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Dear all,
The New South Wales leadership announced today a further two-week extension of the lockdown instituted several weeks ago, plunging us even deeper into this self-inflicted dystopian nightmare. Other Australian states too have called snap lockdowns over the past month, at times with no or precious few covid cases, and to the puzzlement of many in countries overseas (including the UK and also Singapore) that are now getting back to normal, often despite still seeing far more suffering and death with covid than Australia has ever seen. Our governments have approved and released manipulative, misleading dramatisations that fan the fear of covid amongst young people, while paying mere lip service to the punishing costs of their lockdown edicts that continue to fall disproportionately on the young and the disadvantaged. All of this further underscores the dysfunction that has set into Australian policy-making.
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US vaccination campaigns just wrong,’ Stanford professor says: You don t bully people
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor of medicine at Stanford University in California, slammed U.S. coronavirus vaccination tactics during an appearance Thursday night on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle. DR. JAY BHATTACHARYA: We have to be honest with people. These vaccines are still under experimental-use authority and these vaccines do have side effects. For older people I think it is still worth the risk but you don’t bully people. You tell people, ‘Go talk with your doctor, talk over the risks and then make your own decision.’ That’s the right way to do public health.
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On March 23, 2020, President Donald Trump first hinted that the lockdowns were not his first choice to control COVID-19. He tweeted, “We can’t let the cure be worse than the problem itself!” At that point, he was considering how to handle the end of the “15 Days to Slow the Spread” initiative. That phrase would be funny if it were not so infuriating. The media portrayed Trump’s comments to be solely concerned with the economy and his reelection.
On March 24, 2020, Trump clarified that he was worried about increased suicides if the economy remained closed for too long. In his clumsy way, he articulated the trend that Princeton professors Anne Case and Angus Deaton called “deaths of despair” in 2015. The economic impact of the 2008 recession and the hollowing out of the manufacturing base coincided with an uptick in deaths due to drug abuse (including opioids), alcohol abuse, and suicide, especially among middle-aged, working-class Americans. An ec