by Colin M. Barron, Daily Sceptic:
Since retiring from NHS medical practice I have published 15 books. My latest The Great Covid Panic casts a critical eye over the Government’s Covid response and explains how it caused a series of events which will almost certainly lead to the election of a Labour Government by January 2025.
Back in March 2020 I originally supported the Government’s Covid response even though I felt the introduction of lockdowns was a step too far. As the months passed and more information became available (particularly from this website, then known as Lockdown Sceptics) my views changed.
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It was clear that the threat posed by Covid had been wildly exaggerated by Government scientists, civil servants and politicians, aided and abetted by a hysterical mainstream media which was baying for a lockdown. Who can forget Professor Neil Ferguson’s paper which concluded that 510,000 people would die in the U.K. if lockdown measures were not implemented? We now know that this paper – produced using computer modelling – was based on a number of false assumptions including a mortality rate of 0.9%. Professor Ferguson also presumed that 85% of the population would be susceptible to Covid. We now know this was incorrect. In her book Expired: Covid The Untold Story Pathologist Dr. Clare Craig suggested that as little as 15% of the population might be susceptible to each Covid variant due to T-cell immunity created by contact with previous coronaviruses. It is also known that the mean age of a Covid death was 82 with an average of three underlying conditions. So the virus was really no threat to most people.
Since mid-2021 there has been an epidemic of unexplained excess deaths which the Government seems determined to ignore. Andrew Bridgen MP has held debates in the House of Commons on excess deaths but on each occasion the debating chamber has been almost empty.
The ineffectiveness of lockdowns is described in detail in the book. The U.K. went into lockdown on three occasions in 2020 and 2021 but each time the number of cases had already started to fall before lockdown started so the same outcome would have been achieved if no lockdown had been ordered. It is also widely known that countries which did not lock down (such as Sweden) fared better than countries which did.
The book is also highly critical of the so-called Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions (NPIs) which were ineffective and unscientific. There is particular criticism of facemasks which have been proved to be useless in the prevention of Covid in a number of scientific papers including the recent Cochrane Collaboration Review, plus the Danish Mask study which was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Three books have now been published on facemasks and have concluded that they are useless and possibly dangerous.
There is also mention of the numerous breaches of lockdown rules by various politicians and civil servants including the infamous ‘Partygate’ scandal which led to the resignation of Boris Johnson and the decline in the fortunes of the Conservative Party.
Vaccine safety and efficacy are also discussed in the book. In a chapter entitled ‘Safe and Effective Treatments’ it is pointed out that doctors have been using poorly tested and unsafe treatments for decades. In the 1930s it was believed that radium was good for you and Radium-infused chocolate and mineral water were widely consumed by the general public resulting in many deaths.
In the past, many drugs have been released for prescribing without proper testing. The best known of these would be Thalidomide, which was originally available in West Germany without a prescription and was marketed as a treatment for morning sickness. Unfortunately it was found that it was unsafe for pregnant women at it caused birth defects. This resulted in it being withdrawn from sale.
Thalidomide is the best known example of a drug which was originally thought to be safe but then had to be withdrawn some years later after its side-effects became well -known. There are many other drugs which were also withdrawn after a few years. These include the anti-inflammatory drug Opren, the painkiller Norgesic, the tranquilliser Trancopal ad the sleeping pill Halcion (which was withdrawn in the U.K. but continues to be prescribed in the USA).
Although the U.K. Government has repeatedly claimed that the Covid vaccines are “safe and effective” there is considerable evidence that this is not the case. According to data from the clinical trials there is a one in 800 chance of a serious adverse effect following vaccination, particularly pericarditis, myocarditis, heart attacks, strokes, convulsions and transverse myelitis. The U.K. Government has given legal indemnity to vaccine manufacturers but despite this a number of court cases are looming around the world which challenge the claim that covid vaccines are 95% effective.
The final section of the book describes the long-term effects of the pandemic which have included rocketing inflation, tax rises, record levels of debt, business failures and permanent damage to the NHS.
Most health centres (and some hospital outpatient clinics) introduced telephone, video and email consultations during the pandemic and these have now become permanent features of the NHS, resulting in a poorer standard of care and a likely increase in the number of misdiagnoses. A&E units are now overwhelmed with some patients having to wait up to four days to be seen. Waiting lists for elective surgery are at an all-time high with many patients forced to pay for operations at private hospitals.
