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The transatlantic institutional anti-mask campaign, summarised
Early in 2020 as the pandemic began to surge around the world, Asia and the West were divided on whether people should wear facemasks to try and…
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The "noble lie" on masks probably wasn't a lie
Why Western public health went all-in on a campaign against masks.
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The experts can stay wrong longer than you can stay alive
Early in 2020 Western governments, alarmed by reports from China, asked the international public health community whether they should close borders to…
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Things can get really bad, really fast, way faster than regular people will notice
Most people don’t pay that much attention to the news
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Why was it so easy to fool the media on herd immunity?
UK planning at the start of the pandemic involved allowing the majority of the population to become infected with covid between April and September…
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It’s bizarre that this needs saying, but *of course* the UK had a Herd Immunity plan
What it was, where it came from, and how it was abandoned
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Was Ebola a near-miss?
"the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life"
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