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The Paucity of Evidence for Mandated Covid-19 Vaccine Boosters

Andrew Bostom / December 6, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Given these overall randomized trial findings regarding covid-19 vaccine boosters—absence of even a short- term reduction in mild covid-19 infections in those with natural immunity, and no data establishing that boosters prevent covid-19 hospitalizations, deaths, or SARS-CoV-2 transmission—there is no rational, evidence-based justification for covid-19 vaccine “booster mandates.”

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Well-Structured German Study Shows No Deaths among Healthy German Kids Ages 5 to 11

Vinay Prasad / December 6, 2021 / Public Health, Vaccines / 3 minute read

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These results put risk to kids in perspective. They show us that school closure was wrong. They make you think of easy questions: What is the upper bound benefit for masking a 6 year old in school? Hint: even if it works (Psst unproven) it won’t be big. And, this info also suggests difficult questions: Does a healthy 8 year old who already had Covid-19 benefit from vaccination?

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Seven Theories of Why the Lockdowns Happened

Edward Hadas / December 5, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 22 minute read

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The combination of mass hysteria, self-interest, authoritarian politics, and an unacknowledged purity cult brings many, many unfortunate outcomes. Most obvious is the multipronged assault on humanity, the prohibition of or restrictions on many important human activities, from worship and shopping to educating the young and visiting the ill. There is also subtler damage to healthcare, social trust, social unity, trust in the media, and whatever was left of constitutional democracy.

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Biden’s Throat Frog Hints at the Coming Normalcy

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 5, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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The response to Biden’s infection should give us all hope that we can get back to normal, stop stigmatizing the sick, stop calling people who recover from Covid “survivors,” stop avoiding each other as if the human person is nothing but a vector of disease spread, and stop with this incredible cruel demand that every person separate from everyone else in the name of controlling a virus.

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First Comply, Then We’ll Grant You Some Rights

Stacey Rudin / December 5, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The political establishment is so devoted to this cause that it is hard to see how we can extricate ourselves. Accepting the first lockdown was the decisive point. We sacrificed our rights due to fear, and nearly two years later, we still don’t have them back. It was as obvious then as it is now: power is never seized and then voluntarily returned.

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What Does Focused Protection Mean for Nursing Homes?

Jayanta Bhattacharya / December 4, 2021 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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The control of COVID-19 spread, even to vulnerable people, is undoubtedly good – but it is not the only good. Some things in life – and death – are more important than COVID-19, and our public health authorities would do well to remember that fact.

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A Medical News Site and Its Misinformation

Martin Kulldorff,

Jayanta Bhattacharya / December 4, 2021 / Media, Public Health / 4 minute read

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The first step should be to correct errors, a minimal obligation of all ethical journalism. A second step requires more balanced reporting about the pandemic by, for example, honestly reporting about the success of the pandemic strategies employed by Florida and the Scandinavian countries. The alternative is a continuing erosion of trust in medicine and public health.

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How Covid Panic Destroyed Communities: Our Church and My Story

Steve Templeton / December 3, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 16 minute read

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Shutting down everything couldn’t last indefinitely, and people couldn’t avoid being in personal proximity indefinitely without serious consequences. The virus was going to spread no matter what we did. With too much separation and fear of one another, we would cease to function as a community and couldn’t help others.

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The Medical Objectification of the Human Person

Robert Freudenthal / December 3, 2021 / Philosophy, Psychology, Public Health, Society / 8 minute read

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The pandemic has turbocharged this process of medical objectification. We are no longer individuals, with unique desires, responses, wishes and drives, but rather are primarily considered by policy makers to be infection risks. Once we are primarily objects, rather than diverse human beings, it then becomes legitimate for medical procedures to be mandated, mask wearing to be forced, or our movements to be tracked and traced.

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PCR Tests and the Rise of Disease Panic

Ian McNulty / December 2, 2021 / Public Health / 28 minute read

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Despite the CDC’s own admission that PCR tests “may not indicate the presence of infectious virus,” its use to do exactly that in the case of Covid was accepted without question. Worse still, the measures taken against calling PCR into question have become progressively more draconian and underhanded since the very beginning.

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Vaccine Mandates: Unscientific, Divisive, and Enormously Costly

Allon Friedman / December 2, 2021 / Public Health, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Simply put, the very best scientific study design currently available to mankind was not used to answer the most important outcomes, and the randomized trials do not support the widely held contention that COVID-19 vaccination using the Pfizer or Moderna brands lowers risk of death. This is unfortunately not the first time that FDA has approved a product based on a less important surrogate end-point rather than the key outcomes of interest.

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Is YouTube Now Presuming to be in Charge of Science?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / December 2, 2021 / Media, Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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If these rules are strenuously enforced, millions of videos, interviews, television shows, lectures, press conferences, and scientific presentations will disappear. Maybe tens of millions actually. And all in the name of protecting “science” against its corruption, as if YouTube should be the determinant of what constitutes good science.

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