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Joakim Book | January 12, 2022 | Economics, History, Policy | 6 minute read

Is Anyone Going to Accept Responsibility for This?

This is the model that will consume all public discussion of the pandemic response in the future: seeking but never finding anyone to bear responsibility. This is typical for episodes in history that are characterized by mass frenzy and distorted fanaticism. Once the mania is gone, it is hard to find anyone who is willing to accept responsibility for feeding it and acting upon it.

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Brownstone Institute | January 12, 2022 | Media, Philosophy, Policy | 5 minute read

Ehud Qimron’s Powerful Letter to the Israeli Ministry of Health

“When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries — you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus. The economy you ruined, the unemployed you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed — they are the surplus victims as a result of your own actions only.”

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Willy Forsyth | January 12, 2022 | Masks, Public Health, Society | 6 minute read

The Mad Perceptions Driving our Covid Policies

Will we live with illogical fear and behaviors for years? Or will we use facts to take back the lives we value?

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Jeffrey A. Tucker | January 11, 2022 | Media, Public Health, Society | 9 minute read

Songbird: The Dystopian Film that Became Real

These seemingly scientific slogans – flatten the curve, slow the spread, socially distance, track-and-trace – mask deeply dangerous policy ideas that can ruin life for everyone, and utterly destroy health and human liberty itself. The film is right: pandemic controls are an existential threat.

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Vinay Prasad | January 11, 2022 | Policy, Public Health, Vaccines | 4 minute read

CDC Director Almost Admits Failure

The CDC director’s tweet won’t settle all the COVID19 debates, but it is an admission that our current policies have failed and must be abandoned. We cannot eradicate the virus. We have to live with it, and balance it against all the other important things: school, work, and our mental health.

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Jared McBrady | January 10, 2022 | Law, Policy, Society | 5 minute read

Othering Unvaccinated Persons

This is a warning call. We have seen these conditions before, and we have seen where they lead. Turn back now – that way leads to darkness.

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Vinay Prasad | January 9, 2022 | Public Health, Vaccines | 3 minute read

It Is Time to Face Reality about the Vaccines

Conclusion: you cannot contain the viral spread of omicron by boosting.

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Vinay Prasad | January 9, 2022 | Policy, Public Health, Vaccines | 5 minute read

Testing Will Not Save Us

Infection can be avoided for weeks or months or perhaps years, but eventually, the virus will touch all human beings who touch another person. Under these circumstances, we should differentiate between two classes of interventions.

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Mikko Packalen | January 9, 2022 | Economics, Law, Public Health, Technology | 6 minute read

Canada’s Accidental Biosecurity State

The Covid policies we see today in Canada are the product of pretending for two years that Covid can be stopped, that no trade-offs exist when it comes to Covid, and shunning debate on even the most obvious trade-offs and alternative Covid policies. The lack of attention to the human and economic costs of Canada’s Covid response has been appalling.

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Jeffrey A. Tucker | January 9, 2022 | History, Law, Policy, Public Health | 10 minute read

Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?

What Sotomayer said about machines and humans was not rooted in ignorance as such; it was the fulfillment of the delusions of countless intellectuals the world over for most of this century. She was summarizing countless papers and presentations in the form of a casual quip, thus revealing it for the fundamental insanity that it truly is.

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Jordan Schachtel | January 8, 2022 | Law, Media | 3 minute read

Novak Djokovic: Athlete, Rebel, Hero

Props to Novak Djokovic for fighting the good fight and carrying the torch. For using his platform to fight for the rights of every individual against the forces of government tyranny, he’s the new People’s Champ.

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