{"id":57721,"date":"2021-03-25T17:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57721"},"modified":"2021-03-25T17:21:49","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T21:21:49","slug":"it-doesnt-work-it-never-worked-it-wasnt-supposed-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=57721","title":{"rendered":"It Doesn’t Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn’t Supposed To Work"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Lockdown One Year On: It Doesn’t Work, It Never Worked, & It Wasn’t Supposed To Work<\/h1>\n

by Kit Knightly
\nOff-Guardian.org<\/p>\n

And so we come to March 23rd, and lockdown\u2019s first birthday. Or, as we call it here,\u00a0the longest two weeks in history.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1 year. 12 calendar months. 365 increasingly gruelling days.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s a long time since \u201c2 weeks to flatten the curve\u201d, became an obvious lie. Sometime in July it turned into a sick joke. The curve was flattened, the NHS protected and the clapping was hearty and meaningful.<\/p>\n

\u2026and none of it made any difference.<\/p>\n

This was not a sacrifice for the \u201cgreater good\u201d.<\/strong>\u00a0It was not a hard decision with arguments on both sides. It was not a risk-benefit scenario. The \u201crisks\u201d were in fact certainties, and the \u201cbenefits\u201d entirely fictional.<\/p>\n

Because Lockdowns don\u2019t work. It\u2019s really important to remember that.<\/p>\n

Even if you subscribe to the belief that \u201cSars-Cov-2\u201d is a unique discrete entity (which is far from proven), or that it is incredibly dangerous (which is demonstrably untrue), the lockdown has not worked to, in any way, limit this supposed threat.<\/p>\n

Lockdowns. Don\u2019t. Work.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

They don\u2019t make any difference, the curves don\u2019t flatten and the R0 number doesn\u2019t drop and the lives aren\u2019t saved (quite the opposite, as we\u2019ve all seen).<\/p>\n

Just look at the graphs.<\/p>\n

This one, comparing \u201cCovid deaths\u201d in the UK (lockdown) and Sweden (no lockdown):<\/p>\n

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Or this one, comparing \u201cCovid deaths\u201d in California (lockdown) and Florida (no lockdown):<\/p>\n

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From Belarus to Sweden to Florida to Nicaragua to Tanzania, the evidence is clear. \u201cCovid\u201d, whatever that means in real terms, is not impacted by lockdowns.<\/p>\n

Putting the entire population under house arrest doesn\u2019t benefit public health. In fact, it\u2019s (rather predictably) incredibly counter-productive.<\/p>\n

The damage done by shuttering businesses, limiting access to healthcare,\u00a0postponing treatments and diagnoses<\/a>,\u00a0postponed surgeries<\/a>, increasing depression,\u00a0soaring unemployment<\/a>\u00a0and mass poverty has been discussed to death. The scale of the impact cannot be overstated.<\/p>\n

Dr David Nabarro, World Health Organization special envoy for Covid-19, said this of lockdowns\u00a0back in October<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We in the World Health Organization do not advocate lockdowns as the primary means of control of the virus… just look at what\u2019s happened to the tourism industry… look what\u2019s happening to small-holding farmers… it seems we may have a doubling of world poverty by next year. We may well have at least a doubling of child malnutrition… This is a terrible, ghastly global catastrophe.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A\u00a0terrible, global catastrophe<\/strong><\/em>. A\u00a0doubling of childhood malnutrition<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The \u201cpandemic\u201d didn\u2019t do that, lockdowns did that. They were never going to achieve their stated aims. And what\u2019s more, they were never\u00a0intended<\/em>\u00a0to achieve those aims.<\/p>\n

Too often soft language in the media talks about \u201cmisjudgments\u201d or \u201cmistakes\u201d or \u201cincompetence\u201d. Supposed critics claim the government \u201cpanicked\u201d or \u201cover-reacted\u201d. That is nonsense. The easiest, cheesiest excuse that has ever existed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhoops\u201d<\/em>, they say, with an emphatic shrug and shit-eating grin\u00a0\u201cI guess we done messed up!\u201d<\/em>. Unflattering, but better than the truth.<\/p>\n

Because the truth is that the government isn\u2019t mistaken or scared or stupid\u2026they are malign. And dishonest. And cruel.<\/p>\n

All the suffering of lockdown was entirely predictable and deliberately imposed. For reasons that have nothing to do with helping people and everything to do controlling them.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been more than apparent for most of the last fifty-two weeks that the agenda of lockdown was not public health, but laying the groundwork for the \u201cnew normal\u201d and \u201cthe great reset\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A series of programmes designed to completely undercut civil liberties all across the world, reversing decades (if not centuries) of social progress. A re-feudalisation of society, with the 99% cheerfully taking up their peasant smocks \u201cto protect the vulnerable\u201d, whilst the elite proselytise about the worth of rules they happily admit do not apply to them.<\/p>\n

And we\u2019ve all had lives ruined and a year of precious time wasted. For nothing. You\u2019ve been locked up for two weeks that lasted 365 days. For nothing.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026or rather, for everything. Because that\u2019s what they are trying to take from us. Everything. And the only way to stop them is not to let them. To simply refuse consent.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s not let lockdown get a second birthday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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