Tag: lockdowns

Hotel America Needs to End

Commentary My sister-in-law, a nurse on Cape Cod, wants to visit New York City and is struggling to find an affordable hotel. If she were a Venezuelan migrant who had just arrived in the Big Apple on a bus from the southern border, she’d have a shot at a room at the four-star Row hotel,…


To Be Ruled by Liars

Commentary The last several years have revealed something we never wanted to believe. Major swaths of the leaders of our public culture—in government, media, and industry—have been lying to us. They had their reasons and certainly believed that their lies were necessary and thus noble. But still we know now what we once suspected but…


The Censorious Scott Gottlieb Was a Major Influence on Lockdowns

Commentary The latest of the Twitter Files is reported by Alex Berenson, who was granted access to messaging systems from the times before Elon Musk took over. His first round of reporting concerns the role of Scott Gottlieb, who is a perfect example of an influencer who is technically outside of government but might as well be…


End These Travel Restrictions Now

Commentary Once again, the U.S. government has extended the vaccination-only policy for foreign travelers, this time to April and probably later. It’s a devastating announcement for millions of people without U.S. passports who want to come to the United States to visit friends and family or otherwise engage in professional and educational activities the way they used…


Modeling Gone Bad

Commentary A new paper documents that the pre-vaccination case fatality rate was extremely low in the non-elderly population. Age-stratified infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in the non-elderly population Environmental Research, Volume 216, Part 3, 1 January 2023, 114655 Abstract “The largest burden of COVID-19 is carried by the elderly, and persons living in nursing homes…


Lockdowns Deaths in 2020 Were 42 Percent of Excess Deaths

Commentary There were virtually no COVID vaccinations given in 2020 (0.8 percent of population, and only 18 COVID vaccine deaths reported to VAERS), which makes it an ideal year for analyzing excess COVID deaths vs. excess lockdown deaths, which I am defining to include all excess deaths above COVID deaths, including iatrogenic deaths, and all other…


What Is Crimson Contagion?

Commentary The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors. The idea of school shutdowns, business closures, plus mandatory remote work and other restrictions have previously seemed inconceivable. It was especially remarkable to have such an “all-of-government” response to a virus that we already…


Non-COVID Working-Age Excess Deaths Confirmed by Study

During the COVID-19 pandemic, working-age Americans were dying of non-COVID-19 causes at a rate about 25 percent above what would have been expected based on previous trends, a recent research paper shows. About 108,000 Americans aged 18–64 died of causes other than COVID-19 in excess of expected trends during the pandemic, say the Dec. 15…


Stephen Woodworth: When Does Human Life Begin? Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of Motion 312

Commentary The official press corps recently dusted off the narrative that COVID-19 justifies the re-imposition of public control measures like mandatory masking, penalties for refusal of vaccine booster shots, and lockdowns of public assembly, albeit in the face of confused and conflicting evidence of the effectiveness and cost-benefit balance of such measures. Perhaps its time…


National Citizen’s Inquiry Calls for Witnesses on Goverment Lockdowns

An independent, non-governmental National Citizen’s Inquiry (NCI) into the government’s handling of COVID-19 is now calling for a variety of witnesses from across the country, announced former federal Official Opposition leader and veteran politician Preston Manning on Dec. 20. At a press conference Tuesday, Manning said the NCI will hold nine hearings across the country and anticipates…