COVID-19 Vaccines and the Delta Variant
“Government agencies should be studying North Dakota to see what they are doing right and Hawaii to see what they are doing wrong, because the answers are not vaccination rates.” ~ Gilbert G. Berdine
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Book Review: American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
“What should courts do in these kinds of cases and how should they make the tradeoff between pursuing public health and protecting civil liberties during public health emergencies?” ~ Byron B. Carson III
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COVID-19 Mandates Will Not Work for the Delta Variant
“There is absolutely no good reason to re-enter lockdowns and school closures or masking in response to the Delta variant. We find no evidence that this variant warrants masks in children.” ~ AIER Contributing Authors
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Lockdown DIY Injuries: A Lagging Indicator?
“The trade-offs of avoiding care for physical injuries in lieu of exposure to Covid are questionable at best, and like other effects of pandemic policies may balloon in the coming years and decades.” ~ Peter C. Earle & Jessica Rood
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Don’t Stay Home
“As further research into the actual effects of the widespread, coercive policies implemented in the wake of the pandemic appears, one hopes there could be a dispassionate reassessment of the policies.” ~ Gerald P. O’Driscoll, Jr.
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Good Medicine Requires Second Opinions
“In the 1920s drinking water infused with radium was hailed as ‘one of the greatest boons to ailing mankind that ever was discovered.’ In matters of health, competition and second opinions lead to better medicine.” ~ Barry Brownstein
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Can Enemies Be Our Friends?
“Most of the things that divide us are none of anyone else’s business – what we eat, what we drive, what we wear, what medical procedures we have, what we drink, or whom we love. When did we forget that?” ~ Joakim Book
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Bill Gates Praises Australia’s Covid Response
“Gates, whose personal wealth is in excess of $132 billion, called for a ‘very different regimen so all countries can get on top of cases very quickly and be more like Australia than Europe or the United States ended up being.'” ~ Adam Creighton
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A Conversation on the Intersection of Physics and Freedom
“On this episode of the Authors Corner, Ethan speaks with Dr. Adrian Bejan, an award-winning physicist and the J.A. Jones Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Duke University, on his book Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society, and Science.” ~ AIER
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Want to Prepare for the Next Pandemic? Read These Five Books on Expertise
“When we turn experts into masters rather than advisers, we throw away a lot of important knowledge. Experts definitely have their place, but we have to remember that they respond to incentives and have their own epistemic limitations.” ~ Art Carden
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Two Vaccine Doses? Why Not Three?
“It’s entirely possible that there could be a need for a booster shot for certain populations down the road; anything is possible. However, it seems that the evidence points to long-lasting immunity on both natural infection and vaccination.” ~ Ethan Yang
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A Tale of Two Spikes: How the Tullock Spike Gives Insight Into a Viral Spike Amid Forced Mask-Wearing
“Let us hope for once that President Biden and the various state governors and health officials leave people free to assess their own risks and adjust their own behaviors as best makes sense to them.” ~ Jon Sanders
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