Categories for Lockdowns and Restrictions
Rishi Sunak Must Stop the Taxman Closing Viable Businesses Struggling Due to Government Pandemic Policy
We now face the entirely likely and illogical situation whereby HMRC will attempt to close businesses which may have a Government-backed loan, the cost to the taxpayer of which may be higher than the actual debt itself.
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The Netherlands’ Omicron Lockdown was a Complete Failure
The Netherlands went back into lockdown from 18th December to 26th January. This policy was a complete failure: infections began rising steeply during the lockdown, and continued rising steeply after it ended.
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Panic Merchants, Be Gone… Covid is Just Another Virus
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
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How I Came to Need Imaginary Friends After Two Long Years of This Dystopian Nightmare of Masks, Tests and Distancing
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
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China Two Years On: From Hubris to Hamsters
Two years on from the first lockdown, Xi Jinping has persuaded the people of China that he has protected them as though a father caring for children. But will Omicron and the Olympics prove his undoing?
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Should We Welcome the Johnny-Come-Latelies to the Sceptical Fold?
Dr David McGrogan, an Associate Professor at Northumbria Law School, asks whether the OGs of the lockdown sceptics' movement should welcome repentant sinners or shun them as bandwagon jumpers?
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Sweden Ranked Third in Pandemic League Table of 23 Rich Countries
Sweden has been ranked third out of 23 rich countries for economic performance during the pandemic. This dispels another lockdown myth: that if you don't lock down, fear of the virus causes the economy to crater.
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The Lesson from the Downing Street Parties Is: The Rules Were Wrong
The hypocrisy of the Downing Street parties certainly should be condemned. But the real lesson is that the rules were wrong – so obviously wrong that even the Government couldn't be bothered to follow them.
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Times Article on the First Lockdown Omits One Very Important Point
An article in The Times claims Britain's death toll would have been much higher if we hadn't locked down. Yet it omits one very important point: infections were almost certainly falling when the first lockdown began.
Read moreLet Our Children Face the World
by Dr. Sinéad Murphy On Monday January 3rd, the Guardian featured an opinion piece by Zoe Williams on the U.K....
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