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Vaccine Mandates are Unethical

Martin Kulldorff / November 12, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health / 4 minute read / Articles

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It is an odd reality about vaccine mandates that they aim to increase vaccination among working-age adults and even children, including those with natural immunity, rather than the high-risk elderly. The well of public trust in public health is finite, and to waste it on a policy that seeks to increase vaccination rates in a lower risk population makes little sense.

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Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 12, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health, Technology, Vaccines / 6 minute read / Articles

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Once you understand the simplicity of his core confusions, everything else he says makes sense from his point of view. He seems forever stuck in the fallacy that the human being is a cog in a massive machine called society that cries out for his managerial and technological leadership to improve to the point of operational perfection.

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Aaron Rodgers and the Absurdity of Media Coverage of Covid Policy

Vinay Prasad / November 11, 2021 / Media, Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read / Articles

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Ultimately picking weak spokespeople is a broader strategy that undermines debate itself and encourages rampant groupthink, which itself is the defining quality of our media response. If you pick a weak debater to argue the other side, it makes it easy for you to entrench in your own pre-existing belief. It is a cheap tactic.

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The Mask Distraction

Beny Spira / November 11, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read / Articles

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There are many open questions about the actions taken in response to the pandemic, and, in my view, a most relevant one is whether the mandatory use of masks helped mitigate the spread of Covid-19, or if it was just a distraction, which may have even hindered the fight against the pandemic.

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How Near Are Covid-Vaccine Mandates for Children?

Richard Koenig / November 9, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 10 minute read / Articles

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For now the decision whether children get the vaccine is left to their parents, but recent regulatory decisions set the path for that discretion to be taken away.

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The War We’ve Lived and the Birth of the New

Jeffrey A. Tucker / November 9, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read / Articles

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We can never again allow a ruling class to exercise such brutality against the people. It has not ended well for the lockdowners and mandators. They are perhaps now beginning to realize that they are not the authors of history. We are. Everyone is.

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Police Charged Thousands of People For Petty COVID Violations

Michael Tracey / November 9, 2021 / History, Public Health, Society / 11 minute read / Articles

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The discretionary powers granted to state authorities to curtail the spread of the virus have yet to be fully documented or interrogated. Did these tactics accomplish anything that benefitted public health? Particularly with a year and a half of hindsight, it’s doubtful. Unless “needlessly hassling a bunch of people” somehow counts as a public health triumph.

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Canada’s Pandemic Policy Assaulted the Working Classes

Martin Kulldorff / November 8, 2021 / Public Health / 3 minute read / Articles

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The Canadian COVID-19 lockdown strategy is the worst assault on the working class in many decades. Low-risk college students and young professionals are protected; such as lawyers, government employees, journalists, and scientists who can work from home; while older high-risk working-class people must work, risking their lives generating the population immunity that will eventually help protect everyone. This is backwards, leading to many unnecessary deaths from both COVID-19 and other diseases.

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Vaccine Passports: Institutionalized Segregation

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Aditi Bhargava / November 8, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 4 minute read / Articles

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We already know this country has deep divisions. We simply cannot allow coercive policies that will result in the creation of a society that is less just and more fractured than it already is.

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The Cause of Myocarditis: COVID19 or COVID19 Vaccination?

Vinay Prasad / November 8, 2021 / Public Health / 3 minute read / Articles

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A reader can correct me if I am wrong but, I have not seen ANY analysis that uses the denominator of infections. Many papers model this denominator, but the correct method would be to perform seroprevalence of a large cohort. Can anyone provide a link to such a paper— one that uses a denominator of seroprevalence?

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For Whom Do the Covid “Fact Checkers” Really Work?

Vinay Prasad / November 7, 2021 / Public Health, Society / 4 minute read / Articles

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Truth and false is not a matter of science but cultural power— the ability to proclaim and define the truth. If this continues, dark times lie ahead. Someday soon, we may not like who defines the truth.

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