New British government study says Covid lockdowns may have cost thousands of lives | Eastern NC Now

An extensive study by the British government has concluded that the lockdown policy they pursued during the Covid pandemic may have needlessly cost thousands of lives.  Other studies have found harm to educational progress of children.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/uk-covid-inquiry-finds-lockdowns-may-have-cost-1000s-lives

It is critical to remember the politics of the lockdowns.  That strategy came from Communist China.  The World Health Organization had a longstanding plan to deal with a respiratory virus pandemic through development of herd immunity, but the leadership of WHO at the time had recently been muscled in by China, and dumped that plan to push the Chinese plan.

The UK was the first western country to confront the issue head on.  Dr. Sunetra Gupta, professor of epidemiology at Oxford University, the country's leading virologist put forward a plan based on herd immunity, which initially the British government accepted.  However a much lesser scientist, Dr. Neal Ferguson of Imperial College produced a vastly overblown death prediction and went to the media with it, demanding a China-style lockdown.  The public scare created by Ferguson's media crusade led the government to cave in and go with the lockdown, elevating Ferguson to their top expert.  He was nicknamed "Professor Lockdown".  He was ultimately forced to resign when a British newspaper exposed the fact that Ferguson was wantonly violating his own lockdown policies for visits to his married mistress, who was a climate alarmist activist.

Among western countries, only Sweden styed true to the herd immunity approach, and when the pandemic was over, their numbers showed more success against the virus than those counties stampeded into lockdowns.