"When Left-leaning journalists defend the government’s pandemic strategies by falsely classifying opponents as Right-wing, it hurts the Left while boosting the Right."
https://unherd.com/thepost/its-not-right-wing-to-critique-lockdowns-and-masks/
https://unherd.com/thepost/its-not-right-wing-to-critique-lockdowns-and-masks/
UnHerd
For pro-lockdown campaigners, all roads lead to the Kochs
During the Covid-19 pandemic, tribal politics have pushed scientific discourse into the back seat. Scientists who provide their honest assessment of medical and public health data have often been subject to ad hominem attacks and slander. [...]Read More...
Great column by Raffi Keuroglian celebrating the end of mandatory testing to enter the US. The policy lasted so long because of financial conflicts of interest. Powerful politically connected people head up testing companies like eMed.
https://unherd.com/thepost/finally-the-us-drops-covid-test-requirements/?=frpo
https://unherd.com/thepost/finally-the-us-drops-covid-test-requirements/?=frpo
UnHerd
Finally, the US drops Covid test requirements
Last week thirty-eight mayors from major cities across America signed a letter to White House Covid Response Coordinator Ashish Jha, plainly observing the obvious about entry testing requirements: “The current policy is neither wise nor effective.” It worked.…
Dr. Jay Bhattacharya pinned «Welcome to my channel. Our activities start here soon 🔥»
It will take decades, but the only way to gradually restore trust in the scientific community is to first come clean about the misguided, disastrous and unscientific covid policies that too many scientists supported.
https://www.newsweek.com/how-fauci-fooled-america-opinion-1643839
https://www.newsweek.com/how-fauci-fooled-america-opinion-1643839
Newsweek
How Fauci Fooled America
Unfortunately, Dr. Fauci got major epidemiology and public health questions wrong. Reality and scientific studies have now caught up with him.
Dear college & university presidents,
If you mandate the new BA4/5 bivalent booster for students, you will be doing so on the basis of no clinical evidence that it stops disease transmission or protects against severe disease. Nor any human safety data whatsoever.
Yours,
Jay
If you mandate the new BA4/5 bivalent booster for students, you will be doing so on the basis of no clinical evidence that it stops disease transmission or protects against severe disease. Nor any human safety data whatsoever.
Yours,
Jay
We need a catchy term for the lockdown harm denialists: "kids are resilient", "depression won't lead to suicide", "inflation has nothing to do with lockdown", etc. Denial is psychologically necessary because smart people can't accept they supported such disaster. But they did.
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Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya, who challenged lockdowns, warns that "academic freedom is dead." He says it's impossible to critique the WOKE consensus without being ostracized. Looks like Prof. Bhattacharya has just been mugged by reality.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-lockdown-stanford-professor-academic-freedom-dead
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/anti-lockdown-stanford-professor-academic-freedom-dead
ZeroHedge
Anti-Lockdown Stanford Professor: "Academic Freedom Is Dead"
“They systematically tried to make it seem like everyone agreed with their ideas about COVID policy, when in fact there was deep disagreement among scientists...”