Was Lockdown ever necessary? The Chief Medical Officer thinks not?

On 11 May 2020, Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, Chief Medical Adviser to the UK Government, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Department of Health and Social Care and Head of the National Institute for Health Research, seemed to suggest, during the briefing session with Boris Johnson and Sir Patrick Vallance, that the Lockdown need never have happened.

Here's what he said:

"Actually the great majority of people will not die from this. And I’ll just repeat something I said right at the beginning, because I think it’s worth reinforcing. 

A significant proportion of people will not get this virus at all, at any point in the epidemic, which is going to go on for a long period of time. Of those who do, some of them will get the virus without even knowing it. They will have the virus with no symptoms at all, asymptomatic carriage. 

And we know that happens. Of those that get symptoms, the great majority, probably 80% will have a mild or moderate disease, might be bad enough for them to have to go to bed for a few days, not bad enough for them to have to go to the doctor. An unfortunate minority, will have to go as far as hospital, but the majority of those will just need oxygen and will then leave hospital. And then a minority of those will end up having to go to severe and critical care and some of those sadly will die. But that’s a minority. It’s one percent or possibly even less than one percent overall. And even in the highest risk group, this is significantly less than twenty percent. The great majority of people, even the very highest groups, if they catch this virus, will not die."

On 12 May, Richie Allen discussed Professor Whitty's comments with Piers Corbyn (Jeremy Corbyn's strangely patriotic elder brother) on his own radio show.

Their observations, along with Whitty's, can be heard below:

Of course, there is another way of looking at Whitty's pronouncements. 

One that exemplifies, perhaps, the callousness of an authority that believes it knows better, sees further and doesn't see the need to function on the same ordinarily compassionate level as the rest of us. Whitty suggests that, without intervention, 'a minority... will die... One percent or possibly even less than one percent overall.' Well, one percent of 66.65 million is 666,500. 666,500 Britons gone, dismissed, dead. That's a hell of a lot of people who could end up being shuffled off if the 'experts' don't get it right.

When, at the 1943 Tehran conference, Churchill objected to the opening of a second front in France, Josef Stalin responded:

"When one man dies it is a tragedy. When thousands die it's a statistic!"

Know what you meant, Joe.

Know what you mean, Chris.

As of 16 May 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics, 39,071 deaths involving Covid-19 had occurred in England and Wales had been registered. 

The true death toll, however, could be much higher, as the number of excess deaths between mid-March and May 8 exceeded 54,000 in the UK.

Anyway, does Whitty's demonstration of the mathematical insignificance of the virus reassure you? Or does the 'it-probably-won't-be-you' intervention have rather more to do with the powers-that-be wanting us back at work and their global project back on track than with any Big-Brotherly desire to cheer the majority up?

I'll tell you one thing: 'their global project' has done the vast majority of indigenous Europeans no favours. Which countries have dealt with COVID-19 most successfully? Those that closed the borders and shut up shop immediately. In other words, those least in thrall to globalisation's international edicts and imperatives.

Q. When did Johnson and co. impose a two week quarantine on anyone arriving in the UK? (Apart from the Republic of Ireland)

A. They haven't, as yet, done so. We are told that this needful practice will begin at the end of May.

Ladies and gentlemen, we're all just Uncle-Joe statistics to the global elite.

And Whitty, I suspect, is their man.