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Was there a Covid Response Plan? If So, Where Is It?

Debbie Lerman / November 7, 2022 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

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The US government’s long-established pandemic response plans were not followed at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic and nothing seems to have taken their place. How could this be? Surely, there is a document telling the American people, politicians, public health leaders and state and local governments what our response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which is widely described as the biggest disaster to afflict us in the 21st century, was meant to be.

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My Letter to Wellesley’s Academic Council and Administration

Anon. Wellesley Student / November 7, 2022 / Education, Law / 7 minute read

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No one should have to violate her conscience or her body because she is being coerced into doing so by an institution far bigger and far more powerful than she is, an institution that holds its boot over her head while it claims to fight for her rights as a woman to make her own decisions.

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A Mom-Led Rebellion

Emily Burns / November 7, 2022 / History, Policy / 9 minute read

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There was no mistake. There was a political calculation that harmed us, but even more, that harmed our children. The harm was considered acceptable because those who undertook it, took the votes of women for granted. They assumed they could lie and manipulate us into believing these harms were necessary, or barring that, unintentional. If we, as women, want our votes to be courted in the future by either party, we must vote to punish the past three years treachery.

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The Confinement of the Healthy

Aaron Kheriaty / November 6, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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It’s hard to overstate the novelty and folly of what happened worldwide in March of 2020. What descended upon us was not just a novel virus but a novel mode of social organization and control—the beginnings of a new biomedical security state that I describe in my book, The New Abnormal.

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Using the Disabled as Political Tools

Laura Rosen Cohen / November 5, 2022 / Policy / 4 minute read

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Some leftists loathe the disabled. I learned that the hard way during the COVID lockdowns. But when it is politically expedient, they will happily and shamelessly pretend otherwise. This cynical and disgraceful anti-human machination of the Left was exposed to sunlight in the Fetterman-Oz debate.

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Maybe the Fed Too Was Trolled

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 5, 2022 / Economics, History / 8 minute read

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There will be no going back to 2019 prices in any sector. Powell knows this. He hates it but he is determined not to be blamed for it. For his part, he believes the blame lies elsewhere: with the apocalyptics, the conspirators, a profligate Congress, a confused President, and the shadowy bunch in the national security state. With them, and under this scenario, he is not likely on speaking terms.

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The School of Friendship

Thomas Harrington / November 5, 2022 / Philosophy / 5 minute read

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What passes today for ideological convictions, in our supposedly terminally divided country, are nothing of the sort, but rather labels to which many quickly and lightly affix themselves precisely because they haven’t really thought deeply about what they believe and why, but don’t want to be seen as being out of step, or of not having really done their homework.

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Censorship and Defamation: Weapons of Control

Robert Malone / November 4, 2022 / Censorship, Law, Society / 17 minute read

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So you ask, “why didn’t more physicians stand up and object?”Because the entire profession has been subjected to the most aggressive and coordinated propaganda, censorship, and defamation campaign the modern western world has ever seen.

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What We Knew In the Early Days

Brownstone Institute / November 4, 2022 / History, Public Health / 4 minute read

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We approach the third year and people have forgotten that all the harms of lockdowns were strongly warned about by many voices in many venues. In addition, the virus was much better understood back then and openly discussed. We knew for certain that the panic and fear were being wildly overblown.

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Brownstone Fellows for 2023 Named

Brownstone Institute / November 3, 2022 / Education / 7 minute read

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Fellowships are awarded for the calendar year and provide financial support as well as moral support and community recognition. The program has begun immediately on a small scale but will grow over time as resources permit.

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Global Health and the Art of Really Big Lies

David Bell / November 3, 2022 / Public Health / 8 minute read

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The principle of Really Big Lies is based on their being so divorced from reality that the listener will assume their own perception must be flawed, rather than the claims of the person speaking to them. Only an insane or ridiculous person would make such outlandish claims, and a credible institution would not employ such a person.

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