FFS - read this and get back to the real world. Hamas is evil. As evil as the Nazis. https://worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/uk-parliaments-landmark-report-details-october-7th-hamas-atrocities (View Post)

They never came close to being full is because (a) we locked down and (b) cancelled huge amounts of other things that hospitals do. Our response wasn’t perfect, no one’s was, but revisisionist histor… (View Post)

Happily we live in a more caring society than @MaxPB imagines, which comes across as a 21st version of putting a black cross on front doors and locking people in to die. We never tried the experiment… (View Post)

Scientific consensus is that the first lockdown WAS a necessary evil. Probably the later ones too, before the pandemic rollout to the most vulnerable. I know it’s become fashionable to claim the oppo… (View Post)

Initial lockdown was more about avoiding the complete collapse of healthcare provision. People dying of other things because the hospitals were full. We have a spectacular ability to use hindsight ov… (View Post)