I’d been dancing Tango with my radiator for six months ~ Claudia Adela Nye Claudia is an award winning filmmaker and relationship counselor who enjoys dancing the Tango. An Argentine living in the UK, she travels to Sweden to explore their pandemic way of life, interview Anders Tegnell and compare pandemic responses between Sweden and … More Covid, Tango and the Lagom Way
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
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
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
Clare Wills is an English lawyer representing elderly care home residents and their families through devastating consequences of enforced isolation which is leading to unnecessary suffering and death. She talks about her experiences with these lockdown victims at Episode 15 of Alex McCarron’s podcast, Escape From Lockdown. Dan Wootton highlights the plight of Mary Fowler … More Documenting Abuses
There are so many documents written before 2020 based on public health evidence and advising pandemic response. I have previously shared the WHO Non Pharmaceutical Public Health Measures document. This week I came across this one: Johns Hopkins University: Preparedness for a High-Impact Respiratory Pathogen Pandemic Some quotes from this document provide useful insights. The … More Once Upon a Time
This is a brilliantly written piece discussing history, anthropology, medical discovery, psychology and current phenomenon in a single article, from the American Institute of Economic Research. Author: Barry Brownstein, professor emeritus of economics and leadership at the University of Baltimore Oxford professor Sunetra Gupta, one of the principal signers of the Great Barrington Declaration, is … More Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress
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