After 20 years working in disease surveillance and outbreak control, the past year has been a blur of bewilderment. A horrific respiratory virus that most people don’t know they have? An infection fatality rate of 0.2% claimed by government departments to be magnitudes higher? Diagnostic testing known to be unfit for purpose? Childhoods, young lives, … More A Blur of Bewilderment
Our frontal lobe processes complex thought such as rational analysis, decision making and planning. A functional frontal lobe allows us to control our emotions as we apply thought and logic to feelings. This is one of the last areas of the brain to mature, in early adulthood. Our amygdala is one of the first parts … More Locking Down Our Frontal Lobes
Kate Wand discusses the origins of Lockdown Further legal action is meanwhile underway, for example today’s Request for expedited federal investigation into scientific fraud in COVID‑19 public health policies. I don’t know this guy but his insight is clever:
If the cattle decides, because one of them is spooked for some reason, to run, then the only way to stop them is for all the cowboys to get to the front end of this as quickly as possible and then to fire off their weapons. That will shock the cattle and stop them, or … More How to Stop a Stampede
Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine and Economics at Stanford University, speaks for 45 minutes here with Nick Hudson of Panda. We all deserve access to intelligent and principled discussion such as this. It is largely absent.
Knutt Wittkowski is an international expert in infectious disease epidemics who previously led the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design at Rockefeller University Hospital in New York. At this lunch interview on a New York City sidewalk he talks for 20 minutes about Covid-19. He argues with clarity that we cannot fight the spread … More The Covid Killing Fields
I have learned that the more someone understands viruses, epidemiology and outbreaks + the less they have to benefit from the fear narrative we have been so strongly convinced to follow, the more completely outrageous their views appear to the general public. Below features two of the growing number of people with the relevant expertise … More Speaking Truth to Power
An ethical genius at work. Interview with Reiner Fuellmich
The UK are being dragged into a socio-economic crisis bigger than anything they have seen since World War 2, and for what reason? Mental health, food supply chains, unemployment, a widening wealth divide, health care access crisis, and so many other seemingly insurmountable issues are crashing down simultaneously on this nation. Some of the reasons … More So Hard to Watch
I am so grateful to those people whose training, courage and collaboration results in their continuing to ask questions and explore ideas. Promotions of “a single source of truth“, as political leaders are strongly campaigning for, are disquieting. Covid-19 is in no way, shape or form, something that can be viewed through the lens of … More A Single Source of Truth
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