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...
Uncertainty, Part 1: McGurk
As one the best illustrations of the way our minds deal with uncertainty, consider the following video. Please listen and watch at least 30 seconds...
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...
Two more interesting articles on covid mass hysteria
Guess which crackpot started his article on covid in that notorious right-wing publication 'The Guardian' with the sentence "The virus has been used as a...
Interesting new articles on mass hysteria and medical morality
While the hysteria marches on here in Europe, an interesting economics article came out in a decent journal on the political economy of that mass...
Covid-congestion effects: why are lockdowns so deadly?
Consider the picture below of two hypothetical Accident and Emergency departments (A&E), one that has no covid-regulations and simply has the available nurses trying to...