HeartDoc Andrew wrote:
> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>> HeartDoc Andrew, in the Holy Spirit, boldly wrote:
>>> Michael Ejercito wrote:
>>>
>>>> https://www.reddit.com/r/LockdownSkepticism/comments/1fvy6h1/boris_johnson_it_saved_lives_but_now_im_not_sure/
>>>>
>>>> BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works
>>>> My last meeting with the Queen and her inspirational words of wisdom...
>>>> READ HERE
>>>> How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster: I was being
>>>> swept out to sea in a blow-up kayak. Time for a life or death
>>>> decision... READ HERE
>>>> By Boris Johnson For The Mail On Sunday
>>>>
>>>> Published: 11:59 EDT, 28 September 2024 | Updated: 03:21 EDT, 29
>>>> September 2024
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>>>> As therapies go, lockdown was ­devastating. In our preliminary
>>>> discussions about these types of intervention – telling people not to go
>>>> near each other – we had all assumed that we would have a problem
>>>> ­persuading them to comply.
>>>>
>>>> Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty, scientist Patrick Vallance and I had
>>>> thought that if some Tory PM appeared on TV and told the British people
>>>> not to go to the pub, and then not even to venture out of doors, their
>>>> natural cussedness and libertarianism would encourage them to stick two
>>>> ­fingers up to government.
>>>>
>>>> Well, as it turned out, lockdown was an easy sell, and indeed my
>>>> stay-at-home message was heeded so punctiliously by the workforce that
>>>> the UK sustained the biggest fall in output since the Great Frost of
>>>> 1709. The trains were empty. Town centres were silent. The streets were
>>>> deserted save for the cats – which we first believed, probably wrongly,
>>>> not to be vectors of the disease.
>>>>
>>>> Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
>>>> Street in 2020
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>>>> Boris announces the first Covid lockdown to the nation from No10 Downing
>>>> Street in 2020
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>>>> In that terrible April in 2020, new car sales fell by 97 per cent – not
>>>> surprisingly, since I had shut the showrooms. National compliance was so
>>>> total that we even desisted from some types of economic activity that
>>>> were theoretically intended to continue – such as construction – and
>>>> which did in fact continue in countries such as France and Germany.
>>>>
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>>>> With the traffic off the streets and the trains deserted, this could
>>>> have been the ideal moment to accelerate that infrastructure roll-out:
>>>> use Covid-secure protocols to build those bypasses, upgrade that track,
>>>> send the fibre-optic cable sprouting through the national wainscot.
>>>>
>>>> We missed that chance, Crossrail was delayed, HS2 ground to a halt, and
>>>> as the cost of it all exploded I felt as if the vast crenellated
>>>> sandcastle of my plans was being washed away by the tide of the virus.
>>>> Around April 20, it started to look as though we had been through the
>>>> crest of the wave. We had gone up more than 1,000 deaths per day, but
>>>> now the totals were falling – both for deaths and hospital admissions.
>>>>
>>>> A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
>>>> April 2020 as strict rules were in place
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>>>> A police officer asks members of the public to leave Brighton beach in
>>>> April 2020 as strict rules were in place
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>>>> The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
>>>> message in March 2020
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>>>> The M8 motorway near Glasgow as an electronic sign displays a stark
>>>> message in March 2020
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>>>> They were still horrendous – 800, 700, 600 – but the trajectory was
>>>> clear. It looked and felt to me as if the great national effort was
>>>> beginning to work. All that privation, all that seclusion – it was
>>>> starting to deprive the virus of targets; we were protecting the NHS and
>>>> ­saving lives.
>>>>
>>>> At that moment I believed in the correlation between the
>>>> non-pharmaceutical interventions – the lockdown and other restrictions
>>>> on human contact – and the shape of the epi curve. I believed that we
>>>> had bent that parabola by the strength of our collective will, like Uri
>>>> Geller with a spoon.
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>>>> BORIS JOHNSON: How a Scottish holiday with Carrie nearly ended in disaster
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>>>> It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic
>>>> around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall
>>>> irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always
>>>> two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly
>>>> enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.
>>>>
>>>> Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he
>>>> stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers
>>>> to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are
>>>> limits to human agency; maybe it isn't possible for government action to
>>>> repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is
>>>> possible to repel the tide of the Thames.
>>>>
>>>> I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some
>>>> effect. But were they decisive in beating back the ­disease, turning
>>>> that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure.
>>>>
>>>> Adapted from Unleashed by Boris Johnson (William Collins, £30), to be
>>>> published on October 10. © Boris Johnson 2024. To order a copy for
>>>> £25.50 (offer valid until October 12, 2024; UK P&P free on orders over
>>>> £25) go to mailshop.co.uk/books or call 020 3176 2937.
>>>>
>>>> Boris Johnson will be in conversation with Gyles Brandreth at The
>>>> Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, on October 12.
>>>
>>> In the interim, we are 100% prepared/protected in the "full armor of
>>> GOD" (Ephesians 6:11) which we put on as soon as we use Apostle Paul's
>>> secret (Philippians 4:12). Though masking is less protective, it helps
>>> us avoid the appearance of doing the evil of spreading airborne
>>> pathogens while there are people getting sick because of not being
>>> 100% protected. It is written that we're to "abstain from **all**
>>> appearance of doing evil" (1 Thessalonians 5:22 w/**emphasis**).
>>>
>>> Meanwhile, the only *perfect* (Matt 5:47-8 ) way to eradicate the
>>> COVID-19 virus, thereby saving lives, in the UK & elsewhere is by
>>> rapidly (i.e. use the "Rapid COVID-19 Test" ) finding out at any given
>>> moment, including even while on-line, who among us are unwittingly
>>> contagious (i.e pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic) in order to
>>> "convince it forward" (John 15:12) for them to call their doctor and
>>> self-quarantine per their doctor in hopes of stopping this pandemic.
>>> Thus, we're hoping for the best while preparing for the worse-case
>>> scenario of the Alpha lineage mutations and others like the Omicron,
>>> Gamma, Beta, Epsilon, Iota, Lambda, Mu & Delta lineage mutations
>>> combining via slip-RNA-replication to form hybrids like "Deltamicron"
>>> that may render current COVID vaccines/monoclonals/medicines/pills no
>>> longer effective.
>>>
>>> Indeed, I am wonderfully hungry (
>>> https://groups.google.com/g/sci.med.cardiology/c/6ZoE95d-VKc/m/14vVZoyOBgAJ
>>> ) and hope you, Michael, also have a healthy appetite too.
>>>
>>> So how are you ?
>>
>> I am wonderfully hungry!
>
> While wonderfully hungry in the Holy Spirit, Who causes (Deuteronomy
> 8:3) us to hunger, I note that you, Michael, are rapture ready (Luke
> 17:37 means no COVID just as eagles circling over their food have no
> COVID) and pray (2 Chronicles 7:14) that our Everlasting (Isaiah 9:6)
> Father in Heaven continues to give us "much more" (Luke 11:13) Holy
> Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) so that we'd have much more of His Help to
> always say/write that we're "wonderfully hungry" in **all** ways
> including especially caring to "convince it forward" (John 15:12) with
> all glory (Psalm112:1) to GOD (aka HaShem, Elohim, Abba, DEO), in
> the name (John 16:23) of LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth. Amen.
>
> Laus DEO !
>
Thank you for noting that I have no COVID.

Michael