Lockdown: is economic meltdown a price worth paying to halt or delay what is already amongst us? Say Carl Heneghan and Director and Carl Heneghan, Senior Fellow of the Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine, University of Oxford “Lockdown is going to bankrupt all of us and our descendants and is unlikely at this point to slow… Read More »
Open Letter to Chancellor Merkel Dear Chancellor, As Emeritus of the Johannes-Gutenberg-University in Mainz and longtime director of the Institute for Medical Microbiology, I feel obliged to critically question the far-reaching restrictions on public life that we are currently taking on ourselves in order to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus. It is expressly… Read More »
Atlas Shrugged invertido – shutdown forçado pelos governos.Alguns pensamentos de refugiado no campo, atravessando os montes que Miguel Torga calcorreava para manter a lucidez, tentando manter também a minha. “A velhice é isto: ou se chora sem motivo, ou os olhos ficam secos de lucidez”, escreveu Torga, no dia 1 de Maio de 1974, poucos… Read More »
Is the Coronavirus as Deadly as They Say? Current estimates about the Covid-19 fatality rate may be too high by orders of magnitude. https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464 In this article on the WSJ two Stanford University professors of medicine conclude:”A universal quarantine may not be worth the costs it imposes on the economy, community and individual mental and… Read More »
A thought provoking article from a top epidemiologist from Stanford University, John Ioannidis. “A fiasco in the making? As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, we are making decisions without reliable data” “The current coronavirus disease, Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.”https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ His conclusion: “If we… Read More »
Esta mini série de 10 episódios, num total de 18 horas, pode ser vista no Netflix. É uma obra notável, dos melhores documentários que vi até hoje.É feito coms fotos e filmes da acção real da época, bem como depoimentos actuais de sobreviventes, familiares de vítimas, bem como de outros protagonistas e observadores (jornalistas, oficiais)… Read More »