A Mad World, My Masters

A Very British Disaster

Lies, Damned Lies and

an excellent article from Dr John Lee in the Spectator, How deadly is the coronavirus? It's still far from clear, a rare instance of sanity in these topsy-turvy times:

Governments everywhere say they are responding to the science. The policies in the UK are not the government’s fault. They are trying to act responsibly based on the scientific advice given. But governments must remember that rushed science is almost always bad science. We have decided on policies of extraordinary magnitude without concrete evidence of excess harm already occurring, and without proper scrutiny of the science used to justify them.

South Korea and Sweden (are there others?*) do not seem to have sought refuge in lunacy. Maybe on the other side of this a reader will wonder, where? oh, where all the dead guys are, but I am waiting rather for the deluge of self-exculpatory bullshit from our own Authorities when the reckoning is presented.











Maybe by that time, "non-essential" carping will have become a criminal offence, and there will be no need for such a deluge.

*Update: and the Taiwanese, who have a sensible Government; the South Koreans because they are a democracy; the Swedes because...