Posted on 12/19/2020 7:48:52 AM PST by george76
Lord Sumption, who served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom until 2018, has branded lockdowns “useless” and a “profoundly immoral” imposition on the young
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We are forever being told not to blow it now by throwing away our past efforts. Truth is, our past efforts have been useless,” he claimed.
The 72-year-old jurist suggested that successive waves of national lockdowns, tiered regional lockdowns, and so on have only reduced infections by “shifting them into a later period” and “That is why we are where we are now.”
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The judge also questioned the moral and practical basis for lockdown, claiming that neither “savage lockdowns, as in Spain, which put the army on the streets to stop people going out, even for exercise” nor “purely advisory regimes, like Sweden’s” have actually worked.
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A policy that only works by suppressing our humanity is unlikely to work at all. Life is risky. A policy that seeks to eliminate risk ends up trying to eliminate life. We have to re-examine the whole concept that governments can simply turn social existence on and off at will, treating us as passive instruments of state policy.”
Sumption also stressed the impact of lockdown and other anti-coronavirus measures on the young, inisiting that “Saddling the upcoming generation with crushing personal debt and higher taxes to pay the cost of a few months or years of life for some of my generation is worse than oppressive” and “profoundly immoral”.
Lord Sumption advanced similar arguments against lockdown in November, lambasting the “Jacobins” of the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), which guides government policy on the pandemic, and the “control freaks” of the Department of Health, led by Matt Hancock.
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Lord Sumption got gumption.
“Lord Sumption” sounds like a character from an Evelyn Waugh novel.
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