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    Pandemic of Fear
    Pandemic of Fear
    Pandemic of Fear
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    Pandemic of Fear

    By Lucy la Zouche

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    Driven by fear, the government of the UK has poured hundreds of billions of pounds into fighting the coronavirus pandemic, reinforcing the NHS, supporting the economy and waging a propaganda war. Despite war-gaming a pandemic in 2016, the government were poorly prepared for what hit them, and it was clear that they had little idea what to do. Through poor judgement and constant tactical (rather than strategic) change, much of the money spent by the government has been wasted. It would surely have been better to spend money on properly funding local Public Health teams, protecting care homes with a ring of steel and shielding the vulnerable who wanted to be protected.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateNov 13, 2020
    ISBN9781716430411
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      Pandemic of Fear - Lucy la Zouche

      Chapter 1 – A Bit of History

      The blind panic induced by the SAR-CoV-2 Coronavirus pandemic has prompted me to write a book to try and put the whole thing in context.

      This book does not try to provide a detailed run-down on all the world’s diseases, treatments and vaccines; and medical experts will undoubtedly find fault with it. However, if it promotes open debate and causes our politicians ‘to do a better job next time’ it will have proved to be a success.

      In no way do I wish to minimise the risks posed by this Coronavirus which seems to have taken over our lives and the airwaves. However, I am old enough to remember other epidemics and pandemics since the Second World War. I have also heard my share of stories about other, earlier epidemics, the incidence of childhood ailments and the failed surgical operations which affected families between the two World Wars.

      Tales were told of: a great-uncle who died of diabetes in a sanatorium at the age of 29 in 1913; an uncle dying at the age of 15 in 1916 from tuberculosis; another great-uncle dying in the influenza pandemic in 1920; an aunt’s death from peritonitis just after her wedding in 1927; a grandmother who died of tuberculosis in 1932; another aunt who died of scarlet fever during a severe epidemic in 1938. Few families were untouched by the various diseases in circulation during the years leading up to the Second World War; there were few guaranteed cures or vaccines.

      The UK population grew by about two-thirds between the years 1915 and 2015; and yet, the number of people dying in each year dropped by about 5% over the same period. What caused the death rate to reduce so dramatically?

      Immediately after WWII, the only vaccine that young people in the UK received was one for smallpox which had been available for a long time. However, anti-biotics, including penicillin were more readily available and these helped with some childhood and other ailments. But, measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, tetanus, scarlet fever, tuberculosis (TB) and, most frightening of all to my generation, poliomyelitis (polio) were still in wide circulation and were the cause of many fatalities.

      Polio was particularly cruel to children and young adults whilst leaving the elderly virtually untouched; it gained the alternative name ‘infantile paralysis’. We were quite used to hearing about young people like us dying from, crippled by or on life-support from

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