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How Did the Corruption of Public Health Happen?

David Bell / November 1, 2023 / Government, Public Health, Vaccines / 8 minute read

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International public health is a mess. Once seen generally as a public good, the focus of the World Health Organization (WHO) now more closely resembles a scheme for extracting private profit from the public purse. Wealthy corporations drive a ‘public-private partnership’ agenda, the foundations of the rich determine global priorities, and a propagandized public are ever more removed from decision-making regarding their own well-being.

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A Reevaluation of the Pandemic Preparedness and Response Agenda

REPPARE / October 31, 2023 / Government, Public Health / 10 minute read

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The past two decades have witnessed the increasing divergence of two schools of thought within global public health. The Covid-19 pandemic and subsequent pandemic preparedness and response (PPR) agenda have brought these to a level of vitriol, dividing the public health community. Health is a basic human need, and fear of ill health is a powerful tool for changing human behavior. Ensuring the integrity of public health policy is therefore critical for a well-functioning society.

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Brownstone Institute at Year Three

Brownstone Institute / October 30, 2023 / Government, History, Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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This period of our lives has shattered the hopes and dreams of millions and billions of people, and practically buried the ideal of freedom as an anachronism in a new age of corporatist totalitarianism. The neo-Hegelians in our midst condescend to us and say that this is just how things are and there is nothing to be done about it. This is not true.

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Professor Lockdown Denies Ever Calling for Lockdown

Will Jones / October 30, 2023 / History, Policy, Public Health / 3 minute read

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In one of the more bizarre moments at the Covid Inquiry so far, Professor Neil Ferguson, the architect of Britain’s lockdown, today denied ever calling for the first national stay-at-home order – in the latest instance of lockdown backpedalling.

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Covid Amnesty: Is Mercy the Answer?

Alex Washburne / October 29, 2023 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 6 minute read

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Until we have meaningful reconciliation, amnesty will merely cement the incumbents’ hold on academic, media, and narrative power, all but ensuring we repeat the failures of pandemic public health policy. Thus, for those of us who anticipated the harms to kids, we can further anticipate the harms of granting mercy to those whose trembling, intolerant hands still hold the cannons.

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My Golden Retriever Confronts the Medical Juggernaut

Clayton J. Baker, MD / October 27, 2023 / Pharma, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The whole episode left me with a lingering, uneasy, even unhealthy feeling. It’s not exactly déjà vu, but rather the sensation that I’d been through something very similar – and similarly unpleasant – before. Whatever could that be?

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What’s Wrong with Mandating Tests?

Alan Lash / October 27, 2023 / Law, Public Health / 8 minute read

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Take a test voluntarily if you like, if you think it will help to protect your family, friends, and all of your compatriots, or possibly if you think it will help authorities to understand the spread of disease. Respect others and do not try to infect them, as unrealistic as that notion may be. But do not submit to mandatory testing for disease.

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The Veil of Silence over Excess Deaths

Sonia Elijah / October 26, 2023 / Pharma, Public Health / 9 minute read

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Around the world, there has been a deafening silence over excess deaths from governments and the mainstream media, who not so long ago were quite fixated on the daily death toll for Covid.

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Germophobia Therapy: Reality Check Edition

Steve Templeton / October 25, 2023 / Public Health / 21 minute read

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We all know people who are obsessed with the idea of keeping their food “clean.” Throwing any food away that sits out on a table longer than the time it takes to eat a meal or anything that falls on the floor have become pretty common first-world practices. There are few heuristics or shortcut rules that have become popular as a result, such as a the “two-hour rule” for leaving out food, and the “five-second rule” for eating food that has touched the floor.

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Is There a Cure for the Western Public Health Catastrophe?

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Michael Baker / October 24, 2023 / Public Health / 13 minute read

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Beyond advocating healthy eating, exercise, and robust international travel, there is the question of what role optimal public health policy has in promoting particular lifestyles. At present, the West is burdened with high and increasing levels of obesity, gaming addiction, mental health problems, and loneliness. To the health industry all this is a boon, providing a steady stream of victims to fleece.

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Covid and the Expansion and Abuse of State Power

Ramesh Thakur / October 20, 2023 / Government, History, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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People were told when and where they could shop, the hours during which they could shop, what they could purchase, how close they could get to others, and which direction they could move in by following arrows on the floor. Governments also stepped into nations’ bedrooms to dictate with whom we could and could not be intimate.

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The Very Model of a Modern Covid Authoritarian

Brownstone Institute / October 19, 2023 / Media, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The struggle underneath many headlines and events in our times – and this is true of the reshuffled alliances with hot war in the Middle East – is the desperate clamor to avoid accountability for those who opened the Pandora’s box of hate, division, state power, propaganda, and violence. That appears to be evolving into a civilization-wrecking dynamic of all against all, even as the instigators cower in the shadows.

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