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A Big Picture Look at the Disastrous Public Health Response to COVID-19

David Bell / October 14, 2022 / History, Public Health / 14 minute read

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The global response to the coronavirus pandemic has revealed an ethical crisis in public health, in which the pre-pandemic norms of public health ethics have been cast aside. This has wrecked health, human rights and economies, whilst the people public health was supposed to serve it had to pay for its implementation, and will pay for its harms. It will be a long way back, and recovery will require public health to return to its servant nature, and leave the limelight where it caused such disaster.

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Why Your Mask Came from China

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 14, 2022 / History, Policy / 8 minute read

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There is a strange way in which US lockdowns and disease panic miraculously healed the US/China trade rift that had been developing for the two years prior. Most “personal protective equipment” and especially masks used during the lockdown period in the US was imported from China in a deal between Trump and Xi, brokered by Trump’s son-in-law. Trade recovered, beginning with pandemic-related goods.

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New York City’s Hospitals Were Not Overwhelmed in Spring 2020

Jessica Hockett / October 13, 2022 / History, Public Health / 2 minute read

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No one denies that thousands of New Yorkers died needlessly in March – May 2020. Now we know it wasn’t because the city’s ERs were overrun.

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Australia Will Not Move On Until There Is Justice

Richard Kelly / October 13, 2022 / History, Society / 9 minute read

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We’re already seeing prominent perpetrators and collaborators claiming to have, and to have always had, reservations about what happened. They are trying to create for themselves a revisionist backstory that absolves them from their abominable conduct. These perpetrators and collaborators cannot be redeemed without confession. That they must be forgiven is not in question, but apologies to and restitution for their victims are essential.

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The Quarantine of Healthy Populations

Aaron Kheriaty / October 11, 2022 / History, Public Health / 14 minute read

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From the lepers in the Old Testament to the Plague of Justinian in Ancient Rome to the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, covid represents the first time ever in the history of managing pandemics that we quarantined healthy populations.

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Why Did Covid Cause Thousands of Deaths in Spring 2020 Even Though it Had Been Hanging Around All Winter?

Will Jones / October 10, 2022 / History / 9 minute read

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There is now no shortage of evidence that the coronavirus had begun spreading undetected all over the world by autumn 2019 at the latest. So why did the virus suddenly become much more infectious in February 2020; why did it go from circulating at a low level alongside flu and other viruses to displacing them and infecting a relatively large proportion of the population in a space of weeks?

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How Many People Did Ventilators and Iatrogenesis Kill in April 2020?

Michael Senger / October 7, 2022 / History / 10 minute read

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The importance of further study into the actual causes of excess deaths in spring 2020 and the source of the guidance that led to them can’t be overstated.

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Churches During Lockdowns: Near Disaster

Sarah Hinlicky Wilson / October 5, 2022 / History, Law, Philosophy / 14 minute read

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The compassion-hacking of American churches did not in itself save anyone’s life, but it did help to break down another civil-society barrier standing in the way of governmental totalization. As Hannah Arendt warned us, authoritarian and totalitarian schemes do not work without mass buy-in from the constituency. Buy-in requires people to be isolated, lonely, atomized, and stripped of all meaning.

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Timeline on the UK Response: Open-Source Project

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Tom Jefferson / October 4, 2022 / History / 2 minute read

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We have asked for readers’ help to build a freely available timeline of the six critical decision timepoints with links to primary documents underpinning policies. Over the coming months, we shall review some of these documents and explain the main issues. Others may do the same too.

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Fauci has Awarded Peter Daszak of EcoHealth Another $650,000 to Study Bat Coronaviruses

Michael Senger / October 3, 2022 / History, Policy / 4 minute read

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Despite every one of our highest-level officials publicly sharing their concern over the possible lab origin of this virus which, they say, has killed countless millions of people all over the world and justified a state of emergency going on three years, our government just granted the man whose research may have led to the emergence of that virus another $650,000 to conduct more of that research.

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The 70 Seconds that Shook the World

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 2, 2022 / History, Policy / 6 minute read

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Everything followed from that brief moment: lockdown chaos, the closed schools and churches, the end of basic rights, the wrecking of business, and then began the spending, inflating, mad welfare checks, and the demoralization of the population that continues to this day.

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Nashville’s Lockdown Czar Tries to Defend Himself, Sort Of

Matt Malkus / September 29, 2022 / History, Law, Public Health / 17 minute read

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Paying lip service to equity by merely acknowledging its existence and actually doing something to address it are two different things. Jahangir and other city leaders have done plenty of the former.

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