Showing posts with label Lockdowns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lockdowns. Show all posts
Friday, March 20, 2026

When "Flatten the Curve" During COVID Meant Trading One Health Crisis for Another

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During the COVID pandemic, "flatten the curve" became quite the mantra. It was the justification used for sweeping lockdowns in or...
Thursday, March 12, 2026

COVID Lockdowns & School Closures and How the Children Did Not Developmentally Bounce Back

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Sometimes it feels like the COVID-19 pandemic was yesterday, but the truth is that yesterday was the six-year anniversary that the World Hea...
Monday, February 16, 2026

Panic Over Data: What a New Study Reveals About the Main Rationale of COVID Lockdowns

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In some respects, it feels like the COVID pandemic was a lifetime ago. However, it was only about six years ago that the World Health Organi...
Monday, December 8, 2025

Another Silent Cost of Lockdowns: Language and Social-Cognitive Delays That Threaten Children’s Potential

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It is hard to believe that the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly six years ago. In some respects, it feels like it happened yesterday. I rememb...
Thursday, March 27, 2025

How Lockdowns and Other COVID Measures Have Caused Suffering, Even in 2025 (Part III)

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This month commemorated the five-year anniversary of the COVID pandemic being declared. A lot of panic ensued. Nothing encapsulated the hyst...
Monday, March 17, 2025

How Lockdowns and Other COVID Measures Have Caused Suffering, Even in 2025 (Part II)

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While the COVID pandemic might seem like a distant memory that started about five years ago, the truth of the matter is that we are still no...
Monday, March 10, 2025

How Lockdowns and Other COVID Measures Have Caused Suffering, Even in 2025 (Part I)

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Tomorrow, on March 11, marks the five-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 pandemic. China re...
Thursday, November 7, 2024

Public Health "Experts" Did Not "Follow the Science" During the COVID Pandemic: 2024 Edition (Part I)

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I know that there were presidential elections in the United States this week and the COVID pandemic seems like a distant nightmare we endure...
Monday, July 29, 2024

Grade School Students in the U.S. Still Have Not Recovered from COVID School Closures

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As the United States goes through another brutal election cycle, I have noticed one topic about which candidates are staying quiet: the gove...
Thursday, March 21, 2024

Lessons Public Health Officials Should Learn from the COVID Pandemic But Probably Won't

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Last week was the four-year anniversary of when the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. For those who...
Thursday, March 14, 2024

New Swedish Study Is Yet Another Study Showing How Lockdowns Inflicted Collateral Damage

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I wrote on how COVID vaccine mandates likely created greater vaccine hesitancy with other vaccines earlier this week, so I figured I would ...
Thursday, January 18, 2024

Fauci Admits Social Distancing Rules Were Likely Not Based on Data: Another Erosion of Trust in Public Health Officials

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Dr. Anthony Fauci made the spotlight again as he sat in front of a closed-door congressional subcommittee last week for questioning on the p...
Monday, October 2, 2023

UK Government Study Shows Lockdowns and Other NPIs Lack Evidence Base

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When the pandemic began, I remember how politicians were clamoring that we needed to lock down large swathes of the economy to prevent the s...
Monday, September 4, 2023

Did COVID School Closures Exacerbate Chronic Absenteeism? It Is Looking More and More Likely.

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Another Labor Day weekend means that schools across the country are back in session. You would think that with a school year starting, it wo...
Monday, August 14, 2023

British Study Shows Another Cost of Lockdowns: Declining Social-Emotional Skills

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Most people have been vaccinated from COVID and the U.S. government ended its COVID emergency powers back in May. Yet we are still reeling f...