How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker

How Lockdowns Made Us Sicker

Early during lockdowns in 2020, when the whole of the media marched in lockstep with the most appalling reach of public policy in our lifetimes, two doctors from Bakersfield, California went out on a limb and objected.

Jared Kushner And The Mystery Of The First US Lockdown

Jared Kushner And The Mystery Of The First US Lockdown

The possibility of US lockdowns – never attempted on this scale in the history of pandemics – was already in the air in early March 2020. The theory of lockdown had been floating around for 15 years but now China was first to try it, and claim enormous success, however fraudulently.

How Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola Lockdown Was A Template For COVID Lockdowns

How Sierra Leone’s 2014 Ebola Lockdown Was A Template For COVID Lockdowns

To be honest, I’d never much thought about the Ebola lockdowns in Sierra Leone and Liberia in 2014 and 2015. Within public health, the Sierra Leone and Liberia lockdowns were an early illustration of the fact that lockdowns were ineffective, but governments of developing nations sometimes do strange things; the idea that these lockdowns might have greater geopolitical significance never occurred to me.