An official Bundestag report is about to be published concluding that lockdowns and other Covid containment measures in Germany did more harm than good. The pro-lockdown establishment is frantically trying to discredit it.
The fundamental message of Bill Gates's new book 'How to Prevent the Next Pandemic' is that we can stop future pandemics by doing all of the things that did not stop the last pandemic, only more, faster and harder.
There was, without a doubt and in the earliest stages, a kind of lockdown cabal, a small group of people who worked to bring some simulacrum of the Hubei response first to Italy and then to most of the globe.
Masking, green passes, closures, and Christian Drosten too – all of them were part of the same system of social, cultural and intellectual strangulation from which Germans have now been released.
The New York Times was a huge cheerleader for brutal lockdown policies in the US and a lead smearer of the protesters. Yet now the scene has moved to China, the Gray Lady has suddenly swapped sides.
According to Eugyppius, Emily Oster, the author of the Atlantic piece on why lockdown and vaccine zealots should be forgiven, is a typical Head Girl: pretty, popular, sociable, conscientious and rigidly conformist.
PCR testing has been abused during the pandemic with high cycle thresholds routinely used to inflate the 'case' count with meaningless positives. Nonetheless, it should not be doubted that PCR detects SARS-CoV-2 RNA.
Last week, the German Bundestag passed the Infection Protection Act, empowering federal states to impose mask mandates this winter. Why is Germany doubling down on a measure that does so little to prevent transmission?
