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The Unbearably Predictable Prattle of the Boston Globe

Thomas Harrington / June 6, 2022 / Media / 5 minute read

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The retreat into fantasy of our self-proclaimed betters in “cultured” cities like Boston, with “progressive” papers like the Globe is unsustainable. Though most of them are blissfully unaware of it, their penchant for aggressively imposing their delusions on the broader public is robbing them, and the institutions in which they toil, of the social capital acquired of several generations of mostly earnest work.

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A Short History of the Testing Debacle

James Bovard / June 5, 2022 / Policy / 9 minute read

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Federal health agencies have had more blunders than practically anyone expected during this pandemic. The least that Uncle Sam can do is get out of the way of private efforts to help Americans recognize the risks in their own lives.

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Was It the Pandemic or the Response?

John Tamny / June 5, 2022 / Policy / 5 minute read

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No doubt some remember “drop the bag at the doorstep,” “no knocking on the door,” “don’t ring the doorbell” lest the working-class germs of the delivery persons remain. It all raises a question about what people did to maintain their figures amid all the binge-watching, eating, and advertising of their doings on social media.

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Elections Won’t Fix This

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 4, 2022 / Policy / 8 minute read

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Uprooting the entrenched, arrogant, hegemonic, and unaccountable administrative state that believes it operates with no limit to its power is the great challenge of our time. The public is probably nowhere near aware of the full extent of the problem. Until voters themselves figure it out, the politicians will have no mandate even to test a solution.

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A Helpless People, Weary and Traumatized

Thomas Harrington / June 4, 2022 / Philosophy / 7 minute read

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The trauma is greatly diminished when we stop, breathe and, to the best of our ability, fearlessly catalog the injuries we have suffered, ask who authored them, and, if relevant, what made so many of us acquiescent to these assaults upon our dignity and well-being.

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Fauci Goes to Princeton

Mark Oshinskie / June 3, 2022 / Policy / 7 minute read

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Fauci delivered a self-revealing meta-message to college grads: when your work product sucks, gaslight and resort to name-calling and PC demagoguery. His stated concern about misinformation is painfully ironic, as it comes from someone who has lied his way through the past two years and, according to peers, many years prior.

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The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States

Josh Stevenson / June 3, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The entire proposition is just silly. The concept of innate differences in populations is a well established consideration for those who study population health. One might think that our nations most prestigious newspaper might require their top writer to consult with population health experts or even an actuarial scientist in order to obtain a more informed perspective and give the data more rigorous analysis.

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CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study

Paul Elias Alexander / June 3, 2022 / Masks / 5 minute read

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The marque top level position that the CDC once held in the US and globally no longer exists. The credibility has fallen dramatically and this has a whole lot to do with COVID and how its leadership functioned in deceiving the nation by withholding important COVID information, repeatedly.

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The Politics of Natural Infection

Jeffrey A. Tucker / June 2, 2022 / Public Health / 6 minute read

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Reflecting on this topic of exposure and immunity eventually leads a person to realize that we don’t need centralized control, coercion, and dictatorial power to manage a pandemic. Pandemics are unavoidable but they largely manage themselves while the best-possible outcomes rest with the intelligence of individuals informing choices based on their own risk assessment.

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Mask Mandates at Tufts University: Wrecking Campus Life

Harley Centner / June 2, 2022 / Education / 4 minute read

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Mask mandates have done their best to engender a school environment that is devoid of human connection and visible emotion; is this what we hoped for when mandatory masking went back into place in May 2021? The administration’s decision to renege on this transition indicates they are willing to forcibly mask everyone in perpetuity. For a policy that is ineffective at best and harmful to the mental health of many members of the university body, this is unacceptable.

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White House Disinformation about Kids and Covid

Ian Miller / June 2, 2022 / Masks, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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Jha has repeatedly spread misinformation about masks while overtly promoting vaccine passports and verification, and last summer claimed that “unvaccinated, unmasked folks” are the drivers of transmission, while ignoring that cases surged in highly masked and vaccinated areas like San Francisco:

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Justice Department Appeals to Get Masks Back on Airlines, Buses, and Trains

Alex Washburne / June 1, 2022 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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Over a silly definition of “sanitation”, the CDC appears willing to gamble a pillar of our modern society’s constitutional law, a legal cornerstone of our executive agencies, and perhaps, should the CDC lose, its willingness to gamble will be precisely the reason why we can’t have that nice thing of Chevron deference.

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