The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.
Western countries, which claim to stand for civil liberties, have introduced vaccine passports. By contrast, the Japanese government has explicitly told citizens: "do not discriminate" against the unvaccinated.
Professor David Paton has written extensively on the pandemic. We asked him about the myth of our late lockdown, whether vaccine passports make any sense at all, and what Boris Johnson should have done last year.
Yet another study has found that natural immunity provides better protection against infection than the vaccines, and that vaccine effectiveness against infection wanes rapidly, beginning a few weeks after vaccination.
There's no hint of a negative association between stringency index and excess mortality in Europe. The length and stringency of countries' lockdowns is unrelated to the number of excess deaths they've had.
The NHS Covid pass doesn't make any sense. At this point, most vaccinated people are barely less likely to transmit the virus than the unvaccinated. And why should we even care about transmission in nightclubs?
A second large Israeli study has found that natural immunity provides better protection against infection than the Pfizer vaccine. Adjusting for several factors, infections were six times higher among the vaccinated.
Numerous studies have found that vaccine side effects are more common in those who've already had Covid. Such people (of whom there are many) not only face lower benefits from vaccination; they also face higher costs.
A new study reviews 11 cost-benefit analyses of lockdown, all of which find that the policy did more harm than good. Results “strongly suggest that lockdowns do not have a favorable cost-benefit balance”.
A new Danish study finds that Covid passports significantly reduce trust in the health authorities. The authors note that in countries with less social trust than Denmark, the consequences may be "even more negative".
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