James Doogue

From the early stages it was clear all we ever needed to do was to protect the elderly and medically vulnerable and allow young, healthy people go on as normal. But governments chose to enact States of Emergency invoking powers which allowed the suspension of basic human rights.

Along the way they destroyed lives, livelihoods and economies.

If they can justify such actions for Covid-19, why aren't they treating every life as sacred and implementing restrictions on smoking? That would save far more lives and be more easily justifiable.

A ban on smoking in ALL public places, and making it an offence to smoke inside a building in which children live, or in the company of children, would make far more sense than the Covid-19 lock-downs.

Smokers die on average 10 years younger than non-smokers and they clog up the health system with smoking related illnesses and disabilities long before they die.

Since the outbreak of Covid-19 we have seen political leaders suspend basic human rights of entire populations on the advice of their chief health officers. This is despite the fact that Covid-19 is not a great risk to young healthy people.

To date, 134m people have tested positive to Covid-19. That's 1.79% of the global population. There have been just 2.9m recorded deaths which is fewer than 0.04% of the population.

In western countries such as the UK and Australia, the average age of those who died from Covid-19 is equal to or higher than the average age of death from all other causes.

Globally, more than eight million deaths and 200 million disability-adju sted life-years, DALYs, were attributable to tobacco in 2017.

It estimated that in Australia in 2017, 22,781 deaths and 567,928 DALYs were attributable to tobacco.

The average life expectancy of all Australians is 82.1 years. Smokers can

Disease groups with the greatest DALY, burden attributable to tobacco in Australia included chronic respiratory diseases (30%); cancer (21%); and cardiovascular diseases (17%).

From US data in over 500,000 people who tested positive to Covid-19, we know that if you are young and healthy, the chances of being hospitalised are minimal, and of dying, remote.

The graphic example below is for a Covid-19 positive 50 year old woman. She has just a 4.7% chance of hospitalisation and 0.2% chance of death. Since Covid-19 was first detected in the US in January 2020, 31m people have tested positive. Or about 9.4% of the population. https:// www.economist.co m/ graphic-detail/ covid-pandemic-m ortality-risk-e stimator

So for the healthy 50 year old woman in the US without a vaccination, she's faced a risk of death from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic of 0.0188%. the risk of a 50 year old woman dying in the next year from any cause is about 0.3025%. That's 16 times greater than the risk of death from Covid-19. https:// www.statista.com /statistics/ 241572/ death-rate-by-ag e-and-sex-in-th e-us/

This just demonstrates the nonsense we have put up with in the name of keeping us safe, when the Government fails to take much easier action against a greater health risk.

Tim adds:

There were 42.7 MILLION abortions performed last year, making it the leading cause of death.This number dwarfs the 2.89 million dead of Covid.

If the authorities are so all-fired worried about saving lives why the lack of concern about that? We shut the whole world down and still have everyone on a short leash over Covid but are performing abortions at an alarming rate.

Why weren't they stopped along with other elective surgeries? Well, actually 14 states tried to minimize them as elective surgeries but were stopped by hysterical opposition by groups like the AMA and by the courts.
https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/US-courts-rule-for-abortion-rights-during-coronavirus-pandemic-624674

If saving lives was really at issue wouldn't abortions have been the first thing to go? My wife couldn't get a very necessary eye surgery because of Covid last year but a baby could be ripped out of the womb, no problem.

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