...lockdown makes sense. Hard, or legally enforced, lockdown, with its far more stringent measures, is entirely another matter, chiefly because it comes at a very significant cost. These costs are...
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Lockdown Harms — 101 Damnations
...lockdown: alcohol off-trade sales rose sharply at the beginning of the lockdown, prompting the hand wringing and bed-wetting by coercive healthists mentioned above. But at the same time as off-trade...
A Put Down for The Lockdown
...reverse of English lockdown dogma. The Norwegians, after due analysis, have all but concluded that the science, to date (and that is an important caveat), does not back hard lockdowns....
Obedience to Lockdown
...Sir Desmond Swayne, Sir Robert Syms, Derek Thomas, Sir Charles Walker, Craig Whittaker, William Wragg. List courtesy of Lockdown Sceptics where there is also news of barrister, Francis Hoar's twitter...
2020 Tin Foil Hats
...But we are only going to consider one, because it is a tin foil hat large enough to be a flying saucer. It is of course the lockdown. Unlike normal...
All That Can Be Burned Has Been Burned
...hard lockdown, is: do hard lockdowns save lives overall? If the answer is yes, then the more complex secondary question is: do the benefits outweigh the harms? Natural experiments such...
Life Is But a Joke
...leading advocate of ‘cut the crap’, would have got straight to the point. Is the contrarian, libertarian former judge correct in his view that hard lockdown is a colossal blunder?...
Bad Karma Government
Even in the bleakest of lockdowns, a Sunday evening dose of The Good Karma Hospital fills the unforgiving hour with sixty minutes’ worth of pure escape. ITV’s Call the Midwife...
The Emperor’s New Science
...it not! I suppose "lockdown" is a metaphor based on antics within US prisons - apt, but only up to a point. The prison version presumably works, the Covid version...
Doubling Up on Levelling Down
Now that Boris the Builder has failed in his attempts to achieve greatness, first as the New Churchill, and then as the Noo Roosevelt, one hardly dare contemplate who is...