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As the UK reports its worst excess deaths since the second world war and the NHS is stretched to breaking point, critics of lockdowns have largely gone quiet. Despite this, previous experience shows that we’re never far from an anti-lockdown backbench rebellion, mainstream opinion piece, open letter or polemic on the Lockdown Sceptics website.
Those behind such criticism have citedvarious studies claiming that the economic costs of lockdowns far outweigh the health benefits. However, there are some deep flaws in these analyses. They wrongly assume that economic losses can be attributed solely to lockdowns. And some use an inappropriate way of calculating the economic value of good health to make their comparisons.
I enjoyed reading Christopher Snowdon's critique of lockdown sceptics ("Rise of the Coronavirus Cranks"). Chris is a lively and entertaining writer and he does a great line in withering scorn ("There is no shortage of stupidity on Twitter, but.
Why Hand Sanitisers Do More Harm Than Good
We re publishing today a new piece by regular contributor and medical historian Dr Irina Metzler questioning the public health wisdom of all this obsessive germ blitzing. Here s a taster.
Hand sanitisers, or hand satanisers as I prefer to dyslexise, are as ubiquitous a part of the pandemic as the masks. Unlike the masks, which will cause mainly individual problems (if you wear a mask, you re restricting your own breathing, not someone else s), hand sanitiser use at the level we ve been seeing for the past 10 months is going to become one helluva headache in the none too distant future. That s because apart from destroying your own, personal microbiome we ve got a bigger picture to consider.