“This is, to be frank, unhinged. It is unreasonable in the extreme to blame the spread of Covid on sceptics who have very little influence in public discussion. Virtually the entire political establishment, the vast bulk of the media and every online ‘influencer’ favours lockdown. The message we receive constantly – on TV, online, in the press – is to stay home, be good, don’t kill people. It is a fantasy to believe that the voices of isolated and demonised sceptics are cutting through this conformist fog and inspiring people to recklessly spread the plague.” READ MORE
Tag: lockdown
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What They Said about Lockdowns before 2020
While the expert consensus regarding the ineffectiveness of mass quarantine of previous years has recently been challenged, significant present-day evidence continuously demonstrates that mass quarantine is both ineffectual at preventing disease spread as well as harmful to individuals. Learning the wrong lesson – assuming that mass quarantines are both good and effective – sets a dangerous precedent for future pandemics. READ MORE
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A Year After Wuhan, China Locks Down Another City of 11 Million People to Ensure We Get a Free Lunch
This time around, some public health experts in China said the reemergence of the virus in Shijiazhuang was detected too late, with rural areas a weak link in epidemic prevention and control. Feng Zijian, deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told state broadcaster CCTV that the surging caseload suggested that the virus had been “spreading quietly for a while.” READ MORE
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We Need Skepticism (Not Free Lunch?) More Than Ever
Look at the hysterical criticism leveled at the authors of the lockdown-questioning Great Barrington Declaration, and lockdown-sceptical individuals, such as Sunetra Gupta, a professor of theoretical epidemiology at the University of Oxford University. They have been personally and professionally maligned, and, more troubling still, their critics want them removed from the public sphere. This has all the characteristics of a modern high-tech witch-hunt. Of course, no one’s talking about burning or drowning the skeptical. But the cultural and academic establishment does seem to want skeptics removed from public life. Especially skeptical scientists. READ MORE
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Asymptomatic Spread Revisited
Facebook is offering to throttle people who share data about Asymptomatic Spread of Covid. One of the fact-checkers, William Hanage, is obviously an impartial party and probably loves a free lunch! He has essentially, along with others, called lockdowns a “strawman” (i.e. not real or happening…obvi). He has been a major detractor of the GBD, and is a signer of the John Snow Memo. So yeah, he has a bone to pick in his free lunch bag. Balanced AND impartial. The “fact-checkers” refute something that wasn’t even said in the article and struggle to discredit the problematic study! Win-win. READ MORE