News Round-Up
7 May 2024
Professors Sunetra Gupta and Paul Dolan have written a piece for the Telegraph pointing out that the lockdowns imposed across the world last year were based on faith, not evidence, and have had disastrous consequences.
More than one in five adults said they experienced a complete breakdown in a relationship at home or at work in the past year, the U.K.’s largest study of social ties during the pandemic has revealed.
We're publishing a guest piece on the Daily Sceptic by Charlotte Niemiec. In an impressive tour de horizon, she highlights the Government's endless stream of contradictory and nonsensical advice, from face masks on down.
Philippe Lemoine’s articles on the pandemic are required reading. We asked him about the case against lockdowns, why epidemiological models have fared so poorly, and what Emmanuel Macron should have done last year.
Boris Johnson warned today against "premature conclusions" from falling cases, saying Covid is "still a very dangerous disease". Prof Neil Ferguson disagreed, however, saying we'll soon have the pandemic "behind us".
As reported positive cases plummet following 'Freedom Day', the damage limitation among the doomsters begins. But they can't conceal the fact that their models have failed.
Studies have shown that when people observe norms being violated, they become more likely to violate norms themselves. Has the government been undermining social norms by imposing inconvenient rules it can’t enforce?
As infections surge in Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis stands firm: "If anyone is calling for lockdowns, you're not getting that done in Florida."
Far from a big exit wave, as many predicted, in the week since 'Freedom Day' daily new positive tests have dropped by over a third, showing once again that the models are fundamentally flawed.
Our leaders should be ashamed of themselves for how they have abused young people, their trust, and jeopardised their health and strangled their aspirations these past 16 months.
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