With morning television no longer in my work day routine, I get on Twitter and find out what the latest lion hearts have been up to overnight. Today’s half hour distraction was Dr Roger Hodkinson in Canada having a yarn with my latest favourite journalist, Anna Brees in the UK. Dr Roger Hodkinson Speaks to … More Dr Roger Hodkinson
Something you learn when you study infectious disease epidemiology is the potential problems with all screening tests. Every test comes with some risk of false negative and false positive results. It is quite complicated and I only understand it in quite a simplistic way, but I do understand it. More so since following the information … More Profit in the Time of Covid
Australia has claimed elimination of Covid-19 across locations who spent months locked down over winter. Apparently lockdown has been a highly effective disease control strategy. There are jubilant scenes as people leave their houses and reclaim their freedoms. It is pandemic sacrilege but I am really struggling to buy into the collective belief that viral … More What If …..?
PANDA are a multidisciplinary group of scientists and professionals who have been trying to grapple with the bad science characterising the public policy response to Covid-19. Starting with a small group of South African actuaries and doctors, very early on they spoke out about the negative consequences of lockdown which were not being considered by … More PANDA to the Rescue
A Nursing Home in British Columbia, Canada, had 160 staff members and 142 residents. 53 of the staff (33%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection but none of them died. 95 of the residents (67%) experienced symptoms of respiratory infection and eight of them died. It turned out to be an infection with Human Coronavirus OC43, … More Coronavirus Outbreak in a Nursing Home
Escape From Lockdown is a podcast produced by Alexander McCarron, a British film producer who found himself out of work earlier this year. Since his first podcast interview in April he has spoken with 25 people from different walks of life, all in relation to different aspects relating to England’s, and a lesser extent Europe … More Humans and History
A Movie By Dr Michael Yeadon It’s only half an hour long and Dr Yeadon speaks clearly in lay terms about Covid-19 immunity. Despite the fact that he is a research scientist describing himself as a “deeply experienced immunology, pulmonology type of research person”, it does not seem especially difficult to follow what he says. … More Scientific Sense, Political Confusion
It seems I’m listening to many courageous people who receive no air time on mainstream media and are therefore considered charlatans and/or conspiracists. Their varied roles include advisors to big pharmaceutical companies, medical consultants with national health services, senior pathologists, immunologists, epidemiologists, pharmacologists, sociologists, psychologists, geneticists, mathematicians, researchers and professors at top universities in a … More Four Germans Sitting in a Room, Then The Telephone Rings
Dr Clare Craig and Dr John Lee are Pathologists in the UK, both outspoken and eloquent public health proponents. Dr Roger Hodkinson is another British Pathologist, now based in Canada. Amongst an impressive professional career he is currently Chairman of a Biotechnology Company selling Covid-19 tests. As he states, he is in the business of … More Pathology, Pharmacology and Psychology
Professor Anthony Brookes, Geneticist and Health Data Scientist at Leicester University in the UK, speaks with Julia Hartley-Brewer for almost 12 minutes on talkRadio at the below link. Julia is a force of common sense and investigative journalism. The main points I get from this interview are: Natural infection of the non-vulnerable (in this case, … More Political Pandemic
