COVID presented real danger, especially to the elderly. But the response—particularly from progressive governors, health authorities, and allied institutions—inflicted damage far exceeding what the virus required.
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Freedom in a Post-Covid World
As we approach the semiquincentennial of the Declaration of Independence, we need to rethink the very foundations of freedom, its threats, and what we are going to do in response.
Covid-19 Lockdowns: Four Years Ago This Week, Freedom Was Torched
Seemingly out of nowhere, people who the public had largely ignored, the public health bureaucrats, all united to tell the executives in charge – mayors, governors, and the president – that the only way to deal with a respiratory virus was to scrap freedom and the Bill of Rights.
This Silence on The Fascist Response To Covid-19 Is Not Golden
The Covid response ruined everything the world identified with America: freedom, rights, decentralism, commerce, individual liberty, and bravery in the face of trial. Governments together with all the commanding heights betrayed all those values. We need to know why. We need to know how. We need to know who.
After Covid: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World
The pandemic response enabled new government powers of surveillance, enforcement, and hegemony, resulting in the ultimate and global experiment in social management under the guise of science.
People Should be “Seething Mad” Over COVID – And Much More
COVID policies were a great mistake, imposed by arrogant officials who were not following science, but rather were following their own authoritarian instincts.
Ron DeSantis on Florida’s Covid Response
Ron DeSantis new book The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival explains the backstory to his response and reveals the intense pressures he faced at the time, including the scientific influences that drove his decision-making.
Mr President, End These Covid-19 Travel Restrictions Now!
For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of US borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends. It’s simply barbaric and yet there it is.
The Covid/Crypto Connection: The Grim Saga of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
FTX, founded in 2019 following Biden’s announcement of his bid for the presidency, by the son of the co-founder of a major Democrat Party political action committee called Mind the Gap, was nothing but a magic-bean Ponzi scheme. It seized on the lockdowns for political, media, and academic cover. Its economic rationale was as nonexistent as its books.
Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane
I would rank Justin Hart’s book among those that should be considered a staple reading on the covid epoch. It’s as much a medical and political history as it is a psychological study in mass hysteria.
The Ominous Parallels Between Climate and COVID ‘Science’
The ominous parallels between the mainstream narrative on the climate and the mainstream narrative on covid.
The Ins and Outs of Covid Vaccine Safety
Whatever the truth is, we need to convincingly determine whether there is a problem or not and make that evidence public. Rather than the CDC and FDA feeding the public with inferior VAERS data that cannot answer the question, Americans deserve to be presented with solid evidence from the superior VSD and BEST systems.
Are the Covid mRNA Vaccines Safe?
Fraiman and colleagues have produced the best evidence yet regarding the overall safety of the mRNA vaccines. The results are concerning.
COVID Policy Reinforces Chinese Communist Party Tyranny
The Chinese were long used to authoritarian social controls, but popular anger exploded at the imposition of brutal totalitarian restrictions.
Forget About Covid, They Say
By all means, forget about Covid and live life as normally as possible in defiance of those who live to foster fear. But, never forget the disastrous Covid restrictions that created such destruction. We cannot let anyone off the hook, much less pretend that the policy disaster that created billions of personal tragedies never happened.
Should I Vaccinate My Child Against Covid?
Yesterday, Florida followed Norway by not recommending the Covid vaccine for children. The CDC recommends them.
On Skepticism of Covid-19 Vaccines
Vaccination against Covid is today insisted upon with the same fervor that religious zealots centuries ago exhibited when insisting upon the truths of their particular dogmas. If governments and public-health officials are looking for people to blame for vaccine hesitancy, they need only look in the mirror.
Covid Vaccination and the Revolt Against Reason
Why don’t some people get vaccinated? The fundamental cause is the refusal to think.
COVID19 Pandemic: What Went Wrong, What Went Right, and Why?
A must-watch video by Dr. Amesh Adalja.
Senator Rand Paul vs. YouTube’s COVID-19 “Misinformation Policy”
YouTube bans any video that contradicts pronouncements of the World Health Organization.
Three Books on the Covid/Lockdown Catastrophe
“Faucian Bargain: The Most Powerful and Dangerous Bureaucrat in American History” by Steven Deace, “Lockdowns on Trial” by Michael Betrus, and “When Politicians Panicked” by John Tamny.
The Covid Road Not Taken: Protecting Individual Rights
Government should neither mandate nor ban vaccine passports or the other health decisions that individuals morally and rightfully should make for themselves.
Dr. Fauci’s Mutating Covid Advice
In just under a year’s time, Fauci’s messaging on reinfection and herd immunity has now mutated across dozens of variants of its own, each conveniently aligning with his political messaging of the moment.
Post-Covid Policy Advice from Ludwig von Mises for Developing Countries
As Mises said, if we want, peace, freedom and prosperity, there is no alternative to the free market economy respectful of competitive entrepreneurship and consumer choice.