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We Need Truth and Justice

Michael Senger / April 12, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The free world is stuck tallying the costs of its catastrophic foray into totalitarianism. Most of these costs were predicted well before the policies were ever implemented. Hundreds of millions have gone hungry. An entire generation of children has been abused and traumatized. Young people were robbed of some of their brightest years. Small businesses and those who depended on them lost their livelihoods. Trillions of dollars were transferred from the world’s poorest to its very richest.

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The Shanghai Catastrophe: Lockdown Ideology at Its Most Extreme

Jordan Schachtel / April 12, 2022 / Policy, Society / 3 minute read

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Chinese Communist Party authorities are not fazed whatsoever by the human carnage they have manifested. In media appearances Monday, CCP leaders took to doubling down on “the measures” most admired by the Public Health cartel. They remain tethered to “Zero COVID” fanaticism, defiantly declaring that living with the virus remains off the table.

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The China Model Unravels in Shanghai

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 11, 2022 / Policy / 5 minute read

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Lockdowns are nowhere a solution to pathogenic spread, contrary to the assurances of the WHO or celebrity scientists in the UK or the US. When governments of the world tried to prove their competence by declaring war on cell biology, they finally met their match. No matter how powerful a state, there are forces of nature that will always outsmart it.

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The Worship of Zero

Craig Pirrong / April 11, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy / 4 minute read

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To impose a centrally dictated objective, and a unidimensional one to boot, on complex societies comprised of billions of individuals with extremely diverse preferences and capabilities is to wage war on human nature, and humanity. Sustaining it necessarily requires the application of massive, and massively increasing, coercion. It requires people to “choose” what they would not choose of their own volition.

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The Hypocrisy of Medical Experts

Vinay Prasad / April 8, 2022 / Masks, Policy, Public Health / 2 minute read

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COVID-19 policy reveals the selfishness of adults, the indifference to kids, and the hypocrisy of medicine. It’s disgusting to witness and history will judge it poorly.

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The Global March of Folly

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Jayanta Bhattacharya / April 6, 2022 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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Politicians argued that the draconian lockdowns were needed to protect lives. From the excess-mortality data, we now know they were not. Instead, they have contributed to the enormous collateral damage that we will have to live with for many years to come. It is tragic.

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Can Elon Musk Defeat the Censors?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / April 5, 2022 / Censorship, Media, Policy / 7 minute read

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Musk’s taking some control of Twitter is a bright spot. It gives the world a brilliant example of something we’ve not seen for a very long time. It reveals how great wealth can be used to challenge power to stop doing evil. It’s just a beginning.

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This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It

Aaron Kheriaty / April 5, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Our ruling class saw in Covid an opportunity to radically revolutionize society: recall how the phrase “the new normal” emerged almost immediately in the first weeks of the pandemic. In the first month Anthony Fauci made the absurd suggestion that perhaps never again would we go back to shaking hands. Never again?

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A Physician’s Plea for Exemption: Full Text

Joseph Fraiman / April 2, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 23 minute read

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Immunity offered by the vaccine is not long-lasting and the protection rapidly diminishes each month following the first 2 months after the second dose. With no randomized controlled trials evaluating the efficacy of the boosters on relevant clinical outcomes, and no data on safety given that the booster studies released did not contain a control group. A practitioner of science cannot be confident the potential rare benefit of hospital reduction in the younger healthy population outweighs repetitive dosing of a vaccine with limited safety data.

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Lockdowns Had a Devastating Impact on Religion

Dean Broyles / April 1, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy / 12 minute read

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Although individuals may be faring better, the profound damage to religious institutions is also quite remarkable. Charitable giving at many places of worship dropped precipitously during the pandemic. Many churches took government PPE funds to help weather the financial storm, but those funds only lasted for so long.

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Air Force Cadets Covid Vaccination Religious Exemption Denied

Scott Sturman / April 1, 2022 / Policy, Vaccines / 7 minute read

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In view of the sincerity of the cadets’ religious objections and the adverse risk-to-benefit profile of receiving the Covid vaccine, what is the purpose of forcing these cadets to subject themselves to a procedure that affords them and those around them no discernible benefit? Is the purpose to provide reasoned, compassionate medical care or simply demand submission or even to purge them from the ranks?

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The German Faith in Authority

Sven Grünewald / March 29, 2022 / Policy, Society, Vaccines / 12 minute read

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Not only do media commentaries and politicians casually discuss discriminatory measures against unvaccinated people without being attacked for it by their peers, but ‘normal’ citizens, including highly accomplished academics, are doing so as well. The sudden switch of the political agenda from Covid-19 to the Ukraine illustrates that this is not Covid-exclusive behaviour.

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