Just one more heave
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Dr John Lee, former NHS consultant pathologist blasts off to Planet Normal alongside Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan. He tells listeners why he believes the cost of coronavirus lockdowns has been hugely underestimated, and urges the government to take a look at the bigger picture. There is more to life than Covid, he tells us, as our co-pilots nod heartily in agreement.
Also on the podcast: Allison opens up on a very personal struggle, Liam calls for the PM to reveal the roadmap out of lockdown, and the weekend's Six Nations result causes tension between our presenters.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:03.2 | Podcasts |
| 0:33.2 | The idea that scientists should be in charge of public policy is mad for the lack of medical care |
| 0:41.6 | that's been given over the last year has been self-imposed and goal. |
| 0:45.5 | I think this is so psychologically damaging for those of us who are clinging on thinking |
| 0:52.0 | just one more push, one more heave. |
| 0:55.0 | It's not what we've been told as unprecedented, it's very precedented. |
| 1:00.0 | We have let it off. |
| 1:08.8 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, the Telegraph podcast with Alison Pearson, Hello, and |
| 1:14.0 | me Liam Halligan. |
| 1:15.8 | We now have a name for the disease and it's Covid-19, so said the boss of the World Health |
| 1:21.1 | Organization on the 11th of February 2020, exactly a year ago today. |
| 1:27.0 | Back then China had registered 42,000 coronavirus cases, Britain just 8. |
| 1:33.0 | Within weeks of course we were in lockdown, a lockdown which was meant to be just three |
| 1:37.4 | star. |
| 1:38.4 | But with the daffodils emerging as Easter 2021 approaches, a lockdown was still struggling |
| 1:44.0 | to escape. |
| 1:45.3 | The UK has now vaccinated approaching one in five of our population, almost 20%. |
| 1:51.0 | In the EU it's less than 4%. |
| 1:54.0 | Daily coronavirus cases are down almost 70% since early January and deaths from with or |
| 2:00.0 | related to Covid have also plunged. |
| 2:03.4 | As the human, financial and economic cost of lockdown continues to spiral, just how long |
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