Tag: Lockdown

A YouGov poll for the Times, has revealed that a majority of the British population are opposed to further Covid restrictions. Finally!

We're publishing a guest post on the Daily Sceptic by a a pharmaceutical company exec looking at the effect of 'Plan B'-like measures in Scotland and Wales and concluding they will make zero difference to omicron's impact.

The Office for National Statistics has reported that the number of alcohol deaths increased at a record rate during 2020, with a rise in alcohol consumption observed over the first lockdown.

A new study reviews 11 cost-benefit analyses of lockdown, all of which find that the policy did more harm than good. Results “strongly suggest that lockdowns do not have a favorable cost-benefit balance”.

The former Children's Commissioner for England has said that Covid restrictions have lead to vulnerable and abused children being further abandoned by the authorities and support groups.

Last year saw the largest annual rise in childhood obesity since records began. This brings to mind one of Martin Kulldorff's principles: “Public health is about all health outcomes, not just a single disease.”

With much of Europe already under lockdown restrictions, Denmark and the Netherlands have recorded their first cases of the Omicron variant, which may lead to additional measures being imposed on the Continent.

At the start of 2020, the Guardian and New York Times ran articles describing China's lockdown as "terrifying" and "without precedent". Fast forward to March, and both papers were calling for national lockdowns.

You've heard various climate change fanatics call for lockdowns to be used to reduce carbon emissions. Well, it's starting. India's Supreme Court is calling for a lockdown in New Delhi to combat air pollution.

Documents obtained via an FOI request show that, in March/April of 2020, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs did a cost-benefit analysis of lockdown. It concluded that the costs far outweighed the benefits.