Tag: Public Health

Why Is Economic Science So Isolated?

Commentary In Deborah Birx’s revealing book (“Silent Invasion”) on her role in the pandemic response, she continually pits public health against economic concerns. The opposition to lockdowns within the White House came entirely from the economics team. It drove her nuts. “I saw the economic consequences as a ‘tomorrow issue,’ while human life was a…


We Must Never Forget

Commentary According to the U.N., lockdowns are responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children in the Third World. The disruption from school closures is leading to devastating outcomes for children. And as studies already show, lockdowns hardly had any effect on deaths from COVID-19, while they are surely to a large part responsible for the spike…


COVID Exposed the Medical-Pharmaceutical-Government Complex

Commentary In college, I took a Latin American Politics and Development class. When discussing Latin American medical care, Professor Eldon Kenworthy presented a deeply countercultural idea. Echoing a journal article by the scholar, Robert Ayres, Kenworthy maintained that building hospitals there costs lives. If, instead of erecting, equipping, and staffing gleaming medical centers, this same…


Flu Vax Rates Dropping in States With Low COVID-19 Vax Rates

Researchers are seeing a divide in adult flu vaccine uptake between states, with low flu vaccination uptake in states that had low COVID-19 vaccination rates, whilst states that had high COVID-19 vaccination have increased flu vaccine uptake. The study by the University of California suggests that attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccinations have also spilled over to…


Flu Vaccination Rates Dropping in States With Low COVID-19 Vaccination Rates

Researchers are seeing a divide in adult flu vaccine uptake between states, with low flu vaccination uptake in states that had low COVID-19 vaccination rates, whilst states that had high COVID-19 vaccination have increased flu vaccine uptake. The study by the University of California suggests that attitudes toward COVID-19 vaccinations have also spilled over to…


The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

Commentary Fascism is the art of hiding the truth behind a facade of wholesome virtue. It is, presumably, as old as humanity. Mussolini just gave it a name—hiding his authoritarian ideas behind the drainage of swamps, village renewal, kids in school, and trains running on time. The 1930s picture of Nazism was not broken windows…


False Messaging Forever: The WHO’s Plan for the Future

Commentary The World Health Organization (WHO), and the growing pandemic preparedness industry sponsoring it, have faced considerable challenges in maintaining support for its COVID-19 response. It has addressed this difficult situation with simple and uniform messaging. The compliance thus achieved by WHO has been vital to the successful wealth concentration of the COVID-19 response, benefiting…


The Age of Arrogance

News Analysis There are three great questions roiling public life today. First, why did they (meaning the elites in charge of our lives) not see this coming? Second, why did they believe they could control it? Third, what happens to them now that they have proven to have made such enormously costly errors that have…


CDC Wants Its Covid Regime Made Permanent

Commentary There is no remorse at the CDC. Far from it. The model of virus control deployed over the last 27 months is now part of normal operations. It wants it institutionalized. The bureaucracy has now codified this into a new online tool that instructs cities and states precisely of what they are supposed to do given…


The Politics of Natural Infection

Commentary From the very outset of this pandemic, the topic of natural infection has been a taboo. To suggest that anyone might have been better off risking infection and thereby gaining immunity from a respiratorial virus rather than hiding under the sofa for two years was seen as outrageous and irresponsible. My theory is that the reason…