News Round-Up
19 May 2024
by Will Jones
BBC Comes to Terms With Collapsing EV Market
17 May 2024
by Sallust
...the potential death toll put it at half a million in the UK alone. Shortages of basic foods and other essentials stoked real fears of supply chain breakdown, hunger, social...
...progress everywhere else (see: the Sunbelt Spike in the USA). Yet the media likes to pretend that this is due to governors ‘failing’ with their lockdowns as the epidemic moves...
...the national average for the USA (1,278). And we might compare our numbers to the most savagely locked-down state, Massachusettes, with its 2,057 COVID-19 deaths per million. And, let’s preempt...
...write about a recent visit to the state of Georgia in the good ’ole USA. My wife and I travelled to Helen, Georgia, a small town in the foothills just...
...while being unqualified and unregistered to do so thereby potentially endangering the health and wellbeing of UK citizens. The General Medical Council must take steps to instruct Saga Cruises and...
...time again and strong empirical evidence now exists showing that lockdowns are not critical to combatting Covid. Cases were already falling before all three UK lockdowns were announced. Lockdown-averse Sweden...
...So only event rates above these figures indicate that a test is usefully detecting real cases. First, primary schools (presume teachers and staff): 2,031,296 tests; 4,232 positives – that is...
...signatures. Delighted it’s making an impact “A truly frightening backlog’: ex-NHS chief warns of delays in vital care” – The NHS’s former boss Sir David Nicholson has warned that “patients...
...prevailing narratives, with much of the public looking to big-government to ‘save them’ from any risk of SARS-CoV-2 through lockdown. This is particularly evident in the USA where support for...
...a fairytale denying the basics of germ theory.” https://twitter.com/tomhfh/status/1382335185723781121 Even some die-hard lockdown sceptics will say that lockdowns work, in the sense of suppressing transmission for a time, but they...
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