Category: lockdowns

The Confinement of the Healthy

Commentary COVID-19 represents the first time in the history of pandemics that we confined healthy populations. While the ancients did not understand the mechanisms of infectious disease—they knew nothing of viruses and bacteria—they nevertheless figured out many ways to mitigate the spread of contagion during epidemics. These time-tested measures ranged from quarantining symptomatic patients to…


Why Did the Midterms Not Turn on Lockdowns?

Commentary Why did the lockdowns and vaccine mandates not have a greater impact on the election? Proposition: when the candidate explained them bluntly, denounced them aggressively, and had a good record on the topics, the issues did make a massive difference. However, the Republicans who downplayed the issues out of fear or confusion, or otherwise…


The Lesson: Sticking to Principle and Truth Works

Commentary Early in the evening when the returns started coming in, there were moments of elation among Republicans. It was a red wave and more. It appeared even to be a flood and tsunami. The verdict was absolutely overwhelming. Voters were embracing the Republican message and rejecting the command-and-control wokeness of the Democratic left. Florida…


Data Shows COVID-19 Restrictions Were Ineffective and Based on Wrong Assumptions: Data Analyst

Severe measures imposed on society in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were based on wrong assumptions and, as it turned out later, were ineffective in stopping the spread of the coronavirus, said Justin Hart, chief data analyst and founder of RationalGround.com. During the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially after Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated…


Doctor Who Questioned COVID Response Ordered to Pay $1 Million in Legal Costs After Losing Libel Case

Dr. Kulvinder Kaur Gill, a pediatrician from Brampton Ontario who became well known for her criticism of the government’s response to COVID-19, has been ordered to pay $1 million in legal costs after her libel suit was struck down earlier this year. The costs are related to a $12-million legal action the physician brought, alleging…


Preston Manning Calls for National Citizens’ Inquiry Into Government COVID Response

Former federal Official Opposition leader and veteran politician Preston Manning announced Nov. 2 that he will spearhead a National Citizens’ Inquiry (NCI) into the government’s handling of COVID-19. Lockdowns were unprecedented in nature and magnitude, Manning told The Epoch Times. In a national opinion survey conducted by the NCI in mid-October and published Nov. 1,…


Calgary Pastor Jailed During Pandemic Reflects After Being Acquitted on Charges

After dozens of court dates, three weeks in prison, and seven public health tickets, Calgary Pastor Tim Stephens says he is relieved after having been acquitted of all remaining charges on Nov. 1. Stephens made the comments to The Epoch Times in an interview the day Alberta Provincial Court Judge Allen A. Fradsham declared the pastor…


The Book We Need and Only Justin Hart Could Write

Commentary Sometimes, even now, even after writing a book and probably a thousand or more articles on the topic, and following it every step of the way, it still feels like I dreamed the whole thing. Not a good dream but a nightmare of exceptionally dark attacks on freedom. It got so bad that online…


Who Really Shut Down Our Businesses and Schools?

Commentary A big issue that has emerged in the final days of the midterm election campaigns is the lockdowns of our schools and businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic. The public saw with the abysmal test scores of our children the severe and lasting damage done. Voters are angry, and they should be. Lockdowns were a…


No Amnesty for Lockdowners

Commentary Now that we can talk to our friends and neighbors about it, the reality is sinking in. What our public-health experts and politicians did to this country was egregious. Inspired by the totalitarian lockdowns in Wuhan, China, and urged to replicate that policy by the World Health Organization in a report that Fauci’s National…