Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Brendan O'Neill: Covid, Class & the Decay of Cultural Confidence in the West" video.

  1. I wonder why no one in these comments has picked up on Brendan's point: lockdown only had one aim, to protect the NHS from being overwhelmed by covid cases ? Indeed, that was the first priority in the gvt's 3-point mantra: "Protect the NHS - Stay home - Save lives". (Now it's represented as 'stay home, protect the NHS, save lives'). Cynically, I would say that, if we'd been allowed to live more or less normally, the gvt would never have recovered from an obviously failed NHS, due to years of their swingeing £cuts. Lockdowns IMHO therefore are primarily political decisions, not health protection measures. The NHS simply isn't fit for purpose. This is the huge elephant in the national room that no one is talking about, still less tackling.
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