Comments by "Kevin Hicks" (@Hickalum) on "Coronavirus and dissent, with Peter Hitchens -- The Brendan O'Neill Show" video.

Allan Pontoon ; You are right. No need to lockdown under 60s at all. Death rate under 60s is tiny. All those billions spent shoring up the economy could have been spent improving the NHS and ensuring the elderly are safe while they are locked down. This would also build herd immunity and create a way out; we, literally, get over it.
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That is correct ; the government started off on a herd immunity strategy. The BBC went mental with "hundreds of 1000s will die, and we are too late, and other countries are doing more" etc etc and forced the lockdown policy on us. Well guess what, the vast majority of people dying are the very frail old and sick and they were going to die from the next cold they catch anyway. And millions of people under 60 will loose their jobs when they don't need to be locked down at all because the death rate in the under 60s is tiny.
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alan; Its is (deliberately?) made difficult because everybody who dies With it is counted as if they died Of it. But you can do this if you go to the Office of National Statistics web site. Compare the total registered deaths (England and Wales) so far this year: 138,913 With the five year average to this date in the year: 143,782 That's right we are running at less than the average to this date so far ( numbers are to week 12)
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Rach Grant ; Quite right. People too young to have experienced the unemployment and high inflation of the late 70s and early 80s seem quite happy to trash the economy. We have had full employment for quite a while now. Unless you been unemployed for any significant length of time yourself you have not the faintest idea how utterly life and soul destroying it is.
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