95% of victims dying with covid-19 have serious pre-existing conditions. The average age of those dying of covid-19 in the UK is 80+yrs, and fully a third are residents of care homes. But we've destroyed our economy to save people who, to be frank, are going to die soon anyway.

With no serious pre-existing conditions, the young-ish and healthy are far more likely to be hit by lightning (49 occurrences per annum in UK) than to die of covid-19. Of the healthy under 60s just 253 people have died of covid-19 in English hospitals.

'It is increasingly awkward to hear the Prime Minister quoting [the Imperial College] forecast that, were it not for lockdown, the UK could have been looking at half a million deaths when, at the tail-end of the epidemic, there are only 320,000 deaths worldwide.'

' Neither Sweden nor Japan have locked down so, if the lockdown hypothesis were true, Stockholm would by now be a morgue and Greater Tokyo (population 38 million) a necropolis.'

'There have been over 13,000 non-covid excess deaths since the start of lockdown'. #endthelockdownnow #endthelockdownuk

'The damage to the economy is calculable, but dizzying: an extra £300 to 500 billion deficit (let me help you: 10 to 15 Brexit bills, with lockdown now costing a Brexit bill per week) will mean higher taxes, higher borrowing and therefore... less investment.'

'It is clearer every day that (despite the polls) the lockdown is causing more harm than good'.

All this thread from https://thecritic.co.uk/were-all-in-the-big-numbers-now/ by @AlistairHaimes

#endthelockdownnow #endthelockdownuk