A SAGE scientist has claimed that the case for masks became "hugely stronger" when we learned that Covid spreads via airborne particles. But this doesn't make sense, and it's the opposite of what Fauci once said.
After two months of excess mortality, January's age-standardised mortality rate was 14% below the five-year average. This provides strong evidence for mortality displacement – the pandemic brought deaths forward.
Of the 15 countries with zero or negative excess mortality, no less than 14 are islands. After two years of lockdowns, it seems the best strategy for dealing with Covid is… be a small country with few land borders.
The Netherlands went back into lockdown from 18th December to 26th January. This policy was a complete failure: infections began rising steeply during the lockdown, and continued rising steeply after it ended.
A surprisingly candid report in the journal Science notes that researchers are reluctant to study vaccine side effects for fear of causing vaccine hesitancy. “Everyone is tiptoeing around it," one researcher said.
Even if we just consider ‘misinformation’ surrounding the vaccines, the mainstream media comes out looking far worse than Rogan. Add in the ‘lab leak conspiracy theory’ narrative, and there’s really no comparison.
A recent study finds that obese people who lost weight after gastric bypass got less severe Covid, compared to matched controls who didn't have the surgery. Why isn't reducing obesity part of the fight against Covid?
Sweden has been ranked third out of 23 rich countries for economic performance during the pandemic. This dispels another lockdown myth: that if you don't lock down, fear of the virus causes the economy to crater.
Two recent surveys show that U.S. Democrats just can't let Covid go. 65% support closing schools, and 59% support a policy of confining unvaccinated people in their homes “at all times, except for emergencies”.
Despite 95% of the elderly being vaccinated, mortality in December was 9% higher than the five-year average, with much of the excess due to Covid – another indication that vaccine effectiveness has been overestimated.
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