The collateral damage of the pandemic response was "substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people", a major new study has found.
The leading proponents of lockdown have tried to evade a reckoning by putting out their own whitewash report. Jeffrey Tucker is having none of it.
Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.
More than half of the public is unhappy with the NHS, polling shows, with a doubling in dissatisfaction in just two years, and warnings of a “tipping point” from which it is hard to recover.
To mark the third anniversary of lockdown, Allison Pearson has an interview with Anders Tegnell, the heroic Swedish state epidemiologist who single-handedly saved Sweden from following the world into lockdown.
As a survey shows 93% of Icelanders still believe all the restrictions of the last three years were justified, Thorsteinn Siglaugsson wonders what it will take for us to avoid repeating the same mistakes over again.
Every time one pupil tested positive in a class, the whole class was sent home for two weeks. Now we know Matt Hancock rejected advice to cut the isolation period to five days just to save face. Did he not care?
Much that happened from March 2020 was panicked. But was there an ultimate aim to the chaos, namely to make way for a 'saviour vaccine' that would only be accepted if the public had had 'the pants frightened off them'?
The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the current wider financial crisis are a result of the economic fallout from years of lockdown policies that crippled Western economies and filled them with low-interest debt.
A morally injured workforce is evidence that the response to Covid was morally wrong, and many workers will need support to come to terms with the realisation they have inadvertently harmed those they meant to protect.
