LETTER: Groupthink madness rules
Apart from the economic destruction wrought, it is doubtful whether lockdowns have achieved anything
When governments issue their decisions on dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and its statistics and spread, they quite properly outline the careful thought they have given and invariably refer to being guided by the best expert advice. In reality though, very little is known about the pandemic and its spread. The “experts” and decisionmakers are fumbling about in the dark like the rest of us.
It is worth special attention that when we are told the numbers who have died with (not “of”) the virus, there is never a figure mentioned of the numbers who have died in the same period of cancer, or heart attacks or Johannesburg taxi accidents, or whatever. Without such a comparison there is no solid ground from which to judge whether the overriding fear of the virus is justified...
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