News Round-Up
5 May 2024
by Will Jones
Journalists are now having to write up spectacular growth rates in Australian coral through gritted keyboards, as official data show coral cover hits its highest point since records began.
New data show Covid infections and deaths in New Zealand have overtaken Australia in the latest Omicron wave despite ultra-strict mask mandates that were dropped in Australia.
Deprivation of rights for months on end, constantly-shifting petty rules backed up with threats, victimisation of particular groups – there's a word for how Governments have treated us the past two years: bullying.
For the first two years of the pandemic, Iceland and Australia did not see any spike in excess mortality. That has now changed, casting further doubt on claims the vaccines are 90% effective against death.
Despite clear evidence that major risk factors for adverse outcomes in Covid cases are obesity, low Vitamin D levels and diabetes, there has been a conspicuous lack of public health education from the health authorities.
Looking at excess mortality for the EU-27, the peak in November of 2021 – after the vaccine rollout and three previous waves – was higher than the peak in April of 2021 – when the population was immunologically naive.
The Australian's Steve Waterson has written a guest post for the Daily Sceptic in which he rails against the stupidity of Australia's management of the pandemic. Could the ruling class have handed it any worse?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said his anti-lockdown policies in Florida helped prevent America from looking "like Canada or Australia" and celebrated his defiance of "health bureaucrats".
Models are neither science nor data but a set of assumptions that generate their own tautological conclusions. More than a war on the virus, lockdowns proved to be a war on the poor to protect the laptop class.
Why have infections, ICU admissions and deaths been hugely higher in Australia after the vaccine rollout than before? What does this tell us about the efficacy of the vaccines?
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