"Celebrities posting videos and selfies of working from home in opulent mansions is positively obscene and revolting."

The cloaking of privilege in the guise of virtue has a high R0. It also has dangerous consequences, as Prof Thakur points out. https://openthemagazine.com/feature/the-tyranny-of-coronaphobia/

"lockdown’s long-term global impact could ‘end up taking nearly six million young lives in the coming decade’ in developing countries"

"could push an extra half billion people into poverty, and the UN estimated that the global economic downturn could cause hundreds of thousands of additional child deaths in 2020"

"number of people suffering from acute hunger could nearly double to 250 million from the disruptions to crop production and global food distribution chains"

"A study by Johns Hopkins School of Public Health warns infant mortality could increase by 1.2 million this year in poor countries, and maternal mortality by 56,700, because of ruptured health services."

"millions of migrant workers.. trying desperately to make their way back to home villages"

"Many died en routes...the heartbreaking case of a 12-year old girl who trekked 100km but died of exhaustion just 11km from home, has never stopped haunting me"

"150,000 people in the UK could die prematurely of other conditions because of the Covid-induced lockdown that put on hold huge numbers of screenings and operations"

"In the UK, the Royal College of Psychiatrists has reported a sixfold increase in suicide attempts by the elderly because of depression and anxiety caused by social isolation during the lockdown."

There’s also been a surge in 18-25 year old men ‘badly affected by first-time mental health issues.’ Australian experts warn that lockdown-induced 50 per cent jump in suicides could kill 10 times as many as the virus.

US authorities and experts, too, are warning of an approaching ‘historic wave’ of mental health problems caused by the months-long Covid-related ‘daily doses of death, isolation and fear.’