Tag: Panic

A staggering £1.4bn in PPE has been destroyed or written off in the most wasteful Government deal of the pandemic.

German officials have been caught admitting that they overstated the risk of COVID-19 to the public on the directions of the Ministry of Health in newly released FOI documents.

According to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, of the £12bn spent on PPE in 2020-21, £9 billion was wasted due to inflated prices or shoddy equipment. Has the Government learned the lessons?

It is the prerogative of every society to believe it is uniquely afflicted by existential threats, ruled by waves of corrupt incompetents and saddled with a feckless, spoiled younger generation of popinjays.

At 5am on Thursday morning, a grainy video purporting to show a lioness in the woods near Berlin made the rounds on Twitter. In the panic that ensued, people locked themselves in their homes and events were cancelled.

The 'pandemic' is the greatest medical scandal of the century caused by pharmaceutical companies whipping up panic and unduly influencing the WHO, said the Council of Europe Health Chief – in 2010.

According to a new analysis of people with medical or public health credentials tweeting about the risk Monkeypox posed to children last year, 82% overstated or exaggerated it.

Brace for panic as England's autumn Covid wave begins, with figures showing both infections and virus admissions to hospital starting to surge and patients up 48% in a week.

Panicked Chinese residents in the Chinese city of Chengdu have been clambering over each other at supermarket counters and stripping shelves bare amid fears that lockdown could result in food shortages.

We know that younger people are less likely to be seriously ill, less likely to need prolonged admission and far less likely to die. So why the panic?