A growing number of sceptics have recently been questioning whether excess deaths during the pandemic were caused by the virus. Dr. Will Jones argues that the evidence they mostly were is impossible to ignore.
“Nobody really knows what’s going on”, says the epidemiologist John Edmunds, commenting on the recent decline in cases. But there are at least nine previous examples where cases fell in the absence of restrictions.
Academics who produce models predicting doom for places which don't lock down should be challenged to hindcast for states which stay open. If they can't get the past right, why should we trust them for the future?
Boris said the lockdown has been "overwhelmingly important". But several places have seen numbers decline absent a lockdown, and evidence suggests the infection peak in UK occurred before our three lockdowns were imposed.
Despite having never locked down, South Dakota has not seen a surge in cases. Covid deaths are now down to one a day and South Dakota's unemployment rate is the lowest in all 50 U.S. states.
South Dakota has had among the fewest restrictions of any country in the Western world. Yet cases started falling rapidly after the November peak. Dr Noah Carl asks why?
