Category: lockdowns

Could Boosters Backfire?—Dr. Paul Alexander on Booster Shots, Natural Immunity, and the Failures of Lockdowns | PART 1

“We do not know how the immune system is going to react to so much boosting. Why? Because the vaccine developers did not study it.” In this two-part episode, we sit down with Brownstone Institute’s Dr. Paul Alexander, an expert in evidence-based medicine, research methodology, and clinical epidemiology. He served in the Trump administration in…


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…


Shutting Down Economies Amid COVID-19 Will Have ‘Unprecedented’ Negative Effects: Donald Boudreaux

Shutting down huge chunks of the economy and increasing government spending amid the COVID-19 pandemic will have “significant” and maybe even “unprecedented” negative effects on the economy, according to economist Donald J. Boudreaux. Speaking to The Epoch Times at the inaugural conference of the Brownstone Institute in Hartford, Connecticut, on Nov. 13, Boudreaux explained that economists cannot clearly quantify…


Public Trust in Science Shattered by Official Pandemic Response: Dr. Bhattacharya

Trust in science was severely impacted by the actions taken by health officials and scientists in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a conference heard on Saturday. “Public trust has been shattered,” Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and a senior scholar the Brownstone Institute, said during an institute conference. That matters…


The World Continues to Follow China’s Lead in Containing the Pandemic

Commentary It appears the Chinese regime is under pressure, as the international community criticizes its “zero-covid” policy that’s wrecking the economy. However, the world continues to follow China’s pandemic measures to varying degrees. By March 2020, the world began to follow the Chinese model of pandemic control, including masks, lockdowns, and school closures, despite significant…


Climate Change Lockdown

Commentary Climate change is at risk of being morphed into a major health pandemic. The World Health Organization was so ruthless on COVID-19 that maybe it will be considered to be put in charge of managing the climate. The globalist brigade along with Davos, the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and other assorted woke…


Australians See Freedoms Slide Amid Pandemic

In the 20 months since the CCP virus first came to Australia, it has been linked to the deaths of about 1.19 percent of the about 113,000 total confirmed cases in the country, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Despite low rates of hospitalizations and deaths in comparison to other countries, the state and…


Australia’s Capital Territory Allows Travel to More Regions

Residents of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), home to the nation’s capital city, have been given the green light to visit a further 26 New South Wales (NSW) postcode areas after a relaxing of coronavirus quarantine requirements. ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr has announced the changes, which include Batemans Bay and Perisher Valley, will come…


3 Fed Policymakers Throw Support Behind November Taper Timeline

Three Federal Reserve policymakers on Tuesday hinted that the central bank has made enough progress to start cutting back on its monthly bond purchases as early as next month and will start withdrawing the extraordinary support it unleashed after the pandemic lockdowns paralyzed the economy. “Since our December 2020 meeting, the Committee has indicated that it will continue to maintain…


Academic Study Critical of Lockdowns Largely Ignored by Media, Author Says

An academic working paper released in the spring outlining the failures of pandemic lockdown policies has been largely ignored by media, says its author. Douglas Allen, an economics professor at Simon Fraser University, says his study went viral after he posted it in April and he received positive feedback, leading to interviews on podcasts in…