Tag: Lockdown

In 2016, there were 181,384 casualties on Britain’s roads, including 1,792 deaths. And emissions from road transport cause 4,900 early deaths every year. So should the Government prevent people from driving cars?

When asked about the exemption for football VIPs, a government source said, "It's important to be able to host international events". But why isn’t it important to be able to host weddings and concerts?

According to The Education Endowment Foundation, research on the impact of school closures on students’ learning "shows a consistent pattern". Students have made "less academic progress" than in previous years.

Many countries have imposed night curfews in an attempt to reduce the spread of COVID-19. How successful have these measures been? According to a recent study, they may have actually increased transmission.

Lockdown Sceptics' in-house doctor says Chris Whitty's slide show at yesterday's Downing St briefing was a blatant exercise in biased data selection.

Nightclubs and bars are considering suing the Government to prevent the extension of lockdown beyond June 21st, according to reports.

Deaths in England and Wales have been below the five-year average for 11 of the past 12 weeks. Given that 80% of adults now have COVID antibodies, what possible grounds could there be to delay the full reopening?

The claim, repeated by Dominic Cummings to MPs yesterday, that without a lockdown in March 2020 "the NHS is going to be smashed in weeks" is demonstrably false. Infections were declining even as the words were spoken.

Dominic Cummings has written a pro-lockdown Twitter thread, but it isn't very convincing. Here's a point-by-point response.

Men in service and elementary occupations were more likely to die of COVID-19 than those in professional and managerial occupations. This may be because lockdown shifted the burden of COVID-19 onto the working class.