There does seem to be a collective hysteria over the actual risks that COVID-19 poses to the individual. We've had cancer treatment groups, mental health charities and child welfare organisations in the UK all come out and say pretty much the same thing as these US doctors.

Anecdotally, a relative of mine who works for the NHS commented how eerily quiet any non-COVID ward has been these last few months as people just stop turning-up to hospital for fear of catching this 1 virus.

Some school children were allowed to return to class from yesterday but even that has been greeted with general panic and a fundamental misunderstanding of the risks associated. Do you know how many school-aged children have died of the virus in this country? 3! And they all, unfortunately, had underlying health conditions. It's very sad for the families of those involved but as a parent of 2 young kids I see the risks involved of them not going to school and getting an education as much greater than them going and potentially contracting coronavirus.

The risks associated for teachers have also been a major point of argument but again I don't see where the risk is for them. Schools never actually closed in the UK as they remained open for the children of key workers so we have some pretty decent facts and figures to go on in regards the risks of transmission in the classroom. There is no evidence of a child having passed the virus onto a teacher during that time and no teacher who was working during full lockdown has died.

The analogy of a Brave New World is an interesting one especially as we now see lockdown at the same time as state-sponsored violence. The messaging and psychological conditioning surrounding coronavirus has been far more effective at controlling populations than the deployment of riot police has been to this point which is ultimately the basis of Huxley's dystopian society where children are conditioned from birth into a life of servitude