Tag: Pandemic Response

Whatever Happened to Empathy?

Commentary On an afternoon stroll yesterday, I noticed across the street a quick-walking woman on a sidewalk headed toward a family of four coming the other direction. The woman ran into the family like a bowling ball hitting pins. On the other side of the resulting mess, the woman who was the main cause of…


Australia’s State of Victoria Continues to Extend Pandemic Declaration for Another Three Months

Victoria’s Premier Daniel Andrews has extended the pandemic declaration for another three months, a decision that the opposition warned would lead to a “slower road to recovery.” Under the pandemic declaration, which was introduced late last year, the Victorian government can continue to impose pandemic rules such as mask and vaccine mandates as well as…


Malone Testifies on Inadequacy and Illegality of Federal Pandemic Response at State Hearing

Dr. Robert Malone will present testimony before the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee hearing on Monday June 27th. In stating his qualifications, Dr. Malone explained why he is in a unique position to provide an opinion regarding federal pandemic responses, “I have been deeply involved in multiple prior outbreak responses including AIDS, the…


Panel Hears From Students Who Say Were Harmed by Canada’s COVID-19 Policies

TORONTO—Kayla Bishop, a university student in Toronto, said she was forced to receive COVID-19 vaccines to continue her studies, but suffered from heart damage following the injection, she told experts at a citizens-based public hearing that invites Canadians who were adversely affected by COVID-19 measures to speak out. Studying at the Toronto Metropolitan University, Bishop…


This Is How Prosperity Dies

News Analysis Now that the lockdown, mask, and mandate wars have died down, I’m getting calls from friends who two years ago cut me off because of my writings and views. They are also looking for insight into the unfolding economic chaos around them. And of course they want some insight into how best to…


How the Pandemic Response Changed My Thinking

Commentary Looking back to the “before times”—meaning before the middle of March 2020—we were all quite naive about liberty, technology, the mob, and the state. Most of us had no idea what was possible and that the dystopia in movies could become real in our times, and so suddenly. The intellectual parlor games were over;…


WHO Politics Are Putting the World at Risk: Urgent Reform Is Needed

Commentary It’s now clear that the World Health Organization (WHO) has ceased to be a credible organization capable of protecting the human race with timely precautionary interventions. The WHO’s bureaucratic attitude has left the body in a sorry state, due to politically motivated leadership. Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, a biologist and career politician from Ethiopia…


How the Power of the Federal Health Agencies Could Have Been Countered

Commentary Blame Congress for letting the federal health agencies impact the lives of millions of Americans in this pandemic. Sure, people despair at the incredible amount of influence over Congress held by corporate, narrow, and biased interests. But the bigger problem has been the uncontrolled power of the federal health agencies. Congress had lost its…


Australian Premier Dan Andrews Insists State’s Less Than ‘Perfect’ Pandemic Response a ‘Triumph’

Victorian Labor Premier Daniel Andrews has admitted his government made mistakes during the state’s pandemic response but insists his measures were a “triumph” that deserves congratulatory adulation. “I wouldn’t want anyone to think that we regard our pandemic response across the board as having been perfect—of course it wasn’t,” Andrews told Stephen Donnelly, a former…


Combing Through the Science of COVID

Does wearing a cloth or paper face mask protect you from a virus? Is the PCR test a reliable method for identifying an infection? Do lockdowns help slow the spread? Are there any safe medicines that have successfully treated or prevented COVID-19? Ask these questions to a random selection of people and you’ll probably get…