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What’s Going On In China: Interview with Michael Senger

Brownstone Institute / April 6, 2022 / History, Law, Society / 1 minute of reading

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Michael Senger, attorney and author of Snake Oil, has led the way in drawing attention to the role of the Chinese Communist Party in 2020 influencing nearly every country in the world to lock down economies in order to control a virus. Here he reacts to the new lockdowns in China and the possible motivations behind the remarkable attack on the rights and liberties of the people of Shanghai, and possible divisions within the CCP.

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Can We Please Stop Demonizing the “Unvaccinated?”

Debbie Lerman / April 6, 2022 / Society, Vaccines / 4 minute read

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Thankfully we are moving away from many of the deeply misguided, terribly damaging Covid policies that have plagued us (pun intended) for the last two years. Let us now work together to get rid of this last vestige of scientifically ignorant, panic-induced groupthink.

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This Is Not Normal and No One Should Accept It

Aaron Kheriaty / April 5, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 5 minute read

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Our ruling class saw in Covid an opportunity to radically revolutionize society: recall how the phrase “the new normal” emerged almost immediately in the first weeks of the pandemic. In the first month Anthony Fauci made the absurd suggestion that perhaps never again would we go back to shaking hands. Never again?

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The Urge to Shame, Purge, and Exclude Diminishes Ourselves

Christine Black / April 4, 2022 / Philosophy, Psychology, Society / 9 minute read

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In these times of summarily rejecting people we disagree with or treating those with differing opinions as dangerous or diseased, I have felt led to remember what I would have missed if I had rejected certain people with whom I disagreed on significant issues but from whom I had also received wonderful gifts.

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The Expendables: The Biopolitics of Human Sacrifice

Michael Riches / April 4, 2022 / Law, Society, Vaccines / 10 minute read

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If you are one of those who supported the separation of the unvaccinated from society, it is worth considering how your own life was diminished during the pandemic. The range of the homo sacer, those deemed expendable, has been broadened over time from traditional groups such as the homeless, up through the working classes in recent decades, and now large swathes of middle classes during Covid.

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This Is No Path to Happiness

David Smith / March 31, 2022 / Society / 9 minute read

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We’ve provided you deplorables with bread and circuses and still you’re ungrateful, unmanageable and generally a major pain in the ass. But we’ve found out how to use new technologies–such as subscription vaccines–combined with never-ending manufactured crises for the purpose of controlling you.

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Concerned Ontario Doctors’ Covid-19 Summit Part II: Complete Transcript

Brownstone Institute / March 30, 2022 / Law, Philosophy, Public Health, Society / 86 minute read

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The event: “Medicine, Science and Public Health: Restoring Trust and International Ethical Principles,” premiered March 20, 2022. What follows is a complete transcript of this important meeting.

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The German Faith in Authority

Sven Grünewald / March 29, 2022 / Policy, Society, Vaccines / 12 minute read

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Not only do media commentaries and politicians casually discuss discriminatory measures against unvaccinated people without being attacked for it by their peers, but ‘normal’ citizens, including highly accomplished academics, are doing so as well. The sudden switch of the political agenda from Covid-19 to the Ukraine illustrates that this is not Covid-exclusive behaviour.

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The Moral Imperative of Sanctuary

Jeffrey A. Tucker / March 29, 2022 / History, Philosophy, Society / 9 minute read

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It is not only about resistance but also rebuilding, not giving up on the dream of peace and prosperity, along with logic, science, and truth, even when so many have stopped believing. We welcome supporters of this vision. Indeed we need you and so does the future of civilization.

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The Specter of Asymptomatic Spread

Aaron Kheriaty / March 28, 2022 / Policy, Public Health, Society / 3 minute read

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A society grounded on “social distancing” is a contradiction—it’s a kind of anti-society. Consider what happened to us, consider the human goods we sacrificed to preserve bare life at all costs: friendships, holidays with family, work, visiting the sick and dying, worshipping God, burying the dead.

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Not Every Health Problem Needs a Social Solution

Donald Boudreaux / March 28, 2022 / Public Health, Society / 6 minute read

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According to public-health paternalists, almost no decisions that affect individuals’ health are truly ‘individual.’ Nearly all such decisions are either heavily determined by the actions of third parties, or themselves affect the choices of unsuspecting third parties.

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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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