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OSHA Vaccine Mandate Heads to the Supreme Court

Brownstone Institute December 18, 2021 Law, Vaccines 5 minute read

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This really is stacking up to be a battle between the new and old normal, which is to say the expectation of normal freedoms vs. rule by a bio-security state. The results will fundamentally affect the relationship between business and government and workers and employers. If the majority gets its way here, it’s hard to see how traditional Constitutional restraints on states at any level can be maintained in the face of bureaucratic diktat as ordered by an executive.

Vaccines Save Lives

Martin Kulldorff December 17, 2021 Public Health, Vaccines 5 minute read

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Rather than forcing the vaccine on the young or those with natural immunity, we should focus on vaccinating more older Americans, as well as older people in other countries. That is what will keep the mortality numbers down. That is what will keep our country together. It may even help keep the world together.

Why Have They Done This to the Children?

Bhaskaran Raman December 17, 2021 Public Health, Society, Vaccines 4 minute read

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In India, it is even more absurd that almost everything is normal for adults: restaurants, malls, movie theatres, crowded events, crowded buses and trains and flights, etc.; while at the same time schools are not open, and even where open, normal activities are not permitted for kids!

Japan’s Vaccination Policy: No Force, No Discrimination

Aaron Kheriaty December 14, 2021 Vaccines 3 minute read

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Japan’s ministry of health states: “Although we encourage all citizens to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, it is not compulsory or mandatory. Vaccination will be given only with the consent of the person to be vaccinated after the information provided.”

Must We Segregate the Unvaccinated from the Vaccinated?

Paul Elias Alexander December 14, 2021 Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 5 minute read

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Governments around the world have encouraged and enforced a new form of segregation based on vaccine status. This is not only dangerously inhumane; there is no scientific basis for this.

Sweden and Germany: No Deaths In Children Due to Covid

Paul Elias Alexander December 8, 2021 Public Health, Vaccines 4 minute read

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The children should live normally, free, and if exposed to SARS-CoV-2 we can rest assured that in the vast majority of cases, they will have no to only mild symptoms while at the same time developing naturally acquired immunity, and harmlessly; an immunity that is definitely superior to that which might be caused by a vaccine.

Medicine Should be Non-Violent

Scott Morefield December 8, 2021 Philosophy, Vaccines 5 minute read

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Most people who choose to remain unvaccinated – like myself – do so not because we want to spread the virus to others or are against vaccinations in general, but because we have natural immunity and/or serious, data-driven questions about this particular vaccine. The moral case for choice, and against vaccine mandates, is as clear as day and as absolute as any case for good and against evil could ever be.

The Corruptions of Pharma as a Service

Joakim Book December 7, 2021 Economics, Pharma, Public Health, Vaccines 6 minute read

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But given the corruption in American politics, in its bureaucracy, and most importantly in its media and academic establishments, is it inconceivable to suggest that maybe Big Pharma wanted its share of the as-a-Service-revolution?

A Six-Year-Old Child Should Not Be Forced to Get the Covid Shot to Eat in a Restaurant

Vinay Prasad December 7, 2021 Public Health, Vaccines 2 minute read

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Focusing on this age group, and ignoring natural immunity, and using the brute force of the state to impose such a draconian restriction is a terrible policy decision.

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.”

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?

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.