News Round-Up
26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
A new paper claims that lockdowns do not cause more health harms than they prevent. But the harmful long-term effects of lockdown are yet to be quantified, so the authors have little basis for their conclusion.
The Question Everything Lockdown Summit took place in London yesterday and featured contributions from many of those who have featured prominently on this site over the past year, not least Toby and Dr Will Jones.
Toby and Will will be joining experts from HART and others including Professor Karol Sikora and Dr Clare Craig at the Question Everything lockdown summit in London on Saturday July 17th. Register now.
A new study from leading U.S. think tank National Bureau of Economic Research has shown (once again) that lockdown policies produced no discernible reduction of the pandemic death toll. If anything, they increased it.
Matt Hancock has told young people to get vaccinated because long Covid could "ruin your life". However, new research shows the symptoms of long Covid in teens are no less common in those who have not had the virus.
The authors of The Great Barrington Declaration have teamed up with several other academics, including Carl Heneghan, to launch Collateral Global, which aims to document the far-reaching impacts of lockdowns.
A Lockdown Sceptics reader writes to tell us about the depressing new "normal" in his workplace. Colleagues were sent home halfway through the day if they hadn't had a test, even if they'd recently recovered from Covid.
The last month has seen more suicides on the Humber Bridge than normally happen in a whole year. Many were young people. The lockdowns are taking their toll on mental health.
Professor of Psychology Ellen Townsend has appeared on the Planet Normal podcast to say how harmful lockdowns have been to children: “We’re putting adults first when we should be putting children first.”
As the Coronavirus Act vote approaches, this devastating new report from the experts at HART shows beyond doubt why the Government's response to Covid has been ineffective and disastrous and a new approach is required.
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