I trained in a profession complimentary to medicine and spent 5 years in hospital service, then 25 years in the pharma/medical device industry, so I have some knowledge and understanding of medical matters as well as how the sector works.
So. What convinced me? Observation. Symptoms for respiratory viruses usually appear 2 to 3 days after infection. They tend to reach their peak effect 3 to 5 days, then subside or the patient deteriorates thereafter usually heading towards pneumonia requiring hospital attention. For a virus that was supposedly so aggressive producing serious disease and fast spreading, I expected to see big numbers of people with severe symptoms even if not requiring hospitalisation, within one to two weeks of the hysteria breaking all over the media.
This would be noticeable by large scale absenteeism from work. Shops and businesses would be short staffed and some maybe closed for lack of staff, factories operating below normal or even shutting down. Public transport would be affected as fewer staff showed up for work, train and air services cancelled, and goods distribution disrupted. Classrooms would be half-filled and lessons disrupted as children and teachers came down with the disease. Also I would expect to hear of relatives and friends, neighbours taken to their beds. And of course the News would be full of crowded hospitals.
But instead… none of this apart from the daily death toll which in fact was a small fraction of the usual all causes daily death toll.
If the virus had been so serious in its effect and so spreadable, there would have been no need for mandated lockdown as most people would be self-locked down at home in bed or in hospital.
From my background I understand that quaranteen has to be 100%. Quasi-quarantine where people can have contact with others, can go out to shops, to work in certain occupations, where hospital staff dealing with infectious patients can travel back and forth and visit shops, could never work and so was a useless gesture. In this way infection can be brought into a non-infected household, and then infection taken back out into the community.
Lockdown was contrary to accepted protocol for infection control.
Since ‘the serious, fast spreading virus’ narrative was clearly a lie, I was on alert for further lies and was not disappointed. Even if giving benefit of the doubt there was a genuine belief it was ‘serious’ at the start, by the end of March, with death rate declining after its peak in first week of March and hospitals clearly not overwhelmed, it certainly could be seen it was not so.
So any doubts I might have had about maybe they just over-reacted, were honest agents but incompetent, disappeared - deliberate lies, malevolent.
I trained in a profession complimentary to medicine and spent 5 years in hospital service, then 25 years in the pharma/medical device industry, so I have some knowledge and understanding of medical matters as well as how the sector works.
So. What convinced me? Observation. Symptoms for respiratory viruses usually appear 2 to 3 days after infection. They tend to reach their peak effect 3 to 5 days, then subside or the patient deteriorates thereafter usually heading towards pneumonia requiring hospital attention. For a virus that was supposedly so aggressive producing serious disease and fast spreading, I expected to see big numbers of people with severe symptoms even if not requiring hospitalisation, within one to two weeks of the hysteria breaking all over the media.
This would be noticeable by large scale absenteeism from work. Shops and businesses would be short staffed and some maybe closed for lack of staff, factories operating below normal or even shutting down. Public transport would be affected as fewer staff showed up for work, train and air services cancelled, and goods distribution disrupted. Classrooms would be half-filled and lessons disrupted as children and teachers came down with the disease. Also I would expect to hear of relatives and friends, neighbours taken to their beds. And of course the News would be full of crowded hospitals.
But instead… none of this apart from the daily death toll which in fact was a small fraction of the usual all causes daily death toll.
If the virus had been so serious in its effect and so spreadable, there would have been no need for mandated lockdown as most people would be self-locked down at home in bed or in hospital.
From my background I understand that quaranteen has to be 100%. Quasi-quarantine where people can have contact with others, can go out to shops, to work in certain occupations, where hospital staff dealing with infectious patients can travel back and forth and visit shops, could never work and so was a useless gesture. In this way infection can be brought into a non-infected household, and then infection taken back out into the community.
Lockdown was contrary to accepted protocol for infection control.
Since ‘the serious, fast spreading virus’ narrative was clearly a lie, I was on alert for further lies and was not disappointed. Even if giving benefit of the doubt there was a genuine belief it was ‘serious’ at the start, by the end of March, with death rate declining after its peak in first week of March and hospitals clearly not overwhelmed, it certainly could be seen it was not so.
So any doubts I might have had about maybe they just over-reacted, were honest agents but incompetent, disappeared - deliberate lies, malevolent.