The Evidence Keeps Piling up: Lockdowns Don’t Work
September 12, 2020 – Ryan McMaken …… Extraordinary measures require extraordinary evidence. Have the advocates for lockdowns made their case? The data suggests they have not.
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Mandatory Covid-19 Vaccination Is Unethical and Unscientific
September 11, 2020 – Gilbert Berdine, MD …… We are fortunate to have vaccines as options in many cases. But mandatory vaccination can never be justified. If a vaccine were clearly 100 percent efficacious and 100 percent safe, there would be no need for coercion; people would voluntarily line up to take it.
With Their Pandemic Policies, Governments are Weakening the Social Fabric – Again
September 2, 2020 – Lee Friday …… If we really are at the mercy of a serious pandemic, politicians would comply with the rules which they expect the rest of us to obey.
France Rules Out Economic Lockdown Despite Surge in COVID-19 Cases, Says ‘Collateral Damage’ Too Severe
August 30, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… French President Emmanuel Macron recently ruled out initiating a new series of economic lockdowns despite a resurgence of COVID-19 cases.
Gallup Poll: Homeschooling Rate Doubles as School Satisfaction Plummets
August 29, 2020 – Kerry McDonald …… An educational sea change is happening, and there are reasons to believe it will be permanent.
Why Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on Covid-19
August 24, 2020 – Gilbert Berdine, MD …… At best, lockdowns have deferred death for a short time, but the lockdowns cannot possibly be continued for the long term.
The War on Landlords Has Begun
August 22, 2020 – Zachary Yost …… It does not bode well for our society when proposals to simply expropriate property are becoming more and more prevalent and discussed with more seriousness.
Sweden’s Results Suggest We Should Stop Quarantining Healthy Children
August 20, 2020 – Jon Miltimore …… There is ample evidence and real-life examples that show the costs of quarantining healthy children far outweigh the benefits.
Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics
August 19, 2020 – Mary L. G. Theroux …… Rather than simply reprinting government press releases with facts and figures on the coronavirus pandemic, hospitals being overwhelmed, the threat from thousands of “cases,” etc., it would be refreshing if reporters actually went out and did some investigative checking for themselves.
Where There’s a Will There’s a Won’t: A COVID-Related Tale of Bureaucracy
August 18, 2020 – James A. Montanye …… Commercial enterprises eagerly began squeezing value out of long-idled private assets as the state-mandated COVID shutdown progressively was relaxed. Tax-funded county operations, by contrast, were content to deny service to patrons despite the conspicuous idleness of public assets under their jurisdiction.