Good letter to send to your MP - cribbed from
Lockdown Sceptics:
Dear (MP),
I’d appreciate your response to the questions below:
As the number of PCR tests being done has increased massively over the course of the summer, why are the case numbers consistently presented to the public without a clear framework of percentages of the tests done?
Why is a positive test now automatically called a ‘case’?
Why is the fatally flawed PCR test still being used to measure cases when the only statistics of any real importance are deaths and hospitalisations?
Does Matt Hancock understand that ‘less than 1%’ false positives when a virus is circulating at such low levels means that most positive cases are in fact false positives? Does he even care?
Why does he insist that the case numbers are doubling every seven days when they’re clearly not? Is he just really thick? Is he blatantly dishonest? Is he both?
If it’s down to dishonesty, why is he lying to the public?
Why was yesterday’s television briefing by Whitty and Vallance concentrating on a potential 49,000 ‘cases’? Is this because they really like big, scary numbers?
Why are they being encouraged to extrapolate the currently non-existent doubling as part of a worst case scenario?
Have they been told to do this by Hancock? By Johnson? Is this why they cover their backs with the repeated use of words such as ‘if’ and ‘could’?
Why is everyone so keen to use the word ‘exponential’ when any increase (I include France and Spain in this) has been nothing of the sort?
Why is everyone so keen to use France and Spain as examples, but not Germany, Sweden, etc.?
Why are scientific advisors being wheeled out to smooth the path for further restrictions with their doom-laden scaremongering?
If the ‘worst case scenario’ of 200 deaths a day from Covid by Hallowe’en is true, is that really enough reason to lock down the country again?
If 200 people died a day of flu, would it be front page news? Would it lead to a tv address by the PM outlining yet more restrictions on civil liberties?
If masks and social distancing work, then why no discernible impact on flu and pneumonia deaths?
As the pool of people vulnerable to becoming seriously ill from Covid is limited and shares many of the criteria of the pool of those vulnerable to serious illness from other respiratory ailments, what is the likelihood of them dying of both, twice?
Why did we not lock down the country in the winter of 1999-2000, when (off the top of my head) 50,000 died? See also (again off the top of my head) the bad flu seasons of 2014-2015/2017-2018?
Is the ongoing issue of casually assigning Covid deaths to those who died with, rather than of Covid being properly addressed?
Are you surprised to discover that keeping work colleagues, schoolchildren and families apart for months and then allowing them to meet again has resulted in an uptick in infections of all kinds?
If the government hadn’t locked the country down over the summer, do you think more people might have developed immunity to the virus by now?
Why does Patrick Vallance keep insisting that immunity in the population is at such low levels? Has he not heard of T cell immunity?
If the majority of new cases are in care homes, followed by workplaces and schools, how will closing pubs early or preventing people meeting socially in groups of seven have any effect on these?
Why do the latest restrictions treat outdoor spaces as though they were indoor spaces?
Why is the government paying any attention whatsoever to what Neil Ferguson has to say?
Why does the government think it’s in any way appropriate to rush through a vaccine, and then start by injecting the most vulnerable people in the population with it?
Seeing as bad flu seasons are often the result of ineffective vaccines, why would even a safe Covid vaccine be any more successful, particularly as there is no coronavirus vaccine in existence as yet?
If the NHS is in imminent danger of being overwhelmed, why have the Nightingale hospitals been mothballed?
If the NHS isn’t in imminent danger of being overwhelmed, why do we need another lockdown?
As the NHS wasn’t overwhelmed in the Spring, why does the government assume it will be now – or is that no longer the primary reason for imposing further restrictions on the public?
If ‘protecting the NHS’ is no longer the primary reason for imposing further restrictions on the public, then what is the reason?
And finally…
When is this Government going to take responsibility for its poor decisions and stop blaming, threatening, and punishing the British public for a catastrophe of its own making? And when are you going to stop defending its actions?