George Grosman grew up under a Communist regime in what was then Czechoslovakia before leaving at the age of 18 years old for “the free world”. He lives in Florida now, but his family including adult children are elsewhere. Kate Wand is a Canadian who grew up in “the free world” and is a new … More Before The Fear
The Free Market Foundation has presented its very first award to PANDA co-founder Nick Hudson for freedom of expression, decentralisation, and an evolutionary approach. Alec Hogg caught up with Hudson to unpack what the award means to him and the rest of the PANDA team. “It’s been a long, hard struggle and a lot of … More Fighting Fear at PANDA
The impact of promoting fear in healthy people with insignificant disease risk is hard to comprehend. I experienced this during the Swine Flu Swindle in 2009. Poor public health messaging and panic-driven practices led to systems becoming overwhelmed by the worried well, encouraged by trashy tabloid journalists mongering fear into a perfectly healthy population. Over … More Anti-Science Sinkhole
Recently I messaged a previous manager now working in management for a humanitarian NGO. I asked him to please review the pandemic response and suggested Nick Hudson’s presentation at the April 2021 BizNews conference. He replied “is it another conspiracy”. The blackout of ideas outside the consensus narrative is swift and unconditional. This person is … More More “Conspiracists”
Scientists and public health investigators have been arguing persistently that use of scare tactics is a deadly strategy, contributing to death and destruction in the past year. Scare tactics go against very basic public health principles and anyone with basic working knowledge of public health knows this. The first sign that something was very wrong … More Scaring People is Deadly
Biomedical fascism is now globally widespread with justification being that there is a frightening virus amongst us, and more biological threats in our near future, which we must be protected against. Only governments have the capability to protect us and it can only be done by making us more vulnerable in every other way. Social … More We Need To Care
During more than 15 years of working with infectious diseases, a large part of my role involved reducing panic and fear in order that appropriate and proportionate responses could be implemented. This was never easy. People are drawn to fear and panic where infectious diseases are concerned, and even qualified medical doctors with limited infectious … More Scarey Variants
The first identified cases of COVID-19 were detected on December 8, 2019 in Wuhan, China. The first documented case in Europe was reported retrospectively in France, in a patient with pneumonia and positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR result on December 27, 2019. In January and February 2020 frightening video footage from China flooded social media. People were … More Questions About a Dangerous Pandemic
Pre-lockdown, despite the poverty people exist in, I never received messages like this from my many contacts in Cambodia. In the past week I have received three from three different people, plus messages from close friends with resources but living amongst it and witnessing the carnage, that “things are not good here now”, “we are … More Lockdown is Doing This to People
This week’s media misrepresentation includes “Fears of catastrophe as rising Covid-19 cases hit Papua New Guinea’s stretched health system“. “Plunged into a Covid-19 crisis“, “temporary beds are filling up fast with seriously ill patients“, “health workers are being particularly affected, prompting fears that services may be crippled“, “a new coronavirus tragedy is just starting to … More Surreal Times
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