The American Medical Association now advocates removing sex from the public portion of birth certificates. Apparently, recording sex on birth certificates “fails to recognize the medical spectrum of gender identity”.
A question for Chris Whitty: Given that the WHO, the Department of Health and you – as recently as March 2020 – rejected the suppression strategy, why did you describe focused protection as “wrong scientifically”?
One explanation for plummeting case numbers is that the full effects of 'Freedom Day' have yet to appear in the data. However, the Google mobility index shows there was no sudden change in behaviour on July 19th.
56% of "COVID-19 patients" did not test positive until they were admitted to hospital. This highlights an important point: testing positive is not the same thing as having the *disease* COVID-19.
Was lockdown illegal? While the High Court in London rejected Dolan’s case against the Government, lockdown opponents have won important victories in a number of countries, including France, Germany and Spain.
Studies have shown that when people observe norms being violated, they become more likely to violate norms themselves. Has the government been undermining social norms by imposing inconvenient rules it can’t enforce?
June's age-standardised mortality rate was the second-lowest on record for that month. England has now had *four months in a row* of "negative excess mortality". Average mortality up to June was lower than in 2018.
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
COVID-19 poses almost no risk to young people. Rather than trying to strong-arm every last 18 year old into getting a vaccine they don't need, why not donate our left-over vaccines to elderly people in other countries?
A recent study determined that only 25 people aged under 18 died of COVID-19 in England up to February of this year. 76% had a serious underlying health condition. The survival rate in this age-group was 99.995%.
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