So the main opposition to Labour should be dismissed off hand? The conflation of 'the political left's perception of reality' with 'the truth' is outrageous, a

So the main opposition to Labour should be dismissed off hand? The conflation of 'the political left's perception of reality' with 'the truth' is outrageous, and nothing more than an attempt to delegitimize views that conflict with the political left's agenda, which corresponds with polls showing in the US, registered Democrats are increasingly gravitating toward authoritarianism: https://rumble.com/vnwyhz-the-mountain-of-data-showing-how-authoritarian-democrats-have-become.html https://rumble.com/vnwyhz-the-mountain-of-data-showing-how-a... The evidence for harm from lockdowns is at this point overwhelming, but this issue has become so politicized that the worst policy decision perhaps in history is being swept under the rug. Absent a feasible zero-COVID strategy, which for most countries was never in the books due to their geographical situation, lockdowns have been found to have virtually no impact on reducing the spread of COVID. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.1976051 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13571516.2021.19... https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature... Lockdowns have devastated education: https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-million-children-globally-have-been-completely-closed https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli... https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-learning-loss-has-been-a-global-disaster https://www.economist.com/international/2022/07/07/covid-lea... The cost to lifetime earnings is estimated to be $17 trillion: https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/learning-losses-from-covid-19-could-cost-this-generation-of-students-close-to-17-trillion-in-lifetime-earnings https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2021/12/06/l... Which will massively exacerbate poverty and all of its associated illnesses. The education losses have been worst for the poor: https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/remote-learning-likely-widened-racial-economic-achievement-gap/ https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/05/remote-learni... Social distancing and other COVID control measures, which became mandatory with lockdowns, have been associated with a surge in childhood obesity: https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm7037a3_w https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7037a3.htm?s_cid=mm... 97 million more people are estimated to be in poverty due to the social reaction to COVID, the most drastic and disruptive of which were lockdowns: https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impact-covid-19-global-poverty-turning-corner-pandemic-2021 https://blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/updated-estimates-impac...