Tag: lockdowns

The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus

Commentary Science is the process by which we learn about the workings of material reality. Though modern innovations—built on the fruits of science—would look like magic to people living only decades ago, they result from the time-tested scientific method. Contrary perhaps to media portrayals of science, the scientific method depends not on the existence of…


Crowdfunded Documentary Digs Into COVID-19 Lockdowns, Mandates, and Their Effects

ORLANDO, Fla.—A question still echoes across the internet by people searching for answers about the COVID-19 pandemic that began in early 2020: “What really happened?” A small group of filmmakers and like-minded supporters gathered in a movie theater outside Orlando, Florida, on April 19 to dig into that question. There, the SoundMind Creative Group and…


Cory Morgan: Why Is the Media Not Calling Out Blatant Scapegoating by Politicians?

Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic was the most divisive world event in generations. Differing views over government actions such as lockdowns and vaccine mandates split families, friends, and social groups. Protests erupted across the nation and the truckers’ Freedom Convoy made Canadian history as a government in panic invoked the Emergencies Act in response to the…


Top Ten Quotes From the NYT Fauci Interview

Commentary Billed as the most in-depth interview yet, the New York Times published a very long piece that contains some rather startling admissions, claims, and defenses from Anthony Fauci, the face of lockdowns and shot mandates. The author and interviewer is David Wallace-Wells, who before (and now after) COVID specialized in writing about climate change, invokes every…


EXCLUSIVE: COVID Response Aimed to Impose Control on Population: Physician, Refugee From Communist Country

A physician who fled communist Yugoslavia saw the COVID-19 pandemic “through two eyes.” On the one hand, she perceived it from a doctor’s perspective; on the other hand, she looked at it through the eyes of someone who grew up under communism. Dr. Kat Lindley, a family physician and president of the Texas branch of…


What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

Commentary In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from? The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…


The Manipulation of the Public Mind

Commentary In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a complex syntax and method,…


British Pubs in Crisis as Closures Accelerate

The rate of pubs shutting down is accelerating at a faster rate than immediately after the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, according to new figures. Government data indicate a significant surge in pub closures, with 51 shutting down each month during the first financial quarter of 2023. In 2022, after the UK emerged from COVID-19 lockdowns,…


Nearly 1.5 Million Japanese Living in Extreme Isolation After COVID-19 Lockdowns

Japan has seen an increasing prevalence in the “hikikomori” phenomenon following COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, with an estimated 1.46 million people isolating themselves from society by staying at home for an extended period. A survey by the Cabinet Office found that about 20 percent of the total 1.46 million hikikomori—a term used in Japan to refer…


They Hit the Pause Button and the Music Stopped

Commentary In the great search for metaphors to justify the largest-scale violations of human rights in our lifetimes, the disease managers finally hit on the term “pause button.” We were merely pressing it for a while to get our bearings, un-overload hospitals, gather personal protective equipment, flatten the curve, and generally figure out what to…