Health

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.”
― Benjamin Rush
Economy

“You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.”
― Bruce Sterling
Freedom

Freedom is never given; it is won.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Freedom is something that dies unless it's used. Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes.

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Five Wake Up Facts with Useful Context

Comparing annual death rates over the last 30 years, 2020 only ranks 19th highest for England and Wales, why is a pandemic being declared?.
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Research shows lockdown could cost more lives than Covid-19, claiming the equivalent of over 500,000 lives overall due to economic damage.
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The common swab test (PCR test) does not detect a living, infectious and transmissible virus, only fragments of its genetic material which can remain in the body from a past dead infection.
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Labs process swab tests differently, research in the Oxford Academic shows a number of these configurations can produce nearly 100% false positives.
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It is unlikely the first lockdown caused the decline of the first wave, according to a study. Fatal infections seem to have already been falling before lockdown came into effect, when the lag between infection and death is accounted for..
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