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The University of California Has Put Me on Leave for Challenging Their Vaccine Mandate

Aaron Kheriaty / October 7, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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This legal fight is important not only to set appropriate limits to vaccine mandates. It is also important for the future that—now in this crucial moment—we refuse to allow our institutions to set dangerous and unjust precedents. Today’s precedents could later facilitate even more coercive mandates and infringements on civil liberties by unelected officials, done during a declared “state of exception” or emergency that has no defined terminus—a dangerous precedent for a democratic society.

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The Covid Morass: An Academic and Mother Asks Questions

Genevieve Newton / October 7, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 57 minute read

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We have already seen many instances during the Covid pandemic where despite assurances to the contrary, things did not evolve as expected. It seems clear that we simply don’t know what is going to happen next, or what the consequences of our actions and choices will be. What is perhaps most troubling is that this acknowledgement has been almost completely absent from the rhetoric of our leaders and decision makers. It does not show ignorance or weakness to be honest about this reality, it shows wisdom and discernment.

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Biden’s Vaccination Mandate: Where Are the Regulations?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 6, 2021 / Economics, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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It’s true that Biden does not have the power to impose that directly but he might have the power to order a regulatory body under his authority to write rules that amount to the same thing. And even if the regulatory agency never gets around to it, the perception that the order is real and enforceable is enough to cause the outcome he desires.

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Contrived Spectacles of “Protecting and Caring for the People”

Thomas Harrington / October 6, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 17 minute read

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Does it seem normal to you that, in a dramatic reversal of historically predominant moral logic, the press harshly questions those who most want to preserve the social fabric and the existing rhythms of life while they lionize those who most seek to disrupt it?

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Lockdowns, Mandates, and Natural Immunity: Kulldorff vs. Offit

Brownstone Institute / October 6, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 35 minute read

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“We have seen during this last year and a half that all the hard work we’ve done over many decades to build trust in vaccines are now disappearing because we’re making these mandates that makes no sense from a scientific or public health perspective.” ~ Martin Kulldorff

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Masks: Before and After They Became Political

Steve Templeton / October 5, 2021 / Masks, Policy, Public Health, Society / 14 minute read

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If one actually takes the time to consider the preponderance of evidence regarding universal masking, it becomes extremely difficult to conclude that it has had, or was ever expected to have, a significant effect on the course of the pandemic. The evidence certainly doesn’t come even close to matching the quasi-religious fervor exhibited by the popular media, mask-mandating helicopter politicians, or your judgy virtue-signaling neighbor.

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Why Masks? Control, Power, and Revenue

Jeffrey A. Tucker / October 5, 2021 / Masks, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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Somehow this whole mess sums up everything about Covid policy. What started as a symbol that everyone knew was largely ineffective ends up as a bullying revenue racket.

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Great Barrington Declaration: One Year Later

Brownstone Institute / October 4, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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We must bring this sad state of government-promoted mandates to an end. And we must follow the wisdom the field of public health has acquired over a hundred years about what works, what protects people from both COVID and other health risks, and what protects the social fabric of our larger human experience.

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Harvard Epidemiologist Censored by LinkedIn for Defending Healthcare Jobs

Brownstone Institute / October 4, 2021 / Censorship, Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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In taking this action, LinkedIn has denied crucial information to millions of professionals who deserve to hear a different opinion about the mass firings taking place in light of the vaccine mandates that contradict the known science and freedom in the marketplace for jobs. The move is a direct hit against workers and their career aspirations.

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Hurting Children to Protect Them

Steve Templeton / October 2, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 10 minute read

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Exaggerating COVID harms in children and their role in disease spread in order to promote vaccination is a harmful and losing strategy.

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Rand Paul and Xavier Becerra Square Off on Natural Immunity, with Devastating Results

Brownstone Institute / October 2, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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In this remarkable exchange, the two square off on natural immunity and the vaccine mandates that Becerra is imposing on the entire country. This exchange will surely go down in history as one of the most striking and public denials of basic science and medicine in the modern age.

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Hospitals Should Hire, Not Fire, Nurses with Natural Immunity

Martin Kulldorff / October 1, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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Hospitals are firing nurses and other staff with superior natural immunity while retaining those with weaker vaccine- induced immunity. By doing so, they are betraying their patients, increasing their risk for hospital acquired infections.

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