We'd just like to point out that we did tell you so

Crowing about having been right can be an unattractive behaviour. Pointing out that one was right is a duty of course:

Lockdowns prevented just 0.2 per cent of deaths in comparison with simply trusting people to do the right thing, a new study suggests.

Researchers from Johns Hopkins University, in the US, Lund University, in Sweden and the Centre for Political Studies, in Denmark, said the costs to society far outweighed the benefits and called for lockdown to be “rejected out of hand” as a future pandemic policy.

The finding being, in this new study, that once people know what will help then they mostly do what will help:

“We think that most people don’t want to get sick or infect their neighbours, so if you just give people the proper knowledge they do the right thing to take care of themselves, and others, and so that’s why lockdowns don’t work.

“In general, we should trust that people can make the right decisions, so the key thing is to educate them and tell them when the infection rates are high and when it’s dangerous to go out and how to protect yourself.

Rational adult humans act humanely, rationally and in adult fashion. Surprise!

As we pointed out way back at the start of all of this:

…an important point here, for this is an example of a pernicious worldview. That we, the people, are only able to cope if we are told what to do, what we may do. All must be decided and enforced by the clever people in power and nothing left to ordinary folks to get on with.

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Be adult, be responsible, and the best of British to you.

As we say, crowing about having told you so can be unattractive but we did tell you so. Informing the people is somewhere between useful and necessary, trusting the people just plain damn well works. This has implications for an awful lot more of society than just pandemics of course - education, charity, the economy itself….