British Lions Rugby Tour Covid Debacle Exposes the Fallacy of Lockdowns
Vaccinated, isolated players keep testing positive
People often tell me I must be wrong about lockdowns because they know a lot of sick people.
This is not logical thinking.
South Africa is in lockdown. The country has not been out of lockdown for 18 months - and your friends got sick. So we had all the negatives of lockdowns and we did not prevent the spread.
My critics might say, yes, but how much worse would it have been?
Who knows?
Probably not by much.
We see in US states that varying degrees of lockdown amongst them made no difference. In fact, hard lockdown states had it the worst. Even Governor Cuomo in New York admitted that the majority of the ill had been isolating. Peru has had a hard lockdown and has the worst death rate. Please let that sink in.
Now we have further proof with these professional athletes.
The Springboks are vaccinated and in a bubble. The Lions are vaccinated and in a bubble. And they are having to cancel their matches because of positive cases.
The Lions are in isolation after one positive case in the squad, and their match this evening is in the air and delayed as they wait test results from the entire squad.
The Springboks have had their Friday match cancelled after twelve positive cases.
Now, it is said that vaccines reduce risk of death not infection. If so, if these very healthy young men are vaccinated, and have virtually no chance of serious illness, then why keep testing them and forcing them to isolate? I also note that the media never tells us whether these players are sick and they do not mention they are vaccinated. Media cannot say those things out loud.
The truth is, there is nothing you can do as a matter of public policy to stop these waves - unless you are an island and you shut down travel. We could have paid the elderly and vulnerable to stay at home and we could have tried to be outside as much as possible. That is about it.
But fear, actively encouraged by global authorities, caused a mass demand for governments to try policies without any proof they would work, whilst knowing they would certainly destroy lives.
This mass fear can be measured by how much public perception of covid’s danger is completely exaggerated. In the US, a survey showed shocking public delusions:
In December 2020, 35% of Americans believed that half of the people with COVID-19 required hospitalization. The correct figure was 1%-5%. Americans also estimated that the share of COVID-19 deaths for people between 18 and 24 was 8%. It was actually 0.1%. These incorrect assumptions were influenced by anecdotes, shocking media coverage, and early projections like the influential Imperial College model…
As a result of mistaken prognostications like this, the media compared COVID-19 to the 1918 influenza pandemic, for which the average age of death was 28. For COVID-19 the average age of death is 73, and about half of all deaths are in people 80 or older. While the CDC projected a one-year decrease in life expectancy for the U.S. population, the overall decrease in life expectancy was only five days, and the U.S.’s excess mortality in 2017 was greater than its excess mortality in 2020.
I have educated friends tell me the death rate is 5 percent. No wonder they believe this though - they rely on mainstream media.
Meanwhile, 34 percent of households in South Africa are about to fall out of the middle class.
Please listen to me. This is how bloody revolutions begin.
For the love God and future generations, stop this madness.