[Margaret Pilkington]

What a very interesting and insightful article.
What is happening with these lockdowns and restrictions is akin to a type of terrorism....keep the population guessing...soften them up by giving them a bit of freedom and then yank the choke chain to bring them back to heel....the best of it is Exile the population are in favour of it.....they want more and harder restrictions....it makes me ask myself if this is a kind of Stockholm syndrome where the captured grow to love their captors.....or are they just sheep who cannot do anything other than follow the lead sheep.

As for hospital being overwhelmed.
I retired from the NHS in 2002 and even way back then for at least ten years before I retired we stopped planned surgery so that we could take in medical patients and in 1999 the situation was dire enough for Male medical patients to be accommodated on a Gynaecology ward.....something that had never happened before.

There are NO Stats for flu and pneumonia on the ONS site......when these are the usual causes of death at this time of year....so it looks as if ANY respiratory admission is being deemed Covid whether it is or isn’t.

All to scare people into getting vaccinated.....will make million# for Patrick Vallance and Chris Whitty who are both involved in companies that produce vaccines.......would that be a conflict of interest?

I am offended by the attitude of JVT.....he stereotypes pensioners as dumb, unintelligent people who are only interested in going to bingo.
I am one of these and I have never been in a bingo hall in my 73 years.
I have not been on a bus for nine months....I have not been to my yoga classes or to my UA3 talks....no library visits, no haircut, no swimming sessions...
I have stayed home....I have social distanced.....the only thing that I have done is visit my daughter because I am part of her support bubble ( a cancer patient)