NYC's death toll in the first Covid wave was unusually high. Many blame the ventilator panic. However, new analysis shows that ventilators cannot be held responsible for more than a fifth of the deaths that spring.
Lockdown sceptics were denounced as granny killers, banned, shadow-banned and cancelled. Yet as Allison Pearson points out, the Lockdown Files show we were right.
Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson, in partnership with Big Brother Watch, have discovered they were being spied upon by various shadowy state agencies, including the 77th Brigade. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth.
Various state agencies, including the 77th Brigade, spied on lockdown sceptics, according to Big Brother Watch. Incredibly, the Government convinced these agencies that critics of its polices are enemies of the state.
Censorship on social media has contributed to the devastating impact of pandemic measures by shutting down debate about harms and effectiveness. The return of dissenting voices to Twitter is something to celebrate.
Twitter kept a 'secret blacklist' of topics and accounts, including prominent lockdown sceptics such as Stanford's Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, to prevent them from trending, according to data obtained by journalist Bari Weiss.
Ron DeSantis’s resounding victory in Florida is a vindication of his lockdown scepticism. Ridiculed by Democrats for ignoring ‘expert’ advice, DeSantis got it right and the voters have rewarded him.
New PM Rishi Sunak was the lockdown Chancellor. But he has also boasted he cut short an overseas trip to stop lockdown last December. Can he be trusted to stick to a sceptical line on the new public health orthodoxy?
More than two and a half years since Boris Johnson confined the nation to its homes, the Guardian has finally decided it's time to run some criticism of it.
One of the many charges levelled at Brazil's President Bolsonaro is that his sceptical handling of the pandemic was "disastrous". A comparison with other countries, however, quickly shows that to be nonsense.
