Jeff Grimshaw: The COVID Lockdown and its Consequences

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Join Jeff Grimshaw as he takes a frank, often cheeky look at the COVID lockdown and the consequences we've all been living with. Speaking from experience and his time around Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, he mixes big-picture analysis with personal anecdotes. He questions what we actually mean by 'costs' — economic, social and political — and probes the decisions that stretched 'two weeks to flatten the curve' into months of measures across Australian states. He defines terms, riffs on the etymology of 'consequence' and argues we're still under varying degrees of lockdown. He also shares a surprising observation: in his circles there were virtually no COVID hospitalisations or deaths, a gap between media-driven hysteria and everyday experience that deserves scrutiny. This talk is candid, irreverent and curious — inspired by the Royal Society motto Nullius in verba (take nobody's word for it). If you value independent thinking, come along, question assumptions, and do your own research. Expect stories, scepticism and a push to rethink the received narrative.

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In this talk, Jeff Grimshaw takes a clear-eyed, sometimes irreverent look at the COVID lockdown and what it has cost us as a society. He begins with the spirit of Nullius in verba — the Royal Society's call to take nobody's word for it — and uses that as his north star: question authority, verify facts, and think for yourself.
He splits the discussion into two parts: the macro narrative about policy, language and national responses, and the micro view made up of personal anecdotes from his time around Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. He defines 'costs' properly — from economic damage and mental-health tolls to political and social consequences — and unpacks why the phrase 'two weeks to flatten the curve' became such a defining (and, he thinks, misleading) moment.
He walks through January 2020 memories — the genome sequence release, early footage from overseas, and the rapid escalation of fear — then contrasts that with eleven months on, when many saw little direct COVID harm in their families or friends. That disconnect between perceived threat and lived experience is central to his critique of ongoing restrictions and layered lockdown stages across Australian states.
This isn't an academic paper: it's candid commentary, a bit scattered at times (he acknowledges he ran out of time finishing the speech), and full of personal observation. If you're curious, sceptical, or simply fed up with what he calls the hysterical narrative, this presentation offers independent thinking and straightforward talk.

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