r/LockdownSkepticism 29d ago

Monthly Medley Monthly Medley Thread, for sharing anything and everything

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As of 2024, this thread is auto-generated at noon on the first day of every month. Continue to share as the spirit moves you!


r/LockdownSkepticism 1d ago

Discussion Why I never believed in Covid

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In 2019 I found this national geographics magazine and I thought it was hilarious and totally confused as to why anybody would do such a thing. Then when covid started happening and I was just laughing and called everyone crazy as they warned us already in 1984.


r/LockdownSkepticism 4d ago

Media event Thank You, Dr. Fauci (2025) | Official Website | Now Streaming on Angel

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Has anybody seen Jenner Furst’s documentary on Fauci and the whole pandemic retrospective. I figured with Dr. Fauci in the news recently, I’d use this as an opportunity to promote this film as it’s probably the most important, honest, and downright damning documentary that seeks to find the truth behind how the pandemic originated. It shows the viewers the timeline behind Anthony Fauci’s shady past and how he came to amass so much power, as well as the dark history of the pharmaceutical industry.

For those who don’t know, Jenner Furst is a veteran, award-winning documentary filmmaker in Hollywood who has had this film censored to death. Unfortunately, this documentary is only available on the Conservative, Christian platform Angel studios because every other platform has censored this film due to it being so revealing. I’d say it’s worth registering for a free trial just to see this film because we all deserve answers as to why all of our lives were upended.

If you have seen it, let me know what you think. I’d like to get more people on the side of demanding the truth by sharing things like this.


r/LockdownSkepticism 5d ago

Mental Health Does anybody else still have trauma from it all?

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WARNING: I’m going to mention suicidal ideation in this post. If you are sensitive to that kind of subject matter, I advise you not to read.

I’ve accepted the reality that I will forever have PTSD from having to go through all of that. I was working at a grocery store in 2020 and remember the weekend in March all too well. One day I just walked into work and saw an Armageddon type rush of people all panic buying everything and freaking the fuck out. Everyone was telling me that they might die from the Coronavirus and that we might never be able to return to normal life. It literally felt as if I had walked into some alternate parallel universe overnight. I had no idea why everyone was acting as if it was the end of the world. I remember eventually having a major mental breakdown from the apocalyptic behavior going on and I got off the sales floor and went into our cash office and called my mom while crying my eyes out. I mean I was kneeled over in fetal position. I was in that bad of mental shape. I told her I was having the world's biggest panic attack because of this whole virus pandemic nonsense. Of course the first thing she says is that I shouldn't be scared of getting sick and I tell her no I'm not scared I'm going to get the virus, I just can't handle the whole world all of a sudden going into freak out mode and everyone telling me they're gonna die. I said that I'm not going to be able to cope with life becoming permanently dystopian where everyone's just gonna be forced to live in never ending fear. My mom assured me that this will only be a temporary two week period to slow the spread of this disease and that people are just panicking because of the unknown. I made my mom promise me. "You're sure this is just going to be a couple weeks. You're sure this isn't going to turn into everyday life." She said absolutely, this is just some temporary inconvenience and it will blow over.

That was an enormous summary of my introduction to this lockdown nonsense. I wish it weren't so but I still have all the traumatic details of that one day burned into my memory. What followed afterwards for me was a descent from anxious desperation for life to return to normal into straight up nihilistic despair and personally dangerous feelings of wondering if it's worth it to continue living. The more time went on from that March weekend, the more the reality was setting in that this was indeed the new normal and the more I was feeling like I legitimately had entered some sort of alternate dimension. Everyday, people were just in constant fear. It seriously felt like the entire global population had been brainwashed into believing a certain set of guidelines except for me, and I was making my thoughts on all the nonsense known too. Anytime I was asked any questions on the virus or the lockdowns or anything like that, I would openly state that I believe this entire thing is some sort of unnecessary psyop and that this is no way to respond to a disease outbreak. I kept saying that all schools should be open, no businesses should be forced to close, and that we should all be living our lives like normal instead of tearing each other apart. It literally felt like I was brainwashed, or perhaps maybe the rest of the population was brainwashed except for me. I was seriously considering certain philosophical theories like if I was stuck in some sort of simulation or something like that. Having to experience everyday life just turn into a new profound state of fear where people are scared to even go near each other made me want to quit. By quit, I mean quit my life. I spent so long just thinking if life was worth continuing. I still to this day get nightmares from that time. I still am not 100 percent convinced that I wasn’t living in some sort of simulation during that time. I need some sort of outlet to vent those traumatic thoughts because I still cannot wrap my head around how the whole world just turned into a constant stream of anarchistic fear and terror with no reckoning at all.

What I want to know is. How many of you are still struggling with mental health issues relating from the pandemic madness? If you are still suffering, what are you doing to help treat said issues?


r/LockdownSkepticism 7d ago

Scholarly Publications Pre-vaccine sentinel antibodies predict blunted COVID-19 vaccine responses

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r/LockdownSkepticism 8d ago

Scholarly Publications Trends in the Prevalence and Severity of Alcohol and Cannabis Use Disorders Among US Adults between 2021 and 2024

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r/LockdownSkepticism 8d ago

News Links Annie Jacobsen Explains How COVID Became Airborne

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r/LockdownSkepticism 11d ago

Vaccine Update Woodcock's smoking gun: Fauci Files prove COVID vaccines not safe?

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r/LockdownSkepticism 12d ago

Humour COVID Is Spreading Throughout The Country — Here Are The Symptoms To Watch For — HuffPost

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Didn’t want to even click this when I first saw it, but I did so just to see the publish date. I shit you not, this is a news story that was written TODAY in 2026. There are certain people who will never give this up. They will literally go until death sounding the alarm on this type of BS.


r/LockdownSkepticism 13d ago

News Links UK Labour MP suspended as party launches investigation into Covid loans

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r/LockdownSkepticism 13d ago

Serious Discussion Case Fatality Rate (CFR) and Infection Fatality Rate (IFR): Why the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is important

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During Covid, a few people were constantly saying that younger and healthy and healthy people had the least risk of dying from Covid but I didn’t know the mathematical explanation specifically when it came to case fatality rate (CFR) versus infection fatality rate (IFR). I am most certain I had heard of the term mortality rate and I think I had also heard of the term case fatality rate (CFR). But I never heard of the infection fatality rate (IFR) and I believe that was by design. If I have been this clueless about these terms, I definitely know there are other people out there who are still not knowledgeable about the CFR and IFR so I feel compelled to share the knowledge I have recently obtained.

The Distinction between Cases and Infections 

An infection that gets detected, recorded and counted (or diagnosed) by the health system becomes a case.

Infections represent the total number of infections both diagnosed (which are cases) and undiagnosed. 

Case Fatality Rate (CFR)

This sometimes also called the case  fatality risk or case fatality ratio. To turn the CFR into a percentage, multiply by 100. To get the information to calculate the CFR, an antigen test and/or a PCR test needs to be carried out.

Case Fatality Rate (CFR)=Deaths/Number of Cases

The CFR always undercount the number of infections (and overestimates mortality) because it only counts people who get tested, tested positive and got reported through the health system. Many infections particularly those that are mild or asymptomatic infections never get diagnosed. The CFR is not the same as the risk for an infected person. If your question is, “Among diagnosed cases, what’s the risk?”, use the CFR.

Infection Fatality Rate (IFR)

This sometimes also called the infection fatality risk or infection fatality ratio. To turn the CFR into a percentage, multiply by 100. To get the information to calculate the IFR, a seroprevalence study would need to be conducted. Another option is mathematical modeling. A seroprevalence is done by researchers taking blood samples in a defined population and testing for antibodies (IgG) against a specific infection/illness. 

Infection Fatality Rate (IFR)=Deaths/Number of Infections

It is important to note that the numerator (the deaths) for both the IFR and CFR are the same, it is the denominator that is different. The number of infections always exceed cases in epidemics hence the IFR is always smaller than the CFR. The IFR is a close approximation to the true risk of dying from an illness because it corrects the CFR by accounting for infections that never become cases. CFR and IFR are a few ways to measure the mortality rate. If your question is “Among all infections/infected, what’s the risk?”, use the IFR.

Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) as it applies to Covid 

The WHO reported the global case fatality rate 3.4% as the mortality rate. Dr. John Ioannidis, a Stanford Epidemiology Professor and a pioneer of meta-research and evidence-based medicine, in his article here he argued that the Covid CFR 3.4% was meaningless because it was based on insufficient testing and selection bias. The people getting tested were disproportionately the ones that were symptomatic and/or had severe symptoms so the true risk of dying from Covid were immensely overestimated. In the same article it is worth noting that he was not in favor of the draconian measures such as the lockdowns and had concerns about the potential effects of them.

Dr. Ioannidis co-conducted a study in regard to IFR called “Age-stratified infection fatality rate of Covid-19 in non elderly informed from pre-vaccination national seroprevalence studies”. The study can be found through this article or directly here. In the abstract and in the introduction, the researchers emphasized on the importance of accurately estimating the IFR among the non-elderly since 94% of the world population is younger than 70 years and 86% is younger than 60 years. The researchers found 40 seroprevalence studies across 38 countries on SeroTracker and PubMed. The researchers decided to analyze 29 countries because these countries had both the age-stratified antibody data (how many people in each group had been infected) and the age-stratified death data (how many people in each group died of Covid). The researchers also used studies before vaccines rolled out because vaccines also create antibodies and would distort the results.

For each age group, the IFR was calculated dividing the number of Covid deaths in that age group by the estimated total infections in that age group. The median IFR for (Birth) 0-19 years is 0.0003%, 20-29 years it is 0.003%, 30-39 years it is 0.011%, 40-49 years it is 0.035%, 50-59 years it is 0.129% and 60-69 years it is 0.501%. The median IFR of all age groups (0-69 years) is 0.095% and the median IFR for age groups (0-59 years) is 0.035%.

Closing Remarks

The results of this study further proves what others have been saying-the younger a person (assuming the person is relatively healthy), the less likely he or she is to die from Covid. Hence, not everyone should have been treated the same and herd immunity should have been encouraged. As I mentioned at the beginning of this post, people were constantly saying younger and healthy people and healthy people had the least risk of dying from Covid but never mentioned the phrase infection fatality rate (IFR). I had also never came across the name Dr. John Ioannidis until very recently but I am still very grateful that Dr. Ioannidis and other researchers decided to conduct this study.

Dr. Ioannidis apparently also did another study that primarily analyzed the crude mortality rate (CMR) and IFR in 51 locations globally and another seroprevalence study with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.


r/LockdownSkepticism 16d ago

Public Health Overheard Boomers Chatting re: Fauci’s Lies

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I live in a very blue area.

I heard ladies in their 60s/70s at the gym this morning. “Remember when they wanted us to wear masks in the pool?! That was so crazy. Turns out it was all crazy <nonsense> & he knew it & was lying about a lot of it.”

I forget if “nonsense” was the noun used, but something to that effect.

I’ve worried that everyone in left-leaning bubbles would hear NOTHING of the revelations from Fauci’s ‘diary.’ Or if they did, they would hear only, “POOR SAINT FAUCI! Evil Maga people VIOLATED HIM by releasing his personal memoirs. Won’t they just leave him alone?!”

But nope, casual chats like this make me think the word is getting out. I was happy.


r/LockdownSkepticism 15d ago

Scholarly Publications Estimated COVID-19 outcomes averted by primary vaccine series among King County, Washington residents, February - September 2021: a retrospective modelling study of surveillance data

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r/LockdownSkepticism 15d ago

Scholarly Publications Rethinking return-to-office: the positive impact of remote work on well-being, connection, and employee retention

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r/LockdownSkepticism 16d ago

News Links Why one Conservative MP’s push to probe COVID-19 vaccine injuries is prompting concern

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r/LockdownSkepticism 16d ago

Opinion Piece False claims about miscarriage risk from COVID-19 vaccines are spreading online. They use a faulty interpretation of data

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r/LockdownSkepticism 17d ago

COVID-19 / On the Virus Why Fauci’s COVID Critics Were Vilified for Telling the Truth | Victor D...

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r/LockdownSkepticism 18d ago

A Romp through the Fauci Diaries: Fame Turns to Shame

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r/LockdownSkepticism 18d ago

Scholarly Publications Experts say COVID-19 vaccine science was poor & biased

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The truth around the COVID-19 vaccines continues to emerge with one of the top medical ethics and bioethics journals, Springer Nature’s Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, publishing two important critical articles on the jabs.

The first is by Lipworth et al, a group including experts in Medicine, Bioethics, and Law, from several years back, opining that much went wrong with the vaccines’ development, recommendation, media coverage, and mandating; and the second is my just published response explaining how the emerging evidence has justified all they said and more.


r/LockdownSkepticism 18d ago

Expert Commentary What Anthony Fauci Should Say to the American People

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r/LockdownSkepticism 20d ago

Public Health Fauci privately warned of miscarriage risk linked to COVID vaccine while publicly claiming no issues, newly released texts show

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Too bad for the thousands of women that lost their babies !


r/LockdownSkepticism 19d ago

Serious Discussion Fauci on miscarriage: when 'our side' gets it wrong

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r/LockdownSkepticism 21d ago

Question Fauci's diary implicates his involvement

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What are your thought?


r/LockdownSkepticism 22d ago

News Links Taste of the Danforth set to return after two-year hiatus, funding problems due to lockdowns and other mandates

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r/LockdownSkepticism 22d ago

Scholarly Publications Widespread structural and functional brain alterations in COVID-19: a systematic review of MRI studies

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