In a mean-spirited piece that makes no effort to engage with the arguments of HART's Covid report, Tom Whipple rounds up the usual suspects to heap opprobrium on anything that deviates from the establishment line.
New Covid rules which come into force on March 29th will make it illegal to go to an airport without a "reasonable" excuse. Rule breakers will face a fine of £5,000.
Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock have agreed to make Covid jabs mandatory for care home workers. And this is just the beginning – similar requirements are currently under consideration for other healthcare workers.
Lockdown Sceptics has published an excellent, very thorough demolition of the critique of the Great Barrington Declaration set out in Anti-Virus: COVID-19 FAQ, the oddly-named, now moribund site set up by @NeilDotObrien.
by George Dance Professor Martin Kulldorff, Professor Sunetra Gupta and Professor Jay Bhattacharya The Great Barrington Declaration (GBD),1 under which thousands of scientists and medical practitioners have called for a end to lockdown policies, was drawn up last October 1st-4th, was announced on October 5th, and was already being denounced on October 6th. Over the next month, the GBD and its message were virtually buried beneath an “avalanche of scathing criticism condemning it as ‘very dangerous, unscientific, unethical, total nonsense, dangerously flawed, conspiratorial and grotesque’. Among the critics were prominent role-players such as World Health Organization director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, British chief scientific adviser Patrick Vallance, and US infectious diseases expert Anthony Fauci”.2 Defenders of the lockdown consensus released a counter-manifesto, the John Snow Memorandum,3 ironically named for epidemiology's most famous dissenter from a scientific consensus. At the time I read everything I could on the topic and made copious notes, hoping to write my own perspective on the GBD. Long before I was in a position to do that, though, the debate had moved on, and I never had an opportunity to revisit the subject. Fortunately, there is a new FAQ in town: Anti-Virus: The COVID-19 FAQ.4 This new FAQ may not be the best place to go for scientific advice about the disease; the ‘doctors’ behind it seem ...
Boris Johnson has stressed the importance of keeping the vaccine rollout at its current pace due to the likelihood that the third wave of Covid infections across Europe will hit the UK as well.
James Delingpole has written a guest post for Lockdown Sceptics about being on the march on Saturday. "There was a great deal more racial diversity than you'd find at a BLM or an XR rally," he writes.
Lord Sumption has criticised the act of assuming the worst when lacking evidence, saying that those unwilling to understand the science "have no moral right to demand coercive measures against their fellow citizens".
A summary of all the most interesting stories that have appeared about the virus in the past 24 hours – not just in Britain, but around the world.
A new study has appeared that shows once more that lockdowns have no discernible effect on Covid infections or deaths, despite their colossal costs and harms.
