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Germany’s ‘Professor Lockdown’ Christian Drosten Bids His Fans Farewell
Masking, green passes, closures, and Christian Drosten too – all of them were part of the same system of social, cultural and intellectual strangulation from which Germans have now been released.
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Hong Kong Sends Traditional Chinese Medicine to Three Million Residents Telling Them it Works Against COVID-19 – But the Evidence Says No Such Thing
Hong Kong has sent traditional Chinese medicine to three million residents telling them it works against COVID-19. But the few Chinese studies claiming efficacy are of very poor standard.
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Did Lockdowns Cause the Biggest Drop in American Happiness Since Surveys Began?
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.
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Why Did Policymakers Ignore Standard Welfare Economics?
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.
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How Dare the Government Think it is Entitled to Trample on Our Fundamental Freedoms to Keep Us ‘Safe’
The Government's big mistake with COVID-19 was throwing ethics out the window without a second thought, so no one reflected on whether it was justified so egregiously to trample on people's fundamental rights.
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It All Went Wrong When the Government Switched to Trying to Minimise COVID-19 At All Costs
How can it be that the very people we were aiming to protect from COVID-19 became victims of our policies, swapping the risks of a respiratory infection for the realities of a miserable, isolated existence?
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Convergence in Excess Mortality in Western Europe
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.
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How to Ensure Lockdowns Cannot Happen Again
To ensure policy failure on such a scale never happens again, those of us who oppose them need concrete proposals that could be implemented by a parliament and which address the root causes of the failed policies.
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Our Callous Disregard For the Interests of Children During the Lockdowns Reveals Our Moral Bankruptcy
On the second anniversary of the first lockdown, we're publishing a piece on the Daily Sceptic by Dr David McGrogan about how our callous disregard for children's interests in 2020-21 revealed our moral bankruptcy.
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Vaccine Effectiveness and Excess Mortality in Singapore
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.
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