Did lockdowns save the world from Covid doom?
9 min read It is arguable that the world has yet to feel the full effects of the lockdowns that were imposed on us. Should lockdowns be a pandemic policy instrument? Our excess death inquiry continues.
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Was SARS-CoV-2 entirely novel or particularly deadly?
17 min read As part of our inquiry into the drivers of excess deaths, we take a step back and address the central theme of the Covid-era narrative: that SARS-CoV-2 is a novel virus that is so deadly that drastic measures were needed to contain it.
What the Diamond Princess tells us about NYC in Spring 2020
9 min read Did the Covid case and death numbers on the Diamond Princess cruise ship add up to a “novel deadly virus” that required “shutting down the world”?
This forms part of our ongoing inquiry into the drivers of excess deaths.
Professor Karim and the Web of Lockdown Contradictions and Untruths | Part 3
6 min read Part 3 of 3 | We have witnessed the rise of a new class of ‘experts’, granted extraordinary power to repeal ancient liberties. Most critically, these experts have brooked neither dissent nor debate. Has such strange new authority been a success, and should it be tolerated again?
Professor Karim and the Web of Lockdown Contradictions and Untruths | Part 2
5 min read Part 2 of 3 | A multiplicity of scientists independently reaching the same conclusions and recommendations creates the illusion that ‘the experts cannot all be wrong’ when, in fact, these experts are really one conglomerate.
Professor Karim and the Web of Lockdown Contradictions and Untruths | Part 1
6 min read Part 1 of 3 | Were scientists like South Africa’s Professor Salim S. Abdool Karim, lauded by media and leaders globally, neutral with regards to political pressures in their approach to the Covid response? Part 1 of this series looks at Karim’s life and work under the religious mantle of science.
PCR testing skewed and corrupted data on SARS-CoV-2 infection and death rates
7 min read Traditionally clinicians do not test for respiratory viruses because testing does not inform patient treatment. In the case of the widespread PCR testing seen during the Covid-19 pandemic, the results should be evaluated in the context of clinical symptoms and possible exposure.
Leo Biddle | A selective attention gorilla in the coalmine, and lack of primate pandemic
< 1 min read Leo Biddle has been working in field conservation and the illegal wildlife trade for the last 20+ years; with a large focus on rescue and rehabilitation of primates and indigenous Bornean wildlife. Leo founded the charitable organisation “Project Borneo”, whose work is, and was, almost exclusively funded by a number of nonprofit businesses Leo created. These businesses also funded multiple grassroots childrens’ charities and other animal charities. However, the last 2 years of the pandemic have effectively destroyed much of this work, with Leo now only caring for a few animals. Leo has made good use of of his time by exploring the many complex issues surrounding the pandemic.
Prof David Paton: New evidence on the impact of the English care home vaccine mandate
< 1 min read This new research and paper, which Prof David Paton has undertaken with a colleague, examines the impact of the English care home vaccine mandate on vaccine uptake, care home staffing and Covid deaths.
Dr David Bell & Prof Toby Green: The Covid Response and the Global Poor
< 1 min read In this discussion, David Bell (PANDA) and Toby Green (Collateral Global) will discuss the devastating impacts of the Covid response in poor countries around the world: what has happened, why it has happened, and what can be done to make sure it does not happen again? They will bring their combined expertise in public health and world history and colonial history to the question of continuities of power and inequality, and how this reversion to the medical colonialism of the first half of the 20th century has taken place.