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Retrospectives and Reviews of Pandemic Countermeasures

Michael Tomlinson / December 7, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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In response to this hypothetical scenario, governments panicked, ignored their own pandemic preparedness plans and adopted high-risk strategies that imposed restrictions on individual liberty never seen before. These countermeasures caused major harms and collateral damage, including loss of lives from delayed medical care and the medium-term aftereffects of increased unemployment and increased extreme poverty (for example the World Bank found that ‘the pandemic led to 97 million more people being in [extreme] poverty in 2020’).

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What the US Can Learn From Elections in India

Ramesh Thakur / December 6, 2022 / Policy / 7 minute read

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A Rasmussen poll near the end of September found that 84 percent of Americans expressed concern about election integrity in the imminent congressional elections. By a 62-36 majority, they held eliminating “cheating in elections” to be more important than “making it easier for everyone to vote.”

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The Absurdity of Lockdowners Who Support China’s Anti-Lockdown Protests

Michael Senger / December 5, 2022 / Media, Policy, Society / 6 minute read

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Xi Jinping sees the concepts of democracy and human rights as mere propaganda that western elites use to further their own self-interest. So long as they approve of a policy, then it’s not a human rights violation, but if they oppose it, then it is.

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We Need Mass Resignations

Eric Hussey / December 5, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy / 7 minute read

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Pick your reason for the current outrage: stupidity, ignorance, or craving for power. Any of those should disqualify these people from serving in any capacity related to or associated with public health. Consideration should also be given to firing those who put these people into positions to cause suffering in those they were ostensibly hired to protect.

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Canada: A Gruesome, Terrifying Culture of Death

Laura Rosen Cohen / December 1, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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Trudeau’s demonizing and crushing of the Canadian truckers’ convoy and invoking the Emergency Measures Act against Canadian citizens for daring to dissent with his Corona tyranny, in conjunction with his ridiculous performance on the world stage are all signs of shamelessness, decadence, and deep moral decay.

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Chinese protest the CCP covid lockdown policies

Chinese Rise Up Against Lockdowns that Elites Advocated in the US

Michael Senger / November 28, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Countless people have been censored for the mere suggestion that we may need an inquiry into why all these elites suddenly felt it appropriate to advise their countries to adopt one of the CCP’s most ruthlessly totalitarian policies.

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Fauci’s 7-Hour Deposition: What We Know So far

Brownstone Institute / November 27, 2022 / Law, Policy / 10 minute read

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We have here a revealing account of astonishing testimony from Fauci, which, to those of us who have followed this case closely from the very beginning, is only shocking because it confirms the fullness of the treachery we have long suspected was at the very heart of the US lockdown experience. We also have confirmed that the phrase “social distancing” really is nothing but a euphemism for a China-style full assault on everything we once called freedom in the West.

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Some Blunt Observations on a Trump Candidacy

Ramesh Thakur / November 25, 2022 / Policy / 6 minute read

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By contrast to Trump, after an initial but mercifully brief embrace of lockdown, DeSantis created Florida as a refuge of sanity in a world gone Covid-crazy. As Michael Senger notes, his victory is a huge win for the anti-lockdown cause.

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Time to Unmask the Truth

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Paul Elias Alexander / November 25, 2022 / Law, Masks, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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It is astounding hypocrisy to recommend that young children wear masks in their own homes, then go maskless at an indoor crowded event a few days later. Health officials must immediately provide policy-level evidence of the direct benefit of masking to kids themselves or be willing to defend their misguided and harmful advice in a debate. Please embrace informed consent and patient autonomy, stop allowing our children to be used as pawns in militaryfear propaganda, and as adult COVID-19 shields.

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The Bad Science of Choral Singing Bans Due to Covid

Toby Young / November 23, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 3 minute read

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Readers will recall the ban on singing of all kinds during the lockdowns and even after they were lifted because singing was supposedly a ‘transmission risk’. Turns out, this typical piece of Covid hysteria was based on a flawed study.

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The CDC as We Know It Has to Go

Brant Hadaway / November 23, 2022 / Government, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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The CDC should stop treating us like we are stupid. Give us the data – all of the data, not just cherry-picked data – to allow us to make informed decisions about how to conduct our lives.

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The Dangers of the Biden Pandemic Plan

Jayanta Bhattacharya / November 16, 2022 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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Each of these cut corners has since created policy controversies and uncertainty that better trials would have avoided. Because of the pressure to produce a vaccine within 130 days, President Biden’s pandemic plan will likely force randomized trials on future vaccines to cut the same corners. This policy effectively guarantees that lockdowns will return to the U.S. in the event of a new pandemic.

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