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They Considered and Rejected Pandemic Closures in 1957

Jeffrey A. Tucker August 2, 2021 History, Public Health 8 minute read

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Newspaper reports at the time offer no record of widespread public event cancellations much less forced closures. Sometimes college and high school football games were postponed due to illness absences. Some conventions were cancelled by organizers. But that is all.

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The Lessons of North Sentinel Island: The Ill-Health of Isolation

John Tamny July 27, 2021 History, Public Health 4 minute read

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The North Sentinelese are a very real reminder of how cruelly bankrupt the run-and-hide strategy is as a broad form of virus mitiga

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A Short History of the Great Barrington Declaration

Jeffrey A. Tucker July 17, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health 8 minute read

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The Great Barrington Declaration changed everything. The negative press backfired. The scientists risked everything to write this Declaration

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An Inside Look at the Lockdown Orders from March 2020

Jeffrey A. Tucker July 10, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health 7 minute read

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We are still struggling to get back what we lost in this dreadful year, and the party in power now looks back not with horror at the results of political panic but rather with a sense of opportunity for all that might be possible in the years ahead.

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With Premonition, Michael Lewis Gets It Backwards

Jeffrey A. Tucker July 5, 2021 History, Public Health 11 minute read

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Premonition is great at characterizing lockdowner views and thus revealing what’s wrong with them, however inadvertently.

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The Purpose of Social Distancing Was Not to Wait for a Vaccine

Jeffrey A. Tucker June 19, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health 7 minute read

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It’s long past time for the pandemic central planners to level with the American people about what they were attempting and why. They did not explain then, and they have yet to explain to this day.

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Is this the Final Corruption of Liberalism?

Jeffrey A. Tucker June 17, 2021 History, Society 5 minute read

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The Achilles heel of contemporary liberalism has always been its attitude toward free economies. 55% of liberals embrace a misrepresented definition of capitalism

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Lessons Taught by the Lockdowns of 2020

Jeffrey A. Tucker June 16, 2021 Economics, History, Philosophy, Policy, Public Health 19 minute read

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“I had hoped that the fires of liberty, burning within the hearts of the American public, would have been strong enough to stop this kind of tyranny from being visited upon us. I would have predicted massive pushback, but it did not happen for a good part of the year. People were mired in fear and confusion. It felt like wartime, with a population traumatized by shock and awe.” ~ Jeffrey Tucker

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