Categories for Lockdowns and Restrictions
Our Ministers Didn’t “Do Okay” Against the Coronavirus
A recent article in the Times claims that our ministers "did their best" during the pandemic, since we finished in the middle of the Covid death table. But the article ignores Britain's dismal economic performance.
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WHO Estimates of India’s Covid Deaths Are Highly Suspect
The WHO claims India has missed 90% of its Covid deaths, attributing to the country nearly 5 million deaths, almost a third of the world total and 10 times the official count of 481,486. That is simply not credible.
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Indian Supreme Court Rules Vaccine Mandates Unlawful as Courts Around the World Push Back Against Pandemic State Overreach
India's Supreme Court has ruled that owing to "bodily integrity and personal autonomy" and because the Covid vaccines don't prevent transmission, no individual can be forced to get vaccinated.
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Will There Be Mass Famines This Year?
The UN's food price index is now as high as it was during the 1970s oil crisis, and the World Food Programme has warned that 2022 will be a year of “catastrophic hunger”. Lockdown is one major culprit.
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What Are We Doing to Our Children?
It is unforgivable what society has inflicted on children over the past two years in the name of combating a virus from which they are not at risk – and all as the evidence piled up of how much it was harming them.
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Is China Behind the Lockdown Madness?
There was, without a doubt and in the earliest stages, a kind of lockdown cabal, a small group of people who worked to bring some simulacrum of the Hubei response first to Italy and then to most of the globe.
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Sweden Saw Second Smallest Increase in National Debt Out of All EU Countries
According to figures published by the ONS, Sweden saw the second smallest increase in national debt out of all EU countries. The UK, by contrast, saw the fourth largest – only Spain, Greece and Italy did worse.
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On Being Shanghaied
China has locked down its largest city, Shanghai, and quarantined in camps the 20,000 who've tested positive, but claims only 300 are symptomatic. Are the rest false positives, now confined with the infectious?
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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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Vaccine Mandates Are “Scientifically Questionable” and “Ethically Problematic”, Say Researchers
A group of medical researchers and bioethicists have written a comprehensive assessment of Covid vaccine policies, arguing that these measures are “scientifically questionable” and “ethically problematic”.
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