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
The New York Times describe Scott Atlas as having “unorthodox” ideas, and “pushing a suite of disputed policy prescriptions” in this article https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/02/us/politics/trump-scott-atlas-coronavirus.html#click=https://t.co/0jLWPfUQ7g. Yet for anyone who has read a little bit of public health and heard Atlas speak, this seems to be very far from the truth. Atlas recommends an evidence based public health … More Turning Tides
Politicians and the media have become our public health advisors and experts in 2020. This has been incredibly painful to watch. So much so that I have not looked at a newspaper or turned on the television in months. Public health appears to have folded to pressure from ill informed sources instead of following existing … More Fallacies and Fatality Rates
The Role of Public Health I’ve worked in public health for 20 years and hold public health qualifications which influence my practice on a daily basis. I understand that SARS-CoV-2 has entered the human transmission chain and is causing a global pandemic. I understand that a public health response has to be mounted and that … More I Think She Didn’t Nail It
There has always been a nagging doubt somewhere in the back of my mind about the mainstream response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It started when a friend pointed out that when China locked down Hubei province, the violations of human rights were condemned quickly by the likes of Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others. … More Questioning the New Normal
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