This Letter to the Editor in the British Medical Journal offers a summary of the pandemic and our public health response. The author states “no competing interests”, an important consideration but which always needs double checking. Christian Drosten stated no conflicts of interest in his Eurosurveillance paper recommending a faulty PCR test which was taken … More Summarising a Pandemic
At last mainstream media are starting to question events of the past year. Hopefully this is a sign that normalcy will begin to return and our lunatocracies revert to democracies again before it is too late. Coronavirus lockdown lunacy is frying our minds: Adam Creighton in The Australian reported ten days ago on this study … More Cracking the Lunacy
As time goes on, the more convinced I become that something seemingly sinister is behind the pandemic response at play through 2020 into 2021, with no apparent end in sight. This is not denial of a virus which has circulated and caused some epidemic level deaths in a number of specific locations. Many locations have … More Not Public Health
Imitating China on a policy that every single health policy guideline had explicitly warned against. ~ Nick Hudson, Co-Founder and Public Face of Panda, on Lockdown Nick articulates public health concepts with skill, from virus evolution and variant emergence, to seasonality, geographical differences, immunity, vaccines, complex systems and human factors. In this recent interview with … More The Law of Unintended Consequences
Wicked problems appear impossible to solve. They are complex, long-standing, seemingly intractable, and there are divergent opinions about the ways to address them. Wicked problems do not occur in a vacuum. They are enmeshed in wider social, cultural and political issues. Typically, governments and other organizations attempt to fix wicked problems through a particular lens … More Wicked Problems and Collective Impact
Quite a few really impressive lawyers are getting involved in the fight for justice around the colossal harms of lockdowns. Atlanta based lawyer and researcher Michael Senger has investigated the origins of lockdown as a public health response in 2020. Sky News Australia interviewed Michael Senger in September 2020, ten minutes worth listening to. Today … More A Lawyer on Lockdown Lunacies
Public Health crashed into a political brick wall and severed its spinal column in 2020. A few brave paladins have risen from the ashes. This includes some extraordinary individuals but also some critically important media outlets swimming against the mainstream narrative which is drowning us all in shallow currents of misinformation. The Spectator was established … More Basic Public Health Principles
At no time in years of public health training and experience did I ever hear of using “lockdown” as a strategy to control an epidemic. In 2003 just after the SARS epidemic, I remember being fascinated by an article about China. A local mayor announced he was going to lockdown his city a few days … More Horror and Hysteria
I have been incredibly confused by WHO over the past six months. Their 2019, well-researched systematic review on appropriate pandemic responses was completely disregarded. Their lack of leadership was surpassed only by their contradictory messaging. Their focus on one virus to the detriment of all else whilst occasionally making announcements of poverty doubling, 120 million … More Confused By World Health Organisation?
Sometime in February or March a friend recommended that I take a look at what John Ioannides had to say about the Covid-19 pandemic. Busy with other things, I took a quick look via Google which led me to some news items, and then put it aside. It was confusing that such a charlatan could … More Fear Isn’t Healthy For Science
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