Camilla Tominey asks whether the time has come for those politicians, scientists and journalists who vilified lockdown sceptics for having ‘blood on their hands’ should to fall to their knees and beg for forgiveness?
Binge-eating and lack of exercise during lockdown has led to a massive increase in people suffering from Gout. 234,000 patients were admitted to hospital with gout in 2021/22, according to NHS Digital.
We were told there was no alternative to lockdown after Neil Ferguson warned of 200,000 deaths. But official UK inquiries into previous pandemics described modellers as 'court astrologers' and advised scepticism.
Warnings of lockdown cancer delays went unheeded, experts have said, as it emerged 10,000 NHS patients have been waiting for treatment for more than three months.
Australia's decision to field a Covid-positive cricketer at the Commonwealth Games has sparked claims of hypocrisy given the country's hard line on lockdowns and its decision to deport Novak Djokovic over the vaccine.
"Ultimately, New Zealand’s Zero Covid strategy was immoral, incoherent and a grand failure," writes Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr Jay Bhattacharya.
The free world's first lockdowns were imposed on towns in Lombardy, Italy, on February 21st 2020 by Health Minister Roberto Speranza. What influences lay behind his momentous decision?
At a Conservative leadership hustings event tonight Liz Truss ruled out placing Britain in lockdown again if she was Prime Minister. "No I wouldn’t,“ she said, when asked if would ever authorise another one.
A contributor to the Daily Sceptic has devised a template email to send to the Conservative leadership candidates asking them whether they'd lock us down again in the event of another pandemic.
The Sunday Times has discovered, rather belatedly, that the lockdown policy may have caused a teensy weensy bit of harm! Tom Calver, the Data Projects Editor, has documented the damage in a must-read piece.
