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Why is Rhode Island Still Irrationally Targeting School Children with “Masking and Testing” Policies?

Andrew Bostom / September 14, 2023 / Government, Masks / 8 minute read

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One of the consistent mercies of the SARS-CoV-2 “covid-19 pandemic,” even at its most virulent initial stages, has been the paucity of serious disease in children generally, and healthy children, universally. Covid-19 always was and remains a very highly age- and comorbid risk-stratified disease that targets the extremely frail elderly—especially those in congregate care—and the otherwise middle-aged to elderly with multiple (for example, ≥ 6!), severe, chronic comorbidities.

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The Renewed Injunction Neglects the Power of the Intelligence Community

Brownstone Institute / September 13, 2023 / Government / 6 minute read

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The Fifth Circuit failed to acknowledge the critical role the intelligence community played in the Covid response and the assault on the Bill of Rights. By reinstating agencies’ power to partner with groups designed to circumvent the First Amendment, the Court risks the continued erosion of First Amendment freedoms under public-private totalitarianism.

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Never Again

John Tamny / September 11, 2023 / Government, Policy, Society / 3 minute read

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During what government deems crisis, it’s those most willing and eager to flout convention and expert opinion who produce crucial information for the rest of us. If living freely results in sickness and death, then we all know what not to do. But if as was the case with the coronavirus that living freely wasn’t much of a risk at all except for the already very old and already very sick, then those who didn’t flout convention and expert opinion have the information necessary to alter their lifestyles with the information created by the rebellious.

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Anthony Fauci’s Very Bad Week

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 7, 2023 / Government, History, Public Health / 8 minute read

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Despite Fauci’s wishes, the most extreme aspects of lockdowns gradually faded away in time, most anointed experts can pretend as if the vaccine ended the worst aspects of the pandemic (that’s why the mandates became necessary, if only to maximize uptake and confound the science), and Fauci keeps going on national television, despite his age and wealth, to dial back his responsibility for any aspect of it, including the lockdowns he is on record backing from February 26, 2020, onward.

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Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds Scrubs Her Lockdown Record

Kathleen Sheridan / September 2, 2023 / Government, History / 3 minute read

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Some of us who rejected all the unlawful nonsense, who were never fooled by any of these fools, who never cooperated and gave up all – remain unfooled – even when the likes of a Kim Reynolds attempt to rewrite history.

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J. Edgar Lysenko: A Suitable Name for Anthony Fauci

Thomas Buckley / August 31, 2023 / Government, History / 11 minute read

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History is written by the winners and – at this moment in time – Fauci is on the side of the winners and his public image is unblemished, as is his civil and criminal record. His halo of kindly omnipotence remains largely intact. But as we move forward, the winners may change.

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Is McKinsey & Company Part of the Deep State?

Toby Rogers / August 30, 2023 / Economics, Government / 14 minute read

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The administrative state is horrible and it deserves to be called out. The next President can and should cut the administrative state in half (one could do so with no loss in services). But reading When McKinsey Comes to Town I realized that management consultants likely make up a larger share of the deep state than bureaucrats.

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Are We Facing Lockdowns 2.0?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 29, 2023 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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Lockdowns were the most successful state/corporate policy in world history for convincing the population to give up volition, liberty, and money to the biomedical cartels and all its associated parts. Something that is this monstrously successful for them becomes a model for the future, which they try and try until the population gets utterly and completely sick of it, as they did with the religious wars of old.

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How My Views on Government Have Changed

Aaron Hertzberg / August 27, 2023 / Government / 8 minute read

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The government tried to dehumanize unvaccinated people, and largely succeeded according to polling showing that a significant percentage of people if not outright majorities held a variety of shocking views about unvaccinated people including that they are selfish; stupid; a danger to society; should be forcibly confined to their homes; have their children taken away; and be relocated to “quarantine facilities.” A considerable plurality of vaccinated people, in a word, overtly despised the unvaccinated.

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Long Covid Is the New AIDS

Steve Templeton / August 27, 2023 / Government, Public Health / 6 minute read

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If everything can be blamed on Long COVID, then nothing can be blamed on Long COVID. It’s all confirmation studies from here on out. But since the COVID pandemic has ended and HIV continues to threaten at-risk populations without access to medicine, the actual need for HIV research will remain greater, while concerns about Long COVID among the public will fade.

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The Great Game of Let’s Pretend

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 25, 2023 / Government, Media, Society / 7 minute read

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It’s a very strange time in American political history, no doubt. We have one line of thinking sweeping through the population – which is based on mass incredulity and fury – and then another which is a veneer of normalcy that is slathered on top of our anger by all official institutions, which work hard to keep all these topics out of respectable conversations. Meanwhile, the whole of academic, mainstream social media, major mainstream media, and all of government seems to agree that all these obvious topics are too incendiary to be raised in polite company.

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In New Interview, Fauci Defends Lockdowns and Forced Shots

Jordan Schachtel / August 23, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy / 2 minute read

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Recently retired government bureaucrat Anthony Fauci just appeared at a university virtual event titled, “Pandemic Lessons and Role of Faculty in Pandemic Preparedness with Dr. Anthony Fauci.” During the conversation, Fauci, who is now affiliated with Georgetown University, made it clear that he still supports locking down society in the name of a virus, adding that lockdowns are a great tool to forcibly “vaccinate” people.

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