Although polls show strong support for the war among Russians, respondents might be lying. A new survey using a clever method indicates that support for the war likely is overstated, though still very substantial.
A video has resurfaced in which Anthony Fauci is asked whether a woman with the flu needs to get a flu shot. He says, "She’s as protected as anybody can be because the best vaccination is to get infected yourself."
A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine policies, arguing that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.
Surveys gauge people's happiness by asking, "How would you say things are these days?" Recently published data suggest that lockdown may have caused the biggest drop in Americans' happiness since surveys began.
Politicians were pursuing their own interests when they decided to lock down. They didn’t want to be punished by the voters for ‘not acting’, and recognised that the costs of lockdown would come later.
January's age-standardised mortality rate was the second lowest on record for that month. And February's was too. On average, there has been no excess mortality since August – despite the Delta and Omicron waves.
Pandemic death tolls in Western Europe have been converging over the last two years. This suggests that, regardless of which policies you impose, a certain number of Covid deaths are more-or-less unavoidable.
The vast majority of elderly Singaporeans had been double-vaccinated by the 1st of October 2021. Despite this, the country saw a deadly Delta wave, with excess mortality exceeding 30% in both October and November.
Supplying arms to Ukraine *may* work, but we shouldn’t just assume it’s the right policy. The best thing the West can do is pressure both sides to negotiate, in the hope of a reaching some kind of settlement.
What do people in the “non-Mearsheimer camp” believe Ukraine should have done? Even if we blame Russia entirely, an invasion cannot be considered a good outcome, so it’s worth asking how it could have been avoided.
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