I accepted being wrong about the first lockdown and, indeed, said so at the time, Siderite. After that, no, and I actually did a radio interview pointing out the appalling increase in domestic violence — among many other things — resulting from the lockdowns.
I also recall saying — and I’m pretty sure it was on this board — that the true impact of covid and of the lockdowns wouldn’t be known until some time after the pandemic. There’s nothing remotely clever about that, it’s just the nature of data and how these things work, though of course loads of abuse was hurled in my direction, regardless. I do recall Gurny — who else — saying dreadful things about my neighbour and mate who died of covid, but Gurny’s one bitter and twisted individual.
As you rightly say, Siderite, these things are complex but there’s little doubt now that far more people will die because of covid rather than directly from it, because of the lockdowns. Likewise, the economy is taking a massive hit although that would be far less if the world wasn’t fixated on absurd net zero targets.
Net zero will very likely result in millions of people dying and hundreds of millions being forced into poverty. Of course I’ll have more abuse hurled at me for saying this, but that’s what the data is revealing. Even climate scientists don’t believe things are anything like as bad as being portrayed, but they love their shiny billion dollar supercomputers too much to call this out.
