Professor Mark Woolhouse, who is Chair of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and a member of the UK’s Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, well understands ‘interconnectivity’ and globalised population modelling. Writing in The Telegraph this week, he says that we must all now follow the
From the moment the ruling Chinese Communist Party ordered a handful of inconveniently big-mouthed doctors in Wuhan silenced and then forced them to pen some good old communist “self-criticisms”, the Wuhan Plague has been marked by lies, bullshit and rampaging ignorance parading as “settled science”. China and the WHO lied
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Described as Germany’s most celebrated virologist, Professor Hendrik Streeck this week issued a warning to nations going back into lockdowns. “Hold your nerve and don’t succumb to the pervasive mood of mass hysteria,” he said. “It’s time to stop all this alarmism.
Piotr Godzisz Birmingham City University In her first state of the union address as president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen called out hatred and pledged to build “a union of equality”. While European institutions have been at the forefront of fighting hate crime and discrimination in and
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org The gigantic mess of 2020 called lockdown began with an email thread called Red Dawn, based on the old movie about a Russian invasion of the US. The idea, I suppose, was that the virus was the invader. The public health lockdowners and fanatics on
Ryan McMaken mises.org Ryan McMaken is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Ryan has degrees in economics and political science from the University of Colorado and was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in
With the forthcoming elections coming up in Myanmar (November 8th) the situation is getting interesting. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) will undoubtedly win a majority again, even with 25% of the parliamentary seats reserved for the Tatmadaw (Military). There are some minor parties standing,
Remember “flattening the curve”? It seems like a lifetime ago that we were told that the only responsible approach to the Wuhan plague was to delay the spread of infections so that our hospitals and ICUs wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Jacinda Ardern even held up a helpful cartoon graphic for
Information Satire C. J. Hopkins consentfactory.org C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe. His political satire and
The new leader of Canada’s Conservative party may be largely unknown even in the Great White North, but he is working hard to make himself known as a clear alternative to the Liberal incumbent, Justin Trudeau. Erin O’Toole has already positioned himself as the ex-veteran, everyday Canadian alternative
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Geoff Corfield Geoffrey Corfield has been active in Conservative politics in Canada since 1976, both federally and provincially. But he won’t always write about politics because he has more experience with writing history and humour. He lives in London, Ontario, frequents used book shops, swims lengths, drinks beer, plays
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org Why watch COVID press conferences and briefings by politicians? They are just upsetting. These people seem to have no clue about why the virus is ignoring them. They keep issuing strange and arbitrary rules that they make up, change by the day, all enforced by
righttolife.org.uk A coalition of 434 human rights organisations have backed an International Manifesto for the Right to Life in response to abortion provision sections in the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Global Humanitarian Response Plan: COVID-19. The plan calls for increased funding and prioritisation of abortion services
Jeffrey A. Tucker aier.org For so many months, it’s been nonstop bad news on business closures, arts trashed, museum shuttering, unemployment, missed surgeries and diagnostics, plus rising loneliness, drug overdoses, depression, and suicide. Every day has been as dark or darker than the previous one. And yet here
