David Chung, a consultant in emergency medicine with NHS Scotland, admitted he finds the claims "very upsetting" as he saw first hand the devastation the virus caused.
He said: "Five years on, so much has changed. I think everyone's memories of what went on has changed as well. Getting the vaccine when we did mitigated a lot of the mortality of Covid. A lot of people have forgotten that.
"You can argue for or against lockdown but if we didn't have lockdown, we would have had a lot more deaths in the pre-vaccine era."
Dr Chung said the advent of the vaccine meant people began to get the virus but not die. That changed the public's viewpoint of the virus and they began to question the need to lockdown.
He said: "The lockdown was r...
He said: "Five years on, so much has changed. I think everyone's memories of what went on has changed as well. Getting the vaccine when we did mitigated a lot of the mortality of Covid. A lot of people have forgotten that.
"You can argue for or against lockdown but if we didn't have lockdown, we would have had a lot more deaths in the pre-vaccine era."
Dr Chung said the advent of the vaccine meant people began to get the virus but not die. That changed the public's viewpoint of the virus and they began to question the need to lockdown.
He said: "The lockdown was r...
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