Lockdown sceptics are akin to mass-murdering Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in promoting "antiscience" and causing "mass death", an article in Scientific American has claimed. But do its claims stand up to scrutiny?
A paramedic has written to Lockdown Sceptics to tell us about how through her job she encounters hundreds of sick people every day and hardly ever gets ill, despite never wearing a face mask before the pandemic.
Lord Sumption has warned that masks and social distancing could last for years, saying it is "unrealistic" to expect the Government to remove these "emergency" measures soon since the public has become so used to them.
In an original interview with Lockdown Sceptics, Prof Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford, says vaccine passports are a terrible idea, variants are over-hyped and masks are pointless.
by Oliver May New variants are of no concern. There is no need to cancel summer holidays. Millions vaccinated, coupled with immunity from millions of prior infections means we can surf on the crest of the third wave, rather than being remotely concerned about it. In fact, the UK should open now. And vaccine passports, certificates, or whatever name they are being given, will do nothing to improve the health of the population – all headlines we have read and heard over the past week or so. Except, we haven’t. We have heard and read the opposite. And we are instilled with fear from TV and radio adverts, complete with ‘that scary voice’ all too eager to give listeners nightmares, be it your impressionable primary-school-aged daughter, or a frail older lady now terrified into wearing a mask outside while waiting for a bus with no one within a 50-metre radius. But the reality is that the above headlines could have been written – and all based on science. Jayanta Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and one of the co-authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, the report that called for the focused protection of the vulnerable and no lockdowns, signed by almost 14,000 medical and public health scientists, nearly 42,000 medical practitioners and close to 765,000 concerned ...
Masks and social distancing could remain in the UK for several years after lockdown, "at least until other parts of the world are as well vaccinated as we are", according to a Public Health England official.
A child has been sent home from school in Sweden for wearing a face mask. Yes, you read that correctly. Linus Jefford, a 13 year-old, was told to go home after he refused to remove his mask.
Julia Whitaker, a freelance Health Play Specialist, has written a furious letter to UsForThem Scotland about compulsory face masks in Scottish secondary schools. We have republished it in full.
Too many adults in positions of responsibility for children have failed to speak up for these children against damaging Covid regulations in schools, says Molly Kingsley of the UsForThem campaign.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson faces a legal challenge over the wearing of face masks in schools as he is told that official guidance will have "devastating” effects for deaf children.
