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Covid Prediction: January 2020

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 26, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health, Society / 10 minute read

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Government power is not necessary. It is not likely to be effective, either. And when it is not effective, the tendency is to overreact in the opposite direction, clamping down and abusing, exactly as we’ve seen with the war on terror and China’s response to this virus, which might be as serious as bad seasonal flu outbreaks. Still, people assume that government is doing its job, government fails, and then government gets more power and does awful things with it. It’s the same story again and again.

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Fauci Finally Admits Natural Immunity

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 25, 2022 / Public Health, Vaccines / 5 minute read

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Once might expect some contrition. Instead we get a passing comment and nothing more. After all, frank talk about this subject might be risky: it would imply that their entire mitigation strategy was wrong from the beginning and should never be attempted again.

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Anatomy of the Hong Kong Disaster

Ian Miller / March 19, 2022 / Masks, Public Health / 8 minute read

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Hong Kong tried to control COVID with masking, and those same voices told us repeatedly that it was successful. Where were the retractions when then they subsequently reported one of the highest current death rates we’ve seen anywhere on earth?

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The Vindication of D.A. Henderson

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 16, 2022 / History, Policy, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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Dr. Henderson died in 2016. Four years later, precisely what he warned against became policy the world over. And yet after two years of hell, and now that the fear has subsided and the political and bureaucratic class is acquiescing to the dramatic change in public opinion, the pandemic is becoming endemic in exactly the way it always has in the past, precisely as he said it would.

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Have the Children Been Poisoned?

Carla Peeters / March 15, 2022 / Public Health / 12 minute read

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Increased exposure to toxic substances due to an overuse of ineffective measures like mask mandates, frequent use of hand sanitizers, disinfectant sprays, and frequent testing during the pandemic will have a short- and long-term impact on children’s health and future generations.

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How Public Opinion Ended Covid, and Started the Next Thing

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 14, 2022 / Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 7 minute read

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These results point to one conclusion: between one-half and two-thirds of the public believe that the pandemic response was an enormous flop, and that their own liberties are far less secure now than they were before. Further, none of it worked to achieve that goal. That is a devastating indictment on the biggest expansion of government power and control in our lifetimes, one that happened not only in the US but almost everywhere in the world.

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War Was Always the Wrong Metaphor

Steve Templeton / March 14, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read

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With two full years of hindsight, it’s clear that lockdowns were a disaster and that mandated measures caused more harm than benefit, yet this has not prevented leaders from declaring victory, crediting their own brave and resolute leadership for saving millions of lives and routing the viral enemy. However, SARS-CoV-2 isn’t a real enemy—it doesn’t have an intention other than to exist and spread, and it won’t agree to an armistice. Instead, we will have to live with the virus forever in an endemic state, and skip the victory parades.

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The Failure of Track-and-Trace: Interview with Jay Bhattacharya

Brownstone Institute / March 12, 2022 / Public Health / 1 minute of reading

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What was the underlying goal of these efforts? Did the experts genuinely believe that the virus could be suppressed or even eradicated through these methods? When does track-and-trace make sense and when is it futile, and how can we know?

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What Happens When Cases Rise?

Vinay Prasad / March 11, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 4 minute read

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Covid-19 cases will eventually rise. I don’t know when, but we are extremely vulnerable to an ill-formed and schizophrenic response. As we near midterm elections, politicians will be more volatile, and seek to control news that is seen as a threat to political fortunes. That’s the territory for bad decision making.

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It’s Time to Talk about Elephants

Gabrielle Bauer / March 11, 2022 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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As we step into year three, we urgently need to widen the lens beyond Covid metrics, beyond epidemiology, beyond even science itself. With Covid easing into endemicity, we need to grapple with big-picture concepts like costs, benefits and tradeoffs. We need to ask the tough questions. We need to name the hulking elephants in the room, to lift up their trunks and see what lies beneath.

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Forget About Covid, They Say

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 9, 2022 / Law, Media, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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By all means, forget about Covid and live life as normally as possible in defiance of those who live to foster fear. But, never forget the disastrous Covid restrictions that created such destruction. We cannot let anyone off the hook, much less pretend that the policy disaster that created billions of personal tragedies never happened.

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Why Is Walensky Refusing to Answer this Senator’s Questions?

Sharyl Attkisson / March 6, 2022 / Law, Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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According to Johnson, Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky is one of the public health officials who has been non-compliant with his requests. To date, Johnson says he has made eight specific requests, directly of Walensky, that have gone unanswered.

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