School is more restrictive than ever, and many of the schools’ facades resemble Juvenile Detention Centers. Playtime has been watered down and any dangerous games removed. At home, it is nearly impossible to find any children playing outside without supervision.
Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children Continue Reading
Tufekci and Howard played a decisive role in affecting this vast shift in scientific guidance that so intimately affected the lives of every American, which the Cochrane review has now shown to have afforded no benefit at the population level, for dubious reasons such as “shaping new societal norms.” Throughout COVID, Tufekci pushed false information and harmful policies that were far afield of her expertise based on information from China, despite knowing such information was unreliable, without ever admitting or apologizing for the errors once the harms became manifest.
How Zeynep Tufekci and Jeremy Howard Masked America Continue Reading
The Cultural Revolution was initiated by Mao Zedong as an attempt to regain political power. It ended when Mao died in 1976. The American one has a much more complicated background.
The Covid Response Brought the Cultural Revolution to the West Continue Reading
When Covid-19 came along, Laura Dodsworth grew alarmed—not at the virus, but at the fear swirling around it. She watched the fear grow legs and wings and wrap itself around her country. What troubled her most was that her government, historically charged with keeping people calm during times of crisis, seemed to be amplifying the fear. The media, which she had expected to push back against government edicts, gave the fear train an extra shove.
It All Began with Fear Continue Reading
Africa is at risk of getting the worst of both worlds: failure to check the epidemic and failure to check economic collapse. Why? Most African countries lack the administrations and health systems to implement “test, isolate, treat, and trace” regimes.
Pandemic in Africa: Lessons and Strategies Continue Reading
The medical experts and these Task Forces have been wrong. Every decision has proven disastrous and they have caused far greater suffering and death from the collateral effects of the lockdowns and restrictions. Medical experts who inform governments should broaden the advisement table and allow other voices to be heard. Allow other scientists and lay persons a seat at the table for as it stands, those currently at the table have only made illogical, irrational, unscientific, nonsensical, often absurd and even reckless decisions that have only hurt lives.
Twenty Steps to End the Madness Continue Reading
We can never again allow a ruling class to exercise such brutality against the people. It has not ended well for the lockdowners and mandators. They are perhaps now beginning to realize that they are not the authors of history. We are. Everyone is.
The War We’ve Lived and the Birth of the New Continue Reading
“Endemicity” is not a word that rolls off the vernacular tongue. Still, its new prominence in the halls of governments around the world is a huge ray of hope. It means that governments have at long last begun to regard the pathogen as potentially a manageable part of our world. The
The Astonishing Failure of Government Virus Control Continue Reading
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.
The Confinement of the Healthy Continue Reading
The end of the pandemic is primarily a social and political decision.Since we have no technology to eradicate the virus, we must learn to live with it. The fear-based lockdown policies of the past two years are no template for a healthy society.
We Cannot Stop the Spread of COVID, But We Can End the Pandemic Continue Reading
