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Who Is to Blame for Vaccine Hesitancy?

Who Is to Blame for Vaccine Hesitancy?

Donald Boudreaux brownstone.org Donald J. Boudreaux is a senior fellow with Brownstone Institute and with the F.A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; a Mercatus Center Board Member; and a professor of economics and former economics-department

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What Happens When Cases Go Up?

Vinay Prasad     brownstone.org Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He runs the VKPrasad lab at UCSF, which studies cancer drugs, health policy, clinical trials and better decision making. He is author

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From the Desk of a Male Pale and Stale

Information Opinion In March 2021 the letter copied below was printed in the Howick and Pakuranga Times. Now let that sink in. The letter you read was penned almost a year ago! Long before the current protests taking place in Wellington! Also, consider that the letter was copied widely – including

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NZ Has Crossed a Rubicon

Matt Judd Information Opinion We crossed a Rubicon a few years back. What year? I can’t really say. Maybe it happened gradually. Maybe it just happened all at once, while we were watching Australian Married At First Sight, or British Big Brother or something equally voyeuristic and empty. But

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And Still, the Lies Go On

And Still, the Lies Go On

On February 7th, Stuff decided to run an article comparing the current COVID outbreak with the Spanish Flu of 1919. Here is the most interesting part: As the coronavirus pandemic creeps into its third year, and the death toll in the United States reaches 900,000, the 1918 influenza pandemic

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Kids as Collateral

Jack thecommoner.substack.com Tune in to the local news channel every night at six o’clock and one may well find themselves left with the impression that in New Zealand, despite the best efforts of those horribly backwards “far-right anti-vaxxers” who seem to care a little too much about

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Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

Trevor, the Abyss Stares Back at You

“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Nietzsche makes his remark about the abyss (in Beyond Good and Evil) just after cautioning the reader that

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Why Vaccine Mandates That Fail to Respect the Right of Conscience Are Immoral

Why Vaccine Mandates That Fail to Respect the Right of Conscience Are Immoral

Tim Hsiao fee.org Tim Hsiao is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Arkansas Grantham. As employers and governments have become more stringent with COVID vaccination requirements, many are no longer honoring conscientious or religious exemptions to vaccination. This is a mistake. Even if vaccination is

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How to Deescalate Protests in Ten Steps

Mrs P It has been slightly humorous over the last few days to hear statements from various politicians to the effect that “we don’t know what the protests are about” and “the messaging isn’t clear”. Being so confuddled by what really is quite a straightforward matter, they appear

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Thanks Jacinda! Yours Sincerely, Australia

Thanks Jacinda! Yours Sincerely, Australia

I would like to take this moment, as an Australian, to thank Jacinda Ardern from the bottom of my heart. For months, the glaring spotlight of world media has been focused on Australia — and not in a good way. Covid camps in the outback, closed borders, and rubber bullets at

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The Rise of Omicron Is the Fall of Vaccines

The Rise of Omicron Is the Fall of Vaccines

Mary Beth Pfeiffer rescue.substack.com Mary Beth Pfeiffer is an investigative journalist who is outraged by the government’s abject failure to stop COVID-19 by treating it early. Censorship and greed have fueled this pandemic. Her articles: https://www.thefirstepidemic.com/new-index This article is part of a publishing

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The BFD Nightcap

The BFD Nightcap

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To the New Zealand Mainstream Media

To the New Zealand Mainstream Media

FreeNZ Media Newsletter freenz.substack.com In response to the attacks on our colleague Liz Gunn by the NZ media, I would like to introduce the FreeNZ media/news company and to offer the NZ public some broad insights into who we are as an organisation, as individuals, and what

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COVID Compliance Is Not about Safety

COVID Compliance Is Not about Safety

New Zealanders are fed up with two years of government interference and are inspired by the success of the Canadian truckers’ freedom convoy’s pressure on authorities to ease and drop Covid mandates. This week the premiers of the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta announced plans to end several

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That’s It. I’m Gone

That’s It. I’m Gone

I feel absolutely sickened at what I am seeing at the Freedom Convoy protest in Wellington. This is not New Zealand; a young naked woman being dragged out of the crowd by her hair, thrown to the ground; four cops dealing to a slight young woman while they avoid a

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