Dominic Cummings and that and he has
been hypocritical and he has floated his
own regulations but but it is a
distraction the mother of all
distractions if you like from the really
the real essence of the matter is what
with the government provision what was
the underlying ethos and it's quite
clear what needed to be done in terms of
the public health measures those lessons
were available from China from Korea
from Vietnam from other countries what
our government did was not guided by
medical science and the scientists are
increasingly making it clear that it was
contrary to their advice it was guided
by the economics and particularly the
less a fair economics and to an extent
the philosophy the Malthusian philosophy
by which they felt it was not worth the
economic cost to intervene to save the
lives of people from whom they made no
money and that is the bottom line and
there is no more and more ways in which
that fundamental narrative can be
verified both from people who you know
expose the words of Dominic Cummings at
the time that we should protect the
economy that we should allow it to run
through the community and look for herd
immunity and if a few pensioners died so
be it - Boris Johnson saying we just got
to take it on the chin and now
increasingly to the scientists saying
that there was inactivity despite their
advice that it's quite clear that we'd
be looking at many many probably perhaps
hundreds of thousands of deaths and of
course we may still be looking at that
scenario because if you do look at the
figures based upon excess mortality and
this is only the first bike and we don't
know yet what the second spike is but
it's clear that there are more people
sadly who have died of the virus this
Sunday than last Sunday with the easing
of the restriction so not absolutely
clear that we are looking at the dying
away with fading away of this problem
and it's clear that from excess
mortality already there probably around
60,000 or more people have died in
Britain across all environments and this
may just be and I really hope it's not
in no way do I want to be vindicated you
know I want us to get past this but it
may be that this is still the beginning
Joey
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