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2 December 2024
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Tilda Swinton is done with Covid protocols on film sets, revealing she is now refusing to wear a mask on set. When even the luvvies who had Long Covid are refusing to wear a mask, does this mean change is in the air?
Thorsteinn Siglaugsson has fact-checked the fact checker whose work is being used to discredit the Cochrane review on masking which concluded there's no high-quality evidence that face masks reduce the spread of COVID-19.
Pro-mask crusader Prof Trish Greenhalgh recently plumbed new depths of distortion and misinformation in her mission to force humankind to hide their faces behind strips of cloth or plastic, writes Dr. Gary Sidley.
Protests and the failed zero-Covid policy have damaged China’s President. But the Chinese people may now finally be ready to move into the post-Covid era, writes Hong Kong resident Kwai Lou in the Daily Sceptic.
Germany has incinerated 17 million unused face masks that have 'expired'. It still has four billion in Government inventories for which the clock is ticking. Yet it's still buying more!
NHS mask mandates are arbitrary, depending more on where you happen to live than any actual science. Yet they don't seem to be going away, writes Paul Stevens.
Boris Johnson was secretly nudged into wearing a mask, according to the head of the Government's 'nudge unit', who says he turned his powers of persuasion on the PM after "it became clear he was not leading by example".
Mask wearing, social distancing and working from home could be introduced by ministers to 'ease pressures on the NHS', as some experts call for Britons to start adopting Covid-era measures.
Lancet Editor Richard Horton has said: "We know that the system of peer review is biased, unjust, unaccountable, usually ignorant and frequently wrong." And that was before Covid came along.
In our supposedly liberal and transparent democratic country, it seems that it was a group of remote and unnamed scientists, outside of SAGE, who effectively imposed masks on British citizens, writes Dr Gary Sidley.
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