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How Could They Have Done This to the Children?

Vinay Prasad / December 15, 2021 / Policy / 4 minute read / Articles

Some have claimed that our policies to children reflect “following the science.” They do not. There is no science to support primary school closure. No science supported prolonged (>1 year) closure for any age. No science supported outdoor cloth mask mandates for young kids, and no science supported deviating from the WHO guidance. These policies meanwhile have devastating consequences for the well-being of children

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Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Aaron Kheriaty / December 14, 2021 / Vaccines / 3 minute read / Articles

Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.”

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Must We Segregate the Unvaccinated from the Vaccinated?

Paul Elias Alexander / December 14, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 5 minute read / Articles

Governments around the world have encouraged and enforced a new form of segregation based on vaccine status. This is not only dangerously inhumane; there is no scientific basis for this.

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Elon Musk, Person of the Year, Radicalized by Lockdowns

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 14, 2021 / Economics, Philosophy / 7 minute read / Articles

There is a new spirit of resistance alive in the land, and Musk embodies it as well or better than anyone else in his position. In that case, there are many people and institutions in this country and around the world that should be very worried.

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How Lockdowns Wrecked this Student’s Dreams

Brownstone Institute / December 13, 2021 / Policy, Society / 8 minute read / Articles

Covid has made a mockery of our university system and I am not sure if it will ever recover. My dreams of college and life in California have died a slow, painful death since Covid shut the world down back in March 2020. I am no longer angry. Life is too short and I am going to go start living it.

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Their Schools Shut, So Why Not Let Teens Work?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 13, 2021 / Economics / 8 minute read / Articles

It’s time we stop congratulating ourselves for taking away respectable professional opportunities from kids. Their lives have been utterly wrecked during this pandemic response. A slight consolation would be to celebrate when the kids want to work, earning money, feeling valuable, and finding some meaning beyond mere compliance with schoolmasters and bureaucrats.

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Am I Detecting a Shift at the New York Times?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 12, 2021 / Media / 8 minute read / Articles

Reading the New York Times has always required a decoder ring. What this editorial tells me is that the ruling class that did this to this country and the world knows that it is on the losing side of history. They are scrambling fast to dial it back while preserving what they can of their dignity and credibility, both of which are mostly shot.

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A Letter to Send to Venues that Exclude the Unvaccinated

Donald Boudreaux / December 12, 2021 / Policy, Society / 3 minute read / Articles

Vaccination is effective at preventing the vaccinated from suffering serious consequences from Covid. (And children naturally are at virtually no risk from Covid.) Therefore, those of your patrons who choose not to be vaccinated personally bear the costs of their choice without imposing any costs on those of your patrons who are vaccinated. So your requirement of vaccination is pointless.

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Has the Cleveland Clinic Made the Right Call?

Vinay Prasad / December 12, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read / Articles

On social media, the “right answer” is the moralizing one. Vaccines are good. People who don’t get them are bad. We should fire bad people, etc. etc.. This narrative bores me as it is superficial and not very rigorous.

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I’m Fighting for My Right to Learn

Serena Johnson / December 10, 2021 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read / Articles

While wearing a mask, I feel anonymous and inhuman. Few people are willing to approach me for conversation, compounding the difficulties I already face due to my disabilities. My disabilities made people nervous about including me in activities because they were afraid to approach.

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The Covid Chaos in Russia

Riley Waggaman / December 10, 2021 / Policy / 12 minute read / Articles

Where is Russia going and why has it embraced such dubious, civilization-transforming COVID measures, in near-lockstep with its so-called Western rivals?

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Who Will Be Held Responsible for this Devastation?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 9, 2021 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read / Articles

This is the moment in which we find ourselves: a ruling class terrified of being found out, called out, and held accountable, and therefore incentivized to generate an endless series of excuses, scapegoats, and distractions (“You need another shot!”).

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