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The Truth About Tyranny

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 16, 2021 / Economics, History, Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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Any regime that wants to stay in power needs to know this secret to hegemony: the desire to cleanse society of the enemy is what compels compliance. Every tyranny in history has depended on recruits to its own ranks from within the culture. They believe the lie knowing full well that it is a lie. The lie allows them to participate in the purge. They become the willing executioners. It’s been true throughout history, regardless of the particular and shifting desiderata of the despotism of the moment.

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How Close Is Total Social and Economic Collapse?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 15, 2021 / Economics, Policy, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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How does all this end? It doesn’t end. History rolls forward in the current direction of decline so long as no one is there to stand athwart it and yell stop and reverse course. How bad must it get before human rationality and reason take over from political egos and careerist duplicity? We are going to find out in the next 12 months. It’s going to be a very long winter, as two weeks to flatten the curve gradually and painfully turns into three years of remarkable and wholly preventable wreckage.

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The Greatest Failure in the History of Public Health: The Case for the Prosecution

Michael Tomlinson / October 15, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 17 minute read

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Governments got it all wrong. They should have chosen the mitigation strategy all along, leaving the management of pathogens to actual medical professionals who deal with individuals and their problems rather than push a central plan hatched by computer scientists, political leaders, and their advisors..

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Is This Becoming a General Strike?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 13, 2021 / Economics, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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We had better hope and pray that the anger against the government and the ruling class does not ultimately turn against the free economy itself. In order for that not to happen, the intellectual opposition to the current regime needs to get its thinking straight, give up its old habits, see the current struggle for what it is, and start celebrating the freedom of everyone.

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Medical Nonconformity and Its Persecution

Logan Albright / October 13, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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This is why we need the freedom to make our own decisions on matters of personal health and safety. Otherwise, those who are so certain that their opinion is the correct one that they are willing to use coercive force to impose it on others run the risk of looking as foolish (and evil) as the witch hunters and eugenicists of generations past.

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No, House of Commons Committee, the UK Did Not Lock Down Too Late. It Should Never Have Locked Down At All.

Toby Young / October 12, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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This is a pretty feeble report that seems to have been written with an eye on getting Jeremy Hunt and Greg Clark – the chairs of the two select committees involved – on the BBC news rather than making a serious contribution to understanding what the Government got right and what it got wrong over the past 18 months.

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When Vaccines Are Mandated, Who Bears the Liability?

Scott Morefield / October 12, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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Should employees who suffer adverse side effects after being coerced into taking the shot by their employer claim worker’s compensation? Absolutely they should, and they generally will be on solid ground.

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The Problem With Science Is Scientists

Steve Templeton / October 11, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 9 minute read

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The overwhelming desire of a terrified public for evidence of interventions that effectively eliminate the risk of infection will inevitably pressure scientists to provide that evidence. Ideally, an acknowledgement of this bias would result in increased skepticism from other scientists and media outlets, but that hasn’t happened

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Natural Immunity and Covid-19: Thirty Scientific Studies to Share with Employers, Health Officials, and Politicians

Brownstone Institute / October 10, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 18 minute read

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Individuals whose livelihoods and liberties are being deprecated and deleted need access to the scientific literature as it pertains to this virus. They should send a link to this page far and wide. The scientists have not been silent; they just haven’t received the public attention they deserve.

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Human Shields: The Public-Health War on Children

Todd Porter / October 10, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Children have now lost two years of progress in educational basics, and that is the least of it. They have been systematically trained in germaphobic paranoia to treat their peers and adults as pathogenic disease carriers whose presence is a threat rather than blessing. They have faced the demoralization that comes with constantly changing rules, instability of both home life and education, seen their houses of worship closed, and been coerced into a tedious life of endless screen time that is devoid of human warmth.

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Labor Markets: Bruised, Battered, and Broken by Lockdowns and Mandates

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 9, 2021 / Economics, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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It’s tremendously sad to see a whole nation slip so far so fast into decline, as evidenced by the latest labor-market data that has profoundly impacted the most vulnerable. It is easily reversible but we seem to lack the wisdom and courage that would be required to turn this around.

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One Big Data Error Kicked Off this Crisis

Joel Hirschhorn / October 8, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 13 minute read

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You may find it hard to believe that one big mistake (or lie, more precisely) could have created all the pandemic controls, especially lockdowns, school closings and quarantines, that devastated our lives, our economy and our society. But it happened.

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