Tag: Lockdown

The boundary between liberal democracy and draconian dictatorship proved to be virus thin, writes Professor Ramesh Thakur. Tools of repression became uncomfortably familiar on the streets of Western democracies.

Professor Mark Woolhouse of the University of Edinburgh, a member of the SAGE Covid modelling group, has told the Covid Inquiry his team was never asked to model the harms of lockdown or how to avoid it.

UKHSA's 100 Covid models that it says are the evidence base for lockdown are not science, say Professor Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson, who have now gone through and reviewed them all.

In the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain's lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order.

Cabinet Secretary Simon Case said he believed Carrie Johnson was the real Prime Minister during lockdown, text messages shown at the Covid Inquiry reveal.

Sweden showed up the lockdown countries with its lower overall excess mortality after three years. But why has the birth rate plummeted and why are excess deaths still running hot, asks Robert Kogon.

Prof Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson have taken it upon themselves to appraise the UKHSA's evidence for Covid restrictions. No wonder they didn't want to do it themselves, they say: it's a complete mess.

At the U.K. Covid Inquiry last week the Lead Counsel, Hugo Keith KC, claimed Covid would have grown "exponentially" without lockdown while the British Medical Association called for earlier, harder restrictions.

Well, it now looks as if the grandees are turning against each other, with Sir Patrick Vallance, the Government's Chief Scientific Adviser during Covid, accusing politicians of cherry-picking the science.

Why is a Conservative Prime Minister following the lead of health authoritarian Jacinda Ardern in introducing a progressive smoking ban that will see everyone born after 2009 banned from buying cigarettes?