BBN Blog
What is Freedom?
What is Freedom? Have we entered a new paradigm where freedom is no longer a fundamental human right?
Is Fear Clouding People’s Judgement of Covid19?
The impact of fear on decision-making is to overestimate both risk and the effectiveness of interventions intended to keep us from danger. Science doesn’t tell us everything and we are constantly learning as science is changing and evolving. One of the ways in which...
Hotel Quarantine & Vaccine Passports – Where Does It End?
Imagine. “Hi Mam. Great news. Yeah, the cancer‘s still in remission. Yeah, vaccine shot went grand too. I’m all in the clear. I’ve a week off till I’m back on the ward. How’s Da? How’s his dementia? I was going to come home for a few days to give you a hand. What?...
2019 Pandemic Management?
Pretend you just arrived on Earth after a year in space. You step off your spaceship, you see everyone wearing masks – sometimes not one but two – and some wearing blue gloves. You think what deadly disease must be rampant upon planet Earth? You struggle to determine...
All Over in 90 Days
Locking down everyone causes 2.5 times more covid-deaths. The assumption made with lockdowns is that they automatically reduce total covid deaths. But do they? The initial models that panicked the world into lockdown came from the likes of Prof Neil1 Ferguson at...
The Freedom Scan
This summer, entry to a music festival or a gastropub may require scanning your ‘Freedom Pass’ to gain entry. I know – crazy stuff – but this is what all countries in Europe are currently discussing with Ireland and the UK leading the posse. Boris Johnson has said...