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The Covid Morass: An Academic and Mother Asks Questions

Genevieve Newton / October 7, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 57 minute read

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We have already seen many instances during the Covid pandemic where despite assurances to the contrary, things did not evolve as expected. It seems clear that we simply don’t know what is going to happen next, or what the consequences of our actions and choices will be. What is perhaps most troubling is that this acknowledgement has been almost completely absent from the rhetoric of our leaders and decision makers. It does not show ignorance or weakness to be honest about this reality, it shows wisdom and discernment.

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The Bias that Creates the Illusion of an Effective Covid Vaccine

Eyal Shahar / June 27, 2023 / Pharma, Society, Vaccines / 6 minute read

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How could Covid vaccines have been highly effective in the frail and elderly? They were not. To understand why, we have to struggle with complicated biases in observational studies because we don’t have randomized trials with a mortality endpoint.

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More Than 400 Studies on the Failure of Compulsory Covid Interventions (Lockdowns, Restrictions, Closures)

Paul Elias Alexander / November 30, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 176 minute read

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What follows is the current totality of the body of evidence (available comparative studies and high-level pieces of evidence, reporting, and discussion) on COVID-19 lockdowns, masks, school closures, and mask mandates. There is no conclusive evidence supporting claims that any of these restrictive measures worked to reduce viral transmission or deaths. Lockdowns were ineffective, school closures were ineffective, mask mandates were ineffective, and masks themselves were and are ineffective and harmful.

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How Did U.S. Intelligence Spot the Virus in Wuhan Weeks Before China?

Will Jones / December 21, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 15 minute read

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It’s hard not to wonder: what if releasing the virus in China to disrupt the country and see how the world responds could have been some hare-brained scheme cooked up in the deeper recesses of the U.S. biosecurity state?

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Modern Orthodox Judaism Failed to be Either Modern or Orthodox During Covid

Etan Golubtchik / July 7, 2023 / Philosophy / 17 minute read

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Modern Orthodox Rabbinic leadership, both in the US and in Israel, were some of the earliest and most dedicated to the warped scientific framework and extralegal approach underlying obedience to the new rules of covid enforcement. Indeed, early on, the Rabbinical Council of Bergen County was one of the first religious institutions in the country to voluntarily cancel all religious services, claiming that Jews were religiously required to stay home, well before any government edicts were issued.

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How a Highly Effective Vaccine Turns Into a Mediocre Vaccine — or Worse

Eyal Shahar / July 10, 2023 / Vaccines / 10 minute read

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The implication of the “healthy vaccinee” phenomenon — when estimating vaccine effectiveness — is called confounding bias. A naïve comparison of Covid mortality in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people, even if age-adjusted, is grossly misleading because the latter have higher risk of death to begin with. At least part of their higher Covid mortality, if not all, has nothing to do with not being vaccinated. They are simply sicker people.

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Get a New Covid Shot? The Evidence Suggests Otherwise

Eyal Shahar / September 5, 2023 / Public Health, Vaccines / 13 minute read

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Taking a new Covid shot every winter has no empirical basis. The burden of proving effectiveness against death squarely rests on public health officials and anything short of a double-blind, placebo-controlled randomized trial is unacceptable. And that applies to the flu shot as well.

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The Shredded Social Contract

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 17, 2023 / Government, Society / 8 minute read

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If we really are looking at something along the lines of 1914, history should absolutely record what immediately preceded these awful days. Governments of the world turned vast resources and attention to the grand project of unprecedented scope: the universal mastery of the microbial kingdom.

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Lockdowns Fail: They Do Not Control the Virus

Brownstone Institute / July 15, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 29 minute read

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The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real-time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The question is whether and to what extent lockdowns worked.

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State Power and Covid Crimes: Part 2

Ramesh Thakur / January 3, 2023 / Government, Policy, Vaccines / 11 minute read

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How anyone can look at the Covid vaccination and mortality metrics of New Zealand, Australia, and Japan and still hold fast to the ‘safe and effective’ vaccine narrative is beyond comprehension. Instead, one more initially plausible hypothesis is that the behaviour of the virus is Covid vaccine-invariant, and a second hypothesis is that the vaccine may actually be driving infections, serious illness and deaths by some mysterious mechanism not yet identified by scientists – although some studies are starting to point the way.

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