It is now two weeks since Sir Jeremy Farrar quit the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE). Judging by numerous comments from the readership of a recent article in the Telegraph, many are not sad to see him go.
Politics
Should children be vaccinated against COVID-19?
HART would contest that it is unethical to ask children to take a vaccine to boost herd immunity or to offset political decisions such as school closures, at a stage when the drug trials have still to be completed. Policy makers would do well to re-read the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights and to follow the authors’ guidance to ‘weigh up the risks and benefits with caution and to proceed with care’.
To B or Not To B
Was ‘Plan B’ always in fact, ‘Plan A’?
Vaccine Certification: Big, Bad and Ugly
What is the point of principles protecting the rights of the individual if they can be undermined at the slightest hint of a possible perceived harm, or a small risk of such a harm? What if the proposed solution creates greater harm, or just a series of different harms?
Mask mandates: bad and harmful
With regards further mask mandates, inaction is infinitely more rational than action.
FDA’s fraudulent modelling to justify vaccinating 5-11 year olds
The decision to vaccinate children is reckless and the way the data has been presented as representing the risk to healthy children, is, whether deliberately or not, fraudulent.
Censorship is rife
Continuing concerns about the censorship of essentially all voices questioning any aspect pandemic management.
Select Committee report on the handling of the pandemic
Government report overlooks the butterfly effects of lockdowns
Continuation of the Coronavirus Act
To cap it all, the Coronavirus Act 2020 was continued for a further 6 months, on the basis of a 90 minute debate and no division lobby.
COVID risks in pregnant women
When deaths and cases are not frightening enough the media turn, as they did last year, to pregnant women to promote fear.
Increasing numbers of PCR positives are asymptomatic
After months of UK Government advertising making the dubious claim that 1 in 3 people have asymptomatic Covid-19, is there any supporting evidence of this?
Advance Australia Fair?
Australia is now officially a society that is sanctioning medical apartheid.
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.
HART proposed methodology adopted in US
22 July 2021 – It’s time for the UK to use Ct to track the spread, protect the vulnerable and regain our lives.
Johnson announces plan for vaccine passports
22 July 2021 – The Prime Minister’s speech on Monday showed the murky depths to which we have descended.
Some animals are more equal than others
17 June 2021 – Many people have been shocked at the pictures of G7 leaders in Cornwall last week freely enjoying themselves without, apparently, a care in the world about COVID-19.
Manufacturing a crisis
17 June 2021 – On Monday 14 June, Boris Johnson reneged on the return to normal life from Monday 21 June. In order to justify this further assault on the country a crisis had to be manufactured. The real world data simply does not support what the prime minister claims.
Changing the goal posts for the vaccinated
10 June 2021 – A stricter definition of disease for calling cases and attributing deaths to COVID-19 is long overdue. However, it must be applied to the unvaccinated as well as the vaccinated.
