New Catallaxy

Tag: COVID

  • Policy outpaced by events

    As the days and weeks pass, we are learning that the road maps offered by the PM and premiers, particularly, the sign posts of our deliverance from house arrest, do not comport with reality. Zerohedge reports that the most recent study of vaccine efficacy re delta variant is significantly reduced compared with alpha and degrades…

  • Not Mandatory. Mandatory. Not Mandatory.

    A guest post by Arky From around the web: September: When Prime Minister Scott Morrison told 3AW a vaccine would be “as mandatory as you can possibly make it” there was an immediate backlash from some groups. Mr Morrison even went so far as to suggest the grounds by which exemptions should be granted. “There…

  • Mater’s Musings #1: Why the difference in approach?

    This is a guest post by Mater, reposted with permission. When you hear the Premiers indicate that we will remain under house arrest until we have zero cases and no community transmission, please keep this in mind. The 2009 Swine flu (A(H1N1)pdm09) has been lurking around killing people during the flu season up to, and…

  • The Cathedral bears its fangs

    We live in strange but dangerous times when even our legislative representatives are routinely censored by BigTech, acting in collusion with other state actors, when they depart from or resist the grand narrative on election integrity, mask and vaccine mandates, diversity, open borders, and the like. New Black Legends are being written as we speak,…

  • ‘It could have been worse’

    The propaganda for vaccines is reaching the point of incredulity. A vaccinated man dies and the report goes on to say that doctors suggested “it could have been worse” if not for the vaccination. Dear oh dear.

  • The lockdowns will continue until morale improves

    We find ourselves again in the grip of another lockdown, the 6th in Victoria, on the heels of 6 locally acquired cases. What this portends in the short term, if unanswered, purportedly justifies the deprivations of liberty entailed by home detention, business closure, remote schooling, and the like. But does it? The initial claim that…