First it was: "Sweden's a disaster!" Then it was: "Sweden did worse than its neighbours!" The latest excess mortality estimates from the ONS show that Sweden did *better* than three out of four other Nordic countries.
In retrospect, it’s doubtful if the degree of state coercion deployed to increase vaccine uptake would have been possible without the ground having first been prepared with lockdowns and masks, writes Ramesh Thakur.
Lancet Editor Richard Horton has said: "We know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, usually ignorant and frequently wrong." And that was before Covid came along.
When biowarfare expert Robert Kadlec took on running America's Covid response in 2020, he must have been very glad that during 2019 he'd run a presciently similar pandemic exercise across the US Government.
How suspicious should we be that US intelligence analysts picked up on what they deemed a dangerous novel virus in China at a time when there's no evidence China had picked up on it or was concerned?
In April of 2020, Sweden's epidemic began to recede at the same time as other European countries' epidemics, despite no lockdown. So why did people, including the 'experts', continue calling for lockdowns?
In a special Christmas fairy tale for the Daily Sceptic, David Stacey imagines how different the last two-and-a-half years would have been if Anders Tegnell had been in charge of Britain’s response to the pandemic.
Without dissenters to pandemic policies, it would have taken much longer to exit lockdowns. Yet there was a concerted effort in government and media to discredit all dissent, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.
"If nothing is done, we are headed towards a new type of fascist totalitarianism, from which there may be no escape." Thorsteinn Siglaugsson reflects on Simon Elmer's new book about the pandemic biosecurity state.
The source of America's lockdown rules has been tracked down, and it turns out Twitter's former 'chief censor' Vijaya Gadde is an adviser to it.
