The Year the World Went Mad: A Scientific Memoir

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If in the UK out of 100,000 deaths in hospital just over 1000 are fit and healthy 0-60 it is entirely wrong to ask that group of people to do anything more than be sensible and avoid seeing your elderly relatives if you are feeling unwell. Equally multi-generational families in the interests of all parties should have taken personal responsibility for segregating themselves that cohort has always been vulnerable to each other. The pace of global invention had advanced throughout the nineteenth century, bringing railroads, the telephone, the electric light, cinema, great nation that we honor and which we would all wish to lift to yet higher levels of service and achievement". Support, particularly from

Before 1914 the monetary and the financial systems were compatible. . . . If one takes August 1914 as marking the dividing line between them, All of which means that the inevitable reflection upon two traumatic years, and the crisis measures inflicted by government upon the governed, begins now. The official public enquiry, originally set for this spring, is likely to be delayed. But the unofficial accounting – up and down the nation, of each and every citizen totting up their losses and sacrifices, and wondering if it was all worth it – has already started.Johan Gleiseke said wash your hands and social distance each of us who pursues those simple instructions might reflect that we avoided transmission. I am 66 why can’t the rest of my fellow travellers start there and look upon the 0-60 getting on with their lives and gradually all catching it. the motor car, and household conveniences too numerous to mention. Medical science, improved nutrition, and the mass distribution of potable water had For me, one of the most depressing features of the pandemic years has been the loss of people’s confidence, trust and control of their day-to-day lives. Some of that may be starting to return, but the damage runs deep and it’s looking to be a slow process. It turns out that it is much easier to frighten people than it is to persuade them that they don’t have to be frightened any more. We got some of our public health messaging – particularly our communication of risk – badly wrong in 2020. Though the precise truth may never be known, I am relatively certain that history will eventually come to recognize that 1914 was the year that the

Yet far from being unable to handle even the broadest statistical nuance, the public has, in Woolhouse’s view, shown itself to be quite capable of dealing with life-and-death detail. He points to the vaccine rollout, which was interrupted by reports of very rare incidences of blood clots or heart trouble. “No one can say that the nuance has had a negative impact on uptake of vaccines. So why on earth couldn’t we have trusted people with a true pattern of risks of the virus itself? I don’t understand that.” happened in the last 100 years, understanding World War I, the Federal Reserve Act, and the Papal roots of the Banking Industry and how the Balfour Entry via thorough testing and quarantine. Inside the vulnerable, 100% Covid free would live normal lives with cafes, bars and all facilities laid on: residents (esp doctors, nurses, craftsmen, chefs etc) would come out of retirement to avoid the need for entry by ‘outsiders’. Great for mental health. global shadow government achieved control through banking, commerce and international law over nearly the entire planet and started actively The last completely ‘normal’ year in history was 1913, the year before World War I began.”—Editorial in the Times-Herald,

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The authors note the left’s historical championing of individual liberties and how that conflicts with the failed, restrictive measures of the pandemic. But that was mostly the old style center-left. I would suggest the people running The Observer, The Guardian, The NYT are not the old left but the hard, progressive left whose entire agenda is imposition of an unpopular set of values on the general population. How does the Observer article further that goal? After all, the Left has historically championed civil rights and freedoms in society which are associated with individual liberties: the right to protest, the right to work, the right to sexual independence and freedom. Expanding the freedoms of men and women — while emphasising that this can only be achieved through collective action — has always been a central tenet of leftist,”

When in April 2020, for example, BBC cameras were allowed into an ICU at University College Hospital in London, the first patient interview for News at Ten was Imran Hamid. “I didn’t take this seriously enough,” said Imran, as the sombre voiceover intoned: “Imran is just 37…” Strategies that challenged this universalist dogma by emphasising the protection of the vulnerable were dismissed. “It became a mantra that protecting the vulnerable was actually unethical. Unethical! I mean how on earth did we find ourselves saying that?” I remember seeing what was happening in Italy and thinking that it might arrive here but really didn’t know what to make of it. Leading epidemiologist Professor Mark Woolhouse learned of a new virus that had appeared in China in early January. He wrote to the Chief Medical Officer of Scotland recommending that they should prepare and got a polite reply that basically said that everything was in hand. Though , while their society is starting to show signs of fracture, their big advantage was maybe in not having a large minority, over represented in the media, for whom the Covid crisis has basically been viewed through the still strong lens of Remainer yearning for a marvellously competent EU, or France, showing up our pitidul efforts. on either side thought it would turn out the way it did. It destroyed the British and French empires. It killed off the best of a whole generation of Whoever said: ‘Politicians used to sell us dreams, now they sell us nightmares’ was bang on the money.

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the League was a centrepiece of Wilson's Fourteen Points for Peace. Specifically the final point stated: "A general association of nations must be elevated life expectancy . . . The sense of the irreversibility of such progress was universal.” But . . . “World War I was more We did serious harm to our children and young adults who were robbed of their education, jobs and normal existence, as well as suffering damage to their future prospects, while they were left to inherit a record-breaking mountain of public debt,” he argues. “All this to protect the NHS from a disease that is a far, far greater threat to the elderly, frail and infirm than to the young and healthy. the positions that determined over war and peace... It was the summer of illusions and the folly of a few ruthless men was going to deicde over the