The Emergence of Neo-Fascism in Public Health

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David Bell … The societal changes of the past two years have been defined by, and led by, ‘public health.’ So it is right to look for public health analogies in the past to help understand what is happening, what the drivers are, and where they might lead. We have witnessed our public health professions […]

Wearing a Mask During Indoor Exercise Can Be Fatal

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Carla Peeters A recent article from the Technical University of Munich published in PNAS reached national newspapers in several countries worldwide. The team showed that aerosol emissions increase exponentially with intense physical exertion, indicating that indoor sporting activities result in higher risk of infectious diseases as COVID. The authors suggested the use of face masks, […]

EU Report Highlights Canada’s ‘Invasive’ COVID Policies That ‘Severely’ Affected the Nation’s Economy

Anthony Murdoch A comprehensive healthcare law study submitted to the European Parliament in May called out Canada’s COVID health measures as severely damaging the local economy. “Many stringent and invasive public health measures for the Covid pandemic – curfews, capacity restrictions in restaurants, the closure of bars and nightclubs for months, locking of office buildings, […]

Should the Government Compensate the Vaccine Injured and Families of the Deceased?

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Rusere Shoniwa No. To qualify – not the Government. But obviously someone should. In this piece I’ll set out why the Government should not be the party to pay compensation; why the Government won’t, in any case, at least not in any meaningful way, and; who should pay. The answer to this last question is […]

What We Learned From Hating the Unvaccinated

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Susan Dunham The battlefield is still warm, following Canada’s war on the unvaccinated. The mandates have let up, and both sides stumble back into something that looks like the old normal — except that there is a fresh and present injury done to the people we tried to break. And no one wants to talk […]

The Foegen Effect: How Mask Wearing Can Make You Sick

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Zacharias Fögen t took a long time, but my study on masks has finally appeared in the prestigious journal Medicine. What is my study about? It is about whether masks decrease case fatality from COVID-19 (because less viral material is transmitted) or increase it. Increase sounds illogical? Ask yourself if you would wear the mask of […]

The Loss of Trust Is Well Earned

Jeffrey A. Tucker Society is broken at many levels, and the economy too. We face a mental health crisis among young people following two years of unprecedented educational and social disruption. The highest inflation in most people’s lifetimes has people nearly panicked about the future, and that combines with strange and unpredictable shortages.  And we […]

A Literature Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Lockdowns on COVID-19 Mortality II

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Jonas Herby, Lars Jonung, Steve H. Hanke The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to determine the effect of lockdowns on COVID-19 mortality based on available empirical evidence. Lockdowns are defined as the imposition of at least one compulsory, non-pharmaceutical intervention (NPI). We employ a systematic search and screening procedure in which 19,646 […]