Category: lockdowns

The CDC Surveilled for Lockdown Compliance

Commentary Amissing piece of the great lockdown plot was enforcement. How precisely were authorities going to know the whereabouts of hundreds of millions of people without a veritable army of snoops? Yes, there were some arrests and media reports and some private drones flying here and there to snap pictures of house parties to send…


Pandemic Lessons Learned: Deadly Lockdowns

For over a month now, since April 5, 2022, Shanghai—a city of 26 million people best known as a financial and trade hub of East Asia for more than a century—has been in total lockdown. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has told its citizens that the mass COVID testing and near-total lockdown are necessary to…


The Neurological Toll of Masks and Lockdowns

Dr. Avery Jackson, a board-certified neurosurgeon based in Michigan, performs complicated brain surgeries in the operating room as often as four times a week. During these surgeries, which can last for up to eighteen hours, Jackson, who is Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director of Michigan Neurosurgical Institute in Grand Blanc, wears a surgical mask….


Choice Quotes From Bill Gates’s New Book

Commentary Imagine yourself sidled up to a bar. A talkative guy sits down on the stool next to you. He has decided that there is one thing wrong with the world. It can be literally anything. Regardless, he has the solution. It’s interesting and weird for a few minutes. But you gradually come to realize…


When Haircuts Were Illegal

Commentary Unless we just decide to forget, historians will look back in astonishment. Healthcare spending declined in a pandemic. People were blocked from their houses of worship. Choirs couldn’t sing. Drones flew the skies to ferret out and report house parties. Rental cars were fumigated with something. Crossing a state line meant mandatory two week…


Major South Korean Industries Face Production Cuts and Shutdowns Amid China’s Lockdowns

South Korea’s major industries are experiencing supply disruptions in core components as the pandemic lockdowns in China show no end in sight. With the country’s high dependence on Chinese imports, any disruption in the supply chain would threaten the South Korean economy, according to a recent study. Under the severe disruptions to the Chinese supply…


[PREMIERING 5/7 at 7:30PM ET] Jeffrey Tucker: How the US Adopted CCP-Inspired COVID-19 Control Policies, a Timeline

This episode will premiere on Saturday, May 7, at 7:30 p.m. ET.     “How come HHS [Health and Human Services] released its lockdown blueprint on March 13 when Trump hadn’t even given his approval to anything remotely resembling lockdowns until two days later? There’s a lot that we need to know.” Why did the United…


Two Weeks to Flatten the GDP

Commentary What is it with these pundits and government spokespeople? Two years ago, they were wildly exaggerating virus threats, canceling and censoring people who pointed out contrary evidence. It was all about scaring people into compliance with a far-flung epidemiological experiment. Now the tendency has swung the other way. No matter how bad the economic…


Lockdowns Show Erosion of US Founding Principles: Jeffrey Tucker

After living through more than two years of extreme pandemic mitigation policies, experts are saying we need answers from the government about why public health officials were allowed to make decisions that damaged peoples’ economic, physical, and mental health. Jeffrey Tucker, author and president of the Brownstone Institute, said it will take years to have a…


The Next Ten Battles

Commentary It is apparently much easier to tell the truth about state action the farther away it is from home. And hence even The New York Times seems alarmed at the covid lockdowns in Shanghai, and pretending as if nothing like that could happen here even though the whole practice of lockdown the world over was directly copied from…