News Round-Up
3 October 2024
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3 October 2024
by Will Jones
What We Have Lost
2 October 2024
The number of children now persistently absence from school has surged to 1.6 million after Lockdowns “normalised” staying at home, says Children's Commissioner. And constant strikes by teachers are making things worse.
The collateral damage of the pandemic response was "substantial, wide-ranging and will leave behind a legacy of harm for hundreds of millions of people", a major new study has found.
The pandemic lockdowns showed what was possible for governments in responding to emergencies and these lessons should be applied to climate change, a German Government report has said.
The leading proponents of lockdown have tried to evade a reckoning by putting out their own whitewash report. Jeffrey Tucker is having none of it.
Neil Gorsuch, a Supreme Court justice, has spoken out against the decisions by numerous US states to close churches, schools and businesses during the lockdowns, while allowing casinos and multiplexes to remain open.
Three years in, “we are no closer to finding the origins of Covid.” Dr. Alice C. Hughes argues it’s time to stop obsessing over ‘animal zero’ and focus on understanding how viruses spill over into human populations.
Calvary Chapel San Jose has been ordered to pay fines of $1.2 million for failing to comply with mask mandates and other pointless Covid restrictions between August 2020 and January 2021.
We will soon have the WHO's proposed Pandemic Accord debated in Parliament. The organisation denies it is an assault on sovereignty. Dr. Tess Lawrie calls it an "outrageous" plan to “give the WHO power over your life”.
"I didn’t see a lot of other reporters at the Covid Litigation Conference." Krista Mahr, a healthcare reporter for Politico, delves into America’s growing tide of litigation over alleged harms caused by the Covid response.
"I don’t regret speaking out, but I won’t pretend that it has been an easy ride." Headteacher Mike Fairclough spoke out to safeguard kids from the damaging effects of Covid restrictions - and he has paid a high price.
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