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Hitchens: ‘Coronavirus Lockdown is Like a National Heart Attack’

23-4-2020 < 21st Century Wire 18 215 words
 

As 21WIRE has pointed out main times previously, Lockdown governments are now faced with the horrific conundrum of not being able to exit their own fatal policy decisions.


Journalist Peter Hitchens tells Talk Radio host Mike Graham that the coronavirus lockdown is not sustainable “for very much longer. People have put up with it … but there is a limit. If the government don’t act there will be a unilateral undermining of the lockdown.”  He maintains that there not seem to be any government action or radical intervention in the world that has materially altered the numbers of deaths and infections, and that until there is a general debate on whether the government’s policy approach is correct or not on factual grounds, we are “unlikely to get anywhere”.


Hitchens as likened coronavirus to something which is “like a national heart attack” where there is a risk of long term economic damage if we let the current situation go on too long. Listen:



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