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The Grim Reality of Post-Lockdown Economic Trends
Things are starting to snap left and right—yesterday’s 43% plunge by Snap Inc. (SNAP) being among them. Then again when…
Lockdown Is Not Liberalism’s Endgame
Matthew Crawford rightly decries covid fear-mongering and restrictions, yet he too quickly blames this dystopian turn on flaws inherent in…
World Health Organization Deploys Another Disease Threat to Push Global Survelliance
The threat posed by monkeypox is real, very real. Or is it? According to Dr. Robert Malone, not really. But…
School Closings and Violent Youth: A Potential Link
Our greatest fears have now seemed to materialize. The school closures, social dislocation, the two years of isolation, the lockdown…
The Monkeypox Outbreak of 2003
I can’t believe I’m even typing the word Monkeypox. However, a CDC MMWR report, brought to my attention by @EWoodhouse7, was…
When 800 Mainstream US Scientists Warned Against Lockdowns
If for two years you depended only on mass media during the covid crisis, one’s perspective became distorted. You might…
Shanghai Scientists Have Adapted to Regime Priorities
Earlier this month, The Lancet published an article titled “Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic” by…
The WHO Treaty Is Tied to a Global Digital Passport and ID System
The WHO recently announced plans for an international pandemic treaty tied to a digital passport and digital ID system. Meeting in December…
The Rise of Hepatitis
The number of previously healthy children younger than 16 years of age with mysterious hepatitis cases have doubled in two…
The CDC’s $2.4M Campus Marketing Program
The DC-based marketing firm, Youth Marketing Connections (YMC), builds “brand experiences for the next generation.” “Youth is All We Do,”…
Germophobes to the Left and Right
With the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic hopefully waning, it will be time for many to take a step back and assess the…
Monkeypox Was a Table-Top Simulation Only Last Year
Elite media outlets around the world are on red alert over the world’s first-ever global outbreak of Monkeypox in mid-May…
Sweden’s Strategy Once Again Proven Correct
Throughout the pandemic, Sweden has faced an enormous amount of criticism and international pressure due to their willingness to stick…
Monkeypox: The Next Big Scare
Suddenly, everyone is talking about Monkeypox, the smallpox-like disease that has surfaced in recent days in both Europe and the…
Fighting Windmills: The DOD’s Battle Against Covid
Churchill observed, “Generals are always prepared to fight the last war.” Relying on past strategy to deal with the present threat is not…
Indiana Attorney General Responds to Call for Covid Misinformation
In April 2022, the Surgeon General of the US issued a call to end covid misinformation. He further urged people…
Brownstone Institute at One Year
Twenty-six months ago, we hoped that the period of darkness would end quickly once it became obvious that pandemic policy…
A Primer on the WHO, the Treaty, and its Plans for Pandemic Preparedness
The World Health Organization (WHO), whose constitution defines health as ‘a state of physical, mental and social well-being, not merely…
The FDA’s Audacious Move to Boost Kids Aged 5-11yrs
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorised the use of a single booster of Pfizer’s covid-19 vaccine in children…
The WHO Changes Guidelines to Favor Lockdowns
The World Health Organisation intends to make lockdowns and other non-pharmaceutical interventions intended to curb viral spread part of official…
Elites Meet to Plan Your Health: The Role of the Council on Foreign Relations
The grisly Shanghai lockdown, now entering its eighth week, has forced a reckoning among members of Democratic America’s expert class—even…
The FDA/WIC Role in the Baby Formula Debacle
There has by now been an acute shortage of infant formula in the United States for months. Despite government claims…
What Does the Pandemic Treaty Do?
Social media has been abuzz with terrifying news about a new Pandemic Treaty (officially the “Zero draft report of the Working…
The Covid Stories Project
Finally, lawmakers in DC are right about something. Congress has realized that we need to preserve our memories of the…
Lockdowns, Closures, and the Loss of Moral Clarity
Last weekend, an 18-year-old kid slogged a powerful weapon into a Buffalo, New York, grocery store and started shooting people…
Australia: Champion Covidiot
Over the weekend, the New York Times carried a story headlined “How Australia Saved Thousands of Lives While Covid Killed…
The Case Against the CDC as We Know It
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) was founded in 1946 as a backwater quasi-governmental agency with a negligible budget and a handful…
Can We Now See that Economics Does Not Diverge from Public Health?
The dramatic shortage of baby formula underscores the point: a functioning economy is essential to public health. It’s the same…
Congress and the Pandemic Response: An Interview with Thomas Massie
Congressman Thomas Massie of Kentucky is the rare example of a statesman in the US who saw the pandemic and…
The Memo that Closed the Nation’s Schools
Early in the pandemic response, a group of intellectuals, public health officials, federal law enforcement employees, and university professionals began…