News Analysis Public health experts and politicians around the world have implemented compulsory lockdown policies to curb the COVID-19 infection and death rates. But, have these lockdown measures been successful in reducing mortality from the disease? According to a new study released by Johns Hopkins University, lockdowns have had little to no impact on COVID-19 mortality. As the…
Do Lockdowns Reduce COVID-19 Mortality?
Upcoming Live Q&A Webinar: With New Lockdowns, Is the CCP Reaching a Breaking Point?
The Chinese regime is bringing back new lockdowns for an alleged new outbreak of the CCP Virus. Videos have emerged of authorities welding shut the doors of housing complexes, locking people inside, and reports are increasingly emerging of people nearing starvation. These actions take place just ahead of the Beijing Olympics, and amid growing signs…
The DC Rally and the Rise of the Resistance
Commentary By long American tradition, protest movements manifest themselves most fully in gatherings in Washington, D.C, starting at the Washington Monument and culminating in speeches at the Lincoln Memorial. At long last, after two years of astonishing attacks on fundamental rights that most everyone once believed were protected by the U.S. Constitution, this happened yesterday,…
2 Years Into the Pandemic, How Much More Must Youth Suffer?
Commentary As we enter 2022, we approach the two-year anniversary of the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s quite shocking for me; I was 16 at the start of this and I’m now old enough to be able to vote. Despite this gap of time having passed, it feels as though we haven’t progressed. A…
It’s Time to Put the Pandemic Era Behind Us
Commentary Are we finally at the end of the pandemic? Could it possibly be that the COVID-induced madness that has done more harm than good for the last 19 months is finally receding? There are some glimmers of hope. The British government announced this week that come Dec. 27, it will end mandatory face coverings and…
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…
Germany Considers Shutting Down Telegram
A member of the Federal Cabinet of Germany has suggested that the government may ban Telegram, likely as a result of its popularity among people who have been protesting CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus restrictions. “We cannot rule this out,” said Interior Minister Nancy Faeser in an interview with Die Wielt weekly. “A shutdown would be grave…
Saskatchewan Premier Says Lockdowns Won’t Help Province Get Through Omicron
Saskatchewan premier Scott Moe says more lockdowns won’t help provinces get through the Omicron variant. “It’s now clear, at least in this Omicron wave of the pandemic, that lockdown policies can cause harm in our communities, often with little or virtually no benefit,” Moe said during a press conference on Jan. 12. “They cause economic…
Provincial, Federal Governments Won’t Confirm if They’ve Evaluated Success of Lockdown Policies
Many provinces have imposed restrictions in response to surging COVID-19 cases, but none have confirmed whether they have evaluated the success of these policies based on data and evidence from previous lockdowns in Canada. The Epoch Times asked all 13 provinces and territories as well as the federal government whether they have done any assessment…
Songbird: The Dystopian Film That Became Real
Commentary Watching “Songbird” (2020) was a delight. Wait, wrong word. It was chilling, remarkable, stunning, revealing, and terrifying in strange ways. It features a dystopian society that is fully consumed by disease panic and controlled by a police state that claims to be fixing the problem. The problem is not being fixed. Everything gets worse and…
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