Tag: Lockdown

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.

After the first lockdown was announced, a train was derailed by its driver who was trying to arrange childcare so he could continue to go to work. A passenger train then collided with his train.

A new study from MIT shows that social distancing is no protection from indoor transmission because the aerosols fill the room. However, the assumptions about the protection offered by masks are bizarre.

The latest cautionary tale being held up to locked down Britons as the reason we can't be released is Chile, where an ambitious vaccination programme has not prevented a new surge. But is all as it seems?