/r/LockdownSkepticism
Interdisciplinary examination of lockdowns & other pandemic policies. We acknowledge the threat of COVID-19. We are also concerned about the policies' impact on our physical & mental health, human rights, and economy.
This is a non-partisan, inclusive, global sub. We are empirically minded and do not tolerate unsupported claims or conspiracy theories. Warning: users may be auto-banned from other subs for posting here.
For lockdown skeptics - those concerned about the impact of COVID-19 lockdown / quarantines on our freedoms, human rights, physical and mental health, and economy. We are skeptical of an ongoing lockdown as an effective way to manage the coronavirus pandemic.
This is a non-partisan, global sub.
Please review the rules before participating.
Related subs:
- /r/COVID19 For scientific discussion of COVID-19.
- r/CovidDataDaily - Daily visualizations for COVID-19 in the US.
See wiki for more subs. Please note, our linking to these subs does not constitute an endorsement of their content - most have lighter touch moderation than our sub, so they may sometimes allow lower quality or partisan posts which readers may find distasteful.
Collateral Global -A global repository for research into the collateral effects of the COVID-19 lockdown measures.
The Great Barrington Declaration: a global petition advocating for Focused Protection as a strategy moving forward.
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AMAs
- Prof. Michael Haynes, 25/02/22
- Prof. Jesse Kauffman, 05/02/22
- Dr. Rob Freudenthal, 22/09/21
- Aaron Kheriaty, MD, 17/09/21
- Prof. Mattias Desmet, 23/08/21
- Dr. David Katz, 15/06/21
- Dr. Richard Schabas, 5/05/21
- Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Harvard, 16/04/21
- Dr. Vinay Prasad: UCSF, 08/03/21
- Dr. Simon Thornley: UOA, 04/03/21
- Jenin Younes, Esq., 18/02/21
- Dr. Mark Changizi, 29/01/21
- Dr. Monica Gandhi, UCSF, 19/01/21
- Robert Sakovich, Esq., 27/11/20
- Dr. Stefan Baral: JHU, 20/11/20
- Dr. Sunetra Gupta: Oxford, 17/11/20
- Dr. Jay Bhattacharya: Stanford, 18/10/20
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What happened to the cult of excess deaths?
We have all seen the recent alcohol and still birth death posts.
Where are the excess death-so-now-we-must-lockdown people in all of this that were there in 2020 on sites like DailyKos? Were they even people or AI?
Any thoughts?
04:42 UTC
Critique of Lin et al.'s claims that COVID unvaccinated have been dropping like flies
Lin et al. made some big claims about the benefits of the jabs in Australia, and it even made the mainstream news. I critique the paper here.
04:37 UTC
Boosters are ineffective for the current dominant Covid variants: Expert
21:41 UTC
The HBO series Chernobyl and similarities I noticed with the Covid pandemic.
I just finished watching the HBO series, Chernobyl, an amazing portrayal of the events of the nuclear meltdown in Chernobyl in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s. I couldn't help but thinking all while watching of all the similarities between this nuclear disaster and the Covid situation.
There is a scene in which, soon after the nuclear meltdown, all of these Soviet party officials are meeting to discuss the situation and they immediately state that they must control the spread of "mis-information" - this being any information that would link the disaster to incompetence and failure on the part of the existing bureaucratic structures. This just struck me as so eerily similar to the response to Covid and any theory that didn't align with the official narrative was immediately labelled as mis-information or conspiracy theory.
Ultimately the gross incompetence, and malevolence even, of the bureaucratic structures of the Soviet Union at the time led to a nuclear disaster that cost many lives and displaced thousands of people and had the potential to be much worse if not for the brave actions of many who risked their lives to remedy the situation. Is this not true with Covid as well? Maybe we will never know the full set of facts, but it does seem that astounding incompetence, if not outright malevolence, was responsible for a world wide pandemic that has destroyed lives all over the globe.
Anyway, I recommend the series if you haven't seen it. I just couldn't help as I was watching to draw parallels to covid. I wonder if this is what happens in dying societies - that there is a bureaucratic/ruling class structure that grows increasingly incompetent and psychopathic as the society breaks down around them. Reading RFK Jr.s book about Fauci made me realize that these people operate by making sure they have no responsibility for their actions. Some of the Soviet/KGB officials in the HBO series made me think that they would fit just as well into the American institutional response to Covid.
17:34 UTC