Lockdown cost-benefit analysis for Australia by Martin Lally
Martin Lally is a kiwi economist who late in 2020 decided to calculate for himself what his own country was losing by locking itself away...
Common features of the Covistance
I am co-writing a book on the Great Panic to explain what happened and what can be done to avoid a repeat. In the course...
Australia or Sweden: which has had the better 2020?
Compared to the trends on January 2020, has Australia or Sweden lost more wellbeing in 2020? And which has seen the greater damage to expected...
On the nature of gods and inequality.
Sometimes one has an idea that blazes into one's consciousness as a solution to one particular concern, which then starts to be something much bigger...
Some favourite anti-lockdown art
I here want to salute the brave artists who used their talents to capture the inhumanity and essential insanity of lockdowns. My favourite is the...
A World Anti-Hysteria Organisation?
The essential governance problem in March 2020 in Western countries was the overwhelming demand of the vast majority of the population to do something dramatic...
What experiments on cult behaviour tell us about lockdown beliefs
With a recent publication in Nature that reported lockdowns have no effect on covid-cases or covid-deaths, there are now over 30 studies that fail to...