Perspective, a very short piece

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Perspective, a very short piece



Lockdowns, testing etc were justified by the belief that, without them, total Covid deaths (blue area) would be close to annual non-Covid deaths (green area). In no country of which I’m aware has anything close to that happened, irrespective of differences in policy.




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