Collateral Global Launches Crowdfunder to Pay For Independent Research
Collateral Global, a newly formed U.K.-based charity dedicated to researching, understanding, and communicating the effectiveness and collateral damage of the lockdowns and associated restrictions, has launched a crowdfunder to help pay for its research.
Collateral Global is already funded entirely by public and charitable sector donations, conferring an independence which the organisation believes is vital to conducting high-quality, unbiased research. The pioneering research programme will require a full-time commitment from a highly qualified team, whose work will be made possible through Collateral Global’s crowdfunding efforts.
Key questions to be addressed by the research programme will include:
• Were the assumptions behind the response to the pandemic correct?
• Was the response proportionate?
• How effective have the responses been in achieving their objectives?
• What have the costs and knock-on effects been across the world?
The funds raised from this campaign will be spent directly on research by academics and professionals from across the world.
Carl Heneghan, Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at Oxford University and advisor to Collateral Global, said: “Projects like Collateral Global will not receive funding from traditional research councils, which are looking to make discoveries. Collateral Global is seeking to create understanding, collate evidence and understand the wider impacts of the restrictions.”
Alex Caccia, Collateral Global CEO, who anticipates the research programme will take several years, commented: “Everyone across the world has been impacted by the pandemic, and by the global response; now is the time to analyse and understand so that we can make sense of what has happened and ensure that future responses are informed by this understanding.”
The first research paper published on the charity’s website covered the impact of the lockdown measures on cancer treatment. Future studies will cover diabetes, children’s mental health and elderly care.
You can contribute to the fundraiser here.
To join in with the discussion please make a donation to The Daily Sceptic.
Profanity and abuse will be removed and may lead to a permanent ban.
Do we need research? Pure and simple the covid cabal jumped on the bandwagon to make shed loads of money.
Indeed, and to grab power and prestige they could not otherwise easily have enjoyed.
Shhhh quiet… your anti-government “friends” want your money, too. Hence you must part with your money to support their “research” and “committees” and “books” and “podcasts” and what else…
Yeah, the REAL bad guys in this situation are those who have lost their careers and professional status to speak out about what is happening and who now risk ridicule, censorship and being struck off their professional resisters. Everyone knows the best way to win a battle is to start attacking the people who are fighting on your behalf. Stick it to em!
If you are Carrie Symonds, when did Stephanie last see her father?
Well I’ve already given them a small donation and I may give them some more, and there are some good people involved, and any voice of sanity is welcome, but…
Surely it’s not a question of doing research but simply collating the evidence that already exists and putting it into a cohesive whole. Why would that take years?
I rather fear it will be too fuzzy to have much impact, and in a few years’ time, the whole thing will be past history and conveniently forgotten, until the next pandemic.
“…it’s not a question of doing research but simply collating the evidence that already exists”
That is part of any decent research, so I don’t have a problem with it per se.
My reservations are two-fold. One minor, one major :
Yes, good points. I just worry that timescales (“years”) are not helpful because the moment will have passed, and it all sounds a bit defensive and on the back foot.
Yes. The ‘Narrative’ forces are at a distinct advantage in terms of timescale – they don’t have to work very hard to maintain the fear meme.
do they guarantee not to take funding from the Gates foundation
lol having generated so many leads from the free anti-corona advocacy now it’s time to milk your gullible audience? The usual business model of all the “truther” websites.
Not having ever conciously been on a “truther” website or even really knowing what one is, I can’t comment on that. But I expect they are sincere enough and there are easier ways to make money that don’t risk you losing your job or having your reputation trashed.
I just question the need to wait for years. Anyone with half a brain knows the reaction to covid was immoral, unethical, unscientific. The evidence is all there already.
The collateral damage of LDs has been the focus of many establishment people – and I wonder if this is in part an evasion of the urgent matter of a global jab program that is doing little more than killing and injuring people, enhancing the Delta variant and spreading more virus. Oh and ushering in the digitisation of our lives – dividing and conquering people. But that’s for another day, another talk fest, another research project.
“The collateral damage of LDs has been the focus of many establishment people”
Indeed, and rightly so. However, the focus always worried me a bit. While lockdowns do cause collateral damage, they are wrong on principle and we should try to stop there. We don’t need research to tell us that telling people to stay at home and not live like normal human beings is damaging or wrong. It’s obvious on its face.
Indirectly, you’re making an important point about the driver – propaganda. Namely that the blindingly obvious in terms of both evidence and hitherto accepted ethical/human rights standards have been pushed to one side by fictions and perversions.
How we combat that emotional driver is the key. (And no – I don’t have a simple practical answer).
I don’t have a simple, practical answer either. I’d still be curious to see how far a well-funded, professionally managed campaign of counter-propaganda would get. But we’d need serious money – hundreds of millions probably. I expect it might get shut down.
These research questions have already been answered. What I would fund would be a prosecution against all those involved in the largest genocide ever conceived of in history. Literally a depopulation event and a determination to put the survivors into feudalism.
I would fund a judicial process where if the perpetrators were found guilty, we would punish them to the extent that any other person that came after with similar ambitions would be terrified to consider the consequences.
Reiner Fuellmich has been doing a lot of work in this field. I think he needs to stop researching and get the process moving before it’s too late.
What is also clear is that just shouting into the void of the collective brain has no effect, either.
It’s rather like researching what a wrecking ball does to a building. It won’t tell them anything that the rest of us and the politicians don’t already know. The people behind the Covid event and their minions in governments are not just misguided, they are malevolent and are engaged in a program of the utmost evil.
So? What other strategy?
Stand candidates with integrity in every town for an actual honest, factual, freedom, England loving party.
Are you going to stand as a candidate?
A worthy effort, even if it does take a bit longer than most would hope.
A comment on the cartoon…There should be a carrot leading the politics
The problem we have isn’t one of evidence. The problem we have is one of power a communication.
We have lockdowns, masks, tests and vaccine mandates not because.of the strength of evidence for them but because those who have most power are imposing them.
Unless this charity has a plan for ensuring their quality evidence gets a proper airing in mainstream media, I seriously doubt they will have much impact. It will just be another Great Barrington Declaration. Something everyone should pay attention to but don’t.
Tragically 100% correct.
The Great Barrington Declaration was insufficient but not entirely ineffective – the trouble is we are in the middle of a criminal conspiracy and this – to use the Johnson expression – is “kicking the can down the road”.
I really don’t recognise ‘me’ in that cartoon. Although I do appreciate the depiction of the politician without the head… so very French Revolution. This is our ‘window of opportunity’ as Klaus Schwab might say… bring on the tumbrels. No Mercy. Information, resources and useful links: https://www.LCAHub.org/