Christmas time seems to have resulted in peak craziness during the covid era. If we want to save Christmas future we need to look at Christmas past.
Lockdowns
Pick of the week
Following on from last week’s round up, here is another small selection of the numerous excellent articles out there.
What were you doing on 23rd March 2020?
It is hard to believe it is really three whole years since many of us were listening to the Prime Minister, adopting his most Churchillian tones, and telling the entire nation that we must stay in our homes, for all but food shopping, one item of exercise and essential travel to work: the announcement made only four days after SARS-CoV-2 had been downgraded as a High Consequence Infectious Disease.
Why are so many people dying?
The disappointment from Covidean doom-mongers about the recent – and entirely expected – downtick in cases of respiratory disease has been palpable, presumably because this has happened without recourse to ‘clever’ public health interventions.
Lockdowns: the evidence revisited
In March 2021, we wrote two sections in ‘Covid-19 the evidence’, namely ‘Economic impacts – the true cost of lockdown’ and ‘Lockdowns – do they work?’. Over a year later, we have revisited not only the financial costs of lockdowns but also the societal costs, the impact on healthcare and the lack of evidence for overall benefit.
To B or Not To B
Was ‘Plan B’ always in fact, ‘Plan A’?
Select Committee report on the handling of the pandemic
Government report overlooks the butterfly effects of lockdowns
Can a Trauma Informed Approach and adherence to COVID-19 guidelines ethically co-exist?
Can a trauma informed approach and adherence to COVID Guidelines Ethically co-exist?
Advance Australia Fair?
Australia is now officially a society that is sanctioning medical apartheid.
COVID-19 transmits outdoors
20 August 2021 – There are increasing numbers of reports of outbreaks occurring in outdoor environments.
Cases continue to fall
5 August 2021 – It is time now for those that put their faith in these modellers to have a rethink too.
Freedom Day briefing underwhelms
15 July 2021 – The Prime Minister held a briefing on Monday to confirm that ‘Freedom Day’ is going ahead, yet managed to strike a sombre tone that bordered on the downright miserable.
Freedom Day… or a temporary reprieve?
8 July 2021 – HART has serious concerns about the direction of travel, and will continue to challenge the authorities in a constructive and evidence-based manner.
Question Everything’s first London summit 17 July
8 July 2021 – The aim is to explore how the world can responsibly return to normality, without further harmful lockdowns.
Government modellers proved wrong again
2 July 2021 – When a disease is transmitted in a chain person-to-person, as for childhood infections like measles, then reducing human contact reduces transmission. The data on gastroenteritis shows clear evidence of this.
The impact of lockdowns on excess mortality
24 June 2021 – An important new paper from the prestigious National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the US examines the impact of “shelter-in-place” (SIP) policies on excess mortality across a sample of 43 countries and all US states.
The ‘People’s Lockdown Inquiry’ launches
17 June 2021 – The People’s Lockdown Inquiry (PLI) is a compilation of personal stories and reviews that aims to capture the impact of lockdowns on the British people.
You said we could go on holiday if we got the jab…
13 May 2021 – The continued restrictions on freedom of movement are as baffling as they are outrageous. HART has outlined in briefing papers how flawed the thinking around closed borders and the appearance of variants is, scientifically speaking.
