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Freedom from Government’s Performative Safety-ism

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Or, “the night the masks came off.” Is the Biden White House so “insular, conceited and tone-deaf” that it may try to have Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle’s ruling overturned? Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle voided the Biden administration’s widely reviled but recently extended mask mandate on public transportation, reports Paul du Quenoy in Spectator World. Awkwardly […]

Draconian COVID School Closures Cost 13.8 Million Years of Life Lost

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According to a new study published as a working paper by the NBER, the harsh school lockdowns in response to COVID-19 cost Americans 13.8 million years in lost life. Just the News reports: A working paper that examined how U.S. states responded to the COVID-19 pandemic found strict lockdowns and other COVID-19 policies did little […]

Florida: Debbie and My State of Residence since 1992

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Debbie and I have lived in Florida since moving to Old Town Key West in 1992. During the entire COVID pandemic, Florida governor Ron DeSantis has put Florida residents first, and succeeded in navigating through it without tanking the state’s economy. Below you can read some descriptions of DeSantis’s efforts. First up is Karol Markowicz […]

COVID Policy Driven by Groupthink, Politics

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Are you getting a 4th COVID vaccine dose? Trust in public health is at a record low, and now the FDA is bypassing its own experts. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth COVID vaccine dose, reports the WSJ. Some of the FDA’s own experts disagree […]

How Did We Get COVID Broke?

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Crying “emergency,” Washington spent $6.6 trillion in fiscal 2020 and $6.8 trillion more in 2021 on Covid-related issues. Both years equaled 50% more in spending than in 2019, reports Kimberley Strassel in the WSJ. All for Covid Only a year ago, Democrats waved through a sixth Covid relief bill, President Biden’s massive $1.9 trillion American […]

Sen. Ron Johnson Meets the “COVID Heroes”

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On his Substack, Dr. Robert Malone recounts his first meeting with Sen. Ron Johnson. As Malone entered Johnson’s office with other doctors who questioned the company line on COVID-19, Johnson exclaimed “Wow, I didn’t realize this was a meeting with all the COVID heroes!” Malone writes: I met Senator Ron Johnson in person for the first time […]

NH Could Soon Ban Mask Mandates by School Districts

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Throughout most of COVID-19, New Hampshire schools masked on a districtwide basis. Most states have ended their mask mandates in schools, but some districts in the Live Free or Die states just can’t let them go. Most of the state’s GOP politicians want to end the ability of districts to enforce their own mandates. The […]

Recommending Against COVID Vaccines?

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On 7 March, Florida’s Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo announced: The Florida Department of Health is going to be the first state to officially recommend against the Covid-19 vaccines for healthy children. Cue the Outrage Reports the WSJ: The American Academy of Pediatrics called the recommendation “irresponsible.” The Infectious Diseases Society of America accused Dr. Ladapo of […]

DR DOOM: Fauci Can’t Let COVID Go

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After two years of mandates and lockdowns, forced on them by Democratic politicians and bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.’s “health industrial complex,” Americans are finally wresting back control of their lives. But the pontiff of COVID craziness, Dr. Anthony Fauci, just can’t let it go. In an interview with CNN on Thursday, March 17, Fauci said […]