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The Life and Thoughts of An Unvaccinated Student in Germany

Pyei Phyo Lin / December 1, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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My life will be much easier getting the jab in Germany but my heart keeps saying that I should not take it from my ethical and moral standpoint. Perhaps, I will have no choice left in the near future if the governments introduce the general vaccine mandate for COVID. However, I think the western governments should donate these vaccines and support more to the poorer nations instead of vaccinating the children and mandating the vaccines for those who dot not need them.

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Is Anthony Fauci the Same Thing as ‘Science’?

Vinay Prasad / December 1, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health / 3 minute read

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Is Fauci a synonym for science? No man is. But he was a prominent drive of US based pandemic policy, and at least some of his biggest decisions may have been errors. He should be judged for that.

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More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures)

Paul Elias Alexander / November 30, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 176 minute read

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What follows is the current totality of the body of evidence (available comparative studies and high-level pieces of evidence, reporting, and discussion) on COVID-19 lockdowns, masks, school closures, and mask mandates. There is no conclusive evidence supporting claims that any of these restrictive measures worked to reduce viral transmission or deaths. Lockdowns were ineffective, school closures were ineffective, mask mandates were ineffective, and masks themselves were and are ineffective and harmful.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

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Gerard Bradley / November 30, 2021 / History, Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 18 minute read

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A careful reading of Jacobson shows that it is not just an automatic consideration allowing the government to do what it wants when a pandemic emergency has been officially declared. Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not satisfy any of the required criteria in Jacobson, let alone all of them.

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Remember Brownstone Institute on Giving Tuesday

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 29, 2021 / Philosophy / 7 minute read

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This is the crisis of our lives. Please join us in standing up for truth in times of lies, and enlightenment when the powers-that-be seem united in dragging us back. They are not the authors of history. Trends can change. Indeed, they are changing.

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I Fought for My Kids and the Liberties of Everyone: An Interview with Shannon Robinson, Plaintiff in the Anti-Lockdown Missouri Court Cases

Brownstone Institute / November 29, 2021 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 1 minute of reading

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Shannon Robinson is a lead Plantiff who challenged the state of Missouri over what she sees as illegal and unconstitutional covid-19 policies mandated by the Department of Health and Senior Services. In this interview, she talks about her motivations and the process, and the widespread sufferings experienced by her and millions of others.

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Lockdowns vs. Focused Protection: The Debate Between Lipstich and Bhattacharya

Brownstone Institute / November 29, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 40 minute read

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On November 6, 2020, the Journal of the American Medical Association sponsored an important debate between Stanford’s Jay Bhattacharya and Harvard’s Marc Lisitch over the policy response to the pandemic. They have very different points of view, with Jay favoring “focussed protection” and traditional public health measures, while Marc is on the side of the novel “non-pharmaceutical intervention” side, e.g. lockdowns.

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The Moral Panic Over Absinthe Lasted 100 Years

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 28, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The war on absinthe – this won’t surprise you – created the opposite of its intended effect. It raised the status of the drink and created a completely unwarranted hysteria in both directions: overconsumption followed by bans followed by speakeasy indulgence. Can you think of anything else, perhaps, that has fit that general model? Marijuana perhaps? Liquor in general? Tobacco? Politically incorrect speech?

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A President Betrayed by Bureaucrats: Scott Atlas’s Masterpiece on the Covid Disaster

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 27, 2021 / History, Public Health / 16 minute read

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Atlas’s book has exposed a scandal for the ages. It is enormously valuable because it fully blows up what seems to be an emerging fake story involving a supposedly Covid-denying president who did nothing vs. heroic scientists in the White House who urged compulsory mitigating measures consistent with prevailing scientific opinion. Not one word of that is true

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New Variant, New Travel Restrictions, New Lockdowns

Vinay Prasad / November 27, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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Overall the ongoing events should prompt policy discussions about what the goals of the intervention are, and how we might generate better evidence and set limits on these tools.

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Are We Overreacting to Omicron?

Paul Elias Alexander / November 26, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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With natural exposure immunity and early outpatient treatment and when combined with no reports of increased lethality, the WHO’s reaction of generating panic toward “Omicron” is causing needless fear and panic. So too with the Biden administration’s newly imposed travel restrictions, which will achieve nothing and will once again disrupt trade and violate human rights.

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Love, Not Fear, Will Get Us Through This Crisis

Paris Williams / November 26, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health / 27 minute read

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Our task, should we choose to accept it, is to do our best to minimise that harm, to ensure that the cure (which presently consists predominantly of sowing fear, trauma and social division, and the rapidly dismantling our human rights and democracy) is not worse than the disease. One thing we know about human nature is that when we face a crisis head on, with open hearts and open minds, with ‘good-faith’ collaboration rather than ‘enemy-image’ animosity, wholesome solutions invariably emerge.

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