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@RealDonaldTrump
has an ounce of decency, he should pardon Edward
@Snowden
, who with a promising career and his whole life ahead of him, put everything on the line to help protect us.
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The most famous
#Woodstock
concert began on Aug. 15, 1969, and occurred during the deadly Hong Kong flu pandemic. Nothing was closed by force. Congress passed no legislation. The Fed did nothing. Why was this different?
Analysis by
@jeffreyatucker
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@jeffreyatucker
joins
@Liz_Wheeler
from
@OANN
Tipping Point to talk about
@neil_ferguson
's conflict of interest and corruption.
#COVID19
#Corruption
#NeilFerguson
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"We present 31 high-quality sources of evidence [which] show that
#COVID
#lockdowns
have been a failure."
Dr. Paul E. Alexander, PhD
Howard Tenenbaum, DDS, PhD, MD
Ramin Oskoui, MD
Harvey Risch, MD, PhD
Peter McCullough, MD
Nicholas E. Alexander
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“Imagine that you’ve got the political spectrum on a string. Left & right. You take the string, and you pull it up, so that the ends of the strings come down in a circle; almost touching. Then, you draw an imaginary line through the middle.”
@PardyBruce
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“They have a right to be quarantined, they have a right to be isolated, they have a right to be told “You can’t come in here”, they have a right not to travel.”
TEASER below, FULL FILM HERE:
Based on essay by
@BarryBrownstein
.
#VaccineMandates
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YouTube Censors Florida Governor DeSantis and His Science Advisors
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Archive: 'On the evening of December 25, 1991, the red flag of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was lowered from the walls of the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. After almost 75 years, the communist nightmare was over.'
@RMEbeling
#SovietUnion
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The Great Barrington Declaration now displays an updated signature count, with >650k signatures from the general public and nearly 50k signatures from medical practitioners & public health scientists.
Read and sign the
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
now.
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.
@RonDeSantisFL
held a public health roundtable to discuss the state's
#COVID19
response.
He was joined by Scott Atlas,
@SunetraGupta
, Jay Bhattacharya, and
@MartinKulldorff
.
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@gbdeclaration
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More “Covid Suicides” than Covid Deaths in Kids
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@HeinzKetchup_US
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#Nutrition
@US_FDA
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@peter_c_earle
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If we see what went wrong these months and the right way forward – we can rebuild. If we do not, the destruction and rights violations will continue.
Analysis by
@jeffreyatucker
.
#Law
#Looters
#Lockdown
#GeorgeFloyd
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Archive: "Stock markets didn’t crash because of the H3N2 pandemic in 1968. Congress passed no legislation. The Federal Reserve did nothing. Not a single governor acted to enforce social distancing, curve flattening, or banning of crowds."
@JeffreyATucker
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Florida Governor
@RonDeSantisFL
, on the one-year anniversary of the lockdowns, invited back the scientists behind the
@gbdeclaration
, signed at the offices of
@AIER
, for a roundtable on the
#COVID19
and the policy response:
.
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
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.
@MartinKulldorff
: "I’m very worried about the future of science, because science is dependent on free exchange of ideas... So if this continues, this kind of attitude with censoring certain scientific views, then I think we have reached the end of 300 years of enlightenment."
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The
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
, created by
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
& Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 10/4/20, has proved prescient and continues to offer insight into a
#Covid19
public health strategy. It now holds > 800k signatures.
Visit to learn more.
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Remember these wise words from
@jeffreyatucker
back in April?
"We need to argue for an immediate opening, even if that comes with risks, because at least society can adapt, and we can evaluate those risks on our own, consider various routes, and get back to our lives."
#COVID19
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"Vaccination is – or should be – a personal decision based upon one’s assessment of the risks and benefits to oneself ...
@NYGovCuomo
is effectively using the coercive power of the state to influence people’s choices about their bodies and health."
Read: .
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The
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
, created by
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
& Dr. Jay Bhattacharya on 10/4/20, has proved prescient and continues to offer insight into a
#Covid19
public health strategy. It now holds >800k signatures.
Visit to learn more.
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"Lockdowns are not science. They never have been. They are an experiment in social/political top-down management that is without precedent in cost to life and liberty.” ~
@jeffreyatucker
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WATCH | Our Editorial Director
@jeffreyatucker
joins
@Ideias_Radicais
to discuss why social democracy is failing: .
#Economics
#Government
#Democracy
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Lockdowns Worsen the Health Crisis
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Lockdowns Need to Be Intellectually Discredited Once and For All
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.
@jeffreyatucker
: "The lockdowns destroyed industries, schools, churches, liberties and lives, demoralizing the population and robbing people of essential rights. All in the name of safety from a virus that did its work in any case."
#Texas
#Lockdowns
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"
@Youtube
@SusanWojcicki
has taken down a video of
@GovRonDeSantis
holding a policy discussion with Dr. Scott Atlas and
@GBDeclaration
creators
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
& Jay Bhattacharya [...] its removal was first flagged by
@AIER
." -
@WSJ
Board
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“The lawsuit ultimately hinges that these social media giants were/are colluding with the state to suppress
#freespeech
. If so, that would be an issue that everyone should be concerned about and hope to defeat.”
Analysis by Ethan Yang
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Even as a
#Covid19vaccine
comes into view, govts persist in
#lockdowns
and restrictions on personal and economic freedom.
The
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
has now gained nearly 750k signatures, w. over 50k sigs from health professionals. Sign today at .
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The Anti-Lockdown Movement Is Large and Growing
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Many millions of people have spent the last four months in sadness and depression. It’s hard to watch the world shattered by the bad behavior of
#governments
– and to see too many among us cheer the
#destruction
.
Read
@jeffreyatucker
's latest piece: .
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CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself:
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“Well, a new line has been crossed. Harvard Professor
@MartinKulldorff
and co-creator of the
@gbdeclaration
, one of the most cited epidemiologists and infectious disease experts in the world has been censored by
#Twitter
.”
~
@jeffreyatucker
cc.
@jack
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Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress
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Special Envoy of
@WHO
/ Director-General on COVID19
@davidnabarro
discusses the lockdown criticism of
@SunetraGupta
, co-creator of the
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
, with
@Spectator
chairman
@afneil
.
Learn more at .
WATCH: Dr David Nabarro, the WHO's Special Envoy on Covid-19, tells Andrew Neil: 'We really do appeal to all world leaders: stop using lockdown as your primary control method'. Watch the full interview here:
#SpectatorTV
@afneil
|
@davidnabarro
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Lockdowns as a Political Tragedy of the Commons
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A Guide for Free Thinkers: They’re Both Wrong
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"The post-
#Halloween
candy market is a commercial society of traders buying low and selling high, and it’s a microcosm of what happens when market exchange works well."
@artcarden
🎃🍭
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"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have concerns about the damaging health impacts of the prevailing
#COVID19
policies, and recommend an approach we call
#FocusedProtection
."
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
#GBDeclaration
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Find the full video with
@GovRonDeSantis
&
@GBDeclaration
creators
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
& Jay Bhattacharya at the link below, with a transcript. It was removed from Youtube.
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
#GBDeclaration
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Liberty Is the Theme of the American Spirit
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WATCH | Mises vs. Marx: The March of History.
A rap battle music video, produced by AIER.
#MisesvsMarx
#TheMarchOfHistory
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#LibertyCurious
.
Watch the complete video here:
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CS Lewis said, “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.”
Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself: .
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Lockdowns Wrecked Democracy around the World
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During nation-wide lockdowns in 2020, AIER played a strong role in guiding people back toward the light of freedom & rationality. And working with the best scientists, we hosted a game-changing document: The
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
.
@gbdeclaration
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"The
@hulu
series has made it abundantly clear that history is no longer the primary purpose of the
#1619Project
, assuming it ever was."
Read 'The 1619 Project’s Confusion on Capitalism' by
@PhilWMagness
at National Review
@NRO
: .
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The video of
@GovRonDesantis
' discussion with
@GBDeclaration
scientists on Florida's response came to serve as a tutorial in the relationship between public policy & virus mitigation.
@Youtube
removed it.
@JeffreyATucker
@SusanWojcicki
@NBCNews
@LP_WTSP
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Twitter Censors Famed Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff
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"Lockdowns do not eliminate the virus, they merely shift the burden onto the working class." ~
@jeffreyatucker
Why Is Everyone in Texas Not Dying? .
#Lockdowns
#Texas
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Open Up Society Now, Say Dr. Dan Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi
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In this first installment of Qualified Opinions, the conversation focuses on the return of progressive antitrust legal doctrines at the Federal Trade Commission under the direction of Lina Khan.
Listen here:
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The most famous
#Woodstock
concert began on Aug. 15, 1969, and occurred during the deadly Hong Kong flu pandemic. Nothing was closed by force. Congress passed no legislation. The Fed did nothing. Why was this different?
@jeffreyatucker
14
57
130
Great Barrington Declaration Scientists with Gov. DeSantis in Florida: .
Among the topics discussed were the state's lockdown policies, return of students to public schools, and mask policies.
@gbdeclaration
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
#Lockdowns
.
@RonDeSantisFL
held a public health roundtable to discuss the state's
#COVID19
response.
He was joined by Scott Atlas,
@SunetraGupta
, Jay Bhattacharya, and
@MartinKulldorff
.
Among the topics discussed were the state's lockdown policies, mask policies, and more.
@gbdeclaration
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179
433
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49
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Fauci Was Duplicitous on the AIDS Epidemic Too
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"Coming from both left and right, we have devoted our careers to protecting people. Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."
@MartinKulldorff
@SunetraGupta
Sign the
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
:
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Happy birthday to AIER's editorial director,
@jeffreyatucker
! 🥳🎂
Leave your birthday wishes in the comments.
#happybirthday
#bitcoin
#blockchain
#economics
#finance
#freetrade
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Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths
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"... there is this fantasy that lockdowns protect the vulnerable and that’s not true. Lockdowns have harmed the vulnerable people, lockdowns expose vulnerable people." ~
@SunetraGupta
Professor Gupta: Lockdowners Should Hang their Heads in Shame .
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"Sadly, we must agree, that it’s not just that the age of enlightenment has come to an end, but indeed, that the science itself has been politicized and severely corrupted."
The CDC’s Mask Mandate Study: Debunked .
@CDCgov
@CDCGlobal
@CDCDirector
#CDC
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ARCHIVE | Our Editorial Director
@jeffreyatucker
joined
@Ideias_Radicais
to discuss why social democracy was failing (Dec, 2018): .
#Economics
#Government
#Democracy
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“During normal times, when inflation is low and stable, the floor system increases the burden on taxpayers. The burden is even larger when inflation is high, as it has been over the past two years.”
~
@LouisROUANET
.
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THREAD: Twitter Files confirm censorship of the Great Barrington Declaration
@gbdeclaration
@DrJBhattacharya
@SunetraGupta
@MartinKulldorff
@PhilWMagness
#FauciFiles
#TwitterFiles
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Is there any hope to end the fed? Watch AIER's
@JeffreyATucker
discuss interest rates, banks, and
#DonaldTrump
's recent criticism of the federal reserve on this segment with
@KennedyNation
on
#FoxNews
.
@FoxNews
@realDonaldTrump
#EndTheFed
#Trump
#tcot
#tlot
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🎉Happy Birthday to
@AIER
founder Edward C. Harwood!
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How a Virus Was Used To Transform a Free Country
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“The lockdowns are looking less like a gigantic error and more like the unfolding of a fanatical political ideology and policy experiment that attacks core postulates of civilization at their very root.” ~
@jeffreyatucker
@neil_ferguson
#lockdown
#fascism
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Taylor Swift: Heroine for Property Rights
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Check out the latest episode of the
#LibertyCurious
Podcast, in which
@katewand
sits down with
@PhilWMagness
, Senior Research Faculty at AIER, to discuss the true implications of
#tariffs
and
#protectionism
, as well as how they have impacted America's economic landscape.
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AIER's Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mueller, spoke with
@jackgbradley
from
@NTDNews
about former President Donald Trump's recent comments calling for tariffs on Chinese cars made in Mexico, a 60% tariff on all Chinese goods, and a 10% tariff on items manufactured elsewhere.
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19
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What Good Comes from this Tragedy? .
"I’ve learned a hugely valuable lesson that civilization can be dismantled in a matter of months."
Analysis by
@jeffreyatucker
.
#government
#destruction
#crisis
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Archive: "The widespread misappropriation of the language of mathematics in the social and biological sciences has to be one of the great tragedies of our time."
@SunetraGupta
@gbdeclaration
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
#Covid19
#EndTheLockdowns
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"The longer lockdown policies last – in practice especially but also when defended by public health authorities – the more that elites in government and media risk a devastating loss of credibility."
@jeffreyatucker
The Collapse of Trust in Public Health:
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Attacks on Dissenting Voices Set Back Scientific Progress: . Analysis by
@BarryBrownstein
.
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“No matter how many times these people repeat the word ‘science,’ they are promoting precisely the opposite of science: dogma."
Medical Journal Warns About Masks’ Potentially Devastating Consequences: . Analysis by
@jeffreyatucker
and
@Leftylockdowns1
.
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Do you value
#freedom
? here's what you should be doing ⬇️
@jeffreyatucker
: "You should be loudly, aggressively, and courageously, in every venue you possibly can, calling for an immediate opening of the global economy."
#COVID19
#Libertarian
#Tlot
#Economics
@SFLTurkey
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"The young person who absorbs Econ 101 but takes no further courses in economics will nevertheless possess a genuine understanding of reality that is distressingly rare among politicians, pundits, preachers, and the general public." - Donald J. Boudreaux
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"
#Twitter
is now curating the scientific debate in ways that exclude alternative points of view, particularly those that raise doubts about the need for universalized vaccines and vaccine passports."
~
@jeffreyatucker
cc.
@gbdeclaration
@MartinKulldorff
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Lockdowns were ruled out in the past precisely so that the damage of a pandemic would be minimized and we could get through it more quickly. This was the science. This was the science all the way through the spring of 2020, when everything changed.
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"
@JordanBPeterson
is a proponent of human freedom and human rights, a liberal in the classical sense, which is to say, a genuine liberal who believes in freedom of speech, association, and trade. That seems rather simple to observe."
@JeffreyATucker
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"What is needed is to allow children to mingle and to acquire infection naturally and harmlessly, in their schools, home, and their everyday environments."
~Dr. Paul E. Alexander
We Must Not Be Forced Into Vaccinating Our Children From COVID: .
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The Emancipation of Texas: . Analysis by
@jeffreyatucker
, referencing
@GregAbbott_TX
.
"As for facemasks, those are for bandits and bank robbers, people who hide their identities because they mean you harm."
#TexasReopening
#Texas
#COVID19
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Two Pandemics: One Serious, One Mild
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How free is your state? Is it becoming better in recent years, or is it getting worse? The most recent edition of 'Freedom in the 50 States' is now available!
Read here👇
.
Authored by
@AIER
President, William P. Ruger, and Senior Research Faculty, Jason
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“Patent restrictions, a deliberate oligopoly, protectionist tariffs, and the highest inflation in four decades have resulted in an extremely expensive product at the end of a frangible production process and supply chain.”
~
@peter_c_earle
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34
98
“This work of economic history is not just worth reading because of its well-executed nature. It is worth reading because it is a potent reminder of how governments can fuel some of the worst disasters in human history.” ~
@VincentGeloso
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Why Hayek was Right About Nazis Being Socialists
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.
@jeffreyatucker
: "We need to argue for an immediate opening, even if that comes with risks, because at least society can adapt, and we can evaluate those risks on our own, consider various routes, and get back to our lives."
#COVID19
#Economics
#Lockdown
#Freedom
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Twelve Times the Lockdowners Were Wrong
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COVID is a crucially important topic - lockdowns, "herd immunity," schools and kids, vaccines and more. Dr. Jay Bhattacharya and Dr.
@MartinKulldorff
from the
@gbdeclaration
joined
@megynkelly
on the
@MegynKellyShow
to discuss.
Listen here: .
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Liberals Turning Against the Lockdown Left
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"The use of lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been an experiment in real time, with most of the human population used as lab rats."
cites:
@TheLancet
@AmandaKvalsvig
@Dr_Jenn_Summers
#NewZealandLockdown
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Another Covid Myth Dies the Death
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“By 1836 more than $600 million, almost half of the economic activity in the US, derived from the cotton produced by the million-odd slaves."
This stunning statistic is also unambiguously false.
@PhilWMagness
@nhannahjones
@DrNathanNunn
@just_shelter
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Masking Children: Tragic, Unscientific, and Damaging
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