The decisions made at the beginning of this pandemic will have consequences that reverberate far into the future. Perhaps we have been afraid of the wrong things. This think piece on the response to COVID-19, published last year by Canadian writer and broadcaster David Cayley, is even more impressive in hindsight.
COVID-19 vaccines could be spurring variants, say Israeli and European experts
The possibility that new variants might be created by vaccines is a danger heightened by lockdowns. Research emerges to suggest sedentary lives thanks to shutdowns and COVID-19 vaccines ineffectual against ever-more-virulent mutant viruses of their own making could see those previously infected with COVID-19 and the vaccinated succumb to infection from variants.
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Vaccine skepticism is soaring amid heightened government hype and steps to hide unwelcome data
Without high vaccination levels, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention won’t reach the levels it believes are needed to reach herd immunity. That might be a blessing in disguise.
The only true Conservative leader running in the next federal election
For freedom-loving, political-correctness-hating, free-market conservatives, Maxime Bernier is just the ticket.
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Ontario’s premier, public health bureaucrats double down on their failed COVID policies
Doug Ford inherited one of the industrialized world’s least capable health-care systems. A bad hand, he couldn’t have played any worse.
Tax Bill Gates’s and Jeff Bezos’s family foundations
Private foundations have been one of the biggest tax scams since 1913.
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Ford’s pandemic performance has kyboshed another majority government
Don’t believe the polls showing another conservative victory in Ontario.
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How Democrats and Republicans can come together on vaccines
Regulating vaccines under the same liability regime as all other pharmaceuticals, and acknowledging problems as well as benefits associated with them, will likely lead to safer vaccines and a better informed public.
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The biggest COVID-19 vaccine skeptics? Frontline health care workers
Why are America’s Tier 1A workers the most likely to refuse vaccination? Gallup, and numerous other surveys and reports, produce unexpected results.
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Is the US becoming less free than Russia?
The decline of U.S. freedom is clearest since COVID-19.
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