Comments by "Edward McLaughlin" (@edwardmclaughlin7935) on "Asian Boss" channel.

"300,000 deaths in the US alone." The US has a population of some 331 million. The daily death rate averages around 7,700. The first recorded covid-related death in the US was on February 6th. That's 321 days. In those 321 days we could normally expect to see 321 x 7,700 deaths from all causes. That's a total of 2,471,700 deaths. Even if all of the 300,000 deaths quoted were actually due to covid (and we all know they were not) that would mean that excess deaths were up by around 12%. The lockdowns that have been imposed by governments in many parts of the world will - according to the WHO - lead to the deaths of around 1.8 million people in developing regions. The lockdowns will lead to deaths far exceeding covid related deaths, in developed nations due to cancer treatment delay/cancellation, cardiac arrest, stroke and much more. The WHO have stated that lockdowns do one thing only: they make poor people poorer. Why are we locking down people's lives, destroying the businesses whose tax pays for healthcare for at least the poorest in some countries and ALL in some others? Why are we doing all of this, as a response to knee-jerk journalism and its dog-bark headlines?
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@Marco-it2mr How is it possible to misrepresent the plain English statement I cited? It says what it says. You don't think the lockdowns are going to lead to more deaths than the virus simply because CNN/BBC flash images at you.
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Two-thirds said no.
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@Marco-it2mr Do you have an explanation for the fact that up until 2019, health authorities around the globe worked with the idea of gaining herd immunity?
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@Marco-it2mr Tell me the last year before 2020, in which the UK, the US, France, Germany, Italy, Spain tried to control a virus that effects such a small proportion of the population. We have a flu outbreak in all northern hemisphere regions every Winter/Spring. Never have we locked down our economies, our societies. "Herd immunity is not a policy, it is a recognition of biological fact." (Prof Jay Battacharya.
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@Marco-it2mr You're finding refuge in wordiness now. A common tack. 400 ICU patients a strain on Dutch health provision? Give me a break. Seen Sir David Nabarro yet?
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@Marco-it2mr You got 700 empty ICU beds and that's a strain? Nabarro's appeal which you seem not to be wanting to hear, is that lockdown is not the way to deal with pandemics. Or am I taking his words 'out of context' as seems to be the refrain?
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