Tag: mandates

A Fantasy of Virus-Free Air

Commentary More than twenty months into the pandemic, it’s clear that many mandated mitigation strategies do not significantly prevent virus transmission, or do so at a steep price. Lockdowns haven’t stopped virus spread around the world, and are not sustainable due to massive collateral damage. There is no consistent evidence of a benefit of universal masking, despite unprecedented politicization and potential for bias…


Pandemic Lessons Learned: Rushed COVID Vaccines

Commentary I was a young vaccine research scientist when SARS-CoV-1 emerged in China and spread around the world in 2003, killing 811 people. Our team jumped on the newly available SARS-CoV genomic sequence, applying the then state-of-the-art bioinformatics tools to design a vaccine against the disease. In the end, the project did not move forward…


Leaders Fuelling Vaxx/Unvaxxed Divide, but They Are to Blame for Canada’s Inadequate Hospital Capacity

Commentary A mid-January Maru Public Opinion poll finds that a significant number of Canadians favour sternly punitive measures for the unvaccinated. Of the poll’s online 1,506 panel, 33 percent were in favour of refusing driver licence renewals to those who refused a (likely forthcoming) mandatory vaccination, 37 percent found denial of access to “any publicly…


California Missed a Chance to Protect Pandemic-Era Human Rights 4 Years Ago

Commentary The United States Supreme Court ruled justly when it stated that businesses with more than 100 employees do not have to mandate taking vaccinations. Most Americans do not believe that businesses should be implementing mandates on their workers. And there are a significant number of individuals who are very uncomfortable about having to take…


Trudeau Tells Children to Ask Parents for Vaccination

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is urging children to get vaccinated as he tried to speak to them directly during his press conference on Wednesday. “I want to end today by speaking directly to kids once again,” he said. “Please ask your parents if you can get vaccinated. Getting vaccinated protects yourself, protects your family, protects…


Queensland Govt Denies Teacher Vaccine Mandates Delayed Start of School Term

The Queensland government has denied that vaccine mandates have contributed to the delay of the start of the new school year after it began standing down teachers once the deadline passed for a survey to determine who was vaccinated. This comes as the Australian state has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases since the state…


Facebook Censors Parent Group Opposing Medical Mandates

LOS ANGELES—A parent Facebook group opposing COVID-19 mandates in Los Angeles schools was disabled this week for allegedly spreading “misinformation.” The group, called “LAUSD Parents Against Medical Mandates,” was started by LA Unified School District (LAUSD) parents who oppose medical mandates for schools after the district announced a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for students in September….


O’Toole Says Trudeau’s ‘Inaction’ Is ‘Normalizing Lockdowns’

Conservative Party leader Erin O’Toole is blaming Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s inaction on certain pandemic-related files for the state the country finds itself in, with new lockdowns, curfews, and restrictions being imposed almost two years in. “Governments across the country had little choice but to take these steps because the federal government has not delivered…


Dr. Aaron Kheriaty: Science Is Being Weaponized to Create a Medical Dystopia

Dr. Aaron Kheriaty made headlines for challenging the COVID-19 vaccine policies of the University of California–Irvine School of Medicine, where he was a professor of psychiatry and the director of the Medical Ethics Program at UCI Health. He was recently fired from that job for challenging the ethics of the mandates—a position that had been…


Austria to Apply Harsher Restrictions on the Unvaccinated

Austria has introduced new rules that will go into effect on Nov. 8 that prevent unvaccinated people from accessing many public facilities such as restaurants, bars, hotels, and hairdressers. “We’re going to have to tighten the reins on the unvaccinated,” Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg said as he introduced the measures after a meeting with state-level…