Policy ⋆ Page 15 of 57 ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff

Gabrielle Bauer / February 15, 2023 / Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In the early months of the pandemic, scientists concerned about lockdowns feared “coming out” in public. The GBD partners took one for the B team and did the dirty work. They paid a heavy price for it, including the loss of some personal friendships, but they held their ground. In print, on air, and on social media, Bhattacharya continues to describe lockdowns as “the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 years,” with catastrophic health and psychological harms that will play out for a generation.

Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff Read More »

Wartime Parallels: Iraq and Covid

Ramesh Thakur / February 15, 2023 / History, Media, Policy / 6 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

First, the resort to emotional arguments and moral blackmail generally implies that they have little reasoned argument and evidence to support their case and are deflecting to bluster instead. Second, whenever we are presented with excitable exclamation marks (Saddam Hussein already has weapons of mass destruction (WMD)! He can hit us with WMD in just 45 minutes! Coronavirus could be more cataclysmic than the Spanish flu! The sky is falling!), it is a very good idea to substitute sceptical question marks instead:

Wartime Parallels: Iraq and Covid Read More »

The UK Fantasy of 510,000 Lives Lost

David Campbell,

Kevin Dowd / February 14, 2023 / History, Policy / 5 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The 510,000 figure, which turned the world on its head, was a fantasy number churned out by absurd modeling of a zero-probability event. The main way in which Mr Cummings, and in this respect he is a significantly representative figure, is going dreadfully wrong is that, when judging government policy as a response to emergency, he does not see that the reason why the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak escalated into the public policy catastrophe that it became was the fundamentally flawed Imperial College London modeling on which the government based its response.

The UK Fantasy of 510,000 Lives Lost Read More »

The Criminalization of the Ordinary

Richard Kelly / February 13, 2023 / History, Philosophy, Policy / 5 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

How can we go back to living in just one world? Was it all an illusion in the first place? Is it just that the veil has been drawn back, and now we (or I) see the true horror of reality? What took me so long? How I long for a reconciliation of those two worlds, where there is a shared understanding of truth, where we can at least confront problems together, on the same side. Until something changes, I must try to be a citizen of these two mutually exclusive worlds.

The Criminalization of the Ordinary Read More »

The Covid Coup Attacked the Right to Travel

William Spruance / February 13, 2023 / Law, Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

There was a coup d’état in this country that presented itself under the innocuous banner of “public health.” Our country’s most powerful forces – including information centers, unelected officials, and multinational corporations – worked together to unravel the protections of the Constitution. Among them was the longstanding precedent of the right to travel and its replacement by tyrannical house arrests.

The Covid Coup Attacked the Right to Travel Read More »

Inside an Australian Quarantine Camp

Bobbie Anne Flower Cox / February 12, 2023 / Policy / 8 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The food was terrible. No alcohol allowed. Cell phones and internet were allowed, at least when Jane was there. She said one woman tried to escape, but she was caught and then put into solitary confinement.

Inside an Australian Quarantine Camp Read More »

Robert Kadlec’s 20-Year Plot

Paula Jardine / February 11, 2023 / History, Policy / 6 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Robert Kadlec, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) in 2017, failed to declare a conflict of interests on his ethics forms, that in 2012 he and El-Hibri had co-founded an international biodefence company called East West Solutions LLC or that he had been employed by Emergent BioSolutions as a consultant. In September 2019, when Kadlec was ASPR and in control of the US national stockpile, Emergent BioSolutions was awarded a ten-year $2billion contract to replenish the US national stockpile of smallpox vaccine.

Robert Kadlec’s 20-Year Plot Read More »

Covid Robbers as Victims?

James Bovard / February 9, 2023 / Policy / 4 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

If Biden can shift blame for disastrous Covid policies, politicians will be more likely to pointlessly lock down the nation in the future. Americans deserve to see all the federal records and all the state government records to expose the recklessness and deceit that permeated Covid policies. America will not recover from the pandemic until all the COVID lies and abuses by officialdom have been exposed.

Covid Robbers as Victims? Read More »

Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing

W. Aaron Vandiver / February 8, 2023 / Government, Law, Policy, Society / 20 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

All signs indicate that the U.S. and other world governments want to expand the reach and control of the globalized industrial food system, further concentrating power in the largest Big Food corporations. Governments around the world are using environmental goals to forcibly shut down small farms as they promote dependence on industrial technologies and factory foods that could make climate change and other environmental problems worse.

Covid Emergency, Climate Emergency: Same Thing Read More »

An Analysis of the End of the Emergency

Robert Malone / February 7, 2023 / Law, Policy / 15 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

The widely distributed and weaponized fearporn which has driven the gross over-reaction of governments and their citizens (all over the world) was not justified. In retrospect, the global COVIDcrisis agenda and response which has devastated global economies, enabled a massive upwards transfer of wealth, and has been exploited to justify imposition of “The Great Reset” globalist agenda items cannot be justified as a credible and effective “public health” response.

An Analysis of the End of the Emergency Read More »

The Speakeasy World of Covid Lockdowns

Robert Blumen / February 7, 2023 / History, Policy / 12 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

In Speakeasy World, people were aware that they lived in a panopticon. But they realized that the one and only guard was probably checking TikTok on his mobile phone during working hours instead of surveilling prisoners. The prisoners made a calculated bet that the guard was not paying attention to their transgressions.

The Speakeasy World of Covid Lockdowns Read More »

The Continued Wrecking of New York City

Natalya Murakhver / February 6, 2023 / Policy / 4 minute read

SHARE | PRINT | EMAIL

Saddest of all, masks are still required at nursing homes, so the elderly, in their golden years, continue to be deprived of facial cues and the comfort of smiles, whether they like it or not. This means countless older adults with hearing loss, dementia and other age-related limitations have been forced to live in a faceless, isolated, masked world for nearly three years now; there’s no reason whatsoever it should be that long, yet they have little power to effect change.

The Continued Wrecking of New York City Read More »