A physician who fled communist Yugoslavia saw the COVID-19 pandemic “through two eyes.” On the one hand, she perceived it from a doctor’s perspective; on the other hand, she looked at it through the eyes of someone who grew up under communism. Dr. Kat Lindley, a family physician and president of the Texas branch of…

A U.S. court has ordered parties in the Biden administration’s appeal of a lawsuit challenging the legality of its travel mask mandate during the pandemic to file briefs on whether or not the appeal is now “moot” due to the termination of the COVID-19 state of emergency. The order comes after a Florida federal judge in April 2022 blocked the Centers…

President Joe Biden’s administration in a court hearing on Jan. 17 urged judges on a federal appeals court to overturn a ruling from a lower court that struck down the administration’s airplane mask mandate. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) had “good cause” to impose the mandate and bypass the notice- and…

Commentary When Pink Floyd’s song “Another Brick in the Wall” was popular, I did not like it. The grammatical construction of the lyrics was aggressively wrong, and the whole thing struck me as a dangerous paean to ignorance. I never liked those kids who were “too cool for school.” In general, the song came across…

At least five school districts, most in the northeast of the country, have reinstated mask requirements for students amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections, and two requested that students be tested for the virus before returning to school from winter break. However, the trend toward student mask requirements does not appear to be growing toward…

Behavioural psychology was used on former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to nudge him into wearing a mask, according to the head of the government Behavioural Insights Team (BI). Professor David Halpern, BI chief executive and member of the government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE), described to The Telegraph how he had helped nudge the former…

The friendly skies too often resembled “season’s beatings” shopping brawls during the pandemic, as the number of arguments and even fistfights surged on–board. Viral videos of the flight-and-fight mayhem frequently had a common denominator—the federal government’s mask requirement. So it may come as little surprise that disruptions on commercial domestic flights have plummeted by 74 percent since the Biden administration’s…

Commentary Many public health responses we saw during the pandemic were inherently unethical, but our flippancy concerning child safety in public schools has been among the most egregious. Sadly, families remain largely resourceless against power-hungry leadership. Masking remains an issue hotly debated at school board meetings around the globe. In Ontario, Canada, on Nov. 24,…

Los Angeles County’s public health director said Dec. 1 another indoor mask mandate could be imposed soon as COVID-19 cases surge in the county. The county is now averaging more than 2,700 new COVID infections per day, a 180 percent increase since Nov. 1, according to county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer. Daily virus-related hospital…

The Larry Elder Show is sponsored by Birch Gold Group. Protect your IRA or 401(k) with precious metals today: larryforgold.com/ Pundits, liberal and conservative, underestimated the impact on the midterms of the reaction to the reversal of Roe v. Wade. In states like Kentucky and Michigan, where abortion was on the ballot, restrictions to abortion…