lockdowns

We Just Got Even More Proof that Stay-At-Home Orders Lethally Backfired

Life under lockdown was hard for all of us. From economic destruction to social isolation, the costs of restrictive government…

3 years ago

Corrupt Unions — Not COVID — Locked Kids Out of School

Locking kids out of school for months (over a year and counting in some places) is likely to be by…

3 years ago

Costs of Mitigation Efforts Vastly Outweigh Benefits for 89% of Population, Health Researchers Conclude

COVID mitigation measures were always a question of costs and benefits, of good intentions versus unintended consequences. Two health researchers…

3 years ago

New Study Reveals That Stay-at-Home Orders Backfired. Here’s Why

Last summer, NBC News reported that New York state health officials were stunned by the number of hospitalized patients who…

3 years ago

Economist: Lockdowns ‘Greatest Peacetime Policy Failure’ in Canada’s History

Earlier this month, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top infectious disease official in the United States, struggled to explain why COVID…

3 years ago

A 75-Year-Old Warning about Those Who Say ‘Listen to the Science’

On his first day as president, Joe Biden, flanked by a portrait of Ben Franklin, called on the federal government…

3 years ago

Minnesota Covid Numbers Defy Logic And Should Piss Everyone Off

Spoiler: Despite being billed as the next Black Death, after a year of exposure to Covid, almost no healthy Minnesotans…

3 years ago

Biden Is Asking Americans ‘To Sacrifice A Little Bit Longer’

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Tuesday that President Joe Biden is asking Americans “to sacrifice a little bit…

3 years ago

Why the Push Is on to Make Pandemic Life ‘Permanent’

One year after Americans were ordered to close down society for “two weeks to flatten the curve,” Bloomberg columnist Andreas…

3 years ago

Free States Faring Far Better Than Lockdown States in One Huge Way, New Data Show

When COVID-19 first came to our shores, it presented policymakers and elected officials with a crisis like nothing in living…

3 years ago

Sweden Saw Lower Mortality Rate Than Most of Europe in 2020, Despite No Lockdown

Few people in 2020 came under more heat than Anders Tegnell, Sweden’s top epidemiologist. But the man who forged Sweden’s…

3 years ago

New Census Data Show Homeschooling Tripled During the Pandemic—And One Key Group is Driving the Surge

My daughter had a friend over this week whose parents just took her out of public school for homeschooling, and…

3 years ago

Americans Got Way Fatter During Pandemic Lockdowns, Poll Finds

Some 42% of U.S. adults reported packing on undesired weight since the start of the pandemic, according to a recent…

3 years ago

Senate Testimony: The Life-Threatening Unintended Consequences of Pandemic Lockdowns

On Wednesday, March 17, 2021, Foundation for Economic Education Opinion Editor Brad Polumbo will testify before the Senate Small Business…

3 years ago

An Old Time (circa 2019) Christmas in Baton Rouge

Pastor Tony Spell is a man who takes his texts seriously. He believes in the plain truth of the Bible…

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