We now face the entirely likely and illogical situation whereby HMRC will attempt to close businesses which may have a Government-backed loan, the cost to the taxpayer of which may be higher than the actual debt itself.
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.
We are now perhaps emerging blinking into a life without Covid rules and yet the masks and their wearers are still everywhere. The natural world is unchanged, but the human world is still dystopian.
NHS waiting lists will not start to fall for two years, Sajid Javid has said, with more than 300,000 people facing waits of over a year for treatment, compared with 1,600 before the pandemic – a nearly 200-fold rise.
Lockdown sceptics were publicly shamed and vilified for saying lockdowns won’t work in March 2020, but now we have evidence they were a disaster. May it never happen again.
The mass testing of healthy children is “invasive and unevidenced”, causes significant damage to children and needs to stop, scientists and clinicians have told MPs and Peers.
Lockdown restrictions had little to no effect on the number of COVID-19 deaths, a new meta-analysis of empirical studies from the Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics and Global Health has found.
The Dutch Government has said it will ease its COVID-19 restrictions from Wednesday despite record reported infections, which have come despite the restrictions and the country being 90% vaccinated.
Now that Covid restrictions are being rolled back, some are declaring victory over the miserable virus. Lockdowns, we are told, worked. Only a fool could argue otherwise. But this misses vital evidence.
Allison Pearson lists the most lunatic lockdown measures as she recalls being pilloried for being a lockdown sceptic, but increasingly her opponents are admitting she was right.
