In what must be one of the most mind-bending public health measures adopted anywhere in the world during the entire Covid-19 pandemic, Germany recently reduced the period of validity of the country’s Covid-19 “Certificate of Recovery” from 6 months to 90…

The only way to know if these are adverse reactions caused by the vaccine or not is to focus less on VAERS reports and instead examine the VSD and BEST data. CDC and FDA have the data, systems and knowledge to answer the concerns. Why haven’t they?

To impose a centrally dictated objective, and a unidimensional one to boot, on complex societies comprised of billions of individuals with extremely diverse preferences and capabilities is to wage war on human nature, and humanity. Sustaining it necessarily…

When the mainstream narrative refuses to acknowledge known science and known data, trust is lost. This adds to the reason for people who do not want the jab to be skeptical about the excessive push for the same.

Lockdowns are nowhere a solution to pathogenic spread, contrary to the assurances of the WHO or celebrity scientists in the UK or the US. When governments of the world tried to prove their competence by declaring war on cell biology, they finally met their…

To these ideological individuals and groups, the tyranny we saw around the world were a good start, but still, not tyrannical enough.

Instead of massively testing everyone on demand, testing should be leveraged to do what everything should have been geared toward in the first place—protecting the high-risk, saving lives, and opening society up as soon as possible. 

The free world is stuck tallying the costs of its catastrophic foray into totalitarianism. Most of these costs were predicted well before the policies were ever implemented. Hundreds of millions have gone hungry. An entire generation of children has been…

There are so many questions and far too few answers. This one junket is just the beginning but it is a massively important one. We know now that the idea that China managed the virus well is a complete myth (it did not “demonstrate that the infection can…

It’s absolutely never that you will meet another human with whom you have everything in common, and agree on every topic. The important part is finding common ground. And it turns out that right now, the most important common ground I can think of is medical…

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Looked at through the prism of Germany, war is the destruction of that which economic growth builds. Freedom is the path to economic revival.

The Covid response can and undoubtedly will be portrayed in future years as the product of criminal negligence. 

Fighting mandates on college campuses is isolating and ostracizing. When faced with giving up your dreams, the coercion is unbearable.

Consumer spending got twisted like a pretzel owing to Washington instigated policies which were anti-growth and pro-spending.

Shanghai - It’s possible that at some point, Chinese authorities became convinced that their Wuhan lockdown actually worked.

We may be faced with catastrophic consequences for what we did to our children over the last two years of unsound Covid restrictive policies.

These scenes are the logical conclusion of ZeroCovid lockdowns. A grim reminder of the dystopia that could have been if they had their way.

This is the latest reminder that increased power during crisis will always tempt leaders, and this temptation must not be left unchallenged.

Is liberalism a lost cause? Many today dream that it would be regarded as a failed experiment in a world longing for authoritarian control.

Anyone thinking we’ve settled back into a comfort bubble of “liberals” vs “conservatives” is refusing to face post-pandemic politico-cultural realities.