lockdowns

Flattening the curve or flattening the global poor? How Covid lockdowns obliterate human rights and crush the most vulnerable

Marketed as life-saving public health measures, lockdowns triggered death and economic devastation on a global scale while doing little to slow the spread of Covid-19. Now, they’re back with a vengeance. In October 2021, it seemed as though the lockdowns that still paralyzed societies from Australia to New Zealand and Singapore were coming to an end, as these countries threw in the “Zero-COVID” towel following a year and a half of rolling restrictions and closures. But with COVID-19 cases rising […]

Konstantin Kisin explains “vaccine hesitancy” in hilarious terms [Video]

You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant. The “let me help you” megathread: Imagine you’re a normal person. The year is 2016. Rightly or wrongly, you believe most of what you see in the media. You believe polls are broadly reflective of public opinion. You believe doctors and scientists are trustworthy and […]

California dreaming… of turning RED? Larry Elder makes his case [Video]

Could the cesspool on the West Coast turn into a new stronghold of conservative values and government? Could the pandemic of lawlessness and “Defund the Police” powerlessness lead to strong security and great law enforcement? These questions and others like them are gaining interest as California reels from one-party rule, with extremely liberal and elitist […]

London’s Freedom Weekend

Joanna Sharp The weekend of 26-27th June brought traffic in central London to a complete standstill. Two massive protests took place: Saturday’s Freedom March and Sunday’s Music Industry’s Freedom to Dance event. It is impossible to give precise numbers. The estimates from fellow Saturday marchers range from 500,000 to 2 million, with the Sunday rave …

Lockdowns “Did Not Lead to Reductions in Excess Deaths” – Study

A new study from leading U.S. think tank National Bureau of Economic Research has shown (once again) that lockdown policies produced no discernible reduction of the pandemic death toll. If anything, they increased it.
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Why Hasn’t the Government Published a Cost-Benefit Analysis of Lockdown?

It’s now more than a year since the first lockdown began, and the Government still hasn’t published a cost-benefit analysis. The evidence we do have suggests the costs almost certainly outweighed the benefits.
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The Imperial Graph that Shows Infections Declined Before Lockdown and Increased Under It

Imperial's REACT study reconstructs the epidemic curve in England from the symptom onset dates of people with antibodies. It shows that infections always declined before lockdown and sometimes increased under it.
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