News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
When the virus is surging somewhere we never hear the end of it. But when somewhere like Florida or Texas lifts restrictions we hear not a thing. The public is kept in the dark by a biased and doom-obsessed media.
Academics who produce models predicting doom for places which don't lock down should be challenged to hindcast for states which stay open. If they can't get the past right, why should we trust them for the future?
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who kept his state open all winter, has given a new interview where he talks of his regret in locking down and the challenges he faced reopening in the face of fierce opposition.
Boris said the lockdown has been "overwhelmingly important". But several places have seen numbers decline absent a lockdown, and evidence suggests the infection peak in UK occurred before our three lockdowns were imposed.
We're publishing an interview today with Kevin McKernan, a PCR expert. He believes the UK’s testing system is “a mess” and not using PCR to diagnose other diseases is “killing people”. He also thinks the UK’s glacial reopening is “madness” and that the we should follow in the footsteps of Florida.
Having listened to an interview with Prof Jeremy Brown of the JCVI, maths student Glen Bishop draws on the real world data to offer a critique of some of the points he made.
Two more places show that the "more contagious and deadly" Kent variant fails to live up to the hype: Texas and Florida. Both have no restrictions and a high prevalence of Kent Covid, but no surge.
A new study has appeared that shows once more that lockdowns have no discernible effect on Covid infections or deaths, despite their colossal costs and harms.
Much of America is only just starting to emerge from months under lockdown, but in Florida people are living their lives as close to normal as currently seems possible. Plus, cases and hospitalisations continue to fall.
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