The broad western policy about the pandemic now, then, is this: Act as if it didn’t happen at all.
Many of us, I think, have arrived at the conclusion that something here is fundamentally wrong. Something is broken.
The data ensures that it will be recorded as a period of mass psychosis.
An insider’s reflections on the UK government’s handling of the pandemic
We may need to confront head on the idea that lockdown cost this country as many lives as it saved.
Those that questioned covid policy were silenced and ‘cancelled’ and any information that could cause vaccine hesitancy was suppressed, Dr Malone told the conference.
For the HSE’s figures to be correct, that would mean that there would have to have been 3,100 deaths this year from Covid, making it the worst year of the pandemic to date. This, very clearly, is not true.
We know that twitter’s moderation teams tend to be young graduates, few if any of them with journalism training. It is abundantly clear that many of them make decisions based on vibes, not evidence.
New booster campaign
A history of myocarditis was listed, by the HSE, in their advice to medical professionals as a reason not to give somebody a vaccine.
A decade ago, the idea that we might ever effectively mandate vaccination and lock the great unwashed out of society would have been universally regarded as extreme.
It’s true that there has been a rise in the number of patients in hospital with covid recently, and that prevalence of the illness does seem to be on the increase.