Great graphs. Interesting how you note (was it here or previously?) that people are swayed by experience. “Two of my friends’ dads died of Covid’ is one I have heard from another medic, without any acknowledgment that one had late stage dementia and the other had been battling cancer and defying the odds for years. Not to mention the fact that when you reach your late 40s/50s an increased proportion of your friend’s parents start dying, often in seasonal clusters.
I think it was here https://thegreatcrapestryofcovid.substack.com/p/covid-goggles where I talked about heuristics and touched on the power of the personal anecdote to shut down any attempt at discourse about the net impact of pandemic policies. Their friends' dads died of/with Covid despite all the interventions, and that doesn't negate the harms caused to children by those same interventions.
I could recount dozens of stories of people harmed by lockdowns, by the way the NHS restructured itself, by the closure of schools, by the deliberate stoking of fear and even by the safe and effectives. But confidentiality makes it difficult to do so, except in generalities.
Great graphs. Interesting how you note (was it here or previously?) that people are swayed by experience. “Two of my friends’ dads died of Covid’ is one I have heard from another medic, without any acknowledgment that one had late stage dementia and the other had been battling cancer and defying the odds for years. Not to mention the fact that when you reach your late 40s/50s an increased proportion of your friend’s parents start dying, often in seasonal clusters.
LOL you just lifted my veil of anonymity Cath.
I think it was here https://thegreatcrapestryofcovid.substack.com/p/covid-goggles where I talked about heuristics and touched on the power of the personal anecdote to shut down any attempt at discourse about the net impact of pandemic policies. Their friends' dads died of/with Covid despite all the interventions, and that doesn't negate the harms caused to children by those same interventions.
I could recount dozens of stories of people harmed by lockdowns, by the way the NHS restructured itself, by the closure of schools, by the deliberate stoking of fear and even by the safe and effectives. But confidentiality makes it difficult to do so, except in generalities.