The Self-Hating Age: How Oikophobia is Dissolving the West
11 September 2024
by A. Gibson
News Round-Up
11 September 2024
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.
Scientists and MPs have demanded that all remaining Covid warning signs are removed because they serve only to remind the public of the "futility and madness" of restrictions.
Jeffrey A. Tucker reflects on the persistence of pandemic-related measures, such as social distancing signs and floor stickers, long after the Covid emergency has faded.
Dame Jenny Harries, head of the U.K. Health Security Agency, suggests the U.K. will adopt a Swedish-style approach to social distancing in the future, focusing on voluntary measures and transparent risk communication.
"If we ignore high-quality evidence, we arrive at the conclusion we want." Carl Heneghan and Tom Jefferson say that the Royal Society lockdown report authors appear to fully understand the politics.
A major new review from the Royal Society has concluded that lockdowns and masks were “unequivocally” effective against Covid. But many of the authors are based in China and it was peer-reviewed by Neil Ferguson.
Was the response to Covid effectively a coup by Western intelligence agencies? Michael Senger says yes, but Eugyppius argues they were caught up in Covid hysteria like everyone else.
The devastating harms of the lockdowns that African countries imposed in response to a contagion that made little impact on the continent's mortality are still being felt as Africans now face a decade or more of austerity.
Jill Evans has written to the Covid Inquiry to tell of the terrible impact lockdown had on her life and she encourages other sceptics to do likewise.
In the latest Weekly Sceptic podcast the talking points are Theresa May attending a socially distanced party in lockdown, Lewis Schaffer triggering the censors on GB News and should 'Terf Island' become a theme park ride?
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