The mainstream media portrays the accepted establishment narratives, even when the Government is itself being looked at critically through the lens.
At no time has this been more obvious than the many weeks that have now passed since the Coronavirus Pandemic arrived and the 23rd of March 2020, when the Lockdown, Social Distancing and what is now becoming the new normal effectively began.
Some of us knew from the start that the Lockdown was a disproportionate response to the spread of a virus that the Government and their Scientists did not then and still do not fully understand.
We blogged and we tweeted as much as we could to try and raise the questions that the media and politicians should have been asking.
But apart from the same old lone voices, pigeonholed by the ‘clique’ as having nothing useful to say, the realities of shutting down the whole country when there was simply no data available to justify doing so was simply overlooked by anyone with any influence over what the Government does.
That was before Chancellor Rishi Sunak got to his feet and began fire hosing cash at causes with the loudest voices. He left many like the Limited Company Directors championed by ForgottenLtd, businesses like the Events and Meetings Sector and organisations such as Theatre Trusts with very uncertain futures that even now, after many other struggling businesses have been able to reopen, find themselves unable to trade and much nearer than anyone else to simply going bang.
If the Lockdown has genuinely already prevented around 250,000 deaths as current commentary suggests, there would be a strong argument for the Lockdown to have been implemented.
This would remain the case, even if it could be argued that the Lockdown could have been implemented in much better and even more effective ways, such as the Test & Trace service being put into full action and being the hinge that the whole thing was hung on right from the start.
What we are being told by the Government via the mainstream media, is that to date, there have been around 44,000 deaths from Covid 19.
In terms of a quarter of a million deaths being prevented and forty four thousand still dying after all of the change we have been compelled to embrace, there are few who would argue with what the Government has done – even if their own experiences tell them that something doesn’t really feel right about it all.
Yet the figures that we are being spoon fed, are not all they are hyped up to be by the media and the Government.
They represent the TOTAL number of deaths of people who TESTED POSITIVE for Covid-19.
This includes those who had – in most cases – profoundly serious underlying health conditions. Illnesses that made them individually very vulnerable to ANY infection, further disease, or complication even before Coronavirus came along.
Buried within the Government’s own publicised reports, figures exist that confirm the number of deaths of people with Covid 19 being the only cause at an astonishing 1,366 to date.
That is a mere 4.99% of the people who we are being told have died from the Virus and less than 1 in 20 of the people who have died.
The number of people in the UK whose death can be directly and honestly attributed to Coronavirus is 0.00002 % from a population of around 66 Million People across the UK.
Meanwhile, of the 65 Million + who have not been touched, they will have ALL had their lives affected in some way. Some gave had their lives stopped and been confined like prisoners to their homes. Businesses have been wrecked. Jobs have been lost. Innocent adults and children have been subjected to increased or otherwise avoidable abuse. Many have been forced into debt. Others have been forced into food poverty. Some have felt they have had no option but to commit suicide.
This is to highlight just a few of the ways that people have been affected by what the Government has done.
The figures that the establishment narrative wilfully neglects to use give the lie not only to the way the Government has handled Covid 19, the lockdown and the financial measures it has taken. It also exposes the sham reasoning that underpins all of the steps that the Government is now taking to address the unfolding financial crisis that they created, whilst they behave as if they are saving us from a chaos that came from outside their own hands.
Over 95% of the people who have died from Coronavirus were already ill.
Covid 19 is undeniably a disease of the weak.
The ridiculously small, almost negligible number of people who have died literally from catching Covid 19 could easily have died from anything else.
The question must be asked, was all that Boris and Sunak have done to save a handful of lives really worth all the pain, misery and suffering that they have inflicted upon everyone else already and within the financial crisis that is yet to come?
Adam Tugwell 