Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world. Also, we have a new banner. “The New Normal” meant vaccines and lockdowns when we designed the old one in 2021, it means a lot …
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.
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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.
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Edward Curtin “But yet mathematical certainty is after all, something insufferable. Twice two makes four seems to me simply a piece of insolence. Twice two makes four is a pert coxcomb who stands with arms akimbo barring your path and spitting. I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing, but if we …
"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.
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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.
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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.
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Riley Waggaman On June 22-23, 2023, Sochi (that’s in Russia for my fellow Americans) hosted the fourth international conference “Global Biosecurity Challenges: Problems and Solutions”, one of several global initiatives organized around the UN’s Biological Weapons Convention (BWC). The summit was headed by Russia’s Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Well-Being (Rospotrebnadzor), …
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.
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