{"id":116195,"date":"2020-11-23T04:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/professor-sunetra-gupta-lockdowns-are-a-luxury-of-the-affluentthe-uk-cannot-afford-it"},"modified":"2020-11-23T04:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T12:22:42","slug":"professor-sunetra-gupta-lockdowns-are-a-luxury-of-the-affluentthe-uk-cannot-afford-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/professor-sunetra-gupta-lockdowns-are-a-luxury-of-the-affluentthe-uk-cannot-afford-it","title":{"rendered":"Professor Sunetra Gupta: \u2018Lockdowns are a luxury of the affluent\u2026the UK cannot afford it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oa4kZdTk8xw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Professor of theoretical epidemiology Sunetra Gupta has criticised the planned return to a Covid tier system in December.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking with talkRADIO\u2019s Julia Hartley-Brewer, the Great Barrington Declaration co-author said it \u201cstill leaves the doors open to the enormous harms of lockdown\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cLockdowns are a luxury of the affluent\u2026the UK cannot afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It comes ahead of Boris Johnson setting out plans for a strengthened three-tier system of restrictions to replace England national lockdown and to pave the way for a limited relaxation at Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor of theoretical epidemiology Sunetra Gupta has criticised the planned return to a Covid tier system in December. Speaking with talkRADIO\u2019s Julia Hartley-Brewer, the Great Barrington Declaration co-author said it \u201cstill leaves the doors open to the enormous harms of lockdown\u201d. She added: \u201cLockdowns are a luxury of the affluent\u2026the UK cannot afford it.\u201d It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":598,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}