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Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / May 30, 2022 / Media / 2 minute read

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Some readers may recall the media storm against this paper, driven by some self-proclaimed fact-checkers. The appendix not only debunks all the “fact-checkers” claims but the authors also demonstrate how they were based not on any understanding of the paper (in fact it looks as if the “fact-checkers” mostly never even read it), but rather on superficial and to a large extent irrelevant “criticisms”, repeated blindly by one “fact-checker” and one media outlet after another.

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Mask Mandates Back in Philadelphia

Debbie Lerman / May 29, 2022 / Masks / 6 minute read

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This should be good news, especially for parents who have been worried about their children throughout the pandemic and teachers who have been worried about exposure to the virus at schools. It’s time to stop worrying. It’s OK to take the masks off.

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After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated

Robert Kogon / May 28, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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The European Commission’s April 27th documents thus clearly invoke a new rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination campaign in the fall, specifically targeting the hitherto unvaccinated and also children. Moreover, if the Commission gets its way – as it can be expected to – and the EU Digital Covid Certificate is indeed extended, they also raise the specter of this new rollout being combined with exactly the same coercive, discriminatory measures that turned Europe’s unvaccinated into social pariahs for much of the last year.

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The Loss of Trust Is Well Earned

Jeffrey A. Tucker / May 27, 2022 / Economics, Philosophy / 9 minute read

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Human freedom is the public practice of not being trolled by the ruling class, which is forever telling us that life will be better once the most intelligent and most powerful among them are granted all trust to do with our lives and property as they see fit. When we decide that it ends, it ends.

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World Economic Forum Pushes Facial Recognition Technology

John Mac Ghlionn / May 27, 2022 / Technology / 4 minute read

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The dangers posed by digital IDs cannot be emphasized enough. As the researcher Brett Solomon—a man “who has tracked the advantages and perils of technology for human rights” for well over a decade—previously noted, the mass rollout of digital IDs “poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered.”

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The Corruption of the World Health Organization

David Bell / May 27, 2022 / Government, Public Health / 6 minute read

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It appears the WHO’s staff are comfortable with ensuring the people they were charged to support are increasingly impoverished and their rights and health autonomy removed. They are not just resigned to the abandonment of basic public health principles and ethics, but actively working to undermine them.

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The Grim Reality of Post-Lockdown Economic Trends

David Stockman / May 26, 2022 / Economics / 7 minute read

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In short, both the Wall Street and main street economies have been so badly roiled and distorted by lockdowns, the Fed’s money-printing spree, and Washington’s stimmy paloozas that a lot of stuff is going to “snap” as the Fed is forced into a desperate inflation-fighting mode.

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Lockdown Is Not Liberalism’s Endgame

Donald Boudreaux / May 26, 2022 / History, Media / 2 minute read

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As summarized by Thomas Sowell, freedom under a truly liberal order “is, above all, the right of ordinary people to find elbow room for themselves and a refuge from the rampaging presumptions of their ‘betters.’”

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World Health Organization Deploys Another Disease Threat to Push Global Survelliance

John Mac Ghlionn / May 25, 2022 / Government, Policy, Technology / 5 minute read

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Vaccine passports and contact tracing are intimately tied to surveillance. More specifically, global surveillance. As the draft notes, the WHO will carry out “coordinated global surveillance of public health threats.” This can only be achieved by member states, all 194 of them, expanding their surveillance systems and contributing to “the WHO’s global systems for surveillance.”

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School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link

Paul Elias Alexander / May 25, 2022 / Law, Society / 5 minute read

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Is this Buffalo teen shooter and the Texas teen shooter the last such shooters? I fear not, as we may have damaged the minds of many people irreparably. There are grave consequences due to lockdowns and school closures, not only from a weakened immune system and the vast economic damage, but also due to the wrecked psyches of many young people.

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The Monkeypox Outbreak of 2003

Josh Stevenson / May 25, 2022 / History / 3 minute read

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Is this how every rare and exotic new pathogenic threat is going to be treated, now that we’ve got everyone’s attention for 2 years of social/political/economic upheaval?

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When 800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns

Edward Stringham / May 24, 2022 / Education / 5 minute read

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Back then, hundreds of professors associated with Yale University organized a letter with signatures to send to the White House. The letter was dated March 2, 2020. It was signed by 800 credentialed professionals largely from the fields of epidemiology and medicine. It might have taken us in a different direction than the one in which governments took us soon after it was published.

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