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The Religious Institutions Should Never Have Acquiesced to Lockdowns

Robert Freudenthal / September 8, 2021 / History, Public Health, Society / 6 minute read

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At a time of crisis, such as during a pandemic, is exactly when such institutions are even more needed than ever, and when faced with uncertainty, many seek the comfort and support of religious institutions.Yet during the pandemic and the lockdowns, religious institutions were only too willing to shut themselves down, close their doors, and therefore abandon those that depended on them.

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Lies and Tricks, Dressed Up as Science

Paul Frijters,

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker / September 7, 2021 / Economics, Philosophy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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The epidemiologists asked to advise governments almost invariably admitted that what they were advocating was only based on their projections of Covid cases and Covid deaths, devoid of any analysis of the effects these actions would have on public health, the economy, education and other important aspects of life. They nonetheless had no problem advocating lockdowns and other draconian measures.

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Covid and the Madness of Crowds

Gigi Foster,

Michael Baker,

Paul Frijters / September 6, 2021 / History, Society / 21 minute read

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Their singular obsession, emotional intensity, and size lead to crowds sometimes attaining great power and dictating directions that can change the course of history for a whole country, or even for the world. The inherent danger is that their obsession blinds them to everything else that matters in normal times.

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The Fall of Intellectual Heroism

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 5, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The case against lockdowns and state medical mandates is the obverse of the case for freedom itself. It seems unconscionable for any liberal mind to be wrong on this point. That so many have gone silent or even shown sympathy for medical despotism reveals just how tremendously confusing these times have been.

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The Dangerous Fantasy of Zero Covid

Jayanta Bhattacharya,

Donald Boudreaux / September 5, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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The costs of any eradication program are immense and must be justified before the government pursues such a goal. These costs include a sacrifice of non-health-related goods and services and other health priorities—forgone prevention and treatment of other diseases.

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The Fear Industry and the Selling of Covid Lockdowns

Gigi Foster,

Paul Frijters,

Michael Baker / September 4, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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During the Great Fear and on through the Illusion of Control phase of the Covid era, anyone who didn’t automatically go along with a new sacrifice for Covid was apt to be regarded as a dangerous heretic and quickly howled down by a baying public.

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Racial Segregation and Vaccine Passports: Ominous Parallels

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 2, 2021 / History, Public Health / 15 minute read

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Today, you won’t find people in polite society who have kind things to say about the eugenic theory of social organization, at least not in public. But as vaccine passports and their disparate impact reveal, it turns out to be strangely easy to manufacture a public health excuse – drawing on the primal fear of infection and disease – to recreate what amounts to the same structure with an excuse that is different only in its details but not in its impact on the social order.

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A Closer look at US 2020 Mortality Data

Manfred Horst / September 2, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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The increase in age-specific death rates in the younger parts of the population (15 – 54 years old) has been extraordinarily significant – it is above 20%. And one cannot even state the hypothesis (which – even if the numbers fit – would still have to be examined) that this increase is due to COVID-19: Just look at the numbers, the COVID-19 death rates in these age groups are far too small. Something else must have led to this increase in mortality in the younger population.

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Where Is the Science or Logic Behind Mandated Vaccines?

Michael Betrus / September 1, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 11 minute read

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The people at Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen and even frontline healthcare workers understand the science and data behind the vaccines better than anyone. If even a large minority of these people are reluctant or refuse to get vaccinated, it should tell us all something. COVID-19 is not a one-size-fits-all disease and should not be treated as such.

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The Great Covid Panic, by Frijters, Foster, and Baker. Available Now.

Brownstone Institute / September 1, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The Brownstone Institute is pleased to announce the impending publication of The Great Covid Panic: What Happened, Why, and What To Do Next, by Paul Frijters, Gigi Foster, and Michael Baker. Combining rigorous scholarship with evocative and accessible prose, the book covers all the issues central to the pandemic and the disastrous policy response, a narrative as comprehensive as it is intellectually devastating. In short, this is THE book the world needs right now.

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The Silence of Economists about Lockdowns

Jayanta Bhattacharya,

Mikko Packalen / August 31, 2021 / Economics / 24 minute read

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The lockdowns of Spring of 2020 were likely responsible for much more of the decline in economic activity than the consensus among economists admits.

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Australia, Where the Bloody Hell Are Ya?

Joel Bowman / August 31, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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While the credulous statist sycophants in the MSM were slobbering over Australia’s draconian curtailments of human rights throughout most of 2020, the once-proud nation was busily surrendering liberties, riding roughshod over the rule of law, trashing individual rights and trampling virtually any freedom worthy of the name.

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