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What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 17, 2023 / Economics, History, Society / 6 minute read

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Think of totalitarian societies like in The Hunger Games, with a District One and everyone else, or perhaps the old Soviet Union in which the party elites dined in luxury and everyone else stood in bread lines, or perhaps a scene from Oliver! in which the owners of the orphanage got fat while the kids in the workhouse lived on gruel until they could escape to live in the underground economy. It appears that the pandemic planners think of society the same way.

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Evil In Our Time: Naomi Wolf on the Covid Response

Thorsteinn Siglaugsson / July 6, 2022 / Philosophy / 9 minute read

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The Bodies of Others is a personal, deeply empathic and excellently written tribute to the innermost layer of freedom, the very core that defines us as human beings. Or in Naomi Wolf’s own words: “The object of this spiritual battle? It seemed to be for nothing short of the human soul.”

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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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Technocratic Dystopia Is Impossible

Robert Blumen / January 17, 2023 / Economics, Policy / 16 minute read

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Grand utopias cannot be realized because, while imagination is unconstrained reality has limits. What is a dystopia other than the role of an NPC in someone else’s utopia? In this case, the utopia is the dream of psychotic elites who imagine that they can have the end products of mass cooperation without the open society that enables it. Much damage can be done in the attempt, but it is only a question of how far it can get before it cancels itself.

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February 27, 2020: The Lockdown Plan Goes Public

Debbie Lerman / March 11, 2024 / History, Media, Public Health / 16 minute read

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As the “novel coronavirus” spread throughout the world in the early months of 2020, two diametrically opposed responses to such a virus were in play: The public health response, which was initially followed everywhere except China, involved telling the public not to panic, wash hands, and stay home when sick. This was standard protocol for a novel flu-like virus. Behind the scenes, the biodefense-industrial-complex was gearing up for a bioterrorism response: quarantine-until-vaccine.

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The Rise and Rhetoric of the Climate Chicken Littles

Roger Koops / August 4, 2023 / Government, Philosophy / 35 minute read

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Our planet is a very complex set of ecosystems that have lifespans far beyond even human existence, some working together and some in competition. Most of these we have not even begun to understand and we have only begun to collect data. Our knowledge of our ecosystem history is only slowly gaining (and it is not aided by avoiding debate and cherry-picking data).

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Othering Unvaccinated Persons

Jared McBrady / January 10, 2022 / Law, Policy, Society / 5 minute read

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This is a warning call. We have seen these conditions before, and we have seen where they lead. Turn back now – that way leads to darkness.

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Conspiracy Theorists Were Right About Climate Lockdowns

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / January 22, 2024 / Government, Policy / 6 minute read

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What was Dictator Hochul’s, I mean Governor Hochul’s, reason for this lockdown of close to one million New Yorkers that live in Erie County? It was going to Snow!

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China’s Culpability for Lockdowns Does Not Depend on the Lab Leak Theory

Michael Senger / June 9, 2022 / Media / 5 minute read

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Part of the problem is that much of the evidence refuting the lab leak theory comes from scientists on the political left, who’ve so thoroughly debased themselves on this subject. It’s testament to the CCP’s dark sense of humor—riddled throughout the response to Covid—that they were able to convince the left it was woke to support the even-more-ridiculous theory that Covid came from some poor Chinese shopkeepers in Wuhan’s Huanan market selling pangolins.

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No Holy Communion for the Sick, They Said

John Lincoln Downie / September 8, 2022 / Law, Philosophy / 9 minute read

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When a person is dying or in danger of death, this is the moment when their religion is most dear to them. It is not within the hospital’s jurisdiction to decide when you can or can’t confess your sins, receive Holy Communion and prepare to meet your maker. This abhorrent practice of refusing entrance to clergy must stop now.

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