Lockdowns and Social Distancing

In early 2020 countries across the world followed China’s lead and locked down their healthy citizens because a computer model “predicted” millions would die if they didn’t.

The theory was that by using non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs), such as physical separation (labelled “social distancing“, “stay at home orders” and “lockdowns“) for the respiratory virus called SARS-CoV-2, it could slow the virus spread or stop it! Lockdowns were sold to the public, in many countries, as a means to “flatten-the-curve” and not overwhelm the healthcare services with the anticipated flood of sick following infection of the so-called “deadly virus”. We were told this was a new “novel” coronavirus that no-one had any immunity to, there was no vaccine available and so everyone was vulnerable.

The most at risk population to SARS-CoV-2 virus, that was said to cause the disease labelled COVID-19, were the elderly and those with underling health issues, those who had a weakened immune system. It soon became known that for 99% of the population the disease would be, at worst, like a bad flu but for children they were mostly unaffected. The response to the virus within the population was so uneven that the CDC estimated that 35% of the US population would experience NO symptoms i.e. they were asymptomatic.

This page attempts to capture the flow of articles relating to lockdowns and social distancing, shut downs, small business closures – the physical separation of people. The page will also include references to “zero-covid” policy.

Four data points to be aware of from the start

1. First be aware, that on September 19, 2019 the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a report that was the results of a systematic literature review of all non-pharmaceutical interventions for mitigating influenza – another respiratory virus. Among other things, they determined there was no evidence to support quarantining healthy people to mitigate an epidemic. Quarantine could only be justified for those infected or ill. – TIMELINE
   
   [This is why so much emphasis was put on PCR test to “prove” you were statistically ill, and why “asymptomatic transmission” was so heavily pushed…all to justify you were a transmission threat!]
2. Second, on October 4, 2020 The Great Barrington Declaration was released, begging for a “focused” pandemic response and not the current harmful blanket measures – TIMELINE
3. Third, be aware that the concept of lockdowns and school closures was an idea that can be traced back to a 2006 school science project! – TIMELINE
4. Lockdowns were enforced while a vaccine was under “Warp Speed” development, but a couple of months before this intervention’s anticipated regulatory “approval”, in October 2020 the WHO attempted to change the definition of “herd immunity” to reflect that vaccination was the only means to achieve it, they removed the long-standing reference to natural infection being an avenue to natural immunity! Separating the world’s population through lockdowns – slowed down the ability of populations to achieve natural immunity through natural infection.

• Planet Lockdown – Documentary & Interviews – HERE
• COVIDLAND – Documentary – HERE
• PANDA – Evidence Infobank – Lockdowns don’t save lives – HERE
• The Fat Emperor | Ivor Cummins, data engineer: Published Papers and Data on Lockdown Weak Efficacy – and Lockdown Huge Harms – LIST
• Timeline of UK government lockdowns and measures, March 2020 to December 2021 – PDF

Other relevant topics:

• PCR tests – HERE
• Masks – HERE

Links in reverse chronological order

Collection of bookmarks, this content is still being added to.

2024

March 25, 2024 – Telegraph: German officials warned lockdowns cause more harm than good, documents show – Evidence for making masks mandatory was lacking, according to health agency’s deliberations released after long legal battle – ARCHIVE, READ, Reiner Fuellmich – WATCH, German lockdowns were political – READ, Natural News – READ

• The RKI finally handed over the documents under freedom of information (with ~1/3 redacted)… after losing a two-year court case to “an obscure media outlet called Multipolar” states the mainstream media outlet called The Telegraph!
• March 18, 2024 – Paul Schreyer articles in Multipolar in German – READ1, READ2, READ3
• Ivor Cummins: German “lockdowns were unscientific and purely political” – WATCH

February 27, 2024 – Good Kid Productions: It Wasn’t Fauci: How the Deep State Really Played Trump (24 min mini-documentary) – Who was the chief engineer of the lockdowns? –WATCH, BACKUP, CREDIT

• Deborah “Birx (is) far more culpable than Fauci in the Covid disaster … Well worth the time to see the damage an utter non-scientist, CIA-connected, bureaucrat can do to make sure things are maximally bad.” – REF
• It discusses the perspective that the policy created by Dr. Deborah Birx to treat Covid the way they treated AIDS led to the downfall of the Trump presidency. – REF

January 25, 2024 – The Telegraph: BBC ‘misrepresented’ Covid risk to boost lockdown support, [Scottish Govt] inquiry told by Prof Mark Woolhouse – Corporation accused of reporting rare deaths as the norm during pandemic – READ, CREDIT

• Prof Mark Woolhouse said BBC coverage during the pandemic led to a ‘misperception’ of the risk of Covid. BBC ‘s hugely misleading claim that ‘we are all at risk’ and “the virus does not discriminate”
• Prof Woolhouse is professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh and was an adviser to the Scottish Government during the pandemic, although his submission said his advice was often not heeded by Nicola Sturgeon. He also sat on “Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling, which was another sub-group of SAGE.”

2023

November 21, 2023 – The Guardian: People who stuck by UK Covid rules have worst mental health, says survey – Trauma of pandemic having lasting impact on people’s mental health three years on, research reveals – READ

October 30, 2023 – NY Magazine: COVID Lockdowns Were a Giant Experiment. It Was a Failure. A key lesson of the pandemic – READ, Brownstone: Anti-Lockdown Goes Mainstream – CREDIT

October 2, 2023 – Dr John Campbell: Lockdown evidence weak – Evidence gap map for non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI) – WATCH

• September 28, 2023 – UK Health Agency: COVID-19: non-pharmaceutical interventions to reduce transmission – READ, ARCHIVE
  • Only 19 of the 151 studies reported on effectiveness of measures to reduce infection risk at individual level
  • 100 out of 151 studies based on modelling [assumption] studies
  • 2 out of 151 studies were experimental studies
  • 22 out of 151 were individual-level observational studies
  • Need “evidence on the economic impact of NPIs, as well as their wider impact, including on mental health and health inequalities.”

August 31, 2023 – The Hill: Sweden’s NO LOCKDOWN, NO MASK MANDATE Policies Led to LOWER Excess Deaths: Study – WATCH, Senior fellow at Cato Institute Johan Norberg Study – Sweden during the Pandemic – Pariah or Paragon?– READ, PDF

August 28, 2023 – War Room: EXC: Federal Government is Starting COVID-19 “Emergency’ Contracts Expring in 2025 – HHS “COVID-19 response” contracts to begin September [Sept 17, 2023 crystal ball!] and conclude 2025 by Natalie Winters – READ, BACKUP, WATCH [Preparing for another “COVID-19” lockdown?]

• “The unearthed contracts, which can be viewed on the federal government’s spending database, follow a separate War Room exclusive detailing similar behavior from the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs.”
• Contracts for the “coordination of response to public health emergencies” and “surveillance.” …for “program management office supporting initiatives that strengthen COVID-19 response and address emerging public health emergencies,” according to a synopsis.”

August 24, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 334: PANDEMIC 2.0: How Unethical were the Lockdowns? by Professor of Medicine, Alvin Moss discusses his recent article highlighting ethical problems with the COVID lockdowns – WATCH, FULL, The Report Aug 7, 2023 – READ

August 22, 2023 – War Room | Natalie Winters: EXC: Biden Has Already Begun Buying COVID-19 Equipment, Hiring Pandemic ‘Safety Protocol’ Enforcers. – READ, WATCH

• “amid speculation the Biden White House will reinstate pandemic-era lockdowns and mandates,…”
• In the wake of a new variant!- TIMELINE

August 18, 2023 – InfoWars: EXCLUSIVE: Biden Admin Preparing to Bring Back FULL Covid Restrictions, Rollout to Begin Mid-September – READ

• Whistleblower: “TSA managers were told new memorandums & policies were being completed that would reimplement masking, starting with TSA & airport employees as early as mid-September.”

August 7, 2023 – The Hastings Center Report: Rethinking the Ethics of the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdowns by Daniel Miller, Alvin Moss – READ, The Highwire Ep 334 – WATCH

July 12, 2023 – Rebel News: Avi Yemini – Victoria Police’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed the harrowing ordeal he faced during Melbourne’s last lockdown in 2021 – gun point – Rohan Brown – 161 days jailed, charges withdrawn!!! – mainstream media ignored – TWEET

June 20, 2023 – Dr John Campbell: Tory party dancing during lockdown – WATCH, BACKUP

• Breaking rules and mocking the country.

June 18, 2023 – Daily Mail: ‘Sickening’ video shows Tory staffers working for recently honoured ‘Lord Bailey’ dancing and drinking at lockdown-mocking basement party in December 2020 – just days before ‘Christmas is cancelled’ edict – READ, The Telegraph – READ #Partygate

• “Shocking footage shows a Christmas party involving at least 24 revellers at Conservative Campaign Headquarters in London in December 2020.” While the country was forced into lockdown and missed being with their families.

April 6, 2023 – The Highwire Episode 314: WHEN TWO UNIVERSES COLLIDE – FULL, How Sweden got COVID right – EXCERPT

• “The data is in, and it suggests that government lockdowns killed people. Sweden led the world with the sanest, evidence-based response to the pandemic maximizing freedoms for its citizens while minimizing the litany of harms.”

March 28, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Reopening Racket – READ

On April 15 [2020], Trump called me [Jared Kushner] to the Oval Office and said that he wanted to end the COVID-19 lockdown and reopen the economy the following day. While he believed that the federal guidance to slow the spread was justified to flatten the curve and build up lifesaving supplies, it was supposed to be temporary, and he believed that the doctors wanted it to go on indefinitely.

Jared Kushner writes in Breaking History

On April 15, Trump called me [Jared Kushner] to the Oval Office and said that he wanted to end the COVID-19 lockdown and reopen the economy the following day. While he believed that the federal guidance to slow the spread was justified to flatten the curve and build up lifesaving supplies, it was supposed to be temporary, and he believed that the doctors wanted it to go on indefinitely.

March 28, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: Sweden Did Exceptionally Well During the COVID-19 Pandemic – by Peter Gotzsche (Cochrane Collaboration co-founder) – READ Lockdown, a questionable intervention

• “No wonder the news media are totally silent about the data that show that Sweden’s open society policy was what the rest of the world should have done, too”! … Sweden’s excess death rate to be among the lowest in Europe during the pandemic and in several analyses, are at the bottom
• “The Swedish Public Health Agency “gave more advice than threatened punishment” while the rest of the world installed fear in people”
• The Great Barrington Declaration – TIMELINE vs the John Snow Memorandum – TIMELINE

March 24, 2023 – AP News: Ignoring experts, China’s sudden zero-COVID exit cost lives – READ, CREDIT

• “Toward the end of 2021, many public health experts and leaders began thinking about how to exit from the zero-COVID policy. The less lethal but far more infectious omicron made curbing COVID-19 harder…
• “As early as March 2022, top medical experts submitted detailed proposals to prepare for a gradual exit to the State Council, China’s cabinet….But discussions were silenced after an outbreak the same month in Shanghai,…”
• Just before Oct 2022 CCP’s 20th National Party Conference where Xi was elected for life! millions of deaths in the lead up would have reflected badly on Xi! –REF

March 23, 2023 – The Lancet: Assessing COVID-19 pandemic policies and behaviours and their economic and educational trade-offs across US states from Jan 1, 2020, to July 31, 2022: an observational analysis – Bollyky et al – READ – BMGF funded, “only downsides to these policies” – TWEET

March 23, 2023 – The Telegraph: Allison Pearson meets Anders Tegnell: ‘Lockdown was never on the agenda in Sweden’ – READ, ARCHIVE, Dr John Campbell discusses Sweden – WATCH

There’s no way to sugar coat this, Sweden got it wrong in the beginning, it was sending supplies of Midazolam and opioids to nursing homes and people died that shouldn’t have died, they were put on end of life care pathways at an early stage.

Dr John Campbell

March 16, 2023 – Unherd: Norway’s top epidemiologist: Sweden handled Covid well – Preben Aavitsland says its response was unfairly demonised – READ

• “…the model of “long, hard lockdowns” that was inspired by Italy and China made Sweden “the contrast they did not want”. Sweden [Norway’s direct neighbour] “forced them to explain to their citizens why they acted as they did,”
• “Unlike the rest of Europe, Sweden largely avoided implementing mandatory lockdowns, instead relying on voluntary curbs on social gatherings, and keeping most schools, restaurants, bars and businesses open. This made Sweden an outlier, turning the country’s then-chief state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell into a hate figure, as he received death threats and urges to resign throughout the pandemic. “This month, he told his successor to “have ice in your stomach”.”
• Despite avoiding strict lockdowns, SvD claims that Sweden’s excess mortality was the lowest out of all EU nations, including Nordic countries. Figures by the World Health Organisation… show that in 2020 and 2021,
• Average excess death rate as per WHO May 2022:
  • Sweden = 56 per 100,000
  • UK = 109 per 100,000
  • Spain = 111 per 100,000
  • Germany = 116 per 100,000
  • Italy = 133 per 100,000

March 15, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Pandemic of Journalistic Malfeasance – READ

• “Thanks to the Lockdown Files, we now have “definitive” proof that much of Covid policy was cruel and inhumane, made on the hoof, driven by dogma and self-interest, without the requisite evidence and sometimes even against scientific advice, to foment fear, avoid picking arguments with political opponents, promote personal and party agendas, etc. It failed to stop the spread of Covid but has inflicted substantial and lasting damage.”

March 10, 2023 – The Telegraph: How ministers were warned lockdowns could be worse than Covid itself – The Lockdown Files Team – READ, ARCHIVE

March 10, 2023 – The Telegraph: Covid variant that ruined Christmas hidden by scientists from ministers for months – Matt Hancock told of alpha strain just days before festive season had to be cancelled, even though scientists knew about it long before – READ

March 10, 2023 – The Telegraph: Was Sweden right about Covid all along? – The land of common sense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions – READ (origionally published 23 February 2022, they’ve just republished)

• Tegnell’s… “calculation was that, on a whole-society basis, the collateral damage of lockdowns would outweigh what good they do. But you’d only know if this was so after a few years.”

March 9, 2023 – The Highwire Ep 310: Hanckock caught red handed with THE LOCKDOWN FILES – The Jaxen Report – WATCH, FULL

March 8, 2023 – Fox news: Washington Post torched on Twitter after complaining health officials have limited powers: ‘Medical fascism’ – A new Washington Post report slammed “conservatives and libertarians” on Wednesday for working to legally block future pandemic lockdowns and other epidemic related mandates … – READ, Gateway Pundit – READ – The Washington Post – ARTICLE

March 4, 2023 – The Telegraph: ‘Project Fear’ authors discussed when to ‘deploy’ new Covid variant [narrative?]- Matt Hancock’s plan to ‘frighten the pants off’ the public to ensure compliance with lockdown measures exposed in leaked WhatsApp messages by The Lockdown Files Team – READ, ARCHIVE, The Highwire coverage – a media expert advised Matt Hancock, not a scientist/doctor! – WATCH

• The day after WhatsApp exchange, December 14, 2020 – UK Parliament Hansard: Matt Hancock “Over the past few days, thanks to or world-class genomic capability in the UK, we have identified a new variant of coronavirus…” – READ

March 4, 2023 – The Telegraph: The Lockdown Files: 10 things we’ve learned so far – Leaked WhatsApp messages call into question much of the reasoning for months of national lockdowns and other restrictions on daily life – READ, ARCHIVE

• Matt Hancock was advised to test all people who entered care homes – regardless of whether they had been discharged from hospital or brought in from the community.
• Sir Gavin Williamson said teachers ‘really do just hate work’
• Simon Case mocked travellers forced to isolate in quarantine hotels
  
• Public opinion shaped Boris Johnson’s calls on lockdown
  
• PM discovered second lockdown was based on ‘very wrong’ data
  
• Face masks introduced in English schools to avoid ‘argument’ with Nicola Sturgeon
  
• Advisers discussed ‘locking up’ Nigel Farage
• ‘Rule of Six’ introduced for under-12s despite ‘no robust rationale’
• Care homes refused to test staff they feared had Covid
• Hancock asked George Osborne for coverage to help hit testing target

March 3, 2023 – The Telegraph: Toxic culture of fear meant lockdown scepticism was dismissed as ‘hard-Right’ paranoia– The Lockdown Files show Rishi Sunak as one of the few to challenge the political orthodoxy where a drive for restrictions made you a hero – READ

March 2, 2023 – The Telegraph: Matt Hancock can threaten me all he wants, our nation’s children must never suffer this way again – Those responsible for school closures should now admit their mistake – and vow never to inflict such harm in the future – READ

March 1, 2023 – The Telegraph: The Lockdown Files – Matt Hanckock WhatsApp leak – READ, ARCHIVE, CREDIT, Reactions to the “scoop” – READ , #TheLockdownFiles

• The Telegraph has obtained more than 100,000 WhatsApp messages sent between the then health secretary Matt Hancock and other ministers and officials at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. In the Lockdown Files we reveal the contents of those messages – and the serious questions they raise
• “The Lockdown Files show the nature of government during the Covid pandemic and how, despite public claims to always “follow the science”, key decisions were made on the fly for political reasons.”
• They call into question govt. decisions made surrounding: national lockdowns, social distancing, face masks, school closure, testing and care home deaths

January 25, 2023 – Daily Mail: Was it worth it? America has suffered 300,000 NON-Covid excess deaths since 2020 — as experts blame lockdowns and delayed healthcare for spike in drug overdoses and firearm fatalities – READ

• Of the nearly 300,000 excess non-Covid deaths, more than 10% occurred in California…”33,730, the most of any state by a large margin”, a strict lockdown and mask mandate state!

January 22, 2023 – News Target – New Zealand’s lockdown prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, shocks the world with sudden resignation: ‘Nothing left in the tank’ – READ & WATCH, Resignation announced Jan 19, 2023, that she would resign by Feb 7, 2023 – NY Post – READ

January 13, 2023 – Rebel News: Government-sanctioned lockdowns left seniors in long-term care vulnerable to neglect and systemic mismanagement – Seniors in nursing homes died of neglect and bureaucratic ineptitude as ill-informed COVID-19 policy and terror swept the province of Ontario – READ

January 11, 2023 – WSJ: How Deadly Were the Covid Lockdowns? – For Americans under 45, there were more non-covid excess deaths in 2020-21 – READ Study by Mulligan et al – READ

January 10, 2023 – Reason: No-Lockdown Sweden Seemingly Tied for Lowest All-Causes Mortality in OECD Since COVID Arrived – Focusing on all-causes mortality, and not just on COVID mortality, helps account for various potential indirect effects of lockdowns – READ

January 9, 2023 – Brownstone Institute: The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns  – READ, re the Twitter File #14 – HERE

• “The person and role of Gottlieb is a paradigmatic case of why and how unraveling the mysteries of the lockdowns and vaccine mandates is such a complicated undertaking. It’s not just about government intervention and it’s not just about private corruption. It’s about a complicated relationship between the two, involving a range of public and private actors in and out of government who seized control of the policy machinery to achieve private ends at enormous public expense. “

2022

December 7, 2022 -NY Post: China announces rollback of strict anti-COVID-19 measures – “The announcement follows recent street protests in several cities over the strict “zero-COVID” policy now entering its fourth year”- READ, NY Times: what has changed – READ, Protests in China – TIMELINE

• BBC: China abandons key parts of zero-Covid strategy after protests – READ

November 28, 2022 – Fox News | Tucker Carslon: It’s hard to believe this is real – includes footage of China’s horrific lockdowns (COVID concentration camps) and protests – WATCH

• Fauci sent his deputy Cillford Lane to China in 2020. Lane was stunned by what he saw there, the dystopian measures of whole cities forcably locking their citizens into their own homes. Based on depositions of Fauci he “was envious…this is what we have to do in the US, Fauci told Lane”….CHINA WAS THE MODEL public health officials used to respond to COVID in the US (and elsewhere!)
• In April 2022 – China shut down Shanghai, ~25 million people, the largest city in China and the world- “the largest prison camp in human history”. As of Sunday 27th Nov, there were no COVID deaths reported in china…so is this for public health!!!? Political unrest is the threat to the CCP, not the virus.
• Zero “COVID policy is a tool of social control” Tucker

November 28, 2022 – China’s lockdown protests “are really due to this collapse and the Covid lockdowns are cover to enact brutal suppression of the protests.” China at a deep restructuring of their economy, their growth has been super fast – GETTR, PDF, BOOK

November 20, 2022 – Daily Sceptic: Europe Faces ‘Cancer Epidemic’ After Estimated 1 Million Cases Missed Due to Lockdowns [or could there be another reason?] – READ

November 29, 2022 – Sydney Morning Herald: Fines commissioner concedes that COVID fines in Supreme Court test case are invalid – Test case opens door for more than 30,000 other people to have lockdown fines worth $30 million cancelled – READ

November 28, 2022 – Tucker Carlson: China’s COVID policy is a tool of social control – WATCH

November 28, 2022 – Daily Mail: Wave of civil unrest grips China ‘in largest anti-government protests since Tiananmen Square’: Police attack anti-lockdown activists on bus and rallies openly call for Xi to resign as fury over Zero-Covid policy flares for THIRD day after deadly flat fire – READ

November 27, 2022 – War Room: The White Paper Revolution: People of China Protest Tyrannical Covid Lockdown Policy – READ

• After 100 days of lockdown – “The screams of residents locked in their apartment building that caught on fire in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, can be heard in a harrowing video which displays the abuse of the Chinese Communist Party’s zero-Covid policy.” – TWEET
• “It was this event that set off a fuse that has led to citizens across China to call for the Chinese Communist Party and President Xi Jinping to step down.” – TWEET

November 25, 2022 – Gateway Pundit: Fauci Admits he Based His Unprecedented US Economic Lockdowns on Draconian Measures Used by the Communist Chinese – READ

November 25, 2022 – Aaron Kheriaty Thread – UPDATE: from our deposition of Fauci yesterday in the MO v. Biden case. Fauci confirmed that in Feb 2020, Fauci sent Clifford Lane, his deputy at the NAIAD, as the U.S. representative for the WHO delegation to China. Lane convinced Fauci we should emulate China’s lockdowns. – TWEET, THREAD CREDIT

• “CCP had announced China had contained the virus through draconian lockdowns–a claim now known to be false”

November 23, 2022 – Financial Times: ‘We’ve totally confused resitents’: China’s Covid policy flip-flop strokes frustration – READ

• The city of Shijiazhuang has shut down, opened up and closed again in 9 days as the country battles a near-record outbreak – REF

October 27, 2022 – The Highwire Ep 291 – IS PERMANENT LOCKDOWN ON THE HORIZON? – City planners in Oxford and Canterbury UK look to impose travel restrictions for anyone wanting to go outside of their set “districts.” – WATCH, FULL

October 19, 2022 – Kyle Becker: Bill Maher unleashed a damning monologue on his ‘Real Time’ show that ran through the immense damage caused by Covid policies during the pandemic – WATCH, ARTICLE

October 14, 2022 – John Anderson: Rethinking Covid | Jay Bhattacharya & Gigi Foster – WATCH, The Failure of COVID-19 Lockdowns – EXCERPT

October 11, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: The Quarantine of Healthy Populations – READ

• Until 2020 we had not previously locked down entire populations. We did not do this before because it does not work; [TIMELINE] and it inflicts enormous collateral damage.
• Public health decided “civil rights had to be suspended if we were going to stop the spread of covid.” – NY Times Feb 2020″ “To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It” – ARTICLE, But medieval “never ordered people to stay in their homes, never stopped people from plying their trade, and never isolated asymptomatic individuals.”
• Lockdowns are a “wholly modern invention” and China is it’s founder – TIMELINE
• “The Chinese Communist Party advertised that they had stamped out the virus in the regions where they had locked down [TIMELINE]. This was utterly false advertising, but the WHO and most nations bought it. The US and UK followed Italy’s lockdown [TIMELINE], which had followed China, and all but a handful of countries around the globe followed our lead.  Within weeks the whole world was locked down.”
• In 2005 “the WHO grossly overpredicted that the bird flu (avian influenza)” would kill 2-5-million people -back then they proposed population-wide lockdowns – “that no nation was prepared to accept at the time” [Though President Bush considered it under The Patriot Act – REF]
• Donald Henderson 2006 paper all “mitigation measures would do far more harm than good.”…”Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.” – PAPER
• “The myth of asymptomatic viral spread was another key element in our adoption of the biosecurity paradigm. Asymptomatic spread was not a driver of the pandemic, as research confirmed.”…no respiratory virus in history has been known to spread asymptomatically” – REF, TIMELINE
• Loneliness –  solitary confinement—a condition that eventually leads to sensory disintegration and psychosis. Social isolation can kills – US government hashtag #AloneTogether !

September 23, 2022 – 2022 Doshi Family Bridgebuilder Award Ceremony: Honoring Dr. Jay Bhattacharya – presentation which explores the impact of unprecedented public health interventions to COVID-19 – WATCH, FULL

September 21, 2022 – Fox News: Fauci admits he knew his ‘draconian’ lockdowns would have ‘collateral negative consequences’ on school children – READ & WATCH

September 21, 2022 – The Atlantic Festival 2022: Dr. Anthony Fauci on His Legacy and Life After Leaving the Government – WATCH, READ, Del Bigtree responds to Fauci justifying “draconian” measures – WATCH

September 22, 2022 – Daily Sceptic: Failed Zero Covid Policy Cost Australia Over $938 Billion, Report Finds – READ

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September 19, 2022 – The Highwire: ‘COVID-ZERO’ NEW ZEALAND ABANDONS RESTRICTIONS – Next to China, New Zealand’s Covid restrictions have been some of the most authoritarian and inhumane in the world. A once confident Prime Minister, Jacinda Arden, had no problem dividing her people and has now suddenly switched to supporting individual choice. Are people buying it? – WATCH

September 13, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: The Deeper History of ‘Social Distancing’ — the Western Term for Lockdown (封锁) – READ – the school science project inspired Neil Ferguson! – TIMELINE

• “In April 2020, while most of the world was in strict lockdown, the New York Times published The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing, reassuring readers that this concept of “social distancing” had a scientific history.” – NYT Apr 22, 2020 – READ, ARCHIVE
• “Of course, this was nonsense. Western nations hadn’t merely implemented voluntary social distancing, they’d imposed lockdowns: Shutting businesses and community spaces with the force of law.”
• “These lockdowns were unprecedented in the western world and weren’t part of any democratic country’s pandemic plan prior to Xi Jinping’s lockdown of Wuhan. They failed meaningfully to slow the spread of Covid and led to the deaths of tens of thousands of young people in every country in which they were tried.”
• “Hatchett, Mecher, and their UK colleague Neil Ferguson …did studies portending to show that similar closures had led to better results in St. Louis than in Philadelphia during the 1918 Spanish flu” …”February 2007, the CDC made their approach—bureaucratically called Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions, or NPIs—official US policy.”
• “As it turns out, “community-wide measures to increase social distance” had already been promulgated into policy by both the CDC and the World Health Organization in early 2004.”

August 18, 2022 – Telegraph: Lockdown effects feared to be killing more people than Covid – Unexplained excess deaths outstrip those from virus as medics call figures ‘terrifying’ – READ

• “Office for National Statistics (ONS) show that around 1,000 more people than usual are dying each week from conditions other than the virus.”

July 22, 2022 – Daily Sceptic: Why Did Anthony Fauci Suddenly Switch One Day From Promoting Calm to Promoting Lockdown? – READ, Brownstone Institute: The Day Fauci Reversed Course: February 27, 2020 – READ, TIMELINE

• “But why then the [Fauci] flip to panic mode after February 27th? Did the WHO backing lockdowns on February 24th change the equation, so it was no longer deemed viable or good cover to oppose the new approach?”

May 31, 2022 – The Atlantic: The End of Shanghai’s Two-Month COVID Lockdown – READ, BBC – READ, CREDIT

May 30, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: Why Did Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model? – READ,

• “The CCP carefully cultivated the World Health Organization over a decade, and there’s a growing mountain of evidence that they made significant headway in cultivating the health and security bureaucracies of many member nations as well. The fact that the pandemic plans of these nations were simply discarded to make way for lockdowns—and the public was neither consulted nor informed of this decision—suggests that the corruption may have run quite deep.”
• Article includes officials Walensky, Redfield, Fauci, Surgeon General Jerome Adams, Bill Gates, NY Times, Neil Ferguson, Susan Michie, The Lancet, public health officers and scientists etc all “towing the party line”

May 5, 2022 – The Telegraph: Sweden’s Covid death rate among lowest in Europe, despite avoiding strict lockdowns – READ

April 15, 2022 – Fee Stories: New Study Provides Yet More Evidence That COVID Lockdowns Didn’t Work – READ, STUDY

• “Economists Casey P. Mulligan, Stephen Moore, and Phil Kerpen ran the numbers to rank all 50 states on COVID mortality, economic performance, and pandemic education outcomes …[showing] government lockdowns did not meaningfully reduce COVID-19 mortality.”

April 12, 2022 – Brownstone Institute: What Happened on the Junket To China in February 2020? – Timeline to investigate including Clifford Lane emails re China lockdowns – READ

April 7, 2022 – Paul Joseph Watson: Absolute Madness in Shanghai – lockdowns – WATCH

March 23, 2022 – Wall Street Journal: Covid Lockdowns Were a Chinese Import – The U.S. never considered such oppressive measures against a pandemic until leaders panicked in 2020 – READ, This concept of “lockdown” had no precedent in the western world. – READ

March 15, 2022 – NBC News: How Hong Kong went from ‘zero-Covid’ to the world’s highest death rate- Despite having two years to prepare, critics say the government was caught off-guard by a virus outbreak that has killed thousands of unvaccinated seniors. – “Hospitals and morgues are overflowing,” – READ, CREDIT

• “The outbreak, driven by the more transmissible omicron variant, has come as a shock to the Chinese territory, where a “zero-Covid” strategy of mass testing, contact tracing, border closures and strict quarantine requirements kept cases and deaths to a minimum for almost two years.” [i.e. lockdown’s failed to stop the virus!]

March 14, 2022 – COVID-19 cases continue to rise in China’s worst outbreak since Wuhan – READ

• “Throughout the pandemic, China has adhered to a strict zero-Covid policy that aims to stamp out all outbreaks and chains of transmission using a combination of border controls, mass testing, quarantine procedures and lockdowns.”
• “Two major Chinese cities — northeastern industrial hub Changchun and southern economic hub Shenzhen — are under lockdown, with more than 26 million residents forbidden from leaving their homes.”

March 4, 2022 – The Highwire: CDC LOWERS CHILDHOOD MILESTONES – following US children missing school and being masked for the past year – the cosequence to these children could be life long – WATCH

February 26, 2022 – The Telegraph: Covid modelling that prompted first UK lockdown based on ‘inaccurate’ case numbers – Report published in March 2020 suggested more than 500,000 people could die from the virus if Britain took no action – ARCHIVE

• The SPI-M (Scientific Pandemic Influenza Group on Modelling) minutes released to the Telegraph under a Freedom of Information request show that by March 16, 2020 the Imperial modellers were still “uncertain” of case numbers “due to data limitations”.

February 14, 2022 – The Highwire: NEW DATA EXPOSES LOCKDOWN FAIL – WATCH

February 13, 2022 – The Telegraph: Was Sweden right about Covid all along? – The land of common sense seems to be thriving while Britain is counting the cost of harsh lockdown restrictions – READ

• Sweden saw “lockdown was an extreme, draconian, untested experiment“. Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s state epidemiologist,… could not recommend a public health intervention that had never been proven.

February 10, 2022 – The Highwire Ep 254: America Rising – NEW DATA EXPOSES LOCKDOWN FAIL – WATCH

February 4, 2022 – Washington Examiner: New study confirms COVID-19 lockdowns did more harm than good – READ, WEAR TV: lockdowns had little to no effect on COVID mortality – READ, Johns Hopkins University study Jan 2022 – PDF

• They “found that COVID-19 lockdowns toward the beginning of the pandemic had “little to no effect” on the COVID-19 mortality rate and “should be rejected out of hand as a pandemic policy.””
• a “meta-analysis of 34 studies from the first wave of the pandemic and found that U.S. and European lockdowns, which were held up as an effective tool at limiting deaths, “reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.””
• “Lockdowns were a failure that might have cost more lives than they saved. i.e. from May 2020 to April 2021:
• drug overdose deaths increased by 28.5% from the year before.
• Domestic violence incidents increased 8.1% .
• Depression rates tripled in adults in all demographic groups, and
• suicide attempts among young children and teenagers skyrocketed.“

MAINSTREAM MEDIA did NOT report on this Johns Hopkins study i.e. CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC or national publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, or USA Today, had reported on the study – Fox News on Feb 4, 2020 – REPORTS

February 3, 2022 – National Post: Lockdowns only reduced COVID deaths by 0.2 per cent, Johns Hopkins study finds – ‘We find no evidence that lockdowns, school closures, border closures, and limiting gatherings have had a noticeable effect on COVID-19 mortality’ – READ

February 2, 2022 – Health News Florida: A Johns Hopkins study says ‘ill-founded’ COVID lockdowns did more harm than good – READ, NY Post – READ, Fox News – WATCH
Studies in Applied Economics journal: A literature review and meta-analysis of the effects of lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality by Herby et al – PDF

• “Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics analyzed studies from the first surge of the pandemic to investigate widely pushed claims that stringent restrictions would limit deaths.

• Instead, the meta-analysis concluded that lockdowns across the US and Europe had only “reduced COVID-19 mortality by 0.2% on average.”

January 15, 2022 – The UK Telegraph: Looking back at lockdown: how we got it wrong – We used scientific modelling to map the pandemic, but it seems that it painted a grimmer picture than what actually materialised – ARCHIVE

January 10, 2022 – Dr. Scott Atlas: The Reality Is The Lockdowns Killed People – WATCH

January 2022 – Johns Hopkins Instituted for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise: A Literature Review and Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality By Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, and Steve H. Hanke – PDF

2021

December 28, 2021 – NY Post: Chinese residents ‘starving’ as world’s strictest COVID lockdown bans them leaving home – READ

December 24, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: 75 Studies and Articles Against COVID-19 School Closures – READ

December 21, 2021 – WSJ: How Fauci and Collins Shut Down Covid Debate – They worked with the media to trash the Great Barrington Declaration – READ

November 30, 2021 – Brownstone Institute More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures) – by Dr Paul Alexander – READ

November 20, 2021 – Epoch Times | American Thought Leaders: PART 1: Could Boosters Backfire? – Dr. Paul Alexander on Booster Shots, Natural Immunity, and the Failures of Lockdowns – WATCH

November 12, 2021 – Bright Light News: Asymptomatic People Don’t Spread Covid-19…Masks & Lockdowns Not Needed – Dr Peter McCullough – READ, WATCH

November 6, 2021: Global Canada – The TANZANC Model And Zero COVID Transmission: A Better Strategy for Canada – Version 2.1 – ARCHIVE, Nov 12, 2020 version – ARCHIVE

October 26, 2021 – Wall Street Journal: People Are Using Marijuana to Treat Anxiety and Depression, but the Science Is Murky – READ

October 14, 2021 – Sydney Uni: Why Sydney’s COVID numbers didn’t get as bad as the modelling suggested – READ

• “Last Monday [Oct 11th], Sydney emerged from a lockdown of more than 100 days after reaching the milestone of having 70 percent of the over-16 population fully vaccinated.”
• Professor Jamie Triccas and Dr Megan Steain propose two key factors that could account for this: vaccine effectiveness and real-time protection” [Fast forward 2022 both academics get awarded CEPI grants, how loverly – READ]

August 14, 2021 – Recalim the Net: NSW government criticized for announcing last minute statewide lockdown via Twitter – and not a press conference – READ

• “The first official announcement was made through Deputy Premier John Barilaro’s Twitter account, though several Nationals MPs had already shared the news through Facebook.”
• “I’m sure there was time in today’s 45 min presser for a mention [of the lockdown]!” Sarah Stewart, a journalist, wrote on Twitter.”

August 11, 2021 – The Highwire: THE GLOBAL RESISTANCE – Protests in cities across the world, of fed-up citizens who have taken to the streets by the thousands, tired of lockdown measures, looming vaccine mandates, and corporate media propaganda. – WATCH

August 4, 2021 – Multipolar: How the lockdown came to Germany – READ, CREDIT

• “For a long time it was unclear how the previously unprecedented idea of a lockdown found its way into German government circles. Who recommended to the government the radical measures that are not found in any official pandemic preparedness paper?” … the COVID-19 pandemic measures that were taken are no where mentioned in the 2017 National Pandemic Plan of the Federal Republic of Germany
• So where did the unusually radical “mitigation” recommendations put forward by Heiko Rottmann-Großner come from?

September 19, 2021 – Forbes: CDC’s Six-Foot Social Distancing Rule Was ‘Arbitrary’, Says Former FDA Commissioner – READ, WATCH

• Dr. Scott Gottlieb, told CBS’ Face the Nation that the six-foot social distancing rule created to slow the spread of the coronavirus was “arbitrary” and has decreased confidence in the pandemic response.
• “Many people assume the rule traces to “some old studies” on the flu, which found droplets won’t travel further than six feet, Gottlieb said—though research has since shown that Covid-19 can be spread through aerosols, which have the potential to travel many times further than droplets.” – REF

August 28, 2021 – Washington Times: Lockdowns show enemies ‘how to bring the United States to its knees,’ Scott Atlas says – foreign policy threat warning – READ

August 10, 2021 – Electroverse: Here Come the Climate Lockdowns, “for the good of the planet” – re IPCC’s latest doomsday report – READ

August 1, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar (his new book Spike) – What precisely was the intention of lockdowns? – READ

• Jeremy Farrar, the UK Fauci equivalent, was probably the dominant influence for enacting lockdowns in the UK, more so than Imperial College’s Neil Ferguson.
• “Social distancing measures should be mandatory, not optional,” he writes. “A prime minister cannot ask people to lock down if they feel like it….that is not the way these sorts of public health measures work.”
• “His thinking on the topic of lockdowns and their objective migrates from chapter to chapter. There is no clear objective other than to do something dramatic as a display of government power and willingness to act.”

July 22, 2021 – The Highwire Ep 225 – THE COVID BLAME GAME – FULL, UK official admits lockdown are for “SOCIAL CONTROL” – EXCERPT

• A U.K. member of Parliament has come forward writing a blistering op-ed for the Daily Mail. Part whistleblower, part human rights activist, Graham Brady is calling out his own government’s ill-advised Covid mitigation policies, originating from fear, rather than sound public health science. – WATCH

July 20, 2021 – SA Health: COVID-19 update 304 – South Australia goes into a seven-day lockdown to stop further spread of the Delta variant of COVID-19 – ARCHIVE, TIMELINE

July 19, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: The Purpose of Social Distancing Was Not to Wait for a Vaccine – READ [also see March 2, 2020] – R naught explained.

The Fauci theory of “social distancing” as it stood on March 2, 2020, was literally an impossibility, despite his air of certitude.

• “If the R Naught signifies anything it is an ex post description of conditions on the ground. It is not a causative agent; it is merely descriptive.”
• Fauci and disease models have “mixed up a cause with an effect.”…”The R Naught in principle reveals what a virus is doing but it does not actually cause the virus to behave in a certain way.”
• “It is not possible simply to push down the infection rate through a far-flung theory that viruses only spread in crowds. Even if you could do so, the virus is still there, and the instant people get together again (if the theory of spread holds) the infection rate will shoot up again.”

July 17, 2021 – Pandemic Podcast with Dan Astin-Gregory: Lockdown Summit LIVE in London – WATCH

• This landmark event featured selection of 18 eminent speakers who will critically assess the response to Covid-19 and explore how the world can responsibly begin to live with the virus, without further lockdowns.

July 15, 2021 – AP: Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional – READ

July 15, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: Lockdowns Fail: They Do Not Control the Virus – READ

• Universal lockdowns have no precedent. “It has been a science experiment in real-time”

• Authorities “overthrew 100 years of public-health wisdom and replaced it with an untested, top-down imposition on freedom and human rights”
• Did lockdowns “control the virus in a way that is scientifically verifiable. …the answer is no and for a variety of reasons: bad data, no correlations, no causal demonstration, anomalous exceptions, and so on. There is no relationship between lockdowns …and virus control.”
• The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models…”

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June 30, 2021 – The New Statesman: Victoria Newton’s Diary: How the Sun got its Matt Hancock scoop – ARCHIVE

• June 23, 2021 – An angry whistle-blower had irrefutable evidence of Hanckock breaching his own lockdown rules – video footage of Matt Hancock kissing his glamorous ­adviser Gina Coladangelo on 6 May, 2021 in his ­Westminster office….As per his rules “kissing someone from another household was most definitely not allowed.”

June 26, 2021 – BBC: Matt Hancock quits as health secretary after breaking social distance guidance – READ, Guardian –READ

June 25, 2021 – The Sun: Matt Hancock accused of affair after kissing aide in his office during pandemic – READ, Watch Matt Hancock affair video as he kisses Gina Coladangelo in his office after checking the coast is clear – READ, The CCT footage – WATCH

June 20, 2021 – News: South Australia records five new cases, restrictions imposed – but the state avoided entering lockdown – READ

June 2, 2021 – Talk Radio: Former NHS doctor blasts “virtue-signalling” pandemic scientists – Dr John Lee with Mark Dolan – the pandemic is over and has been for some months – ARCHIVE

• @10min – SARS & MERS coronavirus have cross reactivity
• Lockdowns were never about saving lives. they were about spreding the cases you were going to have, over a longer period, to prevent the NHS from being overwhelmed (flatten the curve), not to necessarily stop those people from dying

May 10, 2021 – Daily Sceptic: CPS Admits That “All Offences Charged Under the Coronavirus Act Were Incorrectly Charged” – A Freedom of Information request has confirmed that zero prosecutions have been made successfully under the Coronavirus Act. – READ

May 4, 2021 – FEE Stories: New Study Reveals That Stay-at-Home Orders Backfired – US households had the highest COVID-19 transmission rates, a new economic analysis says. Here’s why – READ

• Previous data, collected from 113 hospitals who surveyed patients over a 3-day span, found more than two-thirds patients had contracted the virus while staying at home.
• A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper offers fresh evidence to show stay-at-home orders may have backfired. – PDF
• “Stay Home, Stay Safe” was bad advice – TWEET

April 19, 2021 – AIER: The Lockdown Paradigm Is Collapsing – READ

April 12, 2021 – The UK Telegraph: [UK exits lockdown] Police step up patrols as freedom slowly returns after long lockdown – READ, “COVID-19 rates said to “continue to plummet” – READ

April 2, 2021 – The Telegraph: State of fear: how ministers ‘used covert tactics’ to keep scared public at home – Government’s ‘psychological strategies’ to manipulate unwitting public’s behaviour may backfire and lead to long-term damage, experts claim – READ

March 24, 2021 – Reuters: Sweden saw lower 2020 death spike than much of Europe – Sweden…emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries, an analysis of official data sources showed – READ

• [But remember this “snapshot”: August 19, 2020 – The Guardian: Sweden records highest death tally in 150 years in first half of 2020 – Covid-19 caused about 4,500 deaths in six months to end of June as Sweden opted against strict lockdown – READ

March 23, 2021 – Daily Mail: ‘Professor Lockdown’ Neil Ferguson apologises again for flouting restrictions he helped bring about – but says he is now ‘hopeful’ that this shutdown will be the last – READ

March 22, 2021 – Telegraph: Neil Ferguson: how modelling shaped Britain’s pandemic – and my regret at breaking lockdown rules – by Neil Ferguson – READ

March 18, 2021 – Daily Sceptic: Here’s the Evidence Lockdowns Do More Harm Than Good – READ
HART group’s new report, entitled “COVID-19: an overview of the evidence“, was sent to MPs today to encourage them to vote against the renewal of the Coronavirus Act in the coming week. – READ,

• HART GROUP: The data is in: lockdowns serve no useful purpose and cause catastrophic societal and economic harms. They must never be repeated in this country – REPORT

March 15, 2021 – Independent UK: Italy enters fresh lockdown, shutting shops and schools as hospitals struggle with third wave – READ, Fobes – READ, NY Post – READ, NY Times: Italy imposes lockdown measures as cases spike across Europe – READ

March 8, 2021 – Newsweek: Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford Doctor, Calls Lockdowns the ‘Biggest Public Health Mistake We’ve Ever Made’ – READ

February 28, 2021 – Alarabiya: Police arrest eight in anti-lockdown protest in Denmark – READ

February 24, 2021 – The Telegraph: The Government’s campaign to terrify people into compliance with Covid rules was shameless and cruel – READ

February 22, 2021 – Economic Policy Journal: Prepare for the Coming ‘Climate Lockdowns’ – ‘Govts would limit private-vehicle use, ban consumption of red meat, & impose extreme energy-saving measures…stop drilling’ – READ, CREDIT, Soros/Gates funded Climate Lockdown narrative …- READ, CREDIT

February 12, 2021 – Australia: Victorians are sick of lockdowns – protests – WATCH

February 6, 2021 – Independent: Almost a third of prosecutions under coronavirus laws dropped, review shows – READ

January 31, 2021 – Euro News: ‘We’ve had enough’: In France, Spain and Denmark, anti-lockdown protests continue – across Europe – READ

January 31, 2021 – Vienna anti-lockdown protest: The police remove helmets and marched in solidarity with the protesters – TWEET, ARCHIVE

January 30, 2021 – American Institute for Economic Research: The Catastrophic Impact of Covid Forced Societal Lockdowns by Dr Alexander – READ, John Ioannidis – PAPER

January 18, 2021 – Bloomberg: Covid Lockdowns Are Spreading a Year After China Shocked World – READ

• “A year after the lockdown imposed in the Chinese city of Wuhan shocked the world, the [once-unthinkable] tactic is turning out to be an enduring tool for quelling the coronavirus almost everywhere”

January 17, 2021 – Breitbart: Italian Restaurants Open in Mass Protest at Lockdown Rules – READ, Red State: Lockdown Rebellion: Over 50,000 Restaurants in Italy Defy Lockdown Orders and Reopen – READ

• Within 8 days the Prime Minister of Italy resigns – NY Times- READ, BBC – READ

January 15, 2021 – Business Insider: Switzerland is holding a referendum on whether to strip the government of its power to impose coronavirus lockdowns – amid an increasing national debate about the rights of individuals – READ

January 14, 2021 – Newsweek: COVID Lockdowns May Have No Clear Benefit vs Other Voluntary Measures, International Study Shows – READ, Peer reviewed Eur J Clin Inv – STUDY

January 11, 2021 – CCP’s Global Lockdown Fraud – The Chinese Communist Party’s Global Lockdown Fraud – Request for expedited federal investigation into scientific fraud in COVID‑19 public health policies – open LETTER

• Xi’s World | Part I – This film is based on a letter by an international team of professionals, researchers and activists, calling for an expedited investigation into scientific fraud in public health policies – WATCH

January 5, 2021 – European Journal of Clinical Investigation (Eur J Clin Inv): Assessing mandatory stay-at-home and business closure effects on the spread of COVID-19 -by Bendavid, Oh, Bhattacharya, Ioannidis – READ

January 1, 2021 – Sabhlok City: The Great Invention of 2020: LOCKDOWNS, 7-22 January 2020 by medical genius Xi Jinping – READ

2020

December 19, 2020 – BBC: Covid: Italy latest European country to order Christmas lockdown – READ

December 19, 2020 – American Institute of Economic Research: Lockdowns Do Not Control the Coronavirus: The Evidence – READ, CREDIT

• “The pro-lockdown evidence is shockingly thin, and based largely on comparing real-world outcomes against dire computer-generated forecasts derived from empirically untested models, and then merely positing that stringencies and “nonpharmaceutical interventions” account for the difference between the fictionalized vs. the real outcome.
• The anti-lockdown studies, on the other hand, are evidence-based, robust, and thorough, grappling with the data we have (with all its flaws) and looking at the results in light of controls on the population.”

December 14, 2020 – JAMA Network: Household Transmission of SARS-CoV-2A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis – Madewell et al – READ, Asymptomatic spread was not a driver of the pandemic [lockdown unjustified] – REF

December 11, 2020 – Global Canada Working Paper v 4.0 – Going For Zero: A Superior Strategy for Canada? – TANZANC (Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Atlantic & Northern Canada) Democracies & Their Lessons For Canada – ARCHIVE, FYI Global Canada hosted in 2015 “dinner in honour of Bill Gates” – ARCHIVE

December 8, 2020 – New York Times Opinion: We Can’t Ignore the Human Cost of Lockdowns – Renewed restrictions may be necessary, but they have a heavy toll. – READ Letter by UsForThem a parent-led campaign group calling children’s needs to be prioritised during the pandemic response – HERE

December 3, 2020 – UncoverDC: Ten Fatal Errors: Scientists Attack Paper That Established Global PCR Driven Lockdown – READ

November 27, 2020 – CMAJ News: Should Canada aim for #CovidZero? – READ

• COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations resurge across the country… Dr. Andrew Morris and other health professionals are urging aggressive government action to focus on eliminating, rather than managing, community spread of SARS-CoV-2

November 22, 2020 – Dr Zev Zelenko – How to end the lockdown – Zelenko Protocol – TWEET

November 17, 2020 – CBA: ‘You don’t copy the losers,’ says doctor pushing ‘COVID-zero’ strategy – Dr. Andrew Morris one of several health-care workers calling for ‘aggressive‘ national approach to pandemic – ZERO COVID! – READ

November 16, 2020 – Denmark Protests: After 9 days of banging pots & pans outside parliament the epidemic law (defining who could be forced vaccinated) is SCRAPPED – TWEET, TWEET, WATCH, READ, [And protests didn’t affect Denmark’s 2020 mortality figure – TWEET]

November 16, 2020 – The Tyee: Some Places Are Beating COVID-19. How All of Canada Can, Too – ‘Go for Zero’ shows a way, says a new report that should spur vital debate in this country. – READ,

• Re: November 12, 2020 – Global Canada Working Paper: Version 3.0: Going For Zero: A Superior Strategy for Canada? TANZANC (Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand, Atlantic & Northern Canada) Democracies & Their Lessons For Canada – ARCHIVE

November 16, 2020 – Fox New | Tucker Carlson: The elites want COVID-19 lockdowns to usher in a ‘Great Reset’ and that should terrify you – America is locking down again – WATCH & READ

• Catholic Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò open letter to President trump date Oct 30, 2020 – READ

November 13, 2020 – AIER: Even a Military-Enforced Quarantine Can’t Stop the Virus, Study Reveals – Quotes studies in NEJM, Lancet – READ

November 11, 2020 – Wicked Truths: Lockdowns vs Albert Biderman’s chart of coercion – a chart used by military to break the spirit of war prisoners – READ

November 8, 2020 – Daily Mail: Official data is ‘exaggerating’ the risk of Covid and talk of a second wave is ‘misleading’, 500 academics tell Boris Johnson in open letter attacking lockdown – READ

October 27, 2020 – BBC: Covid: Protests take place across Italy over anti-virus measures – over restrictions to curb the SECOND wave – READ

October 27, 2020 – Daily Mail: Wave of anti-lockdown protests sweeps across Europe: Thousands of furious demonstrators clash with police in cities in Italy and Spain as they urge their governments to abandon new restrictions on their freedom – READ

October 23, 2020 – Daily Wire: New CDC Numbers Show Lockdown’s Deadly Toll On Young People – READ, CDC MMWR – READ

• young adults aged 25-44 years saw the largest increase in “excess” deaths from previous years, a stunning 26.5% jump. 
• October 20, 2020 – CDC MMWR: Excess Deaths Associated with COVID-19, by Age and Race and Ethnicity — United States, January 26–October 3, 2020 – READ, ARCHIVE

October 21, 2020 – Thrivetime Show: Del Bigtree | Stop the Lockdown for Everyone That Is Healthy Immediately – WATCH, READ

October 19, 2020 – Politico Europe: Ireland announces six-week coronavirus lockdown – READ

October 15, 2020 – Robert David Steel – Riccardo Bosi Australia Queensland Election Corruption Prime Minister Lockdowns – DELETED, ARCHIVE

October 15, 2020 – WHO: What is WHO’s position on ‘lockdowns’ as a way of fighting COVID-19? – ARCHIVE

• “Large scale physical distancing measures and movement restrictions, often referred to as ‘lockdowns’, can slow COVID‑19 transmission by limiting contact between people.” [based on what evidence?] though they have negative consequences…
• “Governments must make the most of the extra time granted by ‘lockdown’ measures by doing all they can to build their capacities to detect, isolate, test and care for all cases; trace and quarantine all contacts; engage, empower and enable populations to drive the societal response and more.”

October 12, 2020 – NY Post: Trump says WHO admitted he’s right on COVID-19 lockdowns – READ

“The lockdowns are doing tremendous damage to these Democrat-run states where they are locked down, sealed up. Suicide rates, drug rates, alcoholism, death by so many different forms. You can’t do that,”

President Trump

October 10, 2020 – World Doctors Alliance in Berlin, Germany: Announce Lawsuit Against COVID-19 Global Lockdown – WATCH, YouTube

October 8, 2020 – NY Post: COVID-19 lockdowns were a risky experiment — and one that failed – READ, ORIGINAL

• “From the start, ­researchers have warned that lockdowns could prove far deadlier than the virus.”
• In a comparison of 50 countries, a team led by Rabail Chaudhry of the University of ­Toronto found that COVID-19 was deadlier in places with older populations and higher rates of obesity (like the United States), but the mortality rate was no lower in countries that closed their borders or enforced full lockdowns.

• After analyzing 23 countries and 25 US states with widely varying policies, Andrew Atkeson of UCLA and fellow economists found that the mortality trend was similar everywhere once the disease took hold: The number of daily deaths rose rapidly for 20 to 30 days, then fell rapidly.

October 6, 2020 – The Highwire: MILLIONS IN EUROPE SAY “NO!” TO LOCKDOWN – For months, European countries have erupted with peaceful, yet passionate, protests disagreeing with mask mandates, economic shutdown, and the damaging effects on our elderly and children. Only recently has the law enforcement been given orders that seem to want to shut down their voices by any means necessary. – WATCH

October 5, 2020 – The Real Side: THOUSANDS of Doctors and Scientists come out against Fauci! – READ, Dr Simone Gold + >500 other doctors “A Doctor a Day” – LETTER

October 5, 2020 – American Institute for Economic Research (AIER): AIER Hosts Top Epidemiologists, Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration – READ

• From October 1-4, 2020, the AIER hosted a remarkable meeting of top epidemiologists, economists, and journalists, to discuss the global emergency created by the unprecedented use of state compulsion in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. The result is The Great Barrington Declaration, which urges a “Focused Protection” strategy. – DECLARATION

October 4, 2020 – TESTIMONY: Dr Lee Merritt speaking on Masks, Lockdowns – WATCH, More on Dr Merritt – HERE

October 4, 2020 – The Great Barrington Declaration is released – asking for a “focused” pandemic response – TIMELINE

October 1, 2020 – Scientific American: Protecting against COVID’s Aerosol Threat – READ

September 22, 2020 – Project Syndicate: Avoiding a Climate Lockdown by Mariana Mazzucato – READ, Marc Morano – CREDIT, Climate Change – HERE

• An establishment-connected lefty professor says that in “the near future, the world may need to resort to lockdowns again — this time to tackle a climate emergency.” – REF

September 20, 2020 – Daily Sceptic: The Real Science of Covid [prior to mass vaccination] – READ

• Lockdowns are Terrible Ideas and Not Standard Practice
• Lockdowns Were Not Needed or Effective
• The Collateral Damage From Lockdowns is Vast and Will Kill Millions
• The Virus is Not at all Deadly For Those Under 55
• Children Do Not Spread the Virus and are Not at Risk
• Elderly are Most Vulnerable, 50–60% of All Deaths Were Care Home Deaths
• Politicians Caused Care Home Deaths Through Bad Policy
• Why Herd Immunity Thresholds Are Lower Than Assumed
• Most People Have Immunity and a Defence Response T-Cell Cross Reactivity and Cross Immunization
• The Virus Naturally Fizzles Out and Most States/Regions Follow the Gompertz Curve
• The Virus is Fizzling Out 
• Putting Covid in Perspective vs the Flu Globally

September 6, 2020 – The Highwire | Jaxen Report: WHITE HOUSE’S DR. ATLAS: ‘LOCKDOWN MORE HARMFUL THAN VIRUS’ – READ

September 2020 – Environmental Research: Population-level COVID-19 mortality risk for non-elderly individuals overall and for non-elderly individuals without underlying diseases in pandemic epicenters by John Ioannidis et al – READ, CREDIT

• Data collected to April 24, 2020 – Conclusion: “People <65 years old have very small risks of COVID-19 death even in pandemic epicenters and deaths for people <65 years without underlying predisposing conditions are remarkably uncommon. Strategies focusing specifically on protecting high-risk elderly individuals should be considered in managing the pandemic.”

August 16, 2020 – AUSTRALIA – Zoom Meeting to discuss Victoria’s LOCKDOWN with Pete Evans, Troy Thornton, Serene Teffaha, Nurse X, Actress X and an ex ADF soldier discussing the draconian Victoria lockdown with Zev and Matt Lawson. – WATCH, ARCHIVE

August 3, 2020 – Newsweek: Sweden COVID-19 Death Rate Lower Than Spain, Italy and U.K. despite never having lockedown – READ, ARCHIVE, The Highwire (@1:58:20) – WATCH

July 30, 2020 – Newsweek: Sweden, Which Never Had Lockdown, Sees COVID-19 Cases Plummet as Rest of Europe Suffers Spike – READ

July 28, 2020 – Zero Hedge: World Bank/IMF Exposed: COVID Aid Conditional On Imposing Extreme Lockdowns, Curfews – The President of Belarus will not comply – READ as reported in Belarusian Telegraph Agency, BelTA – READ, WATCH

July 25, 2020 – Buzz Feed: An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March – John Ioannidis – READ

July 24, 2020 – BuzzFeed News: An Elite Group Of Scientists Tried To Warn Trump Against Lockdowns In March – John Ioannidis’s controversial studies claim that the coronavirus isn’t that big a threat. Before the Stanford scientist did any of them, he wanted to take that message to the White House. – “the virus posed a low risk to most people” – READ

July 24, 2021 – Tott News: Australians say ‘no more’: Freedom protests staged in capital cities – READ

• “Anti-lockdown protesters have marched in major Australian cities, calling for an end to ongoing restrictions, media deception and anti-democratic government control. Powerful scenes show crowds stretching as far as the eye can see, with an estimated 40,000 people turning out in Sydney and Melbourne alone for peaceful rallies.”

July 19, 2020 – Telegraph: Lockdown may cost 200,000 lives, government report shows – “More than 200,000 people could die from the impact of lockdown and protecting the NHS, an official government report shows.” – READ

• …”up to 25,000 could die from delays to treatment in the same period and a further 185,000 in the medium to long term – amounting to nearly one million years of life lost”

July 9, 2020 – City Journal by Joel Zinberg, M.D: Death by Policy – Mortality statistics show that many people have died from lockdown-related causes, not from Covid-19 – READ

• The lockdowns led to wide unemployment and economic recession, resulting in increased drug and alcohol abuse and increases in domestic abuse and suicides.

July 6, 2020 – NY Times: Are Protests Unsafe? What Experts Say May Depend on Who’s Protesting What. – When conservative anti-lockdown protesters gathered on state capitol steps in April and May 2020, epidemiologists scolded them and forecast surging infections. Then on May 25, 2020 following George Floyd’s death, protests are now ok! – READ

June 27, 2020 – Off Guardian: COVID19 PCR Tests are Scientifically Meaningless – Though the whole world relies on RT-PCR to “diagnose” Sars-Cov-2 infection, the science is clear: they are not fit for purpose – READ

• “Lockdowns and hygienic measures around the world are based on numbers of cases and mortality rates created by the so-called SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR tests used to identify “positive” patients, whereby “positive” is usually equated with “infected.”

June 18, 2020 – Hoover Institution – Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson : The Doctor Is In: Scott Atlas and the Efficacy of Lockdowns, Social Distancing, and Closings – WATCH, ARCHIVE, ORIGINAL,

June 16, 2020 – Intellectual Take Out: Infectious Disease Expert Calls for End to Lockdowns – re Dr. John Ioannidis- READ

June 9, 2020 – NPR: Modelers Suggest Pandemic Lockdowns Saved Millions From Dying Of COVID-19 – READ

June 9, 2020 – AIER: Professor Lockdown Now Claims to Have Saved 3.1 Million Lives – READ

June 3, 2020 – BMJ: Should governments continue lockdown to slow the spread of covid-19? Correspondence to: E Melnick from J. Ioannidis – READ

• “Lockdowns are, comparatively, the most draconian non-pharmaceutical intervention. When implemented successfully, they decrease disease transmission by limiting human contact at scale. Historical archival analysis of 43 cities in the 1918-19 flu pandemic shows a strong association between lockdowns and delayed or reduced peak mortality rates, as well as reduced cumulative deaths. Earlier implementation and longer lockdowns were also associated with reduced total mortality.” says Melnick
• “Lockdown was justified initially, when announcements declared a new, contagious virus with a 3.4% fatality rate and no asymptomatic infections. …However, we know that undetected infections are the vast majority. The people infected outnumber those confirmed by polymerase chain reaction tests, anything from fivefold (Gangelt, Germany) to more than 500-fold (Kobe, Japan)…The infection fatality rate is thus vastly lower than the documented case fatality rates. Moreover, most covid-19 deaths affect people with limited life expectancy.” says Ioannidis
• “Lockdowns were desperate, defendable choices when we knew little about covid-19. But, now that we know more, we should avoid exaggeration”

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May 30, 2020 – Pearls & Irritations: Let’s learn from this pandemic to be better prepared for the really big one by Ramesh Thakur – An Australian lockdown/response perspective – READ, Brownstond Inst – CREDIT

• “…some things I would like to see begin with putting hard lockdown into the dustbin of history. And state border closures too, for that matter. Related to this, the government should …transfer the burden of risk back to individuals for assessing the dangers to themselves and the appropriate preventive measures to take and practices to adopt. A smarter approach is a more targeted approach [exactly what The Great Barrington Declaration relayed in October 2020], especially for an epidemic that is so strikingly age and gender stratified and in many jurisdictions has hit care facilities particularly badly.”
• The modelling “assumptions, derived from the core assumption of the reproduction rate ‘R’ being 2.53% based on the initial Wuhan data, have proven to be speculative, unreliable and inflated. As it turned out Australia’s ‘R’ was below 1% already by the time that strict control measures were put in place in late March” 2020.

May 26, 2020 – The Boston Review: The Totality of the Evidence – As policymakers debate the right response to COVID-19, they must take seriously the harms of pandemic policies, not just their benefits by John Ioannidis – READ

May 25, 2020 – The Hill | Opinion: The COVID-19 shutdown will cost Americans millions of years of life – by Scott Atlas et al – READ

• COVID-19 fatalities have fallen disproportionately on the elderly, particularly in nursing homes, and those with co-morbidities. Based on the expected remaining lifetimes of these COVID-19 patients, and given that 40 percent of deaths are in nursing homes, the disease has been responsible for 800,000 lost years of life so far. 
• Considering only the losses of life from missed health care and unemployment due solely to the lockdown policy, we conservatively estimate that the national lockdown is responsible for at least 700,000 lost years of life every month, or about 1.5 million so far — already far surpassing the COVID-19 total.

May 25, 2020 – Wall Street Journal: More People Are Taking Drugs for Anxiety and Insomnia, and Doctors Are Worried – READ, PDF, CREDIT

• Psychiatrists wrote 86% more prescriptions for mostly antidepressants between Mar-April 2020 compared to Jan-Feb 2020 – READ

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May 23, 2020 – Telegraph UK: Literally Thousands of Doctors and Scientists Have Come Out Against Fauci’s Lockdowns Including a Nobel Prize-Winning Biophysicist. The Media Just Doesn’t Want You to Know – READ, ARCHIVE, NY Post – READ

May 22, 2020 – Forbes: 600 Physicians Say Lockdowns Are A ‘Mass Casualty Incident’ – READ, A Letter to President Trump initiated by Dr Simone Gold – revealing the silent casualties of lockdown – The Letter – HERE,
The Highwire – CREDIT

The LETTER – “The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called:

• alcoholism,
• homelessness,
• suicide,
• heart attack,
• stroke, or
• kidney failure. In youths it will be called
• financial instability,
• unemployment,
• despair,
• drug addiction,
• unplanned pregnancies,
• poverty, and
• abuse.”

Note – Suicide in 15-24 year age group by 2019 is already at a 20 year high, isolation will only make this worse!

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May 21, 2020 – Real Clear Politics: How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns – READ – Reliance on Faulty Models coupled with faulty assumptions

• “A much more rational strategy would have been to lock down nursing homes and let young healthy people out to build immunity. Instead we did the opposite, we forced nursing homes to take COVID-19 patients and locked down young people.”

May 21, 2020 – Washington Examiner: California doctors say they’ve seen more deaths from suicide than coronavirus since lockdowns – READ, CREDIT

• A doctors observation: “he’s seen a “year’s worth of suicides” in the last four weeks alone” – REF

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May 20, 2020 – Boomberg Opinion: The Results of Europe’s Lockdown Experiment Are In – by Elaine He – READ, DATA, WATCH

• Relative severity of Europe’s restrictions based on work done by the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government – HERE
• The study found “there’s little correlation between the severity of a nation’s restrictions and whether it managed to curb excess fatalities” [the logical endpoint]
• “Early data show that countries with harsher responses to Covid-19 also suffered more economically”

May 18, 2020 – Accord: Africa and the pandemic panic: Facts not fear by Remesh Thakur – READ, CREDIT

• “Africa has the opportunity to lead the world in an evidence-based rather than fear-driven approach and be an oasis of sanity and calm in a world gone collectively mad.”

May 16, 2020 – The Telegraph: Coding that led to lockdown was ‘totally unreliable’ and a ‘buggy mess’, say experts – it is “something you wouldn’t stake your life on” – READ

• “In our commercial reality, we would fire anyone for developing code like this and any business that relied on it to produce software for sale would likely go bust.”
• …the problems appear to go much deeper than messy coding.”

May 15, 2020 – American Instituted of Economic Research: The 2006 Origins of the Lockdown Idea – READ, TIMELINE

May 15, 2020 – BOOK: Wuhan Diary: Dispatches from a Quarantined City by Fang Fang – BOOK, NY Post: Wuhan writer says China claimed coronavirus was ‘controllable’ – ARTICLE, Gateway Pundit 2022 – READ

• On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary.
• On December 31, 2019 the CCP told their people the virus is “‘not contagious between people; it’s controllable and preventable.’ As soon as we heard that, everyone breathed a collective sigh of relief,” she wrote.” – REF

May 13, 2020 – PrePrint: Bulletin of the World Health Organization: Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data – by John Ioannidis – – READ (published online Oct 14, 2020, and in WHO bulletin in 2021)

May 12, 2020 – The Spectator: Can we trust Covid modelling? More evidence from Sweden – READ, CREDIT

May 6, 2020 – Daily Sceptic: Code Review of Ferguson’s Model – Imperial finally released a derivative of Ferguson’s code but it isn’t the code Ferguson ran to produce his famous Report 9 but a heavily modified derivative of it! – READ

May 6, 2020 – Gateway Pundit: HUGE UPDATE: Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx Used Imperial College Model — NOW CONFIRMED AS A COMPLETE FRAUD — To Persuade President Trump to Lock Down Entire US Economy! – READ, Fauci – WATCH

May 5, 2020 – Boston Review: Models v. Evidence – COVID-19 has revealed a contest between two competing philosophies of scientific knowledge. To manage the crisis, we must draw on both by Jonathan Fuller – READ

• “Bill Gates—whose foundation funds the research behind the most visible outbreak model in the United States, developed by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington—worries that COVID-19 might be a “once-in-a-century pandemic.” – online MODEL
• A notable detractor from this view is Stanford’s John Ioannidis, a clinical epidemiologist, meta-researcher, and reliable skeptic who has openly wondered whether the coronavirus pandemic might rather be a “once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.” He argues that better data are needed to justify the drastic measures undertaken to contain the pandemic in the United States and elsewhere.”

May 4, 2020 – Just Facts: Anxiety From Reactions to Covid-19 Will Destroy At Least Seven Times More Years of Life Than Can Be Saved by Lockdowns – READ, ARTICLE

April 30, 2020 – New England Journal of Medicine | Perspective: Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic? By Dr Bill Gates – READ, CREDIT

April 29, 2020 – Sky News: The former Swedish chief epidemiologist Johan Giesecke says he will be “watching with interest” how Australia comes out of lockdown – WATCH, WATCH

April 29, 2020 – Spiked: Delaying herd immunity is costing lives – The current lockdown is protecting the healthy instead of the vulnerable by Dr Martin Kuldorff – READ, The Highwire [@1:58:20] WATCH

• “Because of its virulence, wide spread and the many asymptomatic cases it causes, Covid-19 cannot be contained in the long run, and so all countries will eventually reach herd immunity. To think otherwise is naive and dangerous. General lockdown strategies can reduce transmission and death counts in the short term. But this strategy cannot be considered successful until lockdowns are removed without the disease resurging.”

April 29, 2020 – Interllectual Takeout: COVID-19 Lockdowns May Destroy Our Immune Systems – READ

April 28, 2020 – Eva Karene Bartlett on Facebook: Syria is not under lockdown, is not the dystopian society of war propagandists – READ, HERE, HERE, “The Top Twelve Lies about Covid19” by Eva – READ

April 26, 2020- AIER: Open Up Society Now, Say Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi – READ

• May 12, 2020 – Mother Jones:Anti-Vaxxers Have a Dangerous Theory Called “Natural Immunity.” Now It’s Going Mainstream – “Your body is an amazing being—it knows how to take care of itself.” – READ

April 26, 2020 – Sky News Australia | Rowan, Rita & James #Outsiders: Former Chief Scientist reveals coronavirus “is going on all around us” – interviews Swedish epidemiologist Johan Giesecke – WATCH, (via The Highwire @2:04:00) – WATCH, READ

• Former Swedish State Epidemiologist Professor Johan Giesecke warned a major lockdown would simply destroy the economy and leave the population without herd immunity and permanently vulnerable to future COVID-19 outbreaks.- REF

“No government that I know gave a minute’s thought about how they would get out of the different lockdowns that are installed…”

“Most people will become infected by this and most people won’t even notice. We have data now from Sweden that shows that between 98 and 99% of the cases have had a very mild infection or didn’t even realise they were infected”

Professor Johan Giesecke

April 25, 2020 – SOTT: COVID-19 Hoax Pandemic: Doctors on Front-line in California Explain Why Lockdowns Are Unnecessary: “Millions of Cases, Tiny Number of Deaths” – ER doctors Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi of Accelerated Urgent Care are calling for the county to reopen – READ

• “The hospitals, the ICUs are empty..they are shutting down floors..”

April 25, 2020 – NBC News: Coronavirus spreads in a New York nursing home forced to take recovering patients – “It’s reckless and careless,” said the granddaughter of a 96-year-old man whose family withdrew him from a Long Island nursing home. – READ

• The March 25, 2020 New York state mandate [PDF] required nursing homes to “accept those recovering from COVID-19, even if they still might be contagious.” The very group we should have been protecting and locking down

April 24, 2020 – NY Times opinion: America Shouldn’t Have to Play by New York Rules – A national lockdown is bad medicine and worse politics – READ

• “Of course, this was nonsense. Western nations hadn’t merely implemented voluntary social distancing, they’d imposed lockdowns: Shutting businesses and community spaces with the force of law.” – REF

April 23, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 160: COVID-19: THE LOCKDOWN CALAMITY – Sweden’s gamble pays off; Scientists, Doctors, Journalists, and Politicians agree on the Lockdown Calamity – WATCH, ARCHIVE

April 22, 2020 – NY Times: The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing – The idea has been around for centuries. But it took a high school science fair, George W. Bush, history lessons and some determined researchers to overcome skepticism and make it federal policy – READ, Brownstone Institute – CREDIT

April 18, 2020: Real Clear Politics: Swedish Epidemiologist Johan Giesecke: Why Lockdowns Are The Wrong Policy – WATCH & READ

April 16, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 159: LOCKDOWN SHOWDOWN – Protests Erupt Across the World Protesting Lockdown; Special Report from Sweden; Doctors Successfully Treating Covid-19 – WATCH

April 15, 2020 – Financial Times: The battle at the heart of British science over coronavirus – The UK government has been accused of paying too much attention to epidemiologists over other experts – READ

• “Just three days before [Ferguson Imperial model]…, Sir Patrick had told the country that the aim was “to reduce the peak [of infection], not suppress it completely” and that policy was aimed at building “some kind of herd immunity”. “

April 14, 2020 – IMF: The Great Lockdown: Worst Economic Downturn Since the Great Depression – ARCHIVE

• The UN COVAX document stated the “introduction of a vaccine will prevent the loss $375 B to the global economy every month”, refrencing this IMF publication as the authority for their claim. A vaccine “will” save the global “economy”!

April 8, 2020 – LA Times: California won’t be lifting coronavirus stay-at-home rules anytime soon. Here’s why – READ, Face mask order – READ

April 7, 2020 – Body & Soul: A full list of the reasons you’re legally allowed to leave your home – Australia state by state – some under Stage 3 lockdown – READ

April 7, 2020 – BBC: Coronavirus: The world in lockdown in maps and charts – READ

April 3, 2020 – Daily Wire: Rush Limbaugh: Shutdown Unsustainable; It’s Not ‘Lives Versus Money,’ It’s ‘Lives Versus Lives’ – READ

April 3, 2020 – Daily Wire: Dr. Fauci: 10 Million Job Losses ‘Inconvenient’ But ‘We Just Have To Do It’ – READ, WSJ – – ARCHIVE Fauci told the Today Show host Savannah Guthrie on April 1, 2020 – WATCH

• Dr. Fauci told CNN on March 30 that he “argued strongly” with the president to extend [the 15 days to flatten the curve] guidance until April 30, 2020

[re the stunning loss of 10 million American jobs in two weeks,from a national 30-day stay-at-home order]
“This is inconvenient from an economic and a personal standpoint, but we just have to do it,”…

[The shutdown] “is our major weapon against this virus right now,” …“We don’t have a vaccine that’s deployable. This is the only thing we have.”

Dr Fauci, WATCH

April 1, 2020 – The Federalist: We’re Following A One-Size-Fits-All Coronavirus Strategy Right Into A Great Depression – READ

April 1, 2020 – AXIOS: White House projects 100,000 to 240,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths – READ

• WH announce new “30 days to slow the spread” plan, which would expire on April 30, 2020
• Deborah Birx the White House coronavirus task force coordinator, explains the models informing the White House’s new guidance on the coronavirus “estimates showed between 1 million to 2 million in the U.S. could die from the virus “without mitigation.”

March 31, 2020 – White House Coronavirus Guidelines – “30 Days to Slow the Spread” – ARCHIVE,

March 31, 2020 – WH coronavirus taskforce briefing – Extending stay at home order for 30 days – WATCH
Deborah Birx thanks the “5 or 6 international and domestic modellers” from Harvard, Columbia, from North Eastern and Imperial that “it was their models that enabled us to see what these mitigations could do.”

March 30, 2020 – 7 News Australia: Victoria’s COVID-19 Stage Three comes into effect at midnight – Premier Daniel Andrews message: “Stay at home” – READ

• “police in Victoria will be able to issue on-the-spot fines of $1652 for individuals and $9913 for businesses, with larger fines possible through the court process.”

March 30, 2020 – President Trump briefing announces there will be another 30 day stay at home order – WATCH, TRANSCRIPT

March 29, 2020 – Sky News Australia: STAGE THREE LOCKDOWN: [Prime Minister Scott Morrison] deploys radical limits on entering public places – [Each state is under their own legistlative state of emergency, but most states caved to the strict message]- READ

• People have been warned not to leave their home unless they are partaking in a small list of exempted activities which include grocery shopping and essential work…

March 27, 2020 – Daily Mail: Bill Gates says Donald Trump needs to lockdown the US for SIX WEEKS to have any hope of ‘flattening the curve’ of the coronavirus infection rate – During a digital TED Talk with host Chris Anderson on 25 March – READ, TED Talk – HERE

March 26, 2020 – TED Talk: How we must respond to the coronavirus pandemic | Bill Gates – WATCH

March 25, 2020 – The Federalist: Inaccurate Virus Models Are Panicking Officials Into Ill-Advised Lockdowns – READ

• “A scan of statements made by media, state governors, local leaders, county judges, and more show many relying on the same source, an online mapping tool called COVID Act Now. ARCHIVES
• The website says it is “built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling.”…but ” COVID Act Now’s predictions have already been proven to be wildly wrong.”
• The tracking tool is ran by act now volunteers!! – HERE, Launched on March 20, 2020 – ARCHIVE
• “Jordan Schachtel, a national security writer, said COVID Act Now’s modeling comes from one team based at Imperial College London that is not only highly scrutinized, but has a track record of bad predictions.” – TWEET
• Founded by democrat donors – “They generated this model under the guise of protecting communities from overrun hospitals, a trend that is not on track to happen as they predicted. Not only is the data false, and looking more incorrect with each passing day, but the website is optimized for a disinformation campaign.”
• [Nov 2022 – soon to launch their CLIMATE Act Now tool! – ARCHIVE, IMAGE]

March 23, 2020 – New Scientist: UK’s scientific advice on coronavirus is a cause for concern – READ

• “Part of the problem is that communications from the government haven’t been clear enough, says Hunter. One way to clarify would be to swap the use of vague terms like “social distancing” with clear advice, such as to keep a physical, 2-metre distance between yourself and others.”

March 20, 2020 – COVID Act Now online tracking tool ran by act now volunteers!! is launched – ARCHIVE, CREDIT
Act Now Coalition – HERE

• “This tool is built to enable political leaders to quickly make decisions in their Coronavirus response informed by best available data and modeling.”

March 19, 2020 – The Highwire Ep 155: CORONAVIRUS QUARANTINE – WATCH

March 17, 2020 – Stat News: A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data by John Ioannidis – READ, CREDIT

• “Ioannidis claims, in particular, that our data about the pandemic are unreliable, leading to exaggerated estimates of risk. He also points to a systematic review published in 2011 of the evidence regarding physical interventions that aim to reduce the spread of respiratory viruses, worrying that the available evidence is nonrandomized and prone to bias.” – REF

March 17, 2020 – New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI): Review of Ferguson et al “Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions…” – by Chen Shen et al a research group in Cambridge, Massachusetts – READ, TIMELINE – The Imperial team’s model is flawed and contains “incorrect assumptions” – New Scientist- CREDIT

March 16, 2020 – Brownstone Institute: Donald Trump’s March 16, 2020, Press Conference that Kicked Off This Catastrophe – 15 days to slow the spread – TRANSCRIPT

• The 70 Seconds that Shook the World – READ
  • “Everything followed from that brief moment: lockdown chaos, the closed schools and churches, the end of basic rights, the wrecking of business, and then began the spending, inflating, mad welfare checks, and the demoralization of the population that continues to this day…The population now subjected to shock and awe, the mask and vaccine mandates seemed minor by comparison…All of it unfolded in 70 seconds on March 16, 2020″

March 16, 2020 – White House Press Briefing: Trump holds briefing with novel coronavirus task force WATCH – annouunce Coronavirus Taskforce guidelines of “15 Days to Slow the Spread“

• Birx regarding Fauci “He was my mentor, so I’m going to have to let him speak” just before Fauci reads the “small print” that lockdown everything- EXCERPT

March 16, 2020 – The Conversation: How to flatten the curve of coronavirus, a mathematician explains – READ, CREDIT

• “Health authorities around the world have been unable to completely prevent COVID-19’s spread. If cases double every six days, then hospitals, and intensive care units (ICUs) in particular, will be quickly overwhelmed, leaving patients without the necessary care. But the growth rate can be slowed by reducing the average number of cases that a single case gives rise to.”

• “As there is currently no vaccine or specific drug for COVID-19, the only ways we can reduce transmission is through good hygiene, isolating suspected cases, and by social distancing measures such as cancelling large events and closing schools.” [note the emphasis of “vaccine” and “specific drug”!- the frontline doctors use a range of repurposed drugs, and used them early…not anything specific, but all that was censored]

March 10, 2020 – CNN: All of Italy is in lockdown as coronavirus cases rise – READ, WATCH, CREDIT,

March 9, 2020 – Italy is the first country to go into lockdown – TIMELINE

March 2, 2020 – [FINDINGS IN RETROSPECT from Dr Fauci’s FOIA’d emails] Fauci believed the virus could be stopped with social distancing – lockdowns – June 19, 2021 – Brownstone Institute: The Purpose of Social Distancing Was Not to Wait for a Vaccine – ARTICLE, TIMELINE

• “we were two weeks away from lockdowns …Media were attempting to coordinate messaging with the federal government … Michael Gerson from the Washington Post sent Fauci a column to make sure that Fauci approved.”
• The point of “social distancing” is not to keep “the disease low until a vaccine is available?” Facui’s response is lockdowns are “to suppress the disease so that it goes away. Not one word about “flatten the curve” to preserve hospital capacity.”
• “Fauci even says that with enough forced human separation, the virus can be made to “decline and stop on its own without a vaccine.””
• major parts of Fauci’s email response “ended up word-for-word in Gerson’s column that week.”

Brownstone state “There are several reasons why this is shocking.

• 1) Gerson was allowing Fauci to write his column,
• 2) the plan to lock down was already in the works two weeks before they came about,
• 3) there is no mention of preserving hospital capacity; that propaganda line was yet to be invented to justify lockdowns,
• 4) Fauci didn’t really believe that we needed a vaccine to make the pandemic end, and
• 5) Fauci is thoroughly messed up in his understanding of the R0 (or R Naught, which is a fancy way of saying the infection rate).”

The Fauci theory of “social distancing” as it stood on March 2, 2020, was literally an impossibility, despite his air of certitude.

February 3, 2020 – CHINA: Speech at the Politburo Standing Committee meeting to study the response to the novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic from Xi Jinping – ARCHIVE, CREDIT [used Google Translate]

• “After the outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic in Wuhan, on January 7, 2020 when I presided over the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee, I put forward requirements for the prevention and control of the new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic.
• On January 20, 2020 Xi Jinping “specially issued instructions on the prevention and control of the epidemic…and take practical and effective measures to resolutely curb the spread of the epidemic
• On January 22, 2020 in view of the rapid spread of the epidemic and the severe challenges faced by prevention and control work, I explicitly asked Hubei Province to implement comprehensive and strict control over the outflow of personnel.
• “When I met with Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, Tedros said that the speed and scale of China’s action are rare in the world, which is China’s institutional advantage, and the relevant experience is worth learning from other countries, and I believe that the measures taken by China will effectively control and eventually defeat the epidemic”

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February 28, 2020 – NY Times: To Take On the Coronavirus, Go Medieval on It – Quarantines and restrictive measures served a purpose in the old days. They can now, too. – READ, CREDIT

• “The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, was able to seal off the city of Wuhan, where the Covid-19 outbreak began, because China is a place where a leader can ask himself, “What would Mao do?” and just do it.”

February 21, 2020 – STAT News: Once widely criticized, the Wuhan quarantine bought the world time to prepare for Covid-19 – READ

January 30, 2020 – barely a week after the Wuhan lockdowns had started and without any evaluation of these experimental “remedies” – Tedros Ghebreyesus fawningly announced: “China is actually setting a new standard for outbreak response. It’s not an exaggeration”. A “new standard”, indeed! – REF, TWEET, TIMELINE

January 30, 2020 – NY Times: W.H.O. Declares Global Emergency as Wuhan Coronavirus Spreads -The announcement came as nearly 8,000 cases have been reported worldwide, almost all of them in mainland China – READ,

• Declaring a Public Health Emergency of International Concern – TIMELINE
• Declaring emergencies also adds urgency to any W.H.O. appeal for money
• WHO’s director general “Dr. Tedros, who met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing on Tuesday [Jan 28, 2020], said Mr. Xi had led “a monumental national response,” [unprecedented lockdown of Wuhan] and that he was “struck by the determination of Chinese leadership” and by how much Mr. Xi personally understood about the outbreak.”

January 29, 2020 – RINJ Press: WHO meets Xi Jinping then calls emergency meet for today on new global info – READ

January 28, 2020 – CGTN: President Xi welcomes WHO’s participation in coronavirus control – READ, China Focus: Xi voices full confidence in winning battle against novel coronavirus – ARCHIVE, KFF: coverage of the meeting between Tedros and Xi – LINKS

January 24, 2020 – The Hill: More than 30 million on lockdown in China amid coronavirus outbreak – China has expanded the lockdown to 12 cities in an effort to contain the flu-like virus. – READ, ARCHIVE

January 23, 2020 – NY Times: Scale of China’s Wuhan Shutdown Is Believed to Be Without Precedent – In sealing off a city of 11 million people, China is trying to halt a coronavirus outbreak using a tactic with a complicated history of ethical concerns. – ARCHIVE, CREDIT

January 23, 2020 – Reuters: Wuhan lockdown ‘unprecedented’, shows commitment to contain virus: WHO representative in China – Lockdown is a move “beyond WHO guidelines”- READ

• “The lockdown of 11 million people is unprecedented in public health history, so it is certainly not a recommendation the WHO has made,” he said, adding authorities had to wait to see how effective it is. – said Gauden Galea a WHO representative in Beijing

January 23, 2020 – NY Times: Coronavirus Is Spreading, but W.H.O. Says It’s Not a Global Emergency – The number of cases outside China is small, and the disease does not seem to be spreading within other countries – READ

January 22, 2020 – Wuhan, China locks down 11 million people and sets a “new standard” for the world! Never done before. – TIMELINE

• “General Secretary Xi Jinping personally directed and deployed the prevention and control work  [namely, the lockdowns and quarantines] … China’s uncompromising and rigorous use of non-pharmaceutical measures to contain transmission of the COVID-19 virus in multiple settings provides vital lessons for the global response”(emphasis added).” – WHO REPORT – PDF

2019

September 19, 2019 – The World Health Organisation release their report: Non-pharmaceutical Public Health Measures for Mitigating the Risk and Impact of Epidemic and Pandemic Influenza. – TIMELINE

2013

February 2013 – NIH: Lessons from the History of Quarantine, from Plague to Influenza A – PDF, CREDIT

2011

July 6, 2011 – Cochrane Database Systematic Review: Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses by Jefferson et al – READ, CREDIT

2007

April 3, 2007 – CIDRAP: Social distancing helped some cities endure 1918 pandemic – READ, Brownstone Institute – CREDIT

• “Social control measures such as closing schools and banning public gatherings played a significant role in slowing the advance of the 1918 influenza pandemic in a number of US cities, but their success depended on how soon the measures were deployed and how slowly they were lifted, two teams of researchers reported yesterday.”
  • Hatchett RJ, Mecher CE, Lipsitch et al. Public health interventions and epidemic intensity during the 1918 influenza pandemic. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2007
  • Bootsma MCJ, Ferguson NM. The effect of public health measures on the 1918 influenza pandemic in U.S. cities. Proc Natl Acad Sci 2007
• “But both [Neil] Ferguson and the authors …declined to speculate on how useful NPIs might be in a future pandemic, saying there is no evidence they can hold off infection indefinitely.”

February 1, 2007 – CIDRAP: HHS ties pandemic mitigation advice to severity – ARCHIVE, CDC press release – READ

• Federal officials unveiled recommendations for nonpharmaceutical “community mitigation measures” to battle pandemic influenza, tying them to a new 5-level concept of a “Pandemic Severity Index” (PSI) which are based on Case-Fatality Ratio (CFR)
• Disruptive measures “should be reserved for moderate and severe pandemics” states Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) , The PSI “has been a missing aspect to pandemic preparedness,”
• HHS 108pg REPORT: Interim Pre-pandemic Planning Guidance: Community Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Mitigation in the United States— Early, Targeted, Layered Use of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions called Community Mitigation Guidance – PDF
  • “This guidance introduces, for the first time, a Pandemic Severity Index in which the case fatality ratio (the proportion of deaths among clinically ill persons) serves as the critical driver for categorizing the severity of a pandemic.”

2006

December 2006 – CDC: Nonpharmaceutical Influenza Mitigation Strategies, US Communities, 1918–1920 Pandemic by Markel et al – READ, ref SOURCE, Press Release – ARCHIVE

November 2006 – CDC: Targeted Social Distancing Designs for Pandemic Influenza by Laura Glass (high school student), Robert Glass (Laura’s dad) et al – READ, TIMELINE [The origins of lock down and social distancing – or is it? – ARTICLE]

February 12, 2006 – The term “social distancing” is first coined – TIMELINE

2005

May 3, 2005 – CDC (page last updated) –

As it turns out, “community-wide measures to increase social distance” had already been promulgated into policy by both the CDC and the World Health Organization in early 2004. – REF

2003

April 25, 2003 – NY Times: 4,000 Quarantined in Beijing as Suspected SARS Cases Climb – READ