Category: Is a lockdown necessary?
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Lockdown Ideology Is A Menace To Society
In this September 7, 2022 article for Spiked, Brendan O’Neill slams the Chinese policy of Zero Covid, which was the basis of the 2020-2021 lockdowns around the world. In this article, O’Neill tells the story of how the Chinese are being separated from their communities in order to keep their economy going. Unlike the West…
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World’s Economic Meltdown Are Rooted In 2020 Lockdowns
In this June 13, 2022 article for Brownstone Institute, Jeffrey Tucker shows us how the draconian lockdowns of 2020 have caused the economic hardships we are now experiencing. Editor’s Note: While this article was written with an American audience in mind, the statements it makes are applicable to all countries around the world. Like the…
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Great Reset: China’s lockdowns affecting global supply chains
In this May 1, 2022 article for Epoch Times, Dorothy Li explains to us the massive implications of the Chinese lockdowns. By insisting on a zero COVID policy, China’s yuan currency fell by more than 4%, its biggest drop in 28 years. Moreover, disruptions in transport systems in Shanghai have led to the closure of…
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It’s time to rethink COVID restrictions
In this March 29, 2022 article Shira Doron, Westyn Branch-Elliman, and Elissa Perkins for The Washington Post criticized the use of “predetermined thresholds for public health policy”. According to the authors, the pandemic has changed so fast that “[B]y the time preset measures are triggered, they are often out of date”. The authors cite the…
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African experience proves countries “mishandled” COVID
In this March 23, 2022 article for The New York Times, Stephanie Nolen looks at COVID in Africa and tries to answer the question: Why is COVID not causing a large number of deaths in Africa compared to other high-income countries? Nolen explores some of the possible reasons for Africa’s low COVID deaths: a young…
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Implementing another full lockdown in UK will cause riots
In this March 19, 2022 article for Daily Mail, Stephen Adams explores the possibility that new lockdowns will be reimplemented in the UK if COVID hospitalizations and deaths continue to rise. According to Professor Roger Kirby, president of the Royal Society of Medicine, the “public would not tolerate being deprived of their liberty on such…
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Fauci: Be prepared to return to COVID restrictions if cases surge again
The following article was written by Kristine Parks and was published by Fox News last March 20, 2022. It reports on the recent statement of Dr. Anthony Fauci during an interview with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos. Stephanopoulos asked Fauci if there were “any reason to reverse” the current “relaxation of restrictions” across the country,…
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China goes back into lockdowns in quest for the mythical zero COVID
51 million Chinese are once again locked down after a new surge in cases, which according to Chinese officials, was caused by B.2, also known as “stealth Omicron”. The report on this was written by Eva Fu and was published by The Epoch Times last March 14, 2022. According to the report, Shenzhen, Dongguan City,…
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Joey Concepcion: Alert Level 1 Necessary to Counter Global Economic Slowdown and to Continue COVID Vaccination
In a March 7, 2022 article published in Philippine Information Agency, Kris Crismundo reported that Presidential Adviser for Entrepreneurship Joey Concepcion has recommended maintaining Alert Level 1 status in the country to counter the impacts of global economic slowdown brought by the conflict between Ukraine and Russia. According to the report, Concepcion said in a…
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Florida has Lowest COVID Cases in the US, Proving No-Lockdown, No-Mask, and No-Vaccine Passport Approach Works
In a November 28, 2021 article published in The Epoch Times, Jack Phillips reported that Florida has the lowest daily covid-19 cases per capita in the United States. A November 26 update shows the Sunshine State reported a daily average of 1,393 coronavirus cases as of Friday, or about six cases per 100,000 people. That represents a five percent…
