Lockdown will turn out to be a terrible mistake and now we’re being held to ransom by the bug

The Sun
We are in thrall to a shroud-waving public sector “blob” warning of mass fatalities if the Government makes one false step. We must heed the experts who swallowed “Bonking Professor” Neil Ferguson’s crackpot forecasts of half a million dead without lockdown. They are the same experts whose advice on testing, PPE and care homes led to one of the world’s biggest death tolls. The nation’s long-term physical, mental and economic health is being held to ransom by a bug which has virtually no impact on children, young adults and most people under 50. ...That same low-risk generation faces a potentially catastrophic price for a disease which should leave them and their parents free to return almost immediately to normal life. Coronavirus is an old person’s disease. Out of ten million under-5s in Britain, just two have sadly died from Covid-19. For under-25s, the risk is a “trivial” one or two per million, says respected statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter. Little more than the chance of dying by accident.    .....One day there will be a public inquiry. Everyone is covering their tracks.
With hindsight, global lockdown is likely to be judged a terrible mistake, forced on a panic-stricken world by China’s authoritarian example. Sweden alone rejected lockdown, keeping schools open, and the economy ticking over, yet its death toll is lower per head than Britain, France, Spain and Italy.
Former Swedish medical chief, Professor Johan Giesecke, believes we overreacted to a disease which is just twice as severe as winter flu and cannot be avoided anyway.
“I don’t think you can stop it,” he says, “it’s like a tsunami sweeping across Europe.
“We should do what we can to slow it so the health service can cope, but let it pass.”