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No Way Was the Huanan Market the Epicenter of Covid

Michael Senger / September 7, 2022 / History, Public Health / 5 minute read

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There’s something rotten in the state of virology. The study performed by these leading virologists, who’ve been dead centre in the Covid saga from the earliest secret calls about the virus in early 2020, is entirely reliant on a critical assumption that an early cluster of cases around the Huanan Market in Wuhan in December 2019 represented “the earliest known 174 COVID-19 cases in the world”—an assumption which is belied by an overwhelming amount of replicable, peer-reviewed evidence to the contrary.

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Debi Does Lockdowns

Debbie Lerman / September 7, 2022 / History, Policy, Society / 12 minute read

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Each anti-scientific, non-public-health measure in itself – e.g., universal cloth masking, testing and quarantining after the virus was widespread, focusing on cases instead of hospitalizations or deaths – was not intended to achieve anything, except the singular goal of fomenting massive fear. And the purpose of the fear was to ensure maximum compliance with lockdowns.

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Religious Individuals Versus Collectivist Control

Bruce W. Davidson / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 5 minute read

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One significant gift of Judaism and Christianity is the concept that an individual is responsible and valuable apart from the group. As Larry Siedentop explains in his book Inventing the Individual, Western civilization’s moral and legal foundations owe a great deal to that legacy. Before that, the ancient Romans and Greeks considered loyalty to the family-clan to be an absolute religious duty.

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Frankenstein Was the Foreshadowing

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 5, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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We keep doing this, gathering the raw material, going back to the lab, hooking up the idea to the power source, throwing the switch, and experiencing shock and regret at the results. Our modern monsters aren’t isolated threats; they are killing freedom the world over.

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Fauci’s Red Guards: The Mass Censoring of Social Media

Michael Senger / September 3, 2022 / Censorship, History, Media / 7 minute read

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By simultaneously threatening both the federal bureaucracy and social media companies, a handful of high-level officials could effectively transform the federal government into a sprawling censorship army reminiscent of Mao’s Red Guards, silencing any opposition to tin-pot public health policies with increasing detachment and certitude as this systematic silencing falsely convinced them that the regime’s policies were just and good.

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The History and Meaning of Schedule F: Interview with James Sherk

Brownstone Institute / September 3, 2022 / History, Policy / 1 minute of reading

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The struggle against the administrative state – the permanent professional bureaucracy that exercises awesome power without accountability to voters – is among the most formidable of our time.

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Cold War Nostalgia Explained

Jeffrey A. Tucker / September 2, 2022 / History, Society / 8 minute read

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With lockdowns and the current political and economic chaos, the global empire has come home to oppress us all in the most personal possible way. We now read tales of life in the Soviet Union and we recognize it all too well. We read 1984 by George Orwell and recognize it in our own experience. This is not what winning the Cold War was supposed to mean.

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Covid was Spreading Across the U.S. in 2019

Bill Rice / August 31, 2022 / History, Public Health / 15 minute read

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The antibody evidence strongly suggests the novel coronavirus was being transmitted person-to-person throughout the United States well before January 1st 2020, and was probably occurring by October 2019.

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It Was Birx. All Birx.

Debbie Lerman / August 31, 2022 / History, Law, Public Health / 19 minute read

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The only way to make sense of these contradictions within Birx’s narrative and between her, Atlas and Pottinger’s stories, is if we understand “align with us” and “our recommendations” to refer not to the perceived Birx-Fauci-Redfield troika, but to the Birx-Pottinger-lab leak cabal that was actually running the show.

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The Psychology of Totalitarianism

Mattias Desmet / August 30, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Society / 14 minute read

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A new totalitarianism is emerging in our society. Not a communist or fascist totalitarianism but a technocratic totalitarianism. A kind of totalitarianism that is not led by “a gang leader” such as Stalin or Hitler but by dull bureaucrats and technocrats. As always, a certain part of the population will resist and won’t fall prey to the mass formation.

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Social Distancing Was Supposed to Be Forever

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 29, 2022 / History, Philosophy / 7 minute read

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Social distancing was not really about preserving hospital capacity and it was not just about two weeks. It was really about the complete reconstruction of social life itself, critiqued as pathogenetic starting 12,000 years ago, with Covid as only the latest example of the costs of free association.

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What I Heard and Saw: Dr. Paul Alexander Speaks

Brownstone Institute / August 26, 2022 / History, Media, Public Health / 1 minute of reading

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Paul Alexander tells his story. We can only urge readers to spend the time to listen because nothing we write here can adequately summarize what he saw and heard.

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