Anthony Fauci will testify before Congress today about his role in the (mis)management of the pandemic. Expect him to admit he made up social distancing rules and thinks the virus may well have originated in a lab.
Dr David Livermore, retired professor of Medical Microbiology at UEA, asks us to spare a thought for the perma-masked this Christmas. They are not well and deserve our compassion.
Law professor David McGrogan has spent Christmas in Japan, where the masked up population still lives in mortal fear of catching Covid, in spite of government efforts to get them to return to normal.
The New York Times is urging the pandemic faithful to put their masks back on. Judging from the comments, its readers need little persuading.
14 year-old Jack Watson has written a piece for the Daily Sceptic about the impact of the pandemic on his education. He says the only lesson he learned in two years is the rules don’t apply to those who make them.
Last week, the German Bundestag passed the Infection Protection Act, empowering federal states to impose mask mandates this winter. Why is Germany doubling down on a measure that does so little to prevent transmission?
Mask-wearing had no discernible impact on the spread of COVID-19 in Europe during winter 2020-21 and may actually have increased mortality, a study has found.
We're publishing a "Postcard From Ireland" by longstanding contributor Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an Associate Researcher in Philosophy at Newcastle University. Her first visit to the home country for the first time in two years was both heartening and depressing, as she makes clear. Here is an extract: Two years of the most turmoil the world had ever known, and the Republic somehow unchanged.There were masks, yes. Oh my, were there masks. On the day before Christmas Eve, I sat in the car for a full hour-and-a-half just outside the entrance to Dunnes Stores supermarket, waiting while my sister queued outside to get in and then queued inside to get out again. I may have seen as many as 500 people as I waited, queueing outside to get in and then inside to get out again. How many went without a mask? Aside from very young children, not one. The Irish mask like no one else on earth – with the possible exception of the residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts.But staring so long at such total compliance produced a kind of optical illusion. Though there was not a single face on show, I began to imagine that there was or to forget that there was not. I began to see faces. The horror of Covid masking somehow retreated. How could this be?Nobody ...
We're publishing a guest post by Daily Sceptic regular Dr. Sinéad Murphy, an an academic philosopher. She returns to the subject of Joseph, her autistic son, who's missed almost a year-and-a-half of schooling.
