Episode 17: Cognitive Dissonance & The Intellectual Establishment - A Lawyer Investigates

I believe this is one of the most important episodes and revealing to me personally, as we move towards the end of the series. It addresses the psychology behind the decision-making, and makes sense of the term, "cognitive dissonance".
It is also good to see the issue of what was really going on behind the scenes at last being addressed in the media, following the recent disclosure of Matt Hancock's WhatsApp messages by whistleblower, Isabel Oakeshott.
Was the decision to go into lockdown proportionate, or even appropriate?
Links to Dr John Campbell vlogs mentioned in the episode:
• European excess deaths...
• UK data, massive shift...
Link to the series trailer:
• Trailer - email for th...
With thanks to the Mail Online for Photography
THE SERIES:
Senior lawyers and the Judiciary have been surprisingly silent on the pandemic, with the notable exception of Lord Sumption (linked below). Yet it seems that at the time key decisions were being taken, there could have been no harm done by taking a clinical look at the evidence, in order to assess the seriousness of the virus:
--Was the decision of the UK government to lock down the country justified and had a proper consideration of the evidence been taken, not only of the seriousness of the virus but of competing factors, such as the long-term economic, civil liberties and long-term health impacts?
--Was the Swedish approach more proportionate?
--Was the Polish response a success?
--Even were lockdowns justified, should they have been lifted more quickly?
In this vlogumentary series, "A Lawyer Investigates: The Mysterious Affair of Covid-19" a British lawyer, while on a visit to Sweden to visit a client, finds himself drawn into a travel adventure and investigation of the Corona Virus controversy. Through interviews with regular folk, on route from his Warsaw office to Stockholm, he attempts to solve the puzzle of its sudden appearance and the world's reaction to it. Is there more of a mystery than we realise?
REVIEWS
"Just sat down with a cup of tea and watched your latest video...,. Really enjoyed it. A lot of the questions I've been asking. Loved the builder at the end!"
"I just watched your series of CZcams videos about current situation and was glad to see 'a cool-headed, clinical view at the evidence'. I am also perplexed how this is possible, this lockdown, all restrictions. I thought UK would be much like Sweden, evidence-based (re)actions."
"You gave many great examples how to interpret the data, especially that the data can't be served in absolute, little telling numbers but in the relative terms."
LINKS:
Lord Sumption:
• Lord Sumption explains...
CDC:
www.cdc.gov/fl...
Dr Fauci
www.cnbc.com/2...
justthenews.co...
• Video
U.S. House Oversight Committee
• Coronavirus outbreak: ...
History of Pandemics
www.visualcapi...
facts4eu.org/n...
Downsides of Lockdown
www.theguardia...
• Video
www.bbc.co.uk/...
www.telegraph....
Professor Johan Giesecke (UnHerd)
• Why lockdowns are the ...
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[@nicholaslewis862]

A fascinating investigation. Thank you for your hard work!

[@charlesjenkinson5020]

Nice work.

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When you have a convid NHS advert under your video , I know you have some good content in the video.

[@RedwoodLegal]

Ha! Well noted.

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