Categories for Lockdowns and Restrictions
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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Attempts to Smear Lockdown Sceptics Have Backfired
The efforts of left-wing lockdown fanatics to smear lockdown sceptics as libertarians in the pay of the Koch brothers has backfired spectacularly, say Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff.
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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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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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School Closures Had No Effect On Transmission in Japan
Studies show that the benefits of closing schools are marginal at best. But the costs are very real. It’s no wonder that even erstwhile members of Independent SAGE are admitting they get this one wrong.
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Guardian Claims Belgium Is the Only Country in Western Europe Where Democratic Values Were Violated During the Pandemic
Remarkably, a Guardian article looking at violations of democratic values in Europe during the pandemic has claimed, "Belgium was the only western country where people’s freedoms were moderately violated”.
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Faroe Islands: The Tiny Country that Rejected Lockdown and Proved it Made No Difference
No lockdowns, mask mandates or business closures, and a medically-trained Education Minister who declined the vaccine saying vaccines don't control coronaviruses. Read the fascinating story of the Faroe Islands.
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