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    Allison Pearson‏ @allisonpearson 14 Oct 2020

    Lockdown does NOT save lives. It postpones deaths. You end up with the same number of deaths. You just prolong the crisis. Can this country stop being anti-science? We may as well be examining animal entrails.

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      2. Firefly‏ @firefly1379 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @allisonpearson

        Apparently Liverpool ICUs are near capacity with covid patients , what happened to the nightingale hospital? I thought they were for just this scenario.

        6 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
      3. Heather J  💙‏ @Heatherjayne86 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @firefly1379 @allisonpearson

        There are no spare staff for nightingale hospitals. Having physical beds and equipment isn't enough, looking after ventilated patients is a highly skilled job.

        1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
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      2. CryptoQuix  🇬🇧 | #EndTheLockdown‏ @CryptoQuix 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @allisonpearson

        You actually end up with more deaths. Hidden deaths of the kind that cannot be easily attributed to the effects of lockdown.

        4 replies 0 retweets 29 likes
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      2. Jen  ⚡‏ @leoniedelt 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @jenninemorgan @allisonpearson

        And it affects who gets infected, shifting the infection from the younger pop who shrug it off, to the older who will suffer more.

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      2. Flippin Eck Tucker‏ @losttourist 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @allisonpearson

        No, because if all the covid patients need hospitalisation in a v. short period of time, the NHS can't cope. And so not only do they die, so do heart attack victims, people in car accidents, cancer patients, and so on. Spread the covid patients over months, and the NHS can cope.

        7 replies 6 retweets 337 likes
      3. Peter Watt‏ @PeterAWatt 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @losttourist @allisonpearson

        Hospitals are largely shut to heart attack patients and cancer patients. They are waiting for Covid patients to arrive "in two weeks". Lockdown deaths are greater than Covid deaths.

        34 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
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      2. MUZ‏ @hmuz 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @allisonpearson

        Does it even postpone deaths? The virus seems to follow its own course and the trajectory of deaths is similar whether or not a lockdown has been implemented.

        11 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
      3. seahorse‏ @seahorse4000 14 Oct 2020
        Replying to @hmuz @allisonpearson

        The staggeringly small number of deaths in south east Asia would beg to differ... though of course locking down is a cruder and less good method than a fantastic test-track-isolate system

        1 reply 3 retweets 39 likes
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