Tag: lockdowns

[Premiering 2/9, 10:30 AM ET] ‘Zero-COVID’ Lockdowns May Be Causing Mass Deaths in China: Sean Lin

The Chinese communist regime put on a global show with COVID-19. It claimed that there were few if any deaths in most parts of China, and it used this to claim its “zero-COVID” policies of lockdowns and mandates were the solution. The world followed many of these policies, while believing they were effective solutions. Yet,…


So Many Questions About the COVID Response

Commentary About 18 months ago, there was some chatter in Washington about a COVID commission that would examine the wild response and evaluate its good and bad features and make recommendations for the future. From the looks of it at the time, it seemed pretty obvious where it was going. In effect, it was going…


End the COVID-19 ‘Emergency’—Now

Commentary Almost every decision that has been made in Washington and in the states that deals with COVID-19 has been about politics and money, hundreds of billions of dollars, and not about public health. COVID-19 is a deadly virus that has killed over a million Americans—almost all over the age of 65. But from day…


Professor Gives ‘Final Assessment’ on COVID Lockdowns

Government-mandated stay-at-home orders, school and business shutdowns, mandatory face masks, and other non-pharmaceutical interventions to stop the spread of COVID-19, had “little to no effect” on mortality while increasing excess and “collateral” deaths, according to a report. “Widespread, economy-wide lockdown policies were a disaster. They had only marginal effects on the ultimate number of deaths,…


Anthony Furey: One Year After the Freedom Convoy, Did Government Learn Anything?

Commentary It’s quite something to think that a year ago today Ontario was still under a hard lockdown. Premier Doug Ford, who had presided over some of the harshest COVID-19 policies in the free world, only ended the province’s fourth lockdown on Jan. 31, 2022. These outrageous policies happened despite the fact that in most…


My First Anti-Lockdown Article From 2020

Commentary These days, many people are justifying the egregious government response to the virus based on the claim of ignorance. We just didn’t know and could not know, they say. It’s preposterous. It was obvious from early on, to anyone who cared to look, that COVID was a textbook respiratory virus and that lockdowns would…


Governments Doubled Down on Lockdowns After Evidence Proved They Were Ineffective: Professor

A newly released essay by Douglas Allen, professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, examines why governments repeatedly used lockdowns during COVID-19 even after it became clear lockdowns were ineffective and “failed to isolate the virus and stop it from spreading.” Lockdowns were sustained with political support, suggests Allen, and lockdowns had “many winners.” He…


The Downfall of the Gurus

Commentary Scott Adams, creator of the insightful Dilbert comic strip, earned his status as an influencer not only from his acidic commentary on the bureaucratization of business life. He was also very early in noticing that there was something special about Donald Trump. There were moments back in the day when Trump was wizard-like, he…


Study Suggests Half a Million Missed Out on Blood Pressure Drugs During COVID-19 Pandemic

Thousands more heart attacks and strokes may occur in Britain as almost half a million missed the opportunity to start taking blood pressure drugs during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study suggested. The article, which was published on Jan. 19 in Nature Medicine, also said thousands could have missed out on cholesterol-reducing drugs every month. The analysis was…


Veteran Politician Preston Manning Appointed by Alberta Premier to Chair New Pandemic Panel

EDMONTON—Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced on Jan. 19 that veteran politician and former federal Official Opposition leader Preston Manning has been hired to organize and chair a new pandemic committee. Manning, who founded the Reform Party, said the new pandemic panel, the Public Health Emergencies Governance Review Panel, will examine what legislation was used by…