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Florida Still Stands Alone

Steve Templeton / February 18, 2024 / Government, History, Masks / 7 minute read

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Florida might be the only state investigating the truth about the U.S. Covid response, but it’s still important that these efforts continue. The actions of the grand jury, the integrity committee, the surgeon general, and the governor might provide only a spotlight on the systemic problems and corruption of U.S. public agencies. But it’s a necessary one. Even if people of all political persuasions don’t want to hear the truth, and try to bury it, throw it into a volcano, or shoot it into the sun, it’s still the truth, waiting for a chance to be seen, heard, spoken, and believed once again.

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‘Experts’ Continue to Spread Misinformation

Ian Miller / February 17, 2024 / Masks, Media, Policy / 6 minute read

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Their proposed changes center around very basic guidance on isolation due to a Covid infection. You’d think that a very mild alteration to a policy so small would be widely celebrated, considering most members of the general public have long since abandoned isolation guidelines anyway. But that assumption rests on a misguided understanding of how committed Covid extremists are to pushing endless panic. And some of those extremists happen to work at The New York Times.

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Another Variant, Another Desperate Cry for Masks

Ian Miller / February 12, 2024 / History, Masks / 7 minute read

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Those who were responsible for incalculable damage will continue to skate scot free, while the cycle of unnecessary panic, inaccurate predictions, and the call for more masking rears its ugly head every few months as new variants emerge. Although it’s frustratingly predictable and infuriatingly obvious, best to prepare for a whole lot more of it.

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Art’s Beauty and Outrage

Charles Krblich / January 8, 2024 / History, Masks, Society / 8 minute read

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All the complexities, contradictions, and riddles of human nature were present and still unresolved under the iconic contrapposto shadow of a statue symbolizing liberation and strength. There we were, admiring our age’s beauty and outrage, purposefully displayed by a wealthy former clown who ran a circus and built a city. Life really is the “Greatest Show on Earth.”

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The Big Fail…Failed: A Review

Mark Oshinskie / January 5, 2024 / Government, History, Masks / 8 minute read

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Ultimately, the authors properly observe that the lockdowns made no sense and that closing schools hurt kids badly. But this should have been foreseen from Day 1. What were the Big Fail’s authors, their employer—The New York Times—and similarly-situated others saying 45 months ago, when it mattered?

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New Study Confirms CDC and Other ‘Experts’ Hurt Children for Nothing

Ian Miller / December 13, 2023 / Masks, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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As often discussed, in a sane world, this systematic review would permanently shut the door on further discussions of forced child masking. Higher quality research has confirmed that there is no evidence masks are effective and eliminating bias and confounders unsurprisingly shows the same result with children.

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Did Cochrane’s Masks Study Get it Wrong?

Maryanne Demasi / December 8, 2023 / Masks, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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“Forcing people to wear masks has been a failure of public health. The reason we are still having the mask debate is because authorities relied on trash studies to justify their use, and wanted to appear as if they were doing something. In a crisis, it is always more difficult to do nothing,” Gøtzsche said.

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None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked at Schools Again

Ian Miller / November 24, 2023 / Education, Masks, Public Health / 5 minute read

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New York City government’s worldview demands an unending alliance with “The Science™,” despite the “experts” involved in creating it being summarily discredited. Acknowledging that they misled the public would remove their unearned sense of superiority and obsessive dedication to pretending that progressive political views are “science” based.

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Ten Examples Where Experts Were Wrong

Steve Templeton / September 23, 2023 / Masks, Media, Public Health, Vaccines / 24 minute read

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Unfortunately, many of these examples are not becoming outdated. Mask mandates have returned in some places, including schools, despite no high-quality supporting evidence. Same for COVID vaccine booster recommendations for healthy people under 65. Many European countries, including Denmark, have altered their recommendations based on careful risk/benefit analyses. Once again, although it would seem obvious that U.S. leaders should have followed suit, that didn’t happen.

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Mask Up and Don’t Ask Questions

Armando Simón / September 19, 2023 / Masks / 13 minute read

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Now, for our own good, we are supposed to relive the covid fiasco, perhaps to gauge how submissive the population remains. Considering the fact that neither the overlords nor the rank-and-file Covidians were ever held accountable—not at the local level, not at the state/provincial level, not at the national level—there is a basis for their optimism.

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The Religion of Masking

Gwendolyn Kull / September 14, 2023 / Government, Masks / 8 minute read

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Masking restrictions are not a “health power” the state governments are permitted to enforce. Masking mandates are not a public health measure the federal government is permitted to sanction. Both impede life and liberty guaranteed to the People by being human and safeguarded by the People through enforcing our Constitution. As such, the People will not comply.

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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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