COVID vaccines' have failed to achieve what was so lavishly promised in the pandemic's early days, when public health officials and others encouraged the mass media to depict inoculations as the silver bullets that would tame and defeat the virus. It hasn't quite worked out as billed. Robert Clancy, a leading Australian immunologist, explains how and why

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Professor Robert Clancy, a practising clinical immunologist, presents three difficult but important questions related to our future with COVID-19. First, what does 'escape from the bubble', a term favoured by chief medical officers and politicians, actually mean? Second, what is the path to that goal of a pre-COVID normality? Third, how can we regain and retain this freedom?

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Emergency powers, which enabled the dictatorship of unelected pubic health officials and police supremos, need to be applied only to the natural disasters for which they were originally intended. That's the most valuable lesson of many to be gleaned from the catastrophic circus of the past two ruinous years

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Would it be too much to assume that many, almost certainly most, Quadrant readers and visitors are of the view that taxes are necessary but should be kept as low as humanly possible, ‘soaking the rich’ being a policy that substitutes class-based spite for good sense, investment and growth. Well ….. most of the time, […]

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Thirty frontline doctors in Australia recently treated over 600 patients with COVID-19. The treatment strategy was ivermectin (IVM) with doxycycline and zinc. Five of the patients required admission to hospital for progressive symptoms. There were no deaths. In a similar number of contemporary Australian patients not treated with IVM, seventy were hospitalised and six died. […]

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Surprisingly, the reasons given by the TGA for the decision forbidding physicians prescribing ivermectin isn't the usual 'unproven', this based on a highly dubious and incomplete survey of the literature. No, it is because widespread use of a cheap, off-patent treatment 'may interfere with the vaccination programme'. What a brazen admission of the bureaucrats' real motive for foiling the use of a much needed drug

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The doctor on the radio was lambasting ivermectin as being of no use against COVID-19, so I called in to ask why India witnessed a precipitous decline in infections after the drug's widespread distribution? The station that bills itself as the place 'where you can talk and share what matters most' cut me off in seven seconds flat

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These months of lockdowns and  heavy-handed, door-busting policing, the suicides and mental problems said to be increasingly prevalent amongst stuck-at-home children and teens, and, of course, the financial ruin visited upon small businesses and the laid-off– well, what if all of it could  have been avoided? What if there was a cheap, effective, off-patent medication […]

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Among the many riddles of the virus, starting with the circumstances of its creation in Wuhan, we can only wonder at the especially baffling TGA edict banning ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine. A pharmacologist involved in drug development, clinical trials and drug registration for 40 years addresses those mysteries and much, much more

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Chief medical officers have become the fonts of all wisdom and knowledge, gurus whose dictates our elected representatives insist must be accepted without question. Politically, it's a neat trick to offload responsibility with a shrug and variations on 'we heed the experts'. Practically, that refusal to lead has fostered a multi-faceted disaster for which no end is in sight

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