yesterday spoke more sense than has been uttered by our Government, broadcast media and official scientific advisors for the last eight months.
Presented with the news that ‘tier three’ restrictions will be introduced in South Yorkshire at the weekend, a local resident expressed quite succinctly that ‘it’s all ridiculous. We should never have been in lockdown’ (my emphasis).
The lady believes, because of her age, that she hasn’t got that many years left to live, and is adamant that ‘I’m not going to be fastened in a house’ in the time she has remaining.
And why should she — or anybody else, for that matter — for a virus the impact of which has been wildly exaggerated, due largely to the poor recording of deaths. Fear created by this narrative is keeping would-be patients away from hospitals, leading to thousands of likely preventable deaths, from cancer and other diseases, in homes. Let’s not forget that the average age of fatalities from the coronavirus — often presented as plague-like — is only slightly lower than the age of this lockdown sceptic (eighty-two, almost a year higher than that from all other causes).
Wouldn’t it be better to end these restrictive lockdown policies — the cure possibly already being worse than the disease — and return to some sort of normality (not the ‘new normal’, mind)?
I’m sure this fine citizen will do a better job of persuading you than me, so please do listen to her below.
