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  Chief Nudger, David Halpern, says UK has been drilled to accept a future lockdown Lockdown sceptics were "wrongly calibrated" NE - NAKEDEMPEROR.SUBSTACK.COM David Halpern is a British psychologist, author, and government advisor. He's best known for his work in the field of behavioural economics and his role as the Chief Executive of the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) or "Nudge Unit" in the UK. Halpern's work with the Nudge Unit involves using insights from behavioural science to inform and influence policy and practice in areas like public health, education, and tax compliance. The team's nickname derives from the book "Nudge" by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, which advocates for subtle policy shifts to help people make better decisions for themselves. Before joining the Behavioural Insights Team, Halpern was the Chief Analyst in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. The BIT initially focused on policy are

Twenty Grim Realities Unearthed by Lockdowns  JEFFREY A. TUCKER     I t’s common now to speak of the before times in contrast to the after times. The turning point was of course March 16, 2020, the day of 15 Days to Flatten the Curve, though authoritarian trends predate that. Rights were suddenly broadly throttled, even religious rights. We were told to conduct every aspect of our lives in accordance with the priorities of the bio-medical security state.  Very few people anticipated such a shocking development. It was the onset of a new state-conducted war and the enemy was something we could not see and hence could be anywhere. No one has ever doubted the omnipresence of potentially dangerous pathogens but now we were being told that life itself depended entirely on avoidance of them and the only guide going forward would be public-health authorities.  Everything changed. Nothing is the same. The trauma is real and lasting. The claim of “15 Days” was revealed to be a ruse. The emergen

  The Great COVID Ventilator Death Cover-up Tens of thousands of Americans died after being placed on mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. It’s long past time we got real answers as to how many were killed this way. MICHAEL P SENGER It’s long been something of a mystery why there have been no major studies on how many COVID patients were killed by mechanical ventilators in spring 2020. Early data from China had suggested that ventilators would need to be used widely in the treatment of COVID patients, and this led to a major rush to procure ventilators on the part of politicians and hospital systems all over the world. A small sample of the hundreds of headlines from that period features ones such as: “ Cuomo refutes Trump, insists NY needs up to 40,000 ventilators ,” “ NY may need 24,000 more ventilators to fight COVID-19. Here’s how it could get them ,” “ Which coronavirus patients will get life-saving ventilators? Guidelines show how hospitals in NYC, US will decide ,” “ Amid Ongo