Dear mhaze,

Spurting ink like a scared little cuttlefish hardly makes for a coherent argument.

Again here was the proposition from the article:

"We have long known that there were many collateral deaths from lockdowns due to people failing to diagnose cancers and other life-threatening diseases, depression and suicides. That's not to mention the bankruptcies and families who were unable to feed themselves."

It didn't say this was after the lockdowns finished and the virus was let run though our communities. That is unless you are now claiming the suicides have started to peak post the lockdowns or something equally stupid.

Look mate you rightly got called out posting rubbish and now are trying to cover your tracks. Time to move on.

OK SR I get it.

We are now in the phase where you realise you've talked yourself into a corner and are now wantonly mudding the water to try to salvage what you consider some self-esteem.

Seriously, no one thinks the detrimental effects of the lockdowns finished when the lockdowns finished so I'm assuming that you have sufficient grey-matter to know that too. Yet you are hanging your defence on that silly assertion. I've often mention your propensity to prefer being the clown to being wrong.

From the outset, the brave souls who opposed the lockdowns knew and said, that the effects would long outlast the actual lockdowns. Cancer numbers would rise because cancers weren't being treat and/or detected etc. Somewhere in the pages is a link I posted that showed that suicides lagged the actual cause by several years.

The lockdowns were a disaster all round. That people like you fell for the rhetoric at the time is hardly surprising given that you fall for almost all such propaganda. The only hope is that we've now learned the lesson and won't make the same monumental mistakes the next time fear and unwarranted hysteria overtakes the populace.

Just a rebuttal of the “cheap medicines being suppressed” conspiracy nonsense which marred an otherwise thoughtful piece. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201662