Confessions of a lockdown sceptic
As more and more sceptics come out of the closet, it’s time to admit: small rebellions kept me sane during lockdown madness.
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As more and more sceptics come out of the closet, it’s time to admit: small rebellions kept me sane during lockdown madness.
Daily Briefing: The 25 million residents of Shanghai are back in lockdown, as China cleaves to its zero-Covid strategy.
We must remember the apocalyptic modelling, authoritarian policing and hysterical broadcasting in lockdown for the sake of posterity.
Attempts to whitewash our foolish self-immolation are embarrassingly awkward.
Our lives have been dominated by science and the state in the last two years. But in writing the history of the pandemic, we can’t afford to forget the human element.
A meta-analysis by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that lockdowns in the US and Europe reduced Covid mortality by around 0.2%.
Daily Briefing: Covid cases have averaged just over 90,000 a day for the past week – well above last winter’s peak. But these high infection rates are less worrying than they might sound.
Adam Wagner, a Covid rule expert, believes the 19 June party clearly broke the law.
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