My COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic reading list
One hundred and ten key online resources 'scooped' over the past two-and-a-half years
In May 2020, I signed up for the online content curation app scoop.it in order to create an archive of important COVID resources for myself and others. Although my scoop.it topic “The COVID-19 Pan(dem)ic” has attracted a meagre 385 views over those 2.5 years, it has been useful as an efficient way to collect links to pertinent online essays and web pages.
With the free scoop.it account, which requires frequent and annoying re-activations, it seems impossible to download the links at once, but I was able to do so using webtoolhub.com’s Link Extractor. This post consists of the 110 links of my pandemic reading list.
These resources are provided as is; inclusion does not mean that I associate with a person’s or platform’s general or specific positions, yet I certainly found them interesting and relevant at the time of ‘scooping’ them. I tried to include a variety of sources with no more than two or three items from the same author or platform, and to stay close enough to the mainstream that there would be a chance that someone on the fence might be compelled to have a closer look. On the other hand, if you find a seminal resource or platform missing, feel free to let me know in the comments as it may be an oversight, not intentional.
The following links are provided in chronological order based on when I added them to the topic (not necessarily when the corresponding resource was published). In other words, the list illustrates how early in the pandemic anyone could have “done their own research” and gotten a sense of some of the public health mismanagement happening around the globe. If any of the links no longer work, please try finding copies via archive.today or web.archive.org.
Happy new year and happy (old) reading!
Covid-19 in Proportion? http://inproportion2.talkigy.com/
Facts about Covid-19 – Swiss Policy Research, https://swprs.org/a-swiss-doctor-on-covid-19/
Prof. Dr. med. Sucharit Bhakdi | Youtube Channel, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgjxQLDkeoa-uJu4sE0eNrg/videos [censored]
Lockdown Sceptics – Stay sceptical. End the lockdown. Save lives. https://lockdownsceptics.org/ [now The Daily Sceptic newsletter, probably the best-curated email I currently receive]
Beyond Lockdown - Canadians can have both health and prosperity, https://www.macdonaldlaurier.ca/beyond-lockdown-canadians-can-have-both-health-and-prosperity-an-open-letter-to-the-prime-minister/
COVID-19: Evidence Not Fear, https://evidencenotfear.com/
Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg - Coronaviren sind nicht das Problem-bleiben Sie besonnen! https://www.wodarg.com/
COVID-19: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/covid-19-pandemic
Opinion: We are infectious disease experts. It’s time to lift the COVID-19 lockdowns, https://nationalpost.com/opinion/opinion-we-are-infectious-disease-experts-its-time-to-lift-the-covid-19-lockdowns
Keeping one metre apart slashes the risk of catching coronavirus by 80% | Daily, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8377151/Keeping-one-metre-apart-slashes-risk-catching-coronavirus-80.html [not sure why I included this article at the time but it certainly illustrates the general disappearance of common sense at that point in the pandemic]
Science says: 'Open the schools', https://thehill.com/opinion/education/500349-science-says-open-the-schools
COVID-19 Facts from the Frontline, https://www.tonyrobbins.com/podcasts/covid-19-facts-from-the-frontline/
Thinking Errors and the Coronavirus – https://off-guardian.org/2020/04/19/thinking-errors-and-the-coronavirus/
What are the seasonal patterns of rhinoviral, coronaviral, enteroviral, and adenoviral upper respiratory tract infections (URIs)? https://www.medscape.com/answers/302460-86798/what-are-the-seasonal-patterns-of-rhinoviral-coronaviral-enteroviral-and-adenoviral-upper-respiratory-tract-infections-uris
MuchAdoAboutCorona.ca - exposing the hoax • stopping the oppression • preserving our humanity https://muchadoaboutcorona.ca/
Shining a light on Covid-19 science and data, https://brightlightnews.com/
The Price of Panic, http://thepriceofpanic.com
Great Barrington Declaration, https://gbdeclaration.org/
Welcome to Covidworld | Ian James Kidd and Matthew Ratcliffe, https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/november-2020/welcome-to-covidworld/
Rational Ground – Clear Reasoning on National Policy for COVID-19, https://rationalground.com/
Government data shows lockdowns more deadly than COVID-19, https://www.jccf.ca/government-data-shows-lockdowns-more-deadly-than-covid-19/
What is left to say? Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's blog, https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/12/30/what-is-left-to-say/
We’re all in the big numbers now | Alistair Haimes, https://thecritic.co.uk/were-all-in-the-big-numbers-now/
COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios | CDC, https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html
Lockdown Lunacy: the thinking person's guide — https://jbhandleyblog.com/home/lockdownlunacy
How Fear, Groupthink Drove Unnecessary Global Lockdowns | RealClearPolitics, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/05/21/how_fear_groupthink_drove_unnecessary_global_lockdowns_143253.html
Ten reasons to end the lockdown now | The Spectator, https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/ten-reasons-to-end-the-lockdown-now
Home - A Balanced Response, https://www.balancedresponse.ca/
Randy Hillier, MPP - Lanark-Frontenac-Kingston, https://www.randyhilliermpp.com/
We Cannot Teach in Masks – https://lockdownsceptics.org/against-masks-and-distancing-at-university/
COVID-19: Rethinking the Lockdown Groupthink[v1] | Preprints, https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202010.0330/v1
The Prognosis https://reviewcanada.ca/magazine/2020/10/the-prognosis/
PANDA - PANDA’s analysis of the human & economic cost of lockdowns, https://pandata.org/
“Immunity Passports”: A New Journey to Inequality, https://ccla.org/coronavirus-update-immunity-passports/
Final Report on Swedish Mortality 2020, Anno Covidius | systems perestroika – éminence grise, https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2021/01/15/final-report-on-swedish-mortality-2020-anno-covid/
Liberty Coalition Canada | Professionals Against Lockdowns initiative,
Free Expression Group, https://www.freex.group/
Lawyers 4 Truth - Covid, Covid, Human Rights, Volunteer Organization, https://lawyers4truth.ca/
A letter to my two adult kids: Vaccines and the free Spike Protein - Lies are Unbekoming
Julius Ruechel: The Lies Exposed by the Numbers: Fear, Misdirection, & Institutional Deaths (An Investigative Report), https://www.juliusruechel.com/2021/05/the-lies-exposed-by-numbers-fear.html
CDC's All-or-Nothing Approach to Teen COVID Vaccination Is All Wrong | MedPage Today, https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/93340
Covid19 Assembly https://www.covid19assembly.org/
do covid vaccines stop covid spread? - by el gato malo - bad cattitude
Our grave concerns about the handling of the COVID pandemic by Governments of the Nations of the UK – Covid19 Assembly, https://www.covid19assembly.org/doctors-open-letter/
Safer to Wait – Protecting Children's Health, https://safertowait.com/
Universities FORCING "vaccination" on their students, faculties and staff are functioning more like death camps than like schools - by Mark Crispin Miller - News from Underground by Mark Crispin Mi...
Why Does No One Ever Talk About Sweden Anymore? - by IM - Unmasked
Assembling a collective of Canadian professionals and skilled workers for honest and open coverage of the health crisis. – Fearless Canada, https://fearlesscanada.org/canadian-professionals/
Doctors' Letter to EMA, https://doctors4covidethics.medium.com/urgent-open-letter-from-doctors-and-scientists-to-the-european-medicines-agency-regarding-covid-19-f6e17c311595
CORONA.film Prologue EN, https://www.bitchute.com/video/ygxiuxSEf1Kh/
Canadian Covid Care Alliance, https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/
The Infectious Diseases We Don't Seem to Care About, https://collateralglobal.org/article/the-infectious-diseases-we-dont-seem-to-care-about/
LockdownReport_ May2021.pdf, http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/LockdownReport_May2021.pdf
The Panic Pandemic, https://www.city-journal.org/panic-pandemic
A Framework for Understanding Pathogens, Explained by Sunetra Gupta ⋆ https://brownstone.org/articles/a-framework-for-understanding-pathogens-explained-by-sunetra-gupta/
Statement of Non-Compliance with Mandatory Vaccination in Canadian Universities – https://zeroanthropology.net/2021/08/20/statement-of-non-compliance-with-mandatory-vaccination-in-canadian-universities/
Worse Than the Disease? Reviewing Some Possible Unintended Consequences of the mRNA Vaccines Against COVID-19, https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/23/51
Ethics professor threatened with dismissal for refusing vaccine, https://rumble.com/vm8glv-ethics-professor-threatened-with-dismissal-for-refusing-vaccine.html
COVID-19 and the Political Economy of Mass Hysteria, https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/4/1376
Better Pathology---Connecting people with information needed to live their best possible lives. https://betterpathology.com/?cat=3
New Brunswick Freedom Project, http://www.nbfree.ca/
The Frightened Class ⋆ https://brownstone.org/articles/the-frightened-class/
POWERFUL: MEP Scorches ‘Political Elite’ For Imposing Vaccine Passports Using ‘Extortion and Manipulation’, https://www.infowars.com/posts/powerful-mep-scorches-political-elite-for-imposing-vaccine-passports-using-extortion-and-manipulation
EXCLUSIVE – 100% of Covid-19 Vaccine Deaths were caused by just 5% of the batches produced according to official Government data – https://theexpose.uk/2021/10/31/100-percent-of-covid-19-vaccine-deaths-caused-by-just-5-percent-of-the-batches-produced/
Dr Roger Hodkinson destroys Covid in 4 mins. https://rumble.com/vn3r38-dr-roger-hodkinson-destroys-covid-in-4-mins..html
Media Blitz: Surge in Heart Disease Due to 'Climate Change,' 'Broken Heart Syndrome,' 'Pandemic Anxiety', http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=62669
Bruce Pardy: COVID has cost Canadians their freedom. It must be restored | National Post, https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-covid-has-cost-canadians-their-freedom-it-must-be-restored
WONG-TAM: Let's choose discourse over divisiveness | Toronto Sun, https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/wong-tam-lets-choose-discourse-over-divisiveness
Dionne Pohler and Rafael Gomez: Why vaccine mandates are in legal trouble - The Line
Spike-Only Vaccine a Colossal Blunder: Michigan State University Shows SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Escape is Due to Vaccination
Forcing People Into COVID Vaccines Ignores Important Scientific Data, https://thefederalist.com/2021/12/14/forcing-people-into-covid-vaccines-ignores-important-scientific-information/
Covid Kid Facts, https://www.covidkidfacts.ca/
Current Volume, https://www.publichealthpolicyjournal.com/general-5
We’ve Got Better Options, https://www.cardus.ca/article/we-ve-got-better-options/
A Big 'Thank You' From The Global Oligarchy, https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/big-thank-you-global-oligarchy
Vaccine efficacy countdown (video), https://embed.air.tv/v1/iframe/ztDeWlKZQRO0-ApRAbrWAQ?organization=73xy2rh6SMewS0e46RGlGQ
Do Not Give Up Your Rights ~ Dr. Julie Ponesse's Remarkable Speech ⋆ https://brownstone.org/articles/do-not-give-up-your-rights-dr-julie-ponesses-remarkable-speech/
Stupid and Evil in Equal Measure - by eugyppius - eugyppius: a plague chronicle
Vaccine Mandates: Those Whose Jobs Are Threatened Must Hold the Line, https://www.theepochtimes.com/vaccine-mandates-those-whose-jobs-are-threatened-must-hold-the-line_4095630.html
Vaccine resources, https://www.skirsch.io/vaccine-resources/
The Vaccine Moment, part one - by Paul Kingsnorth - The Abbey of Misrule
Till We Have Faces: An Analysis of COVID-19 and Public Policy, https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/media-resources/till-we-have-faces-an-analysis-of-covid-19-and-public-policy/
Comprehensive Risk/Benefit Analysis for Administering COVID-19 Vaccines to Children
Retired Doctor Explains: Why I Won’t Take a COVID Vaccine, https://nofrakkingconsensus.com/2021/12/15/retired-doctor-explains-why-i-wont-take-a-covid-vaccine/
A Mandate to Exclude? – Voyage Church Montreal, http://voyagechurchmtl.com/mandate/
How Bad is my Batch ? http://www.howbad.info/
Bruce Pardy: Mandatory vaccines would at least prove whether the charter is worth anything at all | National Post, https://nationalpost.com/opinion/bruce-pardy-mandatory-vaccines-would-be-an-unforced-error-that-could-undermine-the-covid-regime
Twenty Steps to End the Madness ⋆ https://brownstone.org/articles/twenty-steps-to-end-the-madness/
Dispatch from the Front Line: We just don't trust you, Mr. Trudeau
How the concept of 'misinformation' has been weaponised to silence dissenting voices, https://mercatornet.com/how-the-concept-of-misinformation-has-been-weaponised-to-silence-dissenting-voices/77714/
The New Authoritarians, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/new-authoritarians
What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated | by Susan Dunham | Apr, 2022 https://susandunham.medium.com/what-we-learned-from-hating-the-unvaccinated-fc428fa0732c
Home | MEDICUS ANTE, https://www.medicusante.com
The day I understood the 'good German' https://www.francesoir.fr/opinions-tribunes/the-day-i-understood-good-german
Pandemic Amnesty? Not So Fast, https://www.crisismagazine.com/2022/pandemic-amnesty-not-so-fast
In defence of evidence-based policy making | The BMJ, https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-070331/rr-5
It doesn't matter - by Dr Ah Kahn Syed - Arkmedic's blog
Probability and Risk: Covid-19: Definitions matter - and these are REAL, http://probabilityandlaw.blogspot.com/2021/12/covid-19-definitions-matter-and-these.html
Julius Ruechel: The False God of Central Planning: The Mysterious Reappearance of the Flu, Natural vs Vaccine-Induced Immunity, the Inability of the Vaccines to Control the Virus, and Other Extraor... https://www.juliusruechel.com/2022/01/the-false-god-of-central-planning.html
Is Comparing Covid Policies with the policies of Nazi Germany Antisemitic? | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Diane Bederman | 8 Shevat 5782 – January 10, 2022 | JewishPress.com, https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/is-comparing-covid-policies-with-the-policies-of-nazi-germany-antisemitic/2022/01/10/
A night with the untouchables – The Reformed Physicist, https://maybury.ca/the-reformed-physicist/2022/02/03/a-night-with-the-untouchables/
Reality Honks Back - by N.S. Lyons - The Upheaval
The Neoliberal War on Dissent in the West
The Evaporating Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines as Shown by the Newest Ontario Government Data, https://c2cjournal.ca/2022/04/the-evaporating-effectiveness-of-covid-19-vaccines-as-shown-by-the-newest-ontario-government-data/
The Freedom Convoy & the Collapse of Canadian Liberalism – https://off-guardian.org/2022/05/23/the-freedom-convoy-the-collapse-of-canadian-liberalism/
COVID UPDATE: What is the truth? - PMC, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9062939/
Safe and Effective: A Second Opinion (2022) Oracle Films | News Uncut, https://rumble.com/v1lwbgs-safe-and-effective-a-second-opinion-2022-oracle-films-news-uncut.html
Facts Wither in the Battle of the Experts
COVID-19: My Final Hypothesis - by Joel Smalley
The Global Emancipation of the Unvaccinated - by Rav Arora
PS: I am not sure which links are ‘pulled out’ as embedded resource above; maybe it’s all the Substack posts. Below is a screenshot of the current front page of the scoop.it topic.
Additions after first publication of this post:
Reflections on Facemasking: Then, Now, and Forever? – by Travis D. Smith, https://theideasinstitute.org/2023/01/17/reflections-on-facemasking-then-now-and-forever/
How the organized Left got Covid wrong, learned to love lockdowns and lost its mind: an autopsy – by Christian Parenti, https://thegrayzone.com/2022/03/31/left-covid-lockdowns-mind-autopsy/
Dr. Anthony Fauci now admits the mRNA Covid vaccines hardly work and might not be approvable – by Alex Berenson, https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/dr-anthony-fauci-now-admits-the-mrna
Italy 2020: Inside Covid’s Ground Zero – by Michael Bryant, OffGuardian, https://off-guardian.org/2023/03/11/italy-2020-inside-covids-ground-zero/
Science Is Not to Be Trusted - by Alex Washburne, Brownstone Institute, https://brownstone.org/articles/science-is-not-to-be-trusted/
A (Possibly Unpopular) Null Hypothesis – HARTgroup, https://www.hartgroup.org/a-possibly-unpopular-null-hypothesis/
Censorship Masquerades and Disinformation Control – by Andrew Lowenthal, Brownstone Institute, https://brownstone.org/articles/censorship-masquerades-and-disinformation-control/
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