With Hundreds of Thousands of Unnecessary Deaths, Is It Time to Lock Up Lockdowners?

An empty Times Square is seen on the street following the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New York on March 18, 2020. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)

Commentary

A report that warned the UK government of high numbers of non-COVID-related deaths as a result of adopting lockdown measures similar to those used by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 2020 was hidden from the British public for three months, until after the restrictions were lifted.

The UK government was told that more than 200,000 non-COVID-19 deaths could occur if it implemented the first lockdown of the pandemic, but it chose to proceed, and it has since enforced two more.

The Department of Health, Office for National Statistics, Actuary’s Department, and Home Office compiled the report that predicted that the first lockdown, which began on March 23, 2020, could lead to hundreds of thousands of non-COVID-19 deaths.

The report states that in the first six months, there could be as many as 25,000 extra deaths because hospital beds would be prioritized for COVID-19 patients, while people with other health issues would go undiagnosed for not wanting to burden the National Health Service (NHS) during the pandemic.

The report further estimates that fatality numbers could rise by 185,000 in the medium- to long-term. Add to that thousands of suicides resulting from isolation and economic pressures, along with a rise in domestic violence.

The first two months of the pandemic alone saw elective hospital appointments fall by a quarter, and by May, NHS England had revealed more than 500,000 patients had been waiting more than six weeks for a key diagnostic test, after having already been referred by their doctor.

“There were almost 76,000 more deaths from all causes and in all locations (hospitals, care homes, private homes and elsewhere) in England and Wales in 2020 than the five-year average,” the Office of National Statistics (ONS) stated. “There were around 167,000 deaths from all causes in private homes in England and Wales in 2020, compared with an average of 125,000 between 2015 and 2019.”

That amounts to 42,000 extra fatalities in private homes in 2020—which was a rise of one-third on the previous five-year average—leaving 34,000 excess deaths in hospitals and care facilities.

“The majority of deaths due to COVID-19 occurred in hospitals and care homes, while deaths from other causes, such as breast cancer and prostate cancer, happened in private homes,” The ONS report reads.

This serves as proof that many more people died of cancer at home in 2020 than of COVID-19 in hospitals because of lockdown restrictions.

The government concealed the report’s findings for months until most of the first lockdown restrictions were lifted on July 4, 2020. One week later, UK Chief Scientific Adviser Sir Patrick Vallance informed a parliamentary select committee about the report. It received little follow-up and scrutiny in either the media or Parliament, and its scary numbers were accepted as collateral damage in the fight against COVID-19.

Now-disgraced government adviser Neil Ferguson—also known as “The Master of Disaster”—had already scared UK leaders that 250,000 people could die unless drastic steps were taken. Just six days after the report was revealed, now similarly disgraced Health Secretary Matt Hancock imposed the UK’s first localized lockdown in the city of Leicester, and by October 2021, the whole nation was in its second national lockdown.

But a new report by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore is challenging those lockdown assumptions. It asserts that the communist-inspired restrictions “imposed in many U.S. cities in the spring of 2020 led to a reduction of COVID deaths by 0.2 percent.”

Dr. Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, told Tucker Carlson on Fox News that number represents “about 1,800 individuals” whose lives were saved. But Makary noted that was out of a total figure of “124,000 excess deaths in year one. So, over two years, it was about a quarter-million people who died.”

Of those, he estimated 60,000 to 70,000 died from substance abuse, while others died from deferred cancer care, self-harm, and other side effects of lockdowns.

Now, compare the UK media’s response to hundreds of thousands of possibly preventable deaths with its current furor over the “Partygate” revelations, for which Prime Minister Boris Johnson was forced to apologize in the House of Commons over a “bring your own booze” garden party at Downing Street that Johnson attended with his wife during the first lockdown on May 20, 2020.

Whatever contempt people may feel for politicians and health experts who are caught breaking the very rules they’ve enforced on others, causing the unnecessary deaths of so many of their electorate is in an altogether different league. It certainly isn’t ruling by consent.

It took almost 20 months before news leaked of the Downing Street parties, which has now led to a police investigation, the resignations of five government advisers, and calls for Johnson to follow suit. But where are the calls for inquiries, resignations, and criminal investigations into the huge numbers of lockdown-related deaths?

It took the efforts of Dr. Sam White, a young doctor whom I’ve previously reported about, and his legal team to persuade the Metropolitan Police to even begin an investigation into the government’s response to the pandemic.

While that’s now spawned a nationwide campaign to try to get other police forces around the country to begin their own criminal probes, they face an uphill task taking on the establishment and there are no guarantees of success.

But with so many nations having embraced the CCP’s draconian measures, the non-COVID-19 excess death rate will be enormous around the world.

Preventable deaths on such a huge scale can’t be ignored, and those responsible must surely be held to account.

Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.