Dear

This is an edited  version of an email circulated by Professor Gigi Foster, one of the outstanding critics of current policies on COVID.

The traditional satirical Australia Day advertisement put out by our lamb producers is a great example, poking fun at the very idea of domestic border closures, and featuring an elderly male (more vulnerable to Covid than most of us!) as the unwitting protagonist:

https://youtu.be/aCIMYjqWxwA

Below are links to more resources that could aid you in the fight for a removal of these unprecedented restrictions on our economic and social activities, and the pursuit of more sensible policies.

A few recent pieces from the academic literature:

• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022103120304248 (finding experimental subjects to weigh the human costs of alternative action plans asymmetrically depending on whether or not the costs are directly related to Covid-19)
• https://sabeconomics.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/JBEP-4-S3-2.pdf (reviewing the media headlines in Australia, Sweden, Thailand, and the UK in 2020 and suggesting that insights from behavioural economics can help us understand the responses to Covid-19 by people and governments)
• https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13484 (finding that more restrictive interventions do not cause reductions in Covid-19 cases)

Two pieces articulating with extensive references the position that lockdowns do not achieve their stated anti-Covid aims, published by the American Institute for Economic Research:

• https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-do-not-control-the-coronavirus-the-evidence/
• https://www.aier.org/article/lockdowns-dont-prevent-coronavirus-spread/

• https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/canadian-experts-research-finds-lockdown-harms-are-10-times-greater-than-benefits

A presentation by New Zealand medical professional Sam Bailey in relation to claims about excess mortality, arguing (amongst other things) that a significant fraction of reported excess deaths have been due to lockdowns themselves:

• https://youtu.be/bw5ldWr9QD0

An interview with a German lawyer Reiner Fuellmich who plans to seek legal redress for the harms that the German government has created via the restrictions it has mandated during this period:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpOzHHJmy7g

A speech by Canadian MP Pierre Poilievre arguing against lockdowns:

• https://www.facebook.com/PierrePoilievreMP/videos/3844403742279142

A blog by economist Paul Frijters about the comparative severity of lockdowns in different countries around the world:

• https://clubtroppo.com.au/2020/12/22/which-governments-have-been-most-restrictive/

• http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2020/december/27/twelve-times-the-lockdowners-were-wrong/

Finally, some groups overseas whose mission statements are consistent with our position:

• https://worldfreedomalliance.org/
• https://usforthem.co.uk/
• https://hartgroup.org/
• https://pandata.org/about/