Pearson vs. Lockdown
Planet Normal
Louisa Wells
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Dr Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford medical professor and co-author of the Great Barrington Declaration boards the rocket of sweet reason this week to tell Telegraph columnists Allison Pearson and Liam Halligan why he thinks the UK government should 'declare victory and move on’ after its vaccine rollout success. The lockdown policy, he tells our co-pilots, will be viewed as the single biggest public health mistake in all of history.
Elsewhere, with the sun shining Allison considers crashing the G7 Summit in Cornwall in order to have a holiday, Liam takes listeners behind the scenes at the soon-to-be-launched television channel, GB News, and our co-pilots make an impassioned case for second chances in the light of England cricket star Ollie Robinson's suspension.
Allison and Liam will be replying to comments beneath this article on Thursday 10th June from 11am-12pm: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/06/10/lockdowns-single-biggest-public-health-mistake-history-says/|
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| 0:00.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:02.0 | The Telugu... |
| 0:03.0 | ...podcasts. |
| 0:09.0 | Five. |
| 0:10.0 | If you want to go on holiday, do you know what you have to do? |
| 0:13.0 | You have to join one of the entourage for the G7. |
| 0:16.0 | Do you think that future Australians will look back in this and say, |
| 0:20.0 | this was the single biggest public health mistake, possibly all history? |
| 0:24.0 | You're the only, if we don't give people in this country, a second chance. |
| 0:28.0 | So... |
| 0:29.0 | If your co-pilot ends up burning her mask somewhere, I know you're going to come and bail me out, aren't you? |
| 0:34.0 | What? |
| 0:38.0 | We have left off. |
| 0:42.0 | Welcome once again to Planet Normal, a telegraph podcast with Alice in Pearson. |
| 0:46.0 | Hello. |
| 0:47.0 | And Liam Halligan. |
| 0:49.0 | Will the 21st of June finally see the end of COVID restrictions? |
| 0:54.0 | Or are we in full weeks or even months more lockdown? |
| 0:58.0 | One minute Boris Johnson says there's nothing in the data to suggest the great unlocking should be delayed. |
| 1:04.0 | The next health secretary, Matt Hancock, Alice in Pearson's heart. |
| 1:08.0 | So he's absolutely open to delaying freedom day. |
| 1:12.0 | So what if almost all over the 50s and other vulnerable groups across Britain have now been double-japped? |
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