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05 Apr Why the Silence in the Face of Covid Tyranny?

Posted at 17:31h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

From the indispensable Lockdown Sceptics I learned recently of this job ad in Britain: This is an exciting role for an experienced communications professional and offers the opportunity to work at the heart of the Department of Health. The role is a senior leadership role within...

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05 Apr Trying to Understand the Silence

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(Don Boudreaux) TweetIn my most-recent column for AIER I speculate – I emphasize, speculate – about why so many prominent voices for liberty are remaining silent amidst the awful assault on liberty now underway by the Covidocracy. A slice: In the Spring of 2020 the mainstream...

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05 Apr Why Have the Courts Been Deferential to Lockdowns?

Posted at 17:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

I think it’s safe to say that the United States is finally ending its experiment with the lockdown policies that have not only greatly failed but managed to unleash untold collateral damage on society. It doesn’t take a degree in political science to understand that...

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05 Apr Parenting Tips (and Other Helpful Advice) for Economists

Posted at 17:27h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

If you’re currently parenting a 5-year old or remember what that was like, you can skip over the next few paragraphs. You’ve lived this story before. For the rest of you, here’s the scene. It’s 6:30 on a school night. Daniela has finished her dinner. (And,...

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05 Apr Stop Greenwashing Socialism-AIER

Posted at 09:18h in Uncategorized by one80Admin

According to a Gallup poll from 2019, around 50% of young Americans aged 18-39 view socialism favorably. Nothing captures this “socialist” zeitgeist better than the narrative surrounding climate change, so vociferously promulgated by youth movements around the Western world. When Senator...

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04 Apr Some Covid Links

Posted at 07:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting at AIER, Phil Magness reveals pro-lockdowners’ wacky conspiracy theories. Noah Carl makes the case that the “Focused Protection” strategy advocated by the authors of the Great Barrington Declaration would have resulted in fewer deaths than did lockdowns. A slice: The most emphatic endorsement of...

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04 Apr Disease Is the Newest Excuse for Segregation

Posted at 07:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

Walking through several airports to catch planes this week, I stepped on hundreds of stickers with the exhortation “Keep a Safe Distance. Stay 6 Feet Apart.”  It’s just a silly sticker at this point, an embarrassing relic of the great 2020 disease panic during which our...

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04 Apr Homo Avoidcovidus

Posted at 07:46h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

(Don Boudreaux) TweetHere’s a letter to the Wall Street Journal: Editor: Thanks to Dr. Nicole Saphier for explaining that Americans are so close to herd immunity against Covid-19 that the case for mask-wearing will soon disappear (“Dr. Fauci, Tear Off These Masks,” April 3). She correctly decries...

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04 Apr The “Mind Viruses” Creating Social Justice Warriors

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The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Senseby Gad Saad. Regnery, 2020xvi + 240 pages Gaad Saad, a psychologist who specializes in applying evolutionary biology to the study of consumer behavior, has written a book of great value, and moreover, it is a book...

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04 Apr Vaccine Passports: Why? How?

Posted at 07:44h in Voluntary Exchange Sources by one80Admin

There’s only one reason to require COVID vaccine passports: to coerce people into getting the vaccine. While vaccination is not required, a passport requirement would say, “Whether you get the vaccine is up to you, but if you want to travel or shop or do...

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