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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
As the Covid Inquiry continues to suggest that locking down earlier would have saved lives, Nick Rendell reminds us that infections were already falling before lockdown and any response would have seemed to 'work'.
Recent polls have found that the majority of Brits are still very much pro-lockdown. But what explains their support for a policy that imposed such huge costs? Noah Carl examines six factors that may be involved.
Lockdown proponents continue to get a free pass in making unwarranted assertions about lockdowns being necessary and effective, despite the evidence clearly showing infections falling ahead of lockdowns being imposed.
The mainstream narrative says that each of England's lockdowns arrested a steep upward trend in daily infections that would have otherwise continued unabated. However, there are several reasons to doubt this narrative.
I've written a piece for the Mail asking whether the rapid decline in daily case numbers since 'Freedom Day' suggests that lockdowns aren't necessary to bring case numbers down. It's certainly beginning to look that way.
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