Categories for Lockdowns and Restrictions

3/1/22

Why Have the Scots Been So Compliant?

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by two Scottish academics asking why the Scots have proved so willing to comply with the Nicola Sturgeon's ludicrously over-the-top, draconian Covid restrictions.

3/1/22

Great Barrington Authors Hit Back At Collins and Fauci

In an email obtained via FOI request, the former head of the NIH described the Great Barrington authors as "fringe epidemiologists" and called for a "take down" of the Declaration. Now two of them have hit back.

31/12/21

A Hogmanay Tale From Central Edinburgh

The Daily Sceptic is publishing a semi-autobiographical, satirical short story by a Scottish reader about how one Edinburgh family have been celebrating Hogmanay this year.

22/12/21

Both Right and Left-Wing Authoritarianism Predict Support for Lockdown

The psychologist Joseph Manson analysed data on a sample of Americans from April of 2020. He found that both right and left-wing authoritarianism predicted support for lockdowns and other restrictions.

19/12/21

Whistleblowing BBC Journalist Exposes Lockdown Zealotry of Colleagues

A pseudonymous BBC reporter calling himself Charlie Walsham has written a brilliant exposé in the Spectator about the pro-lockdown bias of his colleagues. A must read.

17/12/21

An interview with David Paton

Professor David Paton has written extensively on the pandemic. We asked him about the myth of our late lockdown, whether vaccine passports make any sense at all, and what Boris Johnson should have done last year.

14/12/21

There’s No Hint of a Negative Association Between Stringency Index and Excess Mortality in Europe

There's no hint of a negative association between stringency index and excess mortality in Europe. The length and stringency of countries' lockdowns is unrelated to the number of excess deaths they've had.

26/11/21

Changing Attitudes to Lockdown in Left-Wing Media

At the start of 2020, the Guardian and New York Times ran articles describing China's lockdown as "terrifying" and "without precedent". Fast forward to March, and both papers were calling for national lockdowns.

16/11/21

Dutch Cost-Benefit Analysis Done During Lockdown Concluded, “The Costs Are Disproportionately High”

Documents obtained via an FOI request show that, in March/April of 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs did a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown. It concluded that the costs far outweighed the benefits.

15/11/21

Neil Ferguson Makes the Case for Focused Protection

In an interview last week, Neil Ferguson said that Britain's high infection rate had had the "upside of boosting population immunity". Whether he realised it or not, Ferguson was making the case for focused protection.

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