Category: mandates

The 1968-69 ‘Hong Kong Flu’ Pandemic Revisited

Commentary It was a very bad year for the flu. The pathogen came in two large waves. This is only obvious in retrospect. At the time, not so much. Life went on as normal. There were gatherings. There were parties. There was travel. There were no masks. Doctors treated the sick. Traditional public health reigned…


Is a Serious Financial Crisis Next?

Commentary Be grateful for what did not happen. Two and a half years ago, governments around the world took the unprecedented step of “shutting down” their economies, which means the extreme control of people and their choices. This has proven to be devastating to prosperity, education, culture, health, and the prospects for liberty. Anyone could…


Another Lockdowner Bites the Dust

News analysis Governments of the world today are among the least popular institutions on the planet. There are a few possible exceptions such as Sweden, Florida, and South Dakota, places with leadership that chose not to bludgeon its people in the name of virus control. Among all the rest, we see instability and public opposition…


EU Renews Digital COVID Pass Despite 99 Percent Negative Public Feedback

News analysis Acting on a proposal of the European Commission, the European Parliament, as expected, voted on June 23 to renew the EU Digital COVID Certificate for another year. The vote was 453 for, 119 against, and 19 abstentions. The certificate regulation had been scheduled to expire on June 30. Earlier this month, a delegation from the…


We Must Never Forget

Commentary According to the U.N., lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children. And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths from COVID-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the spike…


The Lockdown Advocacy of Devi Sridhar

Commentary The COVID era gave rise not only to popular mania but also to astonishing intellectual pretension. The experts were everywhere. They had all the answers. They knew for certain that a path never tried in anyone’s lifetimes was the certain way to go in order to control a virus. And this fanatical attachment to…


More Bad News for the Mask Cult

Commentary Unless you’re visiting a medical facility still taken in by the mask-cult or you live in a big city or some obscure California county run by hypochondriac Democrat whack-jobs, you’re probably generally living your life without being forced to wear a useless, bacteria-laden piece of t-shirt material over your face. However, if your overlords…


The American Tipping Point

News Analysis In 2000, Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called “The Tipping Point” that has since been rolled into the conventional wisdom. The idea is that viral products start very small, gain new adherents, tap into a special something that relates to fear of missing out, and the climb goes higher and higher until that…


The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

Commentary Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a facade of wholesome virtue. It is, presumably, as old as humanity. Mussolini just gave it a name—hiding his authoritarian ideas behind the drainage of swamps, village renewal, kids in school, and trains running on time. The 1930s picture of Nazism was not broken windows…


False Messaging Forever: The WHO’s Plan for the Future

Commentary The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, have faced considerable challenges in maintaining support for its COVID-19 response. It has addressed this difficult situation with simple and uniform messaging. The compliance thus achieved by WHO has been vital to the successful wealth concentration of the COVID-19 response, benefiting…