To Vax or Not To Vax ?

That is the Question

Steve Speakers Corner
4 min readNov 10, 2020

I have attended most of the Covid-19 anti-lockdown protests in London over the last few months. This is because I am appalled at how the UK Government has continued to lock us down, based on out of date and dodgy data. They have locked us down for months on end, with little apparent care for the massive and disproportionate impacts project fear and lockdown has on people’s general health, whether it’s their physical health such as cancer diagnoses and treatments being halted, or their mental health with the lockdown directly deteriorating many people’s mental health with increased social isolation, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. Lockdown is also resulting in a previously unheard of negative impact on our economy, with businesses failing, levels of unemployment rocketing and national debt piling up in the trillions.

Protests across the country

Anti-lockdown protest, Trafalgar Square, 29 August 2020

Many who share these concerns have gathered at protests in towns and cities across the UK. Some of these in central London have attracted tens of thousands. The protests have brought together a huge diversity of people, the young and old, rich and poor, black and white and from both the Left and…

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