Category: COVID-19 lockdowns

COVID-19 Lockdowns Linked to Brain Inflammation and Poor Mental Health, Study Suggests

Lockdowns imposed due to the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused brain inflammation among healthy adults who did not contract the virus, a new study from Massachusetts General Hospital suggests. Researchers examined the societal and lifestyle disruptions caused by the pandemic, and found that healthy adults without COVID-19 had higher brain and blood levels of various…


Fired Health Care Worker Moves Forward, Looks Back on What Was Lost at the Hand of Restrictive COVID-19 Policies

As residents of nursing homes were cut off from their families, Kayla Montoro worked throughout the pandemic to keep at bay what had become its own pandemic of loneliness by coordinating events and volunteers to engage isolated seniors. Despite that, amid a crisis of staffing shortages in the health care industry that has resulted in…


The Winter of Our Discontent: Truckers’ Convoy Seeking Return of Liberty Elicits Hope, Amasses Support

Commentary Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York The opening lines of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” express the villainous intent of the twisted and opportunistic Duke of Gloucester, of the House of York, to seize the crown from his brother’s son and legitimate heir through deceit and treachery….


Quebec’s Latest Vaccine Passport Decree Another Act of Nonsensical Political Theatre

Commentary Ordinarily the Quebec government would win hands down the Purposeless Petulant Political Posturing Cup for its decree banning citizens without vaccine passports from provincial liquor stores and pot shops. These being days of rampant abnormal normality, however, there are simply too many worthy contenders in the field to declare a clear winner for specific…


Pandemic Lockdowns Fueled Massive Rise in Gaming and Addiction, Experts Say

During the pandemic, nationwide stay-at-home orders handed gaming companies a golden opportunity. Without the freedom to leave the house, gaming was the only active recreation, social activity, and creative outlet that many people had. From 2020 to 2021, revenue for gaming companies skyrocketed. Games corporation Blizzard saw revenues on the first-person shooter game Call of…


How COVID Lockdowns Destroy Small Businesses and Aggravate Income Inequality

Commentary A new study shows that COVID-19/CCP virus lockdowns hurt the economy, sharpen inequality, and disproportionately harm minorities and the poor. The study, authored by Dr. Paul Prentice and research intern Jim Royal, was published by the Independence Institute in Denver. (Disclosure: I’m an Independence Institute senior fellow. I had no connection with this project.)…


Jeffrey Tucker: How the Working Class Was Betrayed By Lockdowns, Vaccine Mandates

“Many societies have been constructed around this idea of clean and unclean. That’s what we did. And it’s grim. It’s brutal. It’s anti-modern.” At the Brownstone Institute’s inaugural conference in Hartford, Connecticut, we sat down with Brownstone founder and president Jeffrey Tucker to discuss vaccine mandates, the devastating consequences of lockdown policies, and his vision…


Britain Has 10 Days to Save Christmas, Retail Sector Says

LONDON—Britain’s retail industry warned the government on Friday that unless it moves to alleviate an acute shortage of truckers in the next 10 days then significant disruption was inevitable in the run-up to Christmas. As the world’s fifth-largest economy emerges from COVID-19 lockdowns, a spike in European natural gas prices and a post-Brexit shortage of…


COVID Hysteria Could Destroy a Generation

Commentary Initial stay-at-home orders and widespread closures were implemented in a state of panic and uncertainty as COVID-19 quickly swept through the world. Without data, these measures were initially popularly accepted. Two weeks to stop the spread of a novel disease struck most citizens as more than reasonable. But, as the months have dragged on,…


Aussies Test-Driving the Chinese Regime’s ‘Fangkong’ Methods

Commentary Freedom-loving people all over the world are aghast at the strict lockdowns and other actions being taken by Australian states in a misguided effort to achieve “Zero COVID.” Australian state governments are all in on “zero COVID-19,” mandating masks, social distancing, quarantines, contact tracing, and vaccine passports until around 75 percent of their citizens…