The toll keeps rising for musicians with Covid

SVM says:

I fail to see how England’s end to lockdown (and let us be clear, we are talking about England, not “Britain”) is “dramatic” — since March 2021, the extent of restrictions reduced in multiple distinct phases, and compliance with said restrictions has been reducing gradually. Quite simply, we are fed up of lockdowns, and most of us want our liberties restored in full without further delay. In public health, there is no such thing as “zero harm” or “zero risk”, so the real question is how to define “acceptable risk”. And many activities are fundamentally legal despite being known to cause substantial harm to public health (e.g.: driving; drinking alcohol; smoking tobacco).

What you call “safeguards” are, in most respects, unproven and sometimes potentially harmful (most masks are a breeding ground for bacteria and increase concentrations of carbon dioxide close to the mouth and nose… it is therefore generally a very bad idea to wear masks when outdoors in the street, where the probability of viral transmission is infinitesimal). I, and many other people, were willing to go along with such “safeguards” **at first**, on the basis that there seemed to be a serious crisis afoot, a situation which implied a duty to follow measures that had a reasonable prospect of making a positive difference, on the understanding that such measures were strictly temporary. But it has been over a year, and there is still not enough evidence that these “safeguards” are beneficial, and some evidence that some of these “safeguards” may cause more harm than good. Lockdowns have been a scourge on the nation’s physical and mental health far worse than COVID-19, although it will take many years before the full extent of the harm caused by lockdowns becomes clear.

Most of these “safeguards” are unsustainable, and must be scrapped. I prefer to focus on straightforward permanent precautions that are practicable, proportionate, and proven: these include washing hands regularly, respecting other people’s personal space, ensuring good ventilation in enclosed spaces, stifling coughs, and keeping fit.

mike says:

yo, my neighbor died from the vaccine. but yeah, that is not a culprit at all.

Petros LInardos says:

Here in the US we are increasingly divided between the vaccinated and vaccine hesitant. At this point more than 90% of new cases are among unvaccinated. The vast majority of the latter by now must have been unvaccinated by choice. Sadly, the division mirrors politics: the states with the lower vaccination rates voted for Trump. Trump was vaccinated without publicity. Had he been vaccinated with fanfare, he might have disappointed his cult following, but maybe more of them would have followed his lead. And more lives would have been saved. Unconscionable.

Jack_Ewing says:

Another attempt at trauma based mind control: inflict fear, hopelessness, despair. Lockdowns, masks and vaccines have been proven not to work. Sweden never shut down, death tolls never reached anywhere near the level of Britain and Italy. People still think that covid-19 was a “natural occurrence”. What we learned from Fauci’s e-mails: 1- Covid came from a lab; 2- There’s no asymptomatic spread; 3- Face masks do not work; 4- No lockdowns were necessary; 5- Covid death numbers were greatly exaggerated to increase fear and isolation; 6- Fauci lied to Congress several times under oath; 7- the main purpose of the global scam was to make you take the untested, experimental poison disguised as “vaccine”, which will weaken your immune system, change your DNA structure and trigger multiple organ failure in 6 to 24 months. Pre-meditated genocide. And yes, crisis actor Donald Trump was in on it. I’ll repeat, it’s hilarious how Trump hating liberals were the first ones to line up for Trump’s jab “Get your vaccine, it’s a fantastic vaccine.” ~ Donald J Trump