The Sydney Morning Herald reports on more evidence of ongoing harm to children as a result of Australia’s harsh lockdown policies. We’ve seen the same disastrous impact on the lives of a generation of youngsters in US states that closed schools the longest, as well as countries like New Zealand that had repeated lockdowns. It’s […]
Aussie kids’ increased drowning risk—another consequence of COVID lockdowns
By now, the anticipated and now well documented consequences of lockdowns for children is well known: massive learning loss; increased mental health issues, including suicides; malnutrition due to increased poverty. The list goes on and all were predicted. The Sydney Morning Herald has identified another to add resulting from Australia’s extensive lockdowns. Per the headline: […]
The case for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids falls apart
I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this headline: Pfizer’s COVID shot far less effective in ages 5-11 than in older kids It certainly makes one question why it was rushed out for kids, given everything else we knew at the time about the risks of COVID for this age group. Surely it […]
Articles that caught my eye – February 2022
How the CDC Abandoned Science – Tablet Magazine “The CDC is, in part, a scientific agency—they use facts and principles of science to guide policy—but they are also fundamentally a political agency… “Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. […]
Coronavirus contemplations III
Some more thoughts on the pandemic from recent articles and op-eds in the press. In his Wall Street Journal column, Holman Jenkins hits the nail on the head in examining where governments failed from the start of the pandemic—not distinguishing between high risk and low risk populations, and focusing efforts on those at highest risk. […]
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