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The Rights of the Previously Infected

Nathan Tesker / August 8, 2022 / Vaccines / 11 minute read

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Suppose for the sake of argument that you accept natural immunity as equally good or better than vaccine-induced immunity in protecting from severe disease. What are the ethical consequences? Vaccinating the recovered without informing them that they don’t need it violates both the principles of informed consent and the classic medical ethic of not treating without necessity. Doses are wasted on the immune instead of saving the lives of the vulnerable in developing countries.

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The Madness of Groupthink

Robert Malone / August 7, 2022 / Philosophy, Society / 12 minute read

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Janis’ insights into the process of groupthink in the context of dysfunctional public policy decision making profoundly foreshadowed the behaviors observed within the HHS COVID leadership team.

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Data Theft and Government Power

John Mac Ghlionn / August 6, 2022 / Government, Technology / 5 minute read

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In the United States, according to Bennett Cyphers, a technologist who focuses on consumer privacy and state legislation, data brokers have formed an unholy alliance with the country’s military, intelligence communities, and law enforcement agencies. This immense, highly secretive partnership was established for one reason and one reason only—to surveil the actions and activities of U.S. citizens.

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Just How Healthy Are These Labor Markets?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 5, 2022 / Economics / 4 minute read

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These troubles came about with the beginnings of lockdowns based on the outrageous presumption that “the economy” could be turned off and then turned on again. In so doing, governments privileged some and harmed others, creating a caste system based on skills and technologies, and then, eventually, vaccine status.

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Humanity as Homo Ideologicus: On Hitoshi Imamura’s Theory of General Ideology

Naruhiko Mikado / August 5, 2022 / Philosophy / 8 minute read

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Anyone who is alert to our past should have noticed the ire with which the stronger have striven to silence and extinguish the weaker. It should remind us of those historical conflicts in which the party that was more powerful in number, status, and force and thus passed as righteous would later turn out to be tremendously disastrous.

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Vaccines Will Not and Cannot Make this Virus Endemic

Pierre Kory / August 5, 2022 / Vaccines / 4 minute read

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While Americans across the ideological spectrum wish the president recovery, we must take this moment to acknowledge that a strategy blindly focused on vaccinations is not getting the job done.

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The Tyranny of Coronaphobia

Ramesh Thakur / August 5, 2022 / Public Health / 6 minute read

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I wonder if we have set ourselves up to repeat the folly every year with annual outbreaks of flu, especially if it is a bad flu season. If not, why not? Perhaps someone will come up with the slogan ‘Flu Lives Matter’. Or governments could just pass laws making it illegal for anyone to fall sick and die.

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How Did Deborah Birx Get the Job?

Debbie Lerman / August 4, 2022 / History, Public Health / 15 minute read

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The most revealing parts of the book are the claims about Birx herself that, upon close inspection, make little sense, contain strange inconsistencies, or contradict other claims made in the book and elsewhere.

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The Dragnet in Lombardy: Patient Zero of Lockdowns

Michael Senger / August 4, 2022 / History, Policy / 21 minute read

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By way of one Health Minister Roberto Speranza, on whose order 50,000 Lombardy residents were placed under lockdown on February 21, 2020, the first lockdown in the modern western world. Within weeks, lockdown had spread to cities across Italy, until the entire nation was placed on lockdown on March 9. By April 2020, more than half the world’s population—some 3.9 billion people—had been placed under lockdown.

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Here Is What Stagflation Looks Like

David Stockman / August 4, 2022 / Economics / 5 minute read

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It’s the reason why the real economy is faltering and stagflation has become embedded: To wit, the gains in nominal income are being more than eaten up by soaring prices, paving the way for the worst bout of high inflation and falling real growth since the 1970s.

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Besties: Twitter, Facebook, Google, CDC, NIH, WHO

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 3, 2022 / Government, Media, Policy / 8 minute read

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The relationship between Big Tech – and all aspiring reporters and enterprises – is very clearly complex, and elusive of ideological categorization. It is also corrupt, exploitative of the interests of the people, and at odds with the interest of Enlightenment values. How can freedom stand a chance when it is so viciously squeezed between the controlling interest groups, who are the powerful in society? They believe they are the lords and we are the peasants.

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