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Grading the Governors: Who Locked Down and Who Opened?

Michael Betrus / January 30, 2022 / Education, History, Policy / 12 minute read

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Not one governor performed perfectly during the pandemic and lockdowns. With media pressure, a desire to balance their constituents, and a desire to get reelected and move on to federal positions down the road, it was an enormously difficult job for all of them. For every single one, from Governors Newsom and Cuomo to Noem and DeSantis, it was the most challenging policy-making of their careers, and for any governor in perhaps American history

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It Was All There in the EUA. Why Couldn’t They See it?

Thomas Harrington / January 29, 2022 / Education, Philosophy, Vaccines / 10 minute read

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In a world where, to paraphrase Zygmunt Bauman, all is liquid and most are driven by the search for fleeting sensations, and where establishing a personal hermeneutic through reading and contemplation is considered quaintly quixotic when not impossible, the mutterings of the authority figure nearby take on an enhanced attraction.

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Kulldorff Deleted: Famed Epidemiologist and Early Opponent of Lockdowns Banned by LinkedIn

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 28, 2022 / History, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Things are changing fast. The history is being rewritten. It seems designed to whitewash the lockdowns, pretending as if there was never any credible opposition. Great scientists are being made to disappear before our eyes.

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CNN Loves Weathervane Pandemic Pundits

Vinay Prasad / January 28, 2022 / Media, Policy / 8 minute read

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Weathervanes have no historical perspective of medicine. They are among the first to call for censorship because they are incapable of rebuttal. I doubt many of them even listened to the Joe Rogan episodes they want to suppress. Among those who listened, I doubt many can accurately summarize what was right, wrong and what remains gray.

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Lockdowns Did Not Save Lives, Concludes Meta-analysis

Joakim Book / January 28, 2022 / History, Policy / 6 minute read

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The authors are pretty severe in their final conclusions. Lockdowns didn’t meaningfully reduce Covid-19 mortalities: “the effect is little to none.”

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Justin Trudeau Ducks the Great Trucker Revolt

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 27, 2022 / Media, Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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This is the largest and latest example of the revolt and one that could make the biggest difference yet. But it is only one sign among many that the ruling elites in most countries have overplayed their hand. They have arrogantly imposed their plans for everyone else based on the opinions of only a few and without real consultation with experts with differences of opinion or with the people whose lives have been profoundly affected by the pandemic response.

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The Covid Narrative Falls Apart in South Africa

Scott Morefield / January 26, 2022 / Masks, Policy, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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The sad, tragic fact is that their measures, from lockdowns to masks to even vaccine mandates, have done little to nothing to curb the spread of this highly contagious respiratory virus, and taken as a whole they’ve likely done more harm than good.

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First We Must Grieve

Julie Birky / January 26, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 4 minute read

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We need time and space to mourn the loss of hope we had and plans we made, of businesses closed, of church groups no longer meeting, of relationships with co-workers we won’t get back, of trust in institutions, and of our previous understanding of health. Parents, grandparents, children, teens, and community members all need time to grieve for childhoods halted, rites of passage canceled, and celebrations skipped.

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When Fauci Told the Truth about Masking

Ian Miller / January 26, 2022 / Masks / 4 minute read

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Fauci knew masks didn’t work to prevent illnesses like COVID. He knew that the evidence on masks hadn’t changed because one of his top employees confirmed that there was no positive impact from masking based on the gold standard of scientific research, randomized controlled trials.

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The Reactionary Political Ethos of Lockdowns and Mandates

Jeffrey A. Tucker / January 25, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 9 minute read

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We’ve lived through an enormous setback, pushed by reactionary elements among the ruling class, but it is likely a prequel to what comes next: a backlash against reaction and toward a new stage of progress. Cycles within cycles. Forces of centralization have had a field day, and a good run of it, but the forces of decentralization are fighting back again with good odds of regaining the narrative again.

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Bureaucrats Riding the Omicron Wave

Michael Tracey / January 25, 2022 / Education, Law, Masks, Policy / 6 minute read

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Repeat after me: Keep our community safe. Keep our campus safe. We will be safe if you all behave safely. Safety is our first priority. If you’re not with us, you’re with the virus. Still today, at places like Princeton, grievances can often only be aired in private about the constant dreary pronouncements from official authorities purporting to be so very concerned for your health and safety, yadda yadda yadda.

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Ontario the Cruel

Laura Rosen Cohen / January 24, 2022 / Law, Policy / 10 minute read

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The children of Ontario are victims of nearly two solid years of psychologically and emotionally damaging messages emanating from public health officials and social media celebrity doctors about how dangerous they are to the people they love; that they are dirty disease carriers, that they could be ‘granny killers’ and inadvertently pass along a deadly virus to their loved ones. They could murder their grandparents! In turn, many Ontario parents have been rendered so utterly terrified about the exaggerated risks to their children from Covid-19 that they are now fully convinced that all children are a health risk to others.

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