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Response to Consultation document: Human Medicine Regulations

Introduction Evidence has shown that Covid-19 is far from being “the biggest threat this country has faced in peacetime history”, although the statement may well be true of the government's draconian, disproportionate and often illogical responses to it. Many highly-qualified experts in medical and scientific fields would dispute the assertion that the government “is working to a scientifically led, step-by-step action plan for tackling the pandemic”, particularly as the government's handling of the disease remains based upon comprehensively discredited modelled outcomes produced by Prof. Neil Ferguson et al. Indeed, actual data shows that the pandemic has in fact ended as far as the UK and many other countries are concerned and that the “second wave” being threatened by the Minster for Health is extremely unlikely to happen1. The SARS-CoV2 virus has behaved similarly to other virus outbreaks and the patterns of spread and decline have been perfectly normal, with the overall outcome being on a par with a bad influenza season. One key difference though is that unlike influenza, SARS-CoV2 rarely causes serious illness to younger people without pre-existing health issues and should actually be easier to manage since vulnerable groups are more easily identified. Given the above, it is evident that there is no current public health emergency due to SARS-CoV2, nor is there likely to be one in...

Postcard From Angola

A young girl walks through the Buracos market, in the Angolan restive region of Cabinda, on April 9th, 2019 in Cabinda, Angola. Photo by Daniel GARELO PENSADOR/AFP via Getty Images. After following Lockdown Sceptics for months with interest, a daily routine that much contributes to slowing down my eroding sanity, I felt compelled to contribute with a postcard of sorts from Luanda. I would prefer to remain anonymous for more or less obvious reasons, and I apologise for my language mistakes as I am not a native English-speaker. I thought it would be worth it to stress the immense, gargantuan damage that the COVID-19 global reaction is causing to most African countries. I’m not here referring only to the obvious economic chaos, misery and hunger that will be spread over years to come, in which deaths will surely be measured in millions. Rather, I’d like to point out that what is happening right now in countries like Angola. It far outreaches, by orders of magnitude, what in the West is perceived as eroding personal liberties and growing authoritarianism. It brings dystopian perceptions to new unthinkable levels. Angola is a country in tropical Africa of roughly 30 million people, has of the youngest and fastest-growing populations in the world, and ranks quite high when it comes to corruption, child mortality and...

Postcard from Disneyland Paris

The Covid dragon prepares to breath virus particles on any visitors not wearing masks We all need a little normalcy in our lives. And a little fun. Hence, with lockdowns threatening to make a comeback in the winter months, it was quickly determined in our household that it was now or never to get our fill of the Disney themepark experience. It is still not popularly acknowledged, but such attractions are genuinely at risk of permanent closure due to the appalling economics associated with low capacity operations. I had run the numbers on the airline sector. They were bad enough. But theme parks like Disneyland were equally vulnerable. (Do see South Park’s Cartmanland episode to get the basic idea). V-shape or no v-shape recovery, the economic damage is such that in the long run only government bailouts or nationalisation are likely to preserve such assets. A nationalised Disneyland, however, is not something I can realistically stomach. And so it was we decided to set off to Paris and bear the consequences of quarantine. Unfortunately, what we encountered upon arrival was worse than anything I could ever have anticipated. Disneyland Paris is no more. What used to be a beaming beacon of American enlightenment values, liberty and human potential has been radically shifted and morphed into the exact opposite. Disney is...

Do Medical Complications and Lingering Effects Make COVID-19 an Unusually Dangerous Diseases?

This is a review of the evidence concerning the medical complications and lingering effects of COVID-19 by an epidemiologist and a retired Professor of Forensic and Biological Anthropology. COVID-19 death rates have fallen across much of Europe since a peak in early April, irrespective of governments’ responses to the virus. Even in those countries at lower latitudes – Brazil, India and the southern United States – death rates also appear to be falling, following a flatter trajectory. These patterns are akin to those of another seasonal respiratory virus – influenza, where declining fatality rates reflect a natural seasonal waning of the disease. In the absence of a high seroprevalence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, the evidence of natural immunity – including innate and T-cell mediated immunity and cross-immunity conferred by exposure to other coronaviruses – offers an explanation at the community, cellular and molecular level for how immunity to COVID-19 may be leading to a decline in infection rates across the world. Nonetheless, acute complications of COVID-19 in children, and the persistence of symptoms following serious and, as noted in the media, mild illness may be seen as posing sufficient risk to justify attempts to maximally suppress SARS-CoV-2 through ongoing or intensified Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions. But how substantial are the complications of COVID-19 in children? What are the connotations of symptom persistence? And are...

Postcard from Dumfries

Last Friday, I put my car in for service at Locharbriggs near Dumfries. To pass the time away, together with my little cocker spaniel, we walked along the very pleasant former railway trackbed to Dumfries town centre, a five-mile hike. Having arrived at the main square I sat down to enjoy a Classic Magnum, watched avidly by my dog Dusty, eagerly waiting to lick off his entitlement from the stick. The town centre was fairly busy but nothing like as busy as it was before the UK governments began their destruction of the small businesses and the panic measures enforced by draconian regulations and powers. As a former police officer of middle rank and happily retired, I began people watching, a habit I have been unable to change since retirement. As a law graduate, my interest was in criminology and I found that Lombroso's Theory of Criminology, although discredited, was useful to spot and keep an eye on potential miscreants. This theory would I suppose be identified by the woke brigade as racial or unwarranted profiling and no doubt present day senior officers of the spineless and promotion ladder plotter type would not approve of such profiling. Basically the theory involved stature and appearance. The shape of the head was quite important and although not necessarily infallible, it formed a...

Postcard from Berlin

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q7oqRawiE0g This weekend I went to Berlin to attend a protest entitled “Berlin invites Europe – Festival for freedom and peace” organised by Querdenken, an organisation based in Stuttgart, who organised several protests with the aim of “reinstating fundamental rights and repealing the COVID-19 restrictions”. Before attending the protest, I visited the Berlin Story Museum to see an exhibition called “How could it happen?” about Hitler’s rise to power, and the horrors of the Nazi regime. We were instructed to wear masks at the entrance – and we meekly complied. However, the bunker was very hot and I found it difficult to breathe, so while no one was watching and no other tourists were nearby, I let the mask slip under my nose. About three minutes later, an enormous, grey-haired security guard charged into the room, put himself between me and the information I was reading (much closer than 1.5 metres), and glared down at me. He informed me that he had seen that my mask was not covering my nose through the security cameras he had been monitoring, and that this was against the museum’s policy. I was so intimidated by this giant masked man appearing three inches from my face, that I was left speechless, took a few steps back, apologised and obeyed. That all this happened in...

Do Masks Increase Risk of Transmission?

The use of face coverings by the general public to help stop the spread of COVID-19 has become the most visible sign of the coronavirus pandemic, constantly reminding us that things are not normal. The idea behind the use of face coverings is that because a large number of COVID-19 sufferers (the majority?) have mild to no symptoms, wearing a face covering will prevent these individuals from inadvertently infecting others. Current evidence is that COVID-19 is transmitted via two main routes: respiratory droplets and surface contact. Face coverings are assumed to be effective at capturing respiratory droplets, which is the rationale for their use. But what about their impact on transmission through surface contact? The aim of face coverings is to prevent an asymptomatic individual from infecting others. For such an individual, their face covering would become saturated with respiratory droplets containing coronavirus and in fact, the more effective the face covering, the more virus it will have captured. So if an infectious individual touched their face covering, they would potentially be contaminating their fingers with coronavirus…which they could then transfer to the next thing they touched – like a door-handle, handrail or table. Although such an individual could have still contaminated their hands and the environment whilst not wearing a face covering, the fact that the face covering has...

Brazil – Not the Disaster We’ve Been Led to Believe

After writing my "Postcard from Brazil", I realized it would be very difficult for most of my fellow lockdown skeptics to check my numbers about the progress of CIVID-19 in Brazil, as this information is generally only available in local Portuguese language media. The western press corp of propagandists are completely obsessed with Brazil being a bubbling cauldron of death and despair, and actually doing any investigation on the issue would result in stepping outside the official narrative. Can't have that! I wanted to do my part to bring some alternative information on South America to a Western audience. I'll link to the local articles for proof, but they are in Portuguese and most are paywalled. See what you can do. The fact is, the story of Brazil and Covid is a fascinating one. I think it leads to some interesting conclusions about immunity, lockdowns, and individual freedoms. CliffsNotes: immunity is important, lockdowns don't work, and freedoms are worth dying for – but we already knew that. Recent history lesson. In Brazil, the first states affected by Covid were São Paulo, Rio De Janeiro and Amazonas. Rio and São Paulo are epicentres of tourism with multiple daily flights to Europe, and big Italian diaspora populations. They are also very dense states with multiple large cities. Amazonas is a strange one....

Letter From a Liberal Sceptic

George Orwell: Patron saint of left-wing sceptics Thank you for publishing "The Left Wing Case Against Lockdown" by Alexis Fitzgerald. I am a Guardian-reading, remain-voting, Liberal Democrat who tactically voted Labour in the last election and I am very much in support of the information you are disseminating on Lockdown Sceptics. COVID-19 was politicised early on, as happens with every news item once it reaches social media, and sadly identity politics and fear have turned the narrative into a tragic reimagining of The Emperor’s New Clothes.  Let me preface this by saying that I’ve never been one for conspiracy theories: There was a moon landing. The earth is round. My child is vaccinated. I know there is a virus, unrelated to 5G, whose effects can be severe with tragic consequences. However, I have been sceptical about the official risk assessments since the news footage from Wuhan emerged at the start of the year. And when a global reaction is so over-archingly bewildering that it has “someone like me” thinking there is more to this than meets the eye, something is wrong. I’ve stopped short (just) of believing that China engineered the entire thing to destroy the US economy and take down Trump. I did read the article in The Asia Times that linked to last October's “Event 201” and find it rather odd this 'event' isn’t talked about more...

Postcard from Bogotá

For the first time in my life I fled from the Police. Running at 7am in my local park all by myself and with a mask over my face, a motorcycle with two policemen approaching on the narrow trail. I saw them early enough and was able to sprint away from the path and hide until they were out of sight. Exercising outdoors is again forbidden, and violation costs a hefty fine (equivalent to $300). My neighbourhood Chapinero was forced into strict lockdown again for two weeks on August 16th. All shops and businesses had to close again (except those which sell food or medicine) and citizens are only allowed outside for emergencies or to buy these products. Colombians have been in lockdown since March 20th and compete with other Latin American countries for the longest lockdown in the world award. When Covid threatened to arrive in March 2020, the President made a public statement that a country like Colombia with a more fragile economic and social structure compared to European countries could not lock down completely and that the government would pursue intelligent measures of tracking and isolation. Two days after this, the Mayor of Bogotá unilaterally announced a simulation of quarantine over a long weekend. This measure was the detonator for the country to lock down. Strictly for two-and-a-half months,...

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