Prefatory Note Given the subject matter discussed below, I believe it prudent to state at the outset that I am not at all opposed to vaccinations themselves: indeed, I have received a COVID-19 vaccine, as well as all other normal-course vaccinations recommended for someone my age. Yet there are, it seems to me, interesting, difficult questions surrounding the state’s role in promoting or mandating vaccines. The goal here is to start a conversation not about the effectiveness of vaccines, but about the individual’s sphere of autonomy and what kinds of medical decisions are within it, and...
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News Roundup 12/28/2021
Covid The CDC says people who test positive for covid but do not have symptoms only need to quarantine for five days. The CDC then recommends five days of mask-wearing. The World Bank says nearly 100 million people fell into poverty during the covid pandemic. [Link] The State Department sends over 600,000 Pfizer covid vaccines to Nepal through Covax. [Link] US News Biden extended the student loan payment freeze to May 1, 2022. [Link] Las Vegas will pay over $500,000 to Jason Funke who was shot in the back by a police officer. The officer is still employed. [Link] Cedric Lofton was killed...
TGIF: Evict the President
President Biden has reversed himself under pressure from his progressive flank and has given the go-ahead for a new moratorium on renter evictions throughout most of the United States for individuals making up to $99,000 a year (couples, $198,000). The twist is that Biden acknowledges that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which reports to his secretary of health and human services, has no legal authority for the action. Most courts have agreed about the lack of authority, syndicated columnist Jacob Sullum reports, and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh said in June...
Abolish the CDC, Zika Example
From the Post: Four years before the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fumbled the nation’s chance to begin effective early testing for the novel coronavirus, the agency similarly mishandled its efforts to detect another dreaded pathogen. Amid a feared outbreak of the newly emerged Zika virus, senior CDC officials in 2016 sidelined an effective test for it — and instead directed public health laboratories nationwide to use a more complicated test that failed about one-third of the...
The W.H.O. Shouldn’t Just Be Defunded. It Should Be Completely Destroyed
As soon as the mob is done burning the CDC to the ground, these sonsabitches at the W.H.O. deserve it next.
911 is a Joke
The CDC should be abolished immediately. Total incompetence. Criminal negligence. “It’s not our culture to intervene,” said Dr. George Schmid, who worked at the agency off and on for nearly four decades. He described it as increasingly bureaucratic, weighed down by “indescribable, burdensome hierarchy.” Who the hell put government in charge of anything in the first place is what I want to know.
Fauci Admits Government Lied About Masks
Just as we accused, Fauci admits the government was trying to manage the shortage in masks that they themselves had caused by lying directly to the American people for months that they absolutely should not wear them. Of course the only reason the hospitals needed them so badly was because people kept giving it to each other because they weren't wearing masks. Certainly tens of thousands of Americans are dead because they and/or the people who infected them believed and obeyed these lies. Tens of thousands. It isn't smears, it's droplets that spreads the disease. The shortage could have...
Man Denied Test, ER Admittance Drops Dead
So his co-morbidity was criminal negligence on the part of the hospitals in his town. Oh, but "the CDC says" is the perfect excuse isn't it?
Year Zero 110: Covid19 and the CDC w/Dr James Lyons-Weiler
Tommy invited Dr James Lyons-Weiler, the CEO and founder of IPAK, on the podcast to discuss Covid19 and how the CDC bungled its response. Dr Jack has been extremely critical of the CDC and FDA response to the novel Coronavirus, and he was more than happy to spend time discussing what this virus is, what he's discovered in his research, and how the CDC has made this crisis worse.
Year Zero 108: Listener Questions
Last week a listener had some questions and I figured if everyone else can make an episode out of listener questions I can too.
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