The handling of COVID-19 by western governments have been a dramatic disaster so far, possibly the worst public policy failure in modern history, with totalitarian and unjustified as well as unjustifiable restrictions piling up, and no improvement in sight in the mitigation of the pandemic.
The reasons are quite simple: None of the often draconian restrictions and policies are based on science, and are instead merely an emotional response by an overly feminized political leadership.
First, for the sake of context and clarity, the survival rate of COVID-19 is higher than that of the common flu. FHI (Norwegian Institute of Public Health) estimates that 100,000 people in Norway got COVID. 316 of them died. This is a survival rate of 99.7%. With the ones dying often having underlying conditions (See: Situational awareness and forecasting for Norway from FHI/NIPH - Norwegian Institute of Public Health).
With respect to masks, a Danish study by Rigshospitalet (primary hospital and health authority in København) has found no clear evidence face masks protect wearer from Covid-19 infection (See: Effectiveness of Adding a Mask Recommendation to Other Public Health Measures to Prevent SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Danish Mask Wearers.) Additionally, in Sydney in 2003 during the SARS epidemic, businesses and individuals could be fined up to $100k for advertising masks as effective against viral transmission (See: Farce mask: it's safe for only 20 minutes.) As for clothe masks, they lead to 3 times the rate of contamination for influenza-like illnesses (See: A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers.) Worse yet, the latest study even points to masks in general increasing transmission: Transmission of coronaviruses is through small droplets. Not cough and thus larger droplets. Masks do not filter smaller droplets, but actually aerosol the larger ones… (See: Particle sizes of infectious aerosols: implications for infection control.) The most recent study based on CDC data also shows mask mandates did not slow spread of covid-19 in the United States (See: Mask mandate and use efficacy in state-level COVID-19 containment.)
Now, a peer reviewed study by Stanford researchers has found that mandatory lockdowns do not provide more benefits to stopping the spread of COVID-19 than voluntary measures such as social distancing (See: Assessing Mandatory Stay‐at‐Home and Business Closure Effects on the Spread of COVID‐19.) The fact that lockdowns simply don’t work was also established by other studies (See: COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink.)
Finally, the death rate of the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccine is now higher than that of COVID-19, after 23 people in Norway died, prompting warning from health authorities (See: Covid-19: Norway investigates 23 deaths in frail elderly patients after vaccination.)
Of course, this is in addition to more and more research and the piling of evidence demonstrating that COVID-19 public health policies are much more harmful than COVID itself, have already killed more people than the Coronavirus (from suicide, to lack of medical care, to drug overdoses and the resurgence of other infectious diseases), and are expected to kill even more people on the long term. Not to mention the socio-economic effects of government policies.
As for the claim by mainstream media and people at large that women “leaders”, such as the infamous Bonnie Henry, Theresa Tam, and Jacinda Ardern, have handled the pandemic much better than their male counterparts? Debunked by the latest study (See: Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities.)
Last but not least, the very claim of a pandemic may have to be revisited after research has shown that PCR tests are inherently faulty, causing too many false positives, and thus incorrectly inflating case numbers (See: External peer review of the RTPCR test to detect SARS-CoV-2 reveals 10 major scientific flaws at the molecular and methodological level: consequences for false positive results).
