News Round-Up
7 May 2024
In so many words CDC has quietly admitted that all of the indignities of the COVID-19 pandemic have failed: the masks, the distancing, the lockdowns, the closures, and especially the vaccines, says Harvey Risch.
Using the MHRA's own information on the frequency of adverse reactions to the Pfizer Covid vaccine, Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson come to some sobering estimates of the scale of harm.
Four years on from lockdown, are we already forgetting? The taped-off playgrounds, the debilitating isolation, the 500,000 reports to the police of lockdown infractions. We must not forget, says Joanna Gray.
The WHO is pushing through the Pandemic Agreement and IHR amendments unlawfully as the key deadline to publish the drafts ahead of the World Health Assembly has passed, says Dr David Bell.
Arch-Covidian Christina Berndt has admitted that press discussion of vaccines was too one-sided and school closures were ill-advised, but insists Germany should have locked down even harder.
Pfizer has been fined just £34,800 for promoting its Covid vaccine before authorisation. But this is a criminal offence, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson. When will overpaid bosses face real consequences?
BioNTech acquired its vaccine manufacturing plant in Germany in October or November 2020. How did it know at that point that its vaccine was going to be approved, asks Robert Kogon.
Why does the world keep being sucked into collective crazes like transgenderism, MeToo, lockdowns and BLM in recent years? Lionel Shriver takes the question head on.
An epidemiologist who called it right from the start, on Covid (over-hyped), lockdowns (useless, deadly) and vaccines (effectiveness overplayed, harms underplayed), Prof Eyal Shahar looks back at his articles since 2020.
We've gone from pulling out all the stops during Covid to try to save the frail to contemplating euthanasia, where we'll bump them off. Shouldn't we at least have a vote on it, asks Nick Rendell.
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