Category: Pandemic Response

Fauci Wanted Universal Human Separation Forever

Commentary While millions were locked down, forbidden from going to events or even church, and the schools and arts were shut down, people kept asking a fundamental question: why is this happening, what is government doing, and what is the exit strategy? There were a number of possibilities. Maybe it was to preserve hospital capacity…


Gender Bias Cannot Explain the Pandemic Response

Commentary Women were notably victimized by lockdowns, masking, and vaccine mandates. The lockdowns yanked many working women with children out of the workforce, closed child care and schooling, and forced them back into the home. Millions were hit by this fate, and many are still not back at work. Labor force participation by working-age women…


A Contagion of Cowardice

Commentary Jordan Peterson’s interview with Jay Bhattacharya is one of the more insightful conversations to come out of the post-pandemic period. It’s fascinating to see Peterson coming to terms with the sheer scale of the lockdown during which time he was rather sick. We could have used his voice then and I have no doubt that he…


Dr. Fauci Comes Clean on Vaccines and Respiratory Viruses

Commentary “Attempting to control mucosal respiratory viruses with systemically administered non-replicating vaccines has thus far been largely unsuccessful.” ~ Dr. Anthony Fauci (former director of NIAID), 2023, commenting on vaccines for COVID-19. The journal Cell Host & Microbe recently published one of the more important papers of the COVID era; “Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenza viruses, and…


The CDC Backed the War on Restaurants

Commentary Visiting with a restaurant owner last night, he told me that they fared pretty well throughout the pandemic period. They had a large restaurant so the capacity restrictions didn’t hurt their business. They have a known brand and had already set up the takeout and delivery apparatus. They had high ranks in every rating…


Pandemic Fantasies Hit Hard Reality

Commentary This weekend, under the auspices of Brownstone Institute, two dozen writers and scholars—lawyers, doctors, essayists, scientists—gathered to come to terms with what happened over three years. At some point, all of us realized that no one in the room is today doing anything like what we were doing three years ago. Most everyone there…


3 Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?

Commentary Three years ago this month, a very small group of highly guarded ruling-class people from the UK, United States, and Europe, were gathering to figure out how to lock down the country and the world. They held Zoom meetings and went to burner phones and plotted how to convince Trump to betray his own…


What Was the Point of Denying Natural Immunity?

Commentary On Nov. 13, 2020, just as the vaccine was being rolled out (surely a sheer coincidence that it was just after the election), the World Health Organization (WHO) made a hugely significant change to its website. It pertained to the section on herd immunity—the concept theorizing how a new pathogen goes from pandemic to…


Who Benefitted From This Chaos?

Commentary Two years ago on this day, I posted a piece that was very hard to write. It concerned precisely who was benefiting from the lockdowns, masking, and all that was associated with it, including school and business closures and travel restrictions. As much as we would all prefer for everyone to be concerned about…


Liberalism as We Knew It Is Extinct

Commentary There were two simultaneous hearings yesterday in the House now ruled by Republicans. The first concerned Big Tech censorship and featured Twitter ex-employees being grilled on their role in controlling the public mind in ways that were politically biased. It was mostly boring of course but I was struck by how many times the…