Categories for Around the World in Eighty Lockdowns
A Letter From America
Guy de la Bédoyère has recently returned from a road trip across the American West. Along the way he spoke to various Americans, among them Trump supporters but more noticeably demoralised and disaffected Democrats.
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Postcard from Taiwan: Where 90% of Food Sellers Still Wear Face Masks
Prof David Livermore writes a postcard from Taiwan, a country where children ride motor scooters on the footplate but 90% of food sellers wear face masks. And where a 'good pandemic' has given way to 20% excess deaths.
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Postcard from Washington D.C.
Roger Watson is in Washington D.C., a city completely in the grip of Harris-Walz mania. Every banner, button or shout-out is for Kamala Harris. It's a bubble completely detached from the country it governs.
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The Creeping Absorption of Hong Kong into China is Palpable
Returning to Hong Kong for the first time since Covid, Dr Roger Watson says that the creeping absorption of the region into China is palpable as Beijing dismantles many of its former freedoms.
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Even China Did Not Make Face Masks Mandatory
Dr Roger Watson makes his first trip to China since Covid and finds some surprises, including a society less visibly scarred by lockdown than the UK and a senior nurse who says she was never required to wear a face mask.
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The Japanese Would Be Perfectly Happy to Do the Pandemic Again
The persistence of the mask madness, the partitions and hand sanitisers that will seemingly never be removed, the embrace of lockdown isolation – the Japanese would seem perfectly happy to do it all again.
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A (Post-Covid) Tale of Two Cities
Returning to Genoa in Italy and Maribor in Slovenia, Dr Roger Watson finds two countries at very different stages of their recovery from pandemic attitudes and habits.
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Jacinda Ardern’s Legacy: a Divided Country and a Weakened Democracy
Kiwi commentator Guy Hatchard writes Jacinda Ardern’s political obit for the Daily Sceptic: her disastrous policies have left New Zealand with a tanking economy, rising crime and a liberal democracy in intensive care.
Read morePostcard From Luxembourg
by Russell David “Luxembourg? That’s not a place you visit, it’s somewhere you fly over!” Such was a typical reaction...
Read moreAnother Postcard From Manila
by Kyle Helke My wife and I are employed in Manila, the capital of the Philippines. This summer we took...
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