Category: Pandemic Response

[PREMIERING 6/3, 7:30PM ET] How Humans Were Used as ‘Lab Rats’ in the COVID Pandemic: Dr. Ryan Cole on Fragmented mRNA, Spike Protein Messages, and the Vaccine ‘Ego’

“Here we are three years into this, with a virus that has evolved into something that for most people is a common cold, shots that are expired because the variants they cover are all extinct—I mean, it’s an absurdity that the shots are even on the market at all—and yet, we’re still seeing brilliant physicians…


After COVID: Twelve Challenges for a Shattered World

Commentary Three years ago, in the depths of lockdowns, it became obvious that we desperately needed a new citizen movement with a different focus. Prevailing ideological forms were simply not adapted to the enormous exogenous shock to the system that lockdowns implied. It was unexpected, especially under the guise of public health. Every essential freedom…


Why Elite Libertarians Failed so Miserably on COVID

Commentary A priest friend of mine has been writing for three years against his fellow clerics who went along with the COVID regime, shut their churches, masked their parishioners, and then pushed shots on those who didn’t need them. He said that they forgot the first principle: be not afraid. And the second principle too:…


The Trouble With the Center

Commentary In April, 1978, when I was college sophomore, I went to hear a night-time guest lecture by Michael Harrington, the sociologist and author of the influential 1960s book, “The Other America: Poverty in the United States.” The book profiled various impoverished American demographic groups who missed the 1950s wave of prosperity. Though Harrington was a…


After Getting Everything Wrong During COVID, Top Health Officials Now Try to Deflect Blame

Commentary The United States was shut down at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. This started under the Trump administration, with guidelines in March 2020. They declared that in order to “slow the spread,” the nation would have to self-quarantine for 15 days. Then we were told, 15 days? That’s not enough to “flatten the…


The Freezer-Truck Canard

Commentary These are the days of grasping for excuses. In sector after sector, leaders who gave us lockdowns and all that followed are trying to account for their actions, not apologizing of course but admitting that, in the classic formulation, mistakes were made. That said, they all agree on the core point. The government had…


The Dangerous Illusion of Scientific Consensus

Commentary Science is the process by which we learn about the workings of material reality. Though modern innovations—built on the fruits of science—would look like magic to people living only decades ago, they result from the time-tested scientific method. Contrary perhaps to media portrayals of science, the scientific method depends not on the existence of…


What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential

Commentary In all my thinking about the lockdown years, I’ve only had time now to think carefully about this strange distinction between essential and nonessential. What did it mean in practice and where did it come from? The edict to divide the workforce came from a previously unknown agency called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…


The Manipulation of the Public Mind

Commentary In the world of Business Analysis there is a discipline called Process Modelling. Its output would be familiar to most people, consisting of diagrams to show how a business process, like say fulfilling an order, is supposed to work. As a discipline it strives for clarity and simplicity, through a complex syntax and method,…


Society at Peak Shared Misery

Commentary Once upon a time I worked for the federal government as a postdoctoral researcher at a CDC branch that focuses on occupational safety and health. While I was there, I learned firsthand that the government operated at a level that was grossly inefficient and mind-numbingly bureaucratic. The longer I was there and the more…