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The Lockdown Advocacy of Devi Sridhar
The Covid era gave rise not only to popular mania but also to astonishing intellectual pretension. The experts were everywhere.…
At the Military Olympics, October 2019, Wuhan, China, Athletes Caught Covid
It’s going to take far more than a few investigators to piece together the timeline of the great disaster of…
Fauci Finally Gets Covid: The Significance
What precisely happened in the month of February 2020, when Anthony Fauci and cohorts were plotting their pandemic response, is…
The Economic Meltdown Has Roots in Lockdown
American’s capacity for denial is truly a thing to behold. For at least 27 months, it should have been obvious…
The Mass Betrayal of Trust
In the genre of film known as Film Noir – made in Hollywood during the late 30s and 40s – the…
CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent
There is no remorse at the CDC. Far from it. The model of virus control deployed over the last 27…
Uses and Abuses of the Defense Production Act
With President Biden beginning this week by invoking the Defense Production Act (this time, to build solar panels) we figured it’s…
False Messaging Forever: The WHO’s Plan for the Future
The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, have faced considerable challenges in maintaining support…
The Unbearably Predictable Prattle of the Boston Globe
Back in the day, when I was a habitue of leftist anti-war websites (they used to exist), nothing could rile…
A Short History of the Testing Debacle
On a bitter cold January afternoon, lines of people awaiting free covid tests stretched around the block at a Rockville,…
Was It the Pandemic or the Response?
“Despite strong levels of vaccination among older people, Covid killed them at vastly higher rates during this year’s Omicron wave…
Elections Won’t Fix This
Americans have limitless faith in democracy. In the early 19th century, that charmed Alexis de Tocqueville. His book Democracy in…
A Helplessness People, Weary and Traumatized
When most people hear the terms “shock and awe” and “full spectrum dominance” they probably think—if they think about them…
Fauci Goes to Princeton
Last month, I went to Princeton to protest the University’s “Class Day” speaker, Tony Fauci. It astounded me that students…
The Myth of the Disease-Ridden Red States
Because there are no possible ways to analyze, categorize, parse, or dissect population data other than by “Share of Trump…
CDC Refuses to Post the Fix to Its Mask Study
We have published many rigorous and trustworthy high-quality evidence pieces across the last two years to show that the COVID…
The Politics of Natural Infection
From the very outset of this pandemic, the topic of natural infection has been a taboo. To suggest that anyone…
Mask Mandates at Tufts University: Wrecking Campus Life
Below: Email to Executive Editor of Tufts Daily, followed by response and reasoning for rejection. Nothing is ever settled. We…
White House Disinformation about Kids and Covid
As many pandemic restrictions have, at least temporarily, been lifted, many activist “experts” have understandably become increasingly frustrated with the…
Justice Department Appeals to Get Masks Back on Airlines, Buses, and Trains
I am not a gambling man. As an investor, financial data analyst, and rock climber, I may appear on the…
Authoritarian Pandemic Policies: A Reckoning
With the Corona crisis another chapter was written in the biopolitical book of life. During the last two years, we…
When Will Our Sense of Security Return?
When faced with incoming disasters, we undergo personal status checks to evaluate our risk of making it through unscathed. If…
Inflationary Pressure Is Worse than They Say
We are apparently back in the spend-your-way-to-prosperity mode. Last week Wall Street greeted the “strong” April PCE number with a…
How the Pandemic Response Changed My Thinking
Looking back to the “before times” – meaning before the middle of March 2020 – we were all quite naive about…
Ethnocentrism and Political Intolerance: A Two Year Retrospective on the Pandemic Response
We all make the mistake of thinking “Americans” have the same culture, the same beliefs & values. However, while united…
Why Did US Intellectuals and Officials Celebrate and Copy China’s Lockdown Model?
In Hannah Arendt’s report on Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust, Arendt concludes that Eichmann was…
Updated Johns Hopkins Study on Lockdowns Debunks the Fact Checkers
Last January, the John Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise published a working…
Mask Mandates Back in Philadelphia
I live in Philadelphia, now officially proven to be one of the dumbest cities ever, as noted by Brownstone contributor…
After Summer, Europe to Target the Unvaccinated
Anyone who imagines that the suspension of Covid-related measures in much of Europe means that those measures, and hence the…
The Loss of Trust Is Well Earned
Society is broken at many levels, and the economy too. We face a mental health crisis among young people following…