This adapted excerpt is from Dr. Scott W. Atlas’ bestselling book, “A Plague Upon Our House,” published by Bombardier. CDC Director Robert Redfield’s congressional testimony on Sept. 23, 2020, immediately caught my attention. I watched in disbelief as Redfield told Congress that “more than 90 percent of the population”—more than three hundred million people in the…
What Happened on the Junket to China in February 2020?
Commentary The last two years have been such a disorienting blizzard of shock and awe that it is truly hard to keep up. We went from lockdowns to mitigation theater to mandates so quickly, and now one gets the feeling that we aren’t supposed to think or talk about any of this. We are just…
The Specter of Asymptomatic Spread
Commentary In January 2020, at the very start of the pandemic, the New England Journal of Medicine published a letter that suggested the possibility that covid could be spread by people who did not show any symptoms of the illness. This article was based on a single case report. Germany’s public health agency, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI),…
Is Covid Policy Comedy, Tragedy, or Both?
Commentary The Saturday Night Live skit on Covid policy is a welcome relief, a cultural sign that rationality has started to return. Yes, the segment is truly hilarious. And it reveals so much about the present moment in which even highly politicized elites are realizing that the dissidents in the Covid wars had it right…
EEU Regulators, WHO Call for End to COVID Boosters, Citing Evidence Strategy Is Failing
EU drug regulators, World Health Organization experts and the former chairman of the UK’s COVID task force all cited mounting evidence mRNA COVID boosters aren’t working and the strategy should be dropped European Union drug regulators on Tuesday warned frequent COVID boosters could adversely affect the immune system and said there are currently no data to support repeated doses. This comes…
Where Are We Now? An Interview With Jay Bhattacharya
Jay Bhattacharya, senior fellow of the Brownstone Institute and a professor at Stanford University, was one of three signers of the Great Barrington Declaration. In this interview with Unherd, conducted by Freddie Sayers, he reflects on the aftermath and how events have transpired since the document was signed and promulgated. He speaks to a range…
As of This Moment, America Is Still a Beacon of Liberty
Commentary Under the pretext of public health, the soul of what is known as the Free West has left most Western countries. Looking at the government overreach and abuses of power in virtually every other Western nation, one can only conclude that America truly is the last free man standing. Here is a rundown of…
The Zoom Class Gets Covid
Commentary For nearly two years, we’ve wondered how this will end. In retrospect, the clue is in how it began. The initial lockdowns had a strong class-based component. The working classes were assigned the job of delivering groceries, tending to the sick, driving the trucks filled with goods, keeping the lights on, and keeping the…
Slouching Toward Endemicity
Commentary Is that the sound of normalcy I’m hearing out there? Ever more authors and sources admitting that the virus is a medical problem that cannot be addressed or solved through politicized “mitigation measures.” This is what I’m reading between the lines of such news stories as this one: Early in the pandemic, many people seized…
It’s Madness What Is Happening to College Kids
This is a post about the absolutely insane, crushing restrictions being imposed on young, healthy vaccinated (often booster and often naturally immune) people by institutions of knowledge. In order to prove my thesis that these policies are misguided, let me start with some basics. When it comes to COVID19, there are only 3 things any…
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