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Vaccine Mandates: Unscientific, Divisive, and Enormously Costly

By Allon Friedman December 2, 2021 December 9, 2021 Public Health, Vaccines 5 minute read

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.

Covid-19 Vaccine Mandates Fail the Jacobson Test

By Harvey Risch, Gerard Bradley November 30, 2021 December 6, 2021 History, Law, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 18 minute read

A careful reading of Jacobson shows that it is not just an automatic consideration allowing the government to do what it wants when a pandemic emergency has been officially declared. Covid-19 vaccine mandates do not satisfy any of the required criteria in Jacobson, let alone all of them.

Biden Administration Pushes Mandate Despite Court and OSHA

By Jeffrey A. Tucker November 19, 2021 December 6, 2021 Law, Policy, Society, Vaccines 5 minute read

If OSHA repeals the implementation and enforcement of a major edict, and a court strikes it down, and no one knows about either rebuke – media hardly reported these events – has it really happened? The White House is presuming not.

Why Bill Gates Is Pivoting on Existing Covid Vaccines

By Jeffrey A. Tucker November 12, 2021 December 6, 2021 Philosophy, Public Health, Vaccines 6 minute read

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.

39 Studies on Vaccine Efficacy that Raise Doubts on Vaccine Mandates

By Paul Elias Alexander October 28, 2021 December 26, 2021 Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 17 minute read

What these studies show, are that vaccines are important to reduce severe disease and death, but unable to prevent the disease from spreading and eventually infect most of us. That is, while the vaccines provide individual benefits to the vaccinee, and especially to older high-risk people, the public benefit of universal vaccination is in grave doubt. As such, Covid vaccines should not be expected to contribute to eliminating the communal spread of the virus or the reaching of herd immunity. This unravels the rationale for vaccine mandates and passports.

When Vaccines Are Mandated, Who Bears the Liability?

By Scott Morefield October 12, 2021 December 6, 2021 Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 6 minute read

Should employees who suffer adverse side effects after being coerced into taking the shot by their employer claim worker’s compensation? Absolutely they should, and they generally will be on solid ground.

The Polio Pandemic of 1949-52: No Closures, No Restrictions

By Jeffrey A. Tucker September 12, 2021 December 14, 2021 History, Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 7 minute read

A health official said of the polio epidemic: “Nobody can shut down intercourse of people in communities.” Our rights survived. So did human liberty, free enterprise, the Bill of Rights, jobs, and the American way of life. And then polio was eventually beat.

Where Is the Science or Logic Behind Mandated Vaccines?

By Michael Betrus September 1, 2021 December 6, 2021 Policy, Public Health, Vaccines 11 minute read

The people at Pfizer, Moderna, Janssen and even frontline healthcare workers understand the science and data behind the vaccines better than anyone. If even a large minority of these people are reluctant or refuse to get vaccinated, it should tell us all something. COVID-19 is not a one-size-fits-all disease and should not be treated as such.