In early 2020 I had first-hand experience of Covid-19 from which I developed the following observations:

• That the highly contagious nature of Covid-19 would result in national lockdowns failing
• That the majority of people contracting the disease would experience either mild or no symptoms, the majority would recover, resulting in a relatively low mortality figure for Covid-19
• That any vaccine rushed into production would be likely to fail to provide protection
• That the best approach would be to target resources at those identified as vulnerable and allow the majority of the population to learn to live with the disease

Two years on and it seems that government health policies are beginning to align themselves with my initial observations, although I doubt that I personally had anything to do with that. Here in the UK, the lockdowns did indeed fail. The majority of people who have contracted the virus did indeed experience either mild or no symptoms whatsoever and then recovered. The mortality figure is relatively low. The vaccines available are supplied under the caveat that they will neither stop the recipient from contracting the virus nor stop them from transmitting it to others. In the UK the vaccines are still supplied under a temporary authorisation that was renewed on 25 March 2022, originally issued on 2 December 2020, and then amended 30 December 2020, 28 January 2021, 30 March 2021, 19 May 2021, 4 June 2021, 29 July 2021, 9 September 2021, and 27 September 2021. The UK government abandoned a proposed programme of forced vaccination. Resources are now being targeted at those considered vulnerable as originally suggested in the Great Barrington Declaration, and we are going to have to learn to live with the virus. We did not defeat Covid-19. Countries are beginning to relax travel restrictions.

When I first started posting about Covid-19 the mortality rate was reported as 4% in March 2020. Today, that figure has fallen to 1%. Currently, there are a reported 491,926,217 cases, resulting in 6,176,762 fatalities. The mathematics is very simple; take the number of fatalities, divide it by the number of cases, then times it by 100. The result is 1%.

The predicted zombie apocalypse never happened.

Over the least 2 years I have stuck to my argument set out at the beginning of this post. I have been accused of spreading misinformation, but everything that I have written was based upon the research that I have carried out. That in itself has been made into a contentious issue. There was a move to suggest that ordinary citizens could not carry out their own research, even though papers on the subject were and are freely available. This also led to the ‘do not question an expert’ argument, which I did question very much. Follow the science became a mantra, even though that very statement is actually anti-science! Science is a never-ending series of questions since it began with the very first one. To illustrate just how unscientific this attack against people like me not accepting the mainstream narrative and daring to question what I was being told. I will quote Richard Feynman: ‘I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.’

As we move into the spring of 2022, I do not feel too optimistic about the immediate future. What the last 2 years have taught me is that people are as intolerant of an opposite opinion as at any other time in human history. Reactions in social media verged on extremism in some cases. Many people did not want to debate, they just wanted to be accepted as right, even when the evidence proved them to be wrong. We have not evolved very far in social and intellectual areas. Minds closed very quickly. Fear was accepted without courage. Ignorance was lauded over self-education.

I doubt very much that any lessons will be learned, except how malleable a population can be.