Tag: Pandemic

Government ministers are reported to be alarmed by plans to give the WHO sweeping new powers to impose lockdowns and other countermeasures on the U.K.

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.

How do you get people to take expensive medicine against something that hits them on average once a year and lasts a few days, like a cold? By manufacturing a pandemic, say Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson.

Covid is no longer a global emergency, according to leaders at the World Health Organisation. What, really? Keep up, guys. Oh, but it is still a "pandemic". Seriously, let it go.

The Government's use of psychological techniques to increase fear to boost compliance with pandemic measures destroyed the public's ability to consent to vaccines, the Chairman of the UK Council for Psychotherapy has said.

Turning the NHS into a Covid service was always going to end in catastrophe, and now the explosion in serious cancers may have a more serious long-term effect than the virus itself, says top cancer doctor Karol Sikora.

The WHO is set to receive extraordinary autocratic new powers to impose legally binding pandemic countermeasures on nation states, under which Sweden would not have been allowed to follow its own path.

After our great successes in dealing with the Covid crisis, why not deal with the pothole crisis in the same way? Here's what that could look like.

The 2015 Zika panic, like the 2020 Covid panic, resulted in extreme global over-reaction. Yet when the smoke cleared it turned out there was no microcephaly epidemic. But the world just moved on and forgot.

Did the original lockdown of January 2020 work in China? It was the role model for all that followed, and even some sceptics think it was effective on its own terms. But is that what the evidence shows?