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A Review and Autopsy of Two COVID Immunity Studies

Martin Kulldorff / November 2, 2021 / Public Health / 10 minute read

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“I have worked on vaccine epidemiology since I joined the Harvard faculty almost two decades ago as a biostatistician. I have never before seen such a large discrepancy between studies that are supposed to answer the same question. In this article, I carefully dissect both studies, describe how the analyses differ, and explain why the Israeli study is more reliable.” ~ Martin Kulldorff

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The Greatest Transfer of Wealth From the Middle Class to the Elites in History

Carol Roth / November 1, 2021 / Economics, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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The one-two punch of government fiscal and Fed monetary policy continued to destroy the fabric of the economy for the average American. It dislocated the labor markets and the supply chain and it has ultimately led to inflation, which is making the basic cost of living much more expensive for Americans all across the country.

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Dr. Martin Kulldorff Joins Brownstone Institute as Senior Scientific Director

Brownstone Institute / October 31, 2021 / Public Health / 8 minute read

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The Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce that Dr. Martin Kulldorff is joining our institute as Senior Scientific Director. Having served as a professor at Harvard Medical School for the past ten years, he will guide the scientific activities of the Institute, particularly as it relates to the pandemic and the needed public health recovery and reform so that no country will repeat the terrible errors of 2020-21.

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The Candy Shortage Is But a Sign of Much Worse

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 30, 2021 / Economics / 6 minute read

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The candy shortage is emblematic of deeper issues affecting economic life after lockdowns. The empty shelves you see at the local store are only the final stage revelation of problems pervasive in all production structures. The problems are not being fixed. They are all getting worse, even after all the promises that the shortages, dislocations, and inflation were merely temporary.

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The True Meaning of Masking

Robert Freudenthal / October 30, 2021 / Masks, Philosophy, Policy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 9 minute read

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If we are people in a society with an authoritarian structure, where our ability to participate and do the things we wish to do every day are conditional on the approval of government, then our way of relating with power structures is no longer one of “We are all in partnership together” but one of “behavioural correction.” In such a system the mask becomes a tool for enacting that behavioural correction.

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Dr. Deborah Birx’s Failed Attempt to Flip the Script

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 29, 2021 / History, Public Health / 12 minute read

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She makes some very serious charges, while evading responsibility for her central role in the egregiously botched response. Birx not only pushed Trump to enact lockdowns. She personally called health officials in every state and demanded that they do the same. And did this for months. They complied based on her position and authority.

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This Is Not a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated

Günter Kampf / October 29, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 12 minute read

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Some politicians speak about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated.” But fully vaccinated individuals can harbour high viral loads, spread SARS-CoV-2 and cause severe and fatal Covid-19, also among other fully vaccinated individuals. Social cohesion should not be jeopardized because of an erroneous and narrow view of the epidemiological situation.

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An Interview with Gigi Foster, Warrior Against Lockdowns

Brownstone Institute / October 28, 2021 / Economics, Public Health / 49 minute read

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Gigi Foster, economic professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, is co-author of The Great Covid Panic (Brownstone Institute, 2021) and a fierce opponent of lockdowns and mandates that have caused so much damage to Australia’s economy and long-standing tradition of human rights. Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone interview her in this detailed interview, as her book is growing in influence in Australia and around the world.

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Jab Mandates Are Both Unethical and Fail the Cost/Benefit Test

Michael Tomlinson / October 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 21 minute read

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Of all the unprecedented violations of human rights and individual liberty that have been inflicted on populations during the Covid-19 pandemic, the most intrusive has been the relentless campaign to coerce every last individual to be vaccinated.

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Extensive Efficacy Studies that Rebuke Vaccine Mandates

Paul Elias Alexander / October 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 42 minute read

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What these studies show, are that vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death, but unable to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually infect most of us. That is, while the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people, the public benefit of universal vaccination is in grave doubt. As such, Covid vaccines should not be expected to contribute to eliminating the communal spread of the virus or the reaching of herd immunity. This unravels the rationale for vaccine mandates and passports.

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Vaccine Mandates are the New Prohibition

Emily Burns / October 27, 2021 / History, Policy / 11 minute read

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To garner support for these radical infringements of our most fundamental rights, politicians and bureaucrats have engaged in shameless “othering,” telling us that certain groups of “bad” people put other groups of “good” people in mortal danger. These tactics have been used many times before in our country and others. “Ugly” doesn’t even begin to describe the results.

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Lockdowns Were An Attack on Human Life

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Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / October 26, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 14 minute read

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From a social perspective, lockdowns are like trying to get humans to act out a reprise of the hunter-gatherer period, isolated in small groups and interacting infrequently. The failures of lockdowns are all related to the impossibility of really trying to live that way again.

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