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Cancel the Mandates, Leave the Workers Alone

by Gilbert Berdine, MD, via Mises.org President Joe Biden recently extended the US national emergency for covid-19. A confrontation between truckers protesting Canadian covid mandates and the government in Ottawa has turned ugly. The debate over covid mandates has turned toward authoritarian tactics rather than the merits of the mandates. Irrespective of the debate on the […]

On Skepticism of Covid-19 Vaccines

by Donald J. Boudreaux via AIER Tennis star Novak Djokovic famously (or, depending on your perspective, infamously) refused to get vaccinated against Covid-19 as a condition for entering Australia to play in the Australian Open. Djokovic’s refusal prompted National Review’s Kevin Williamson and Charles Cooke to engage each other in an online debate over the […]

DC March to Defeat the Mandates

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE January 23, 2022, an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Americans gathered in Washington, D.C., for a “Defeat the Mandates” rally. Speakers included scientists, doctors, academics, media personalities and COVID jab victims Pfizer’s data show that if you take the COVID jab, you have a 21% increased chance of dying over the […]

Italy’s Covid Despotism Just Got Worse

by Matteo Salonia via Mises.org The news from Italy has started to sound like good incipits for a dystopian fantasy novel or like a déjà vu recalling the Soviet Union. A couple of weeks ago, a new decree of the Draghi government established yet more rules restricting the lives of people who have not been injected with the […]

PayPal Terminates Nonprofits Fighting Vaccine Mandates

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE December 21, 2021, after business hours, PayPal notified the National Vaccine Information Center that it would no longer process donations from their supporters — effective immediately Other organizations also dropped by PayPal include the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance (FLCCC) and Organic Consumer’s Association (OCA) In October 2021, self-proclaimed […]

Why They Want to Keep the “Health Emergency” Going Forever

by Ryan McMaken via Mises Institute Last month, Colorado governor Jared Polis ended statewide mask mandates and social-distancing provisions, stating that “the emergency is over.“ This, of course, does not mean Colorado is now laissez-fairein terms of covid. Public higher education institutions—thanks to Polis’ tacit approval—still have free rein in terms of imposing vaccine and mask […]

Supreme Court Delivers Schizophrenic Ruling

by Paul Craig Roberts via Institute for Political Economy In a schizophrenic ruling on January 13, the US Supreme Court ruled against the Biden regime’s Covid vaccine mandate for private businesses but for the mandate for health care workers. Ordinary Americans might wonder why the Justices protected some people from undergoing a coerced medical procedure […]

Media Fakes First Omicron Death Story

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Despite all signs indicating the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant causes only mild illness, the World Health Organization declared it a “variant of concern,” and countries responded with renewed mask mandates and lockdowns December 20, 2021, the U.S. press went wild, reporting that the first Omicron death had been reported in Houston, […]

Why Is the Human Being Not Like a Machine?

By Jeffrey A. Tucker via Brownstone Institute In defense of regulatory mandates during oral arguments, the following words were spoken by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor: “Why is a human being not like a machine if it’s spewing a virus?” For her, it is a simple matter: regulatory impositions rule the machine world so why […]

Week 54: CDC/VAERS Reports Over 1 Million Covid-19 Vaccine Adverse Events and 22,600 Deaths

Enough is enough! As of December 24, 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) report a staggering 1,000,229 Covid-19 vaccine adverse events (all locations). Think about that for a moment. Over 1 million people are reported to have been negatively impacted (including death) by the […]

Pharma’s War on Scientists to Mandate Jabs for Life

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Another cache of emails obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) reveals Dr. Anthony Fauci and his boss, National Institutes of Health director Francis Collins, colluded to quash dissenting views on the lockdowns October 4, 2020, three medical professors — […]

The Tyrant Says He Means Well

by Adam Dick via Ron Paul Institute Tyrants just about always say they mean well in imposing tyranny. Sweeping prohibitions, coupled with harsh enforcement, the tyrants say, are necessary to advance important conditions, such as health, economic wellbeing, or defense from an enemy’s menace. So it goes as well with United States President Joe Biden […]

Another Year Without A Family Christmas?

by Dr. Joseph Mercola STORY-AT-A-GLANCE Thanksgiving gatherings were discouraged once again in many parts of the U.S., and many government leaders are now urging residents to cancel their Christmas celebrations too The global response to the COVID-19 pandemic has little to do with the spread of an actual virus, and everything to do with the […]