Covid: Moving from government-inspired hysteria to a common sense approach

'contrary to what the Government experts would have you think...that hospitals were close to overflowing...at least half didn’t have a single Covid-19 patient'

UK’s Daily Mail has been a loan voice in questioning the government response to the Covid virus. I applaud its bravery.

These extracts

Editorial: What does ‘health’ mean? How can a person be ‘healthy’?

We are learning from the pandemic that it is very dangerous to define ‘health’ narrowly

The world is slowly waking up to the fact that ‘health’ is a composite that includes:

Physical health
Mental health
Social health
Sufficient income to support self and loved ones in a healthy life style
A home
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Negative hospital environments: Is it appropriate to de-medicalise early child and family support? A summary so far

This support for disability and development disorders is not a medical issue

Peter Limbrick writes: In my serialised essay (starting here) I have been looking critically at the support offered when babies and young children have disabilities and special needs that will impact on their development an

Editorial: Wiping bums in the UK

'This caring work might be only one of the low-paid jobs that the worker is compelled to take on to keep the home and family afloat'

In the UK, up to the 1980s, children and adults with special needs (mental, physical, mental and physical) could be incarcerated in ‘long-stay hospitals’ run by the NH

Art might not cure disease, but it helps make life worth living

‘governments hope we will all increasingly keep our noses stuck in small screens for our work, our leisure and, increasingly, our sex life

Editorial: My government, and perhaps yours, has been panicked by Covid into incompetence and confusion. It began by making health a single and exclusive priorit

Being very apprehensive of any rushed ‘outside-the-law’ vaccine

I see three great dangers: viruses and bacteria (as always), chaotic and cruel lockdowns, outside-the-law vaccines

Editorial: Every medicine and surgical procedure comes with risks of disease or death. We have to take this as a fact of life whether we are taking anti-depressants or having an appende

Editorial: Science, leadership, wrong thinking, harmful vaccines and doubtful statistics in a pandemic. Two doctors and a video

'There is a rush to find a vaccine but I doubt I would feel confident to accept a vaccine for me or my family that has been so quickly produced'

In my country, and perhaps in yours, we have had a valuable lesson about science not being an absolute. This cat is out of the bag now and should stay out.

How ordinary citizens can support vulnerable people when public services are ineffective

Many vulnerable people live beyond the reach of public services and must cope on their own

Caring Activism: A 21^st century concept of care

By Peter Limbrick. 2016

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Think of rough sleepers in Europe’s capitals, of teenagers leaving care homes without aftercare, of elderly people str

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