{"id":1483,"date":"2020-11-16T02:58:29","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T02:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/?p=1483"},"modified":"2021-02-04T07:12:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T07:12:46","slug":"more-arguments-against-heavy-handed-lockdowns-20201113","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/2020\/11\/more-arguments-against-heavy-handed-lockdowns-20201113\/","title":{"rendered":"More arguments against heavy handed lockdowns 20201113"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few more authorities coming out against the economy decimating, freedom destroying, and overall ill conceived lockdown policies, which we think is important to be aired given the so called &#8216;fact check&#8217; censorship which are preventing these much needed debate from reaching the population at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1) The 2020 Cambridge Freshfields Lecture entitled &#8220;Government by decree &#8211; Covid-19 and the Constitution&#8221; was delivered by <strong>former Supreme Court judge Lord Sumption <\/strong>on 27 October 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2020\/oct\/27\/covid-measures-will-be-seen-as-monument-of-collective-hysteria-and-folly-says-ex-judge\">Covid measures will be seen as &#8216;monument of collective hysteria and folly&#8217; says ex-judge<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"&#039;Government by decree - Covid-19 and the Constitution&#039;: Lord Sumption\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/amDv2gk8aa0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br>See transcript <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.law.cam.ac.uk\/privatelaw\/Freshfields_Lecture_2020_Government_by_Decree.pdf\">HERE<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2) John Lee, former clinical <strong>professor of pathology<\/strong> at Hull York Medical School and consultant histopathologist at Rotherham General Hospital dismisses the lockdown policies in debate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Qgn4B2Iq2cg\">Amazing Debate on Lockdown Ideology versus Scientific Approach &#8211; Unmissable!!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container\" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe title=\"Amazing Debate on Lockdown Ideology versus Scientific Approach - Unmissable!!\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qgn4B2Iq2cg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>3) Yet despite these reasons, lockdowns are coming back (green = relaxed, red = restrictive):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-27.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1485\" width=\"987\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-27.png 842w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-27-300x153.png 300w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-27-768x392.png 768w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-27-16x8.png 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 987px) 100vw, 987px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly, Sweden will be proven right again, and we are half lucky to have less draconian measures here in HK than ironically, most &#8216;liberal democracies&#8217; in the West&#8230; cue Lord Sumption&#8217;s speech at the start of this post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4) HK&#8217;s latest statistics, despite less stringent lockdown measures than most of Europe, continues to demonstrate that covid is no worse than any other seasonal flu, as the year-to-date death figures by cause prove:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"998\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-28.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1486\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-28.png 998w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-28-300x179.png 300w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-28-768x457.png 768w, https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/image-28-16x10.png 16w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 998px) 100vw, 998px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that even in the &gt;65 age group (3rd from right), death rates of most other causes YTD in HK are multiples of covid, with all-population deaths up to 117x of covid. Shutting down the economy may indeed cause more harm?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"ast-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/2020\/11\/more-arguments-against-heavy-handed-lockdowns-20201113\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More arguments against heavy handed lockdowns 20201113<\/span> Read More \u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[910,6],"tags":[922,923,928,921,920,925,926,927,924,929,930],"class_list":["post-1483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","category-lockdown","tag-civil-liberty","tag-covid","tag-due-process","tag-economic-depression","tag-flu","tag-lockdown","tag-mask","tag-pandemic","tag-procedural-irregularity","tag-social-distancing","tag-tyranny"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/71.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1483"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1595,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1483\/revisions\/1595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bricksandmortarmgt.com\/zh_hk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}