On Thu, 1 Sep 2022 08:34:57 -0700, Michael Ejercito
<MEje...@HotMail.com> wrote:
>HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
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>>> How dare anyone demand an apology for Covid lockdowns – have they
>>> forgotten the terrors of early 2020?
>>> The myth is being perpetuated that lockdowns actually caused more deaths
>>> than lives saved. It is a ridiculous suggestion, but a seductive one
>>>
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>>> Advocating lockdowns might not seem the most appropriate way to enjoy a
>>> sunny bank holiday, but I fear it’s necessary.
>>> Thanks to some unwise remarks by those two second-raters vying to lead
>>> our poor knackered nation, the Covid denialists have been emboldened.
>>> Not only do they vow to resist any future public health precautions, but
>>> they are demanding that those of us who advocated lockdowns should
>>> apologise, both for the lockdowns themselves and the undoubted misery
>>> caused, but also for the non-Covid excess deaths now being experienced.
>>> It is getting absurd.
>>> Liz Truss, inexplicably and inexcusably, has ruled out lockdowns in the
>>> face of any future pandemic, no matter how deadly; and Rishi Sunak now
>>> says he didn’t argue hard enough in cabinet about the economic damage
>>> and let the scientists become “empowered”.
>>> Where once these two said they wanted to be guided by the science, they
>>> have now joined the ranks of the anti-science conspiracy theorists. It’s
>>> terrifying to behold. At least Boris Johnson, genuinely reluctant and
>>> slow to impose the lockdowns, did bow to the reality of the position in
>>> 2020 and 2021 and take the painful action required to save many lives.
>>> His successors seem, strange to say, more cowardly about doing the right
>>> thing in future. They seem to have sided with those who’d rather not run
>>> up more national debt, and thus pay higher taxes, to save the lives of
>>> others. It’s an ugly sort of backlash.
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>>> Boris Johnson’s own moral failings have lowered all around him
>>> Boris Johnson’s own moral failings have lowered all around him
>>> The myth is being perpetuated that lockdowns actually caused more deaths
>>> than lives saved. It is a ridiculous suggestion, but a seductive one,
>>> and one that is gaining currency, on social media and among folk who
>>> should know better.
>>> Have we forgotten the terrors of early 2020? A completely unfamiliar,
>>> poorly understood but highly infectious and potentially deadly
>>> coronavirus was ripping through populations in China and Europe, causing
>>> deaths and serious illness. Health services in Italy couldn’t cope with
>>> the demand.
>>> People choked to death, effectively asphyxiated by the virus, before
>>> they got near a doctor. At that time we were utterly defenceless and, no
>>> matter how much we’d like to have dismissed it as not much worse than
>>> flu, in too many cases it caused an agonising, unnecessary death.
>>> To reiterate: when the first lockdown was announced by Boris Johnson in
>>> March 2020 there was little knowledge about the disease and how it
>>> spread, no cures, no vaccines, no treatments, no testing kits, little
>>> protective equipment in hospitals, a shortage of hand sanitisers, masks
>>> and disposable gloves for home use and, most important of all, simply
>>> not enough ambulances, hospital beds, intensive care facilities and
>>> respirators to save lives.
>>> We were trying to build the basic Nightingale hospitals just to
>>> warehouse the sick and making grim plans for mass graves. All this seems
>>> to have been forgotten, strangely, in an orgy of post-event denialism.
>>> Covid was a potentially fatal disease that had – and has – the
>>> especially nasty feature that it is easily spread while people are
>>> asymptomatic. Before they ever get a cough or a fever they can
>>> unknowingly make many others sick – an especially insidious feature of
>>> Covid.
>>> Like any plague, it spreads exponentially, and soon there was hardly a
>>> place in earth unaffected. As the slogan of the time went, we had to
>>> stay indoors to protect the NHS from collapse and to save lives. As the
>>> disease took hold in hospitals and care homes, staff went off sick and
>>> there were even fewer people to care for those dying from Covid.
>>> For some reason the nation now wants to indulge in an act of collective
>>> amnesia. We want to pretend now that things weren’t that bad and the
>>> lockdowns weren’t really needed. The lie is being spread that the
>>> lockdowns have left us with a terrible backlog of cases, hence the
>>> delays and queues for NHS treatment now. Yet it was cold that did that,
>>> not the public health precautions.
>>> So the opposite was – and is – the truth. Without social distancing,
>>> restrictions on gatherings, mask wearing, hygiene regimes and
>>> self-isolation, even more cases would have overcrowded GP surgeries,
>>> ambulances and hospital wards, and left even fewer resources available
>>> to treat other urgent cases.
>>> The alternative would have been to just leave people with Covid:
>>> feverish and unable to breathe, to die alone at home, often with the
>>> excuse that they were too old anyway – the “let the bodies pile high”
>>> attitude once attributed to Johnson.
>>> In fact, during the pandemic the NHS did still attend to other non-Covid
>>> sick people – I know this from personal experience – and did so because
>>> the lockdowns and other public health precautions allowed the medics the
>>> space to do so. No doubt, too, some people suffered mental health
>>> problems, many children had their educations disrupted and some of those
>>> who felt unwell didn’t come forward for attention.
>>> The economy, which we rely on to fund free health care, was damaged. But
>>> all of those situations would have been worse had the lockdowns not
>>> broken the chain of transmission and prevented overload. Harsher and
>>> longer lockdowns would have become inevitable as the system broke down.
>>> As I say, the unspoken alternative strategy (used in previous centuries)
>>> would have been to confine Covid patients to their homes and not allow
>>> them out or offer them treatment at all. Boris Johnson would have been
>>> left to die in his Downing Street flat after he fell ill with his own
>>> serious case of Covid, possibly caught through a cavalier attitude to
>>> the tiny micro-organism.
>>> The case for the lockdowns has been put eloquently by Chris Whitty. A
>>> national hero, Whitty is now having his reputation quietly trashed by
>>> people who should know better. This is what Whitty told MPs last year
>>> when he was asked if the emergence of the omicron variant meant it was
>>> being prioritised over cancer treatment: “That is sometimes said by
>>> people who have no understanding of health at all, but I do not think it
>>> is said by anyone who is serious, if I am honest. When they say it, it
>>> is usually because they want to make a political point.
>>> “The reality is – and if you ask any doctor working in any part of the
>>> system they will say this – that what is threatening our ability to do
>>> cancer and to do all these things is the fact that so much of the NHS
>>> effort, and so many of the beds, are having to be put over to Covid that
>>> we are having to work in a less efficient way because Covid is there.
>>> Finding a way to manage Covid that minimises the impact on everything
>>> else is absolutely central to what we are trying to do.
>>> “In a sense, I completely agree that there are multiple other things in
>>> addition to Covid. If we do not crack Covid at the point when we have
>>> big waves, as we have now, we will do huge damage elsewhere. The idea
>>> that the lockdowns cause problems with things like cancer is a complete
>>> inversion of reality.
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>>> “If we had not had the lockdowns, the whole system would have been in
>>> deep, deep trouble and the impact on things like heart attacks and
>>> strokes, and all the other things people must still come forward for
>>> when they have them, would have been even worse than it was. I want,
>>> through all of you, to make it absolutely clear that that is an
>>> inversion of reality.”
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>>> Editorial: We should still be following the science on Covid
>>> Editorial: We should still be following the science on Covid
>>> It seems that the present epidemic of amnesia is one unexpected
>>> consequence of Covid. The constant refrain that we have to “learn to
>>> live with Covid” seems intended to mean we shouldn’t worry about it and
>>> should treat it like a bad cold – indeed, we should forget all about
>>> that nasty pandemic, because if we stop thinking about coronavirus then
>>> it will go way. But of course it won’t, and one day a variant both more
>>> dangerous and more infectious will emerge.
>>> We should now be making sure the incidence of Covid is minimised,
>>> through simple precautions such as masks on crowded public transport,
>>> free testing kits and mandatory self-isolation while infectious. And one
>>> day, in extremis, we might need a lockdown to prevent a collapse of the
>>> NHS. If we took more precautions now, a lockdown would be less likely,
>>> but might still be needed. Are we really so forgetful?
>>
>> The only *healthy* way to stop the pandemic, thereby saving lives, in
>> the U.K. & elsewhere is by rapidly (
http://bit.ly/RapidTestCOVID-19
>> ) finding out at any given moment, including even while on-line, who
>> among us are unwittingly contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or
>> asymptomatic) in order to
http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward (John
>> 15:12) for them to call their doctor and self-quarantine per their
>> doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic. Thus, we're hoping for the
>> best while preparing for the worse-case scenario of the Alpha lineage
>> mutations and others like the Omicron, Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota,
>> Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations combining via
>> slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like
>>
http://tinyurl.com/Deltamicron that may render current COVID
>> vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no longer effective.
>>
>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest
>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>
>> So how are you ?
>
> I am wonderfully hungry!
Source:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/wHqprjD2Ok0/m/iGkX91LsAgAJ
Positive control on USENET:
https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/7ixdk7t6Bk8/m/xpbS2z7QAAAJ
While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over food don't have
COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
including especially caring to
http://tinyurl.com/ConvinceItForward
(John 15:12 as shown by
http://tinyurl.com/RapidOmicronTest ) with all
glory (
http://bit.ly/Psalm112_1 ) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba,
DEO), in the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
Laus DEO !