A troubling turn in the public policy management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the increasing tendency to justify interventions by assertions of scientific truth that bely the uncertainty of the evidence on which they are based.
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Covid-19: “The more mistakes global governments make, the more they seem to double down” – MAILBOX
BizNews community member Kin Bentley shares his frustrations with censorship around Covid-19 – and suggests a possible solution.
A novel perspective on a not so novel virus
The only logical answer is that SARS-CoV-2 was absolutely not novel. And therefore everything has been blown out of proportion with some very dire consequences for public health and for public liberties.
Fox News: Don’t Fear the Delta Variant, Treat It
Early treatment, not fear mongering, is the answer to handling the Delta variant, Dr. McCullough tells Judge Jeanine on the Ingraham Angle.
Toronto Business Journal with Dr. Peter McCullough – The Vaccine as the Manifest Destiny of the Pandemic
Dr. McCullough discusses a multitude of topics highly relevant to the thrusting of the experimental gene therapy injections onto our world’s population: moral authority, political and financial conflicts of interest among those making policy and the need for truly independent committees and assessments, spike protein toxicity, public health’s abject failure to manage early infection with well-known, safe and reliable treatments likely leading to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths.
Dr. McCullough conscientiously and knowledgeably illustrates how “the dream to get a needle in every arm” may not only be highly inadvisable, but actually a nightmare for increasing numbers of us, unless we act now.”
Pandemic Podcast: Who has been pulling the strings of fear? With Laura Dodsworth
“Fear has, as we know, been the key driver underpinning the relentless Covid-19 response and on the Pandemic Podcast we’ve already taken several deep dives into its devastating — and continuing — impact.
Laura Dodsworth, whose new book A State of Fear paints a chilling picture of the strategies and tactics deliberately used to engineer compliance with the raft of draconian measures flowing from Boris Johnson’s first lockdown announcement in March last year. We will be exploring the roles of the multitude of advisors and the Behavioural Insights Team, also known as ‘the nudge unit’.”
The People’s Voice with Dr Peter McCullough
“This is the first South African interview with renowned internist, cardiologist, epidemiologist and professor of medicine, Dr Peter McCullough. It was a challenge for SPM Media to get this video uploaded. Youtube took it down immediately, because we speak about early treatments challenges and success, as well as the censoring of adverse vax/jab reactions.”
The Critic: The metrics of fear – how the UK has been scared into submission
Fear is the most powerful of emotions and, as emotions are stronger than thoughts, fear can overpower the clearest of minds. We shouldn’t feel bad about being frightened. From an evolutionary perspective, it is key to our survival, it protects us from danger. And that is precisely what makes fear one of the most powerful tools in behavioural psychology.
Britain has been a world leader in behavioural insights since David Cameron set up the “nudge unit”. We now export behavioural psychology to governments and corporations around the world. The Government has used behavioural psychology to influence behaviour and encourage compliance during the Covid-19 epidemic. But has the nudge become a shove?
WSJ Opinion: The Dubious Origins of Long COVID
Long Covid is largely an invention of vocal patient activist groups. Legitimizing it with generous funding risks worsening the symptoms the NIH is hoping to treat.
The Telegraph: Use of fear to control behaviour in Covid crisis was ‘totalitarian’, admit scientists
Scientists on a committee that encouraged the use of fear to control people’s behaviour during the Covid pandemic have admitted its work was “unethical” and “totalitarian”.