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Re #293. The XR connection Is perfectly pertinent. XR's language of apocalypse and 'emergency' is all over the video: 'a tsunami of infections and a torrent of deaths', a 'tsunami of suffering that is coming', a 'torrent of death that is coming'. Hardly level-headed stuff, especially from a philosopher, and more especially when the actual published data from the ONS suggests that week on week mortality this year is hardly different from, and for some weeks lower than, previous years. (Do remember there are around 11000 deaths every week in the UK; you work out the dailies.) A couple of other points:
The government 'systematically flouted WHO advice'. Patent nonsense. Advice is advice: you take it or you leave it, but you can't flout it. Different countries have responded differently.
We are 'about to be deceived by [our] own government'. Well blow me down, you mean governments deceive us? Who'd even have thought that?
'When the government doesn't protect, we the people must lead the way'. Leaving aside the question as to who 'the people' are, that's exactly what's happened. Even Dr Read says, 'the lockdown is indeed needed'. Politicians, governments, states and corporates salivate at the opportunity to grab more power, and there's no better justification for a power grab than when 'the people' beg for protection. (See, e.g., the democratically elected NSDAP.)
For me Read is part of the collective hysteria that's overtaken media, government, science and (most of) the rest of us and plunged us into this madness.