NottyImp won’t read this as he blocks any opinion or discussion that doesn’t follow his (or The Guardian’s) agenda. However, as his comments here have absolutely disgusted me, I’m going to address him directly just to get this off my chest.
If you want facts, there’s any number out there if you bothered to look. However, as is abundantly clear from your contributions to this thread (i.e. stupid sarcastic comments, personal attacks on people who have views that differ from yours, constant shares of fear-mongering, biased articles from the same source), I would submit that your intelligence and breadth of knowledge and research is so narrow that it is essentially irrelevant.
Therefore, for you to label people (usually with very good statistical evidence to support them) who are questioning the continuing shutdowns, media fear-mongering and damage to society as sociopaths is nothing short of a disgrace.
The vast majority of these people (as was seen at the London protests last Saturday) are honest, caring and hugely concerned about the direction of the Covid response and agenda, not for themselves but for their families, friends and humanity in general. This is of course not reported in the type of media outlets you favour – they’re much keener on labelling anyone who questions the narrative as a far-right, conspiracy theorist, lizard-loving nutter. But as has so often been the case during this crisis, this is simply not representative of what is happening on the ground.
What you appear to be espousing however (often with rather sociopathic levels of aggression and hostility it must be said) is total, unquestioning adherence to government dictates in the name of ‘protecting lives’. When actually, look further and you’ll see that these government dictates (not just in the UK but across the world) have been doing anything but protecting lives.
Seriously, if you or anyone else are that worried about a virus which is now estimated to be less dangerous than taking a bath, then society is now totally set up for you to lock yourself away at home for as long as you see fit.
So why don’t you just get on and do that until your unlicensed vaccine arrives, rather than attacking, insulting and guilt-tripping others who want to try and get on with their lives and rescue what’s left of society?