The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc around the world. Lives lost, businesses closed, economies in ruins, and a wave of mental health issues. It’s hard to imagine that any good could have come of it—and little has for most of us. Yet, many people have consciously sought out silver linings from their experience, perhaps helping…
Oxford Professor Warns Against ‘Talking Ourselves Into Annual Lockdowns’
An Oxford University professor has warned that government ministers have been focusing on worst case scenarios in COVID-19 modelling and the UK is in serious risk of “talking ourselves into annual lockdowns.” Professor Carl Heneghan, director of the Centre of Evidence Based Medicine at Oxford University, said the UK government should trust people to manage…
Canada’s Finances: Soaring Expenditures Worsen Winter Chill
Commentary It’s not just the recent blast of winter giving me chills as 2021 comes to a close. The political manoeuvring being done in Ottawa as the fall parliamentary session came to a close is sending outright shivers up my spine, particularly when it comes to the nation’s finances. While Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland was…
COVID Is the Virus. Wokeness Is the Disease
Commentary “Willfully blind and recklessly misleading.” Those are just two of the aspersions that law professors have levelled at the Free North Declaration, a call to arms to protect civil liberties in Canada from COVID-19 irrationality and overreach. Launched on Nov. 12 and profiled recently in the Epoch Times by Lisa Bildy (one of its…
Dr. Steven Templeton: How Media Frenzy and COVID Panic Made America Obsessively Risk Averse and Germophobic
America has a “safety culture problem,” says immunologist Dr. Steven Templeton. “We want to mitigate risk to the point where there’s no risk.” The pandemic response—from harsh lockdowns to school closures—has been characterized by a “self-destructive” overreaction, says Templeton, an associate professor of immunology and microbiology at the Indiana University School of Medicine. And the…
PART 2: Robert Destro: Is the West Starting to Adopt China’s Orwellian Social Credit System and Internet Firewall?
December 11, 2021
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“If you allow people to say, ‘Oh, declaring an emergency means that rights don’t apply,’ then there’s going to be lots of emergencies.” With the spread of Big Tech censorship and lockdowns of the unvaccinated, are elements of China’s internet firewall and Orwellian social credit system now spreading to the West? In part two of…
America: Doing Well But Feeling Bad
Commentary News reports carry what seems to be a contradiction. Data show a good economic recovery from the lingering effects of pandemic-induced lockdowns and quarantines. Yet, all the polls announce that people worry about economic prospects. The mainstream media, not surprisingly, explains this difference in terms of public ignorance. Such condescension may make reporters and…
Donald Boudreaux: The Deafening Silence of Economists During COVID-19 and the Abandonment of Logic
“People talk about long COVID. … I worry about long lockdown.” At the Brownstone Institute’s inaugural conference, I sat down with Donald Boudreaux, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior fellow with the American Institute for Economic Research. In the age of COVID-19, most economists failed to do their jobs, he…
The Free North Declaration Is an Island of Sanity in a Country Gone Mad
Commentary “Things don’t add up.” As a lawyer who has been writing, speaking, and litigating against lockdowns and now vaccine mandates these last 20 months, I have heard this sentiment countless times. Ordinary people who are being stripped of their normal lives—their jobs, sports, education, gatherings, travels, and medical services—have told me that the country…
Live Q&A: Europe Debates Making Vaccines Mandatory; Questions Grow Around Potential Rittenhouse Defamation
After Austria implemented Europe’s first COVID-19 vaccine mandates and announced enforcement of lockdowns on the unvaccinated, Germany is now debating whether to adopt a similar policy. And after Kyle Rittenhouse was found innocent on all charges by a jury, discussion is spreading on whether he will sue news outlets and public figures for defamation. In…
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