Public Health ⋆ Brownstone Institute

What the Media Gets Wrong about Hospitals

Josh Stevenson December 8, 2022 December 8, 2022 History, Media, Public Health 7 minute read

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The common thread among all of this coverage is that they all focus on the system, rather than the human. There’s this concept called “capacity” that we all somehow need to know about, and we all need to make decisions because of it. The entire concept is backwards. It’s a fundamentally utilitarian mindset that stems from a fundamental misrepresentation of how systems work, and an inverted moral philosophy that prioritizes systems over people. Hospitals were built for humankind, not humankind for the hospital.

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Retrospectives and Reviews of Pandemic Countermeasures

Michael Tomlinson December 7, 2022 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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The Mysterious Case of Zika-Microcephaly’s Disappearance

Randall Bock December 4, 2022 December 4, 2022 History, Public Health 20 minute read

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In 2015, a viral pandemic from Northeast Brazil exploded into the news, supported by breathless public health alarms that Zika — a flavivirus acknowledged for decades as harmless — was now suddenly responsible for congenital microcephaly (babies with small heads; diminished intellect). Massive panic predictably ensued.

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The World Health Organization and Its Holy Days of Obligation

David Livermore December 3, 2022 December 3, 2022 Philosophy, Public Health 6 minute read

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Of all organisations, the WHO, with its calendar of Holy Days as an aide memoire, should have recognised how so many aspects of health and well-being interlock, and how fighting an existential war with one pathogen would impact other priorities. It had a sane and proportionate respiratory pandemic plan in 2019.

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Not Even N95 Masks Work To Stop Covid

Ian Miller December 1, 2022 December 1, 2022 Masks, Public Health 7 minute read

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Fauci and his health authority allies have lied to the public repeatedly about masking. The obsession with credentialism and appeals to authority within the media has resulted in tremendous, unjustified harm.

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Canada: A Gruesome, Terrifying Culture of Death

Laura Rosen Cohen December 1, 2022 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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People of the World are Dramatically Losing Years of Life

Sven Román December 1, 2022 December 1, 2022 Public Health 3 minute read

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The trend of increasing life-years lost is contrary to what would be expected for effective Covid-19 countermeasures, including mass vaccination and lockdowns. The damage in terms of reduced longevity is becoming greater with each passing week. How much longer should we proceed down this road of failed public health policy before we start to reverse the trajectory?

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The Evil of Coerced Medicine

Aaron Kheriaty November 30, 2022 December 2, 2022 Law, Philosophy, Public Health 4 minute read

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Although the minimal conditions for justifying vaccine mandates were never close to being met, institutions embraced these misguided policies with little meaningful public discussion and no debate.

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Ten Principles of Public Health that Could Save Society

David Bell November 30, 2022 December 5, 2022 Philosophy, Public Health 8 minute read

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Much of society’s future will be determined by the motivations and integrity of the public health institutions and their workforce. A lot of humility will be required, but this has always been the case. The world will have to watch and see whether those in the field have the courage and integrity to do their job.

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Brownstone, Moral Courage, and the Fight of Our Lives

Brownstone Institute November 28, 2022 November 28, 2022 Economics, Philosophy, Public Health 8 minute read

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Supporting Brownstone is a way of making a difference and effectively saying: we are not willing to give in and give up. We’ve come too far as societies and people to turn back now. We will not give the keys to the kingdom to Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, Sam Bankman-Fried, much less the New York Times and Mark Zuckerberg. They might seem to have all the money and power but we have something they lack: dedicated moral passion to tell the truth.

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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 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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Plausibility But Not Science Has Dominated Public Discussions of the Covid Pandemic

Harvey Risch November 26, 2022 November 27, 2022 Philosophy, Public Health 30 minute read

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Many other instances of plausible scientific claptrap or bad science have occurred during the Covid-19 pandemic. Medical journals routinely and uncritically publish this nonsense as long as conclusions align with government policies. This body of fake knowledge has been promulgated at the highest levels, by the NSC, FDA, CDC, NIH, WHO, Wellcome Trust, AMA, medical specialty boards, state and local public health agencies, multinational pharma companies and other organizations around the world that have violated their responsibilities to the public or have purposely chosen not to understand the fake science.

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