Were You Essential or Unessential?

The bureaucrats decided

Great news: Brownstone’s new book is a bestseller on Amazon! The book is Fear of a Microbial Planet by Steve Templeton. This is the book that we needed three years ago in order to regain a popular understanding of cell-biology basics. 

But Brownstone didn’t exist three years ago! And this book benefits from the horrible experiences of our times. It faces them squarely and truthfully. 

In any case, the book is here now to prevent the next disease-panic lockdowns. It also happens to be enormously entertaining. Every page. It’s not only the answer to Bill Gates but a solid refutation of all the people who see wrecking society as the answer to infectious disease. 

The book is designed for everyone to learn from it, even academics in other disciplines who are famously unwilling to learn anything new. 

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Here is some content since our last email:

Polio vs Covid: Why the Enforcement Disparity? BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE. Vaccine efforts have been a top priority for the Biden Administration. In fact, the US Government is more concerned with vaccination status than disease itself. Foreigners can enter the country when testing positive for Covid, but the unvaccinated remain banned from entering the nation. Meanwhile, 50 percent of illegal immigrants entering New York City are not vaccinated against polio. 

The Elimination of Healthy Guilt Leads to a Reign of Shaming BY THOMAS HARRINGTON.   If we are to immunize ourselves against their ever more aggressive and manipulative designs, we must talk back to their constant and abusive invocation of the specter of human perfection, be it in the realm of the insisting on morally pristine life trajectories, or our supposed ability to fully subdue massively complex natural phenomena—like the constant circulation of viruses—with brilliant inventions.

John Snow vs. “The Science” BY STEVE TEMPLETON. Treatment of cholera nowadays is pretty simple, requiring antibiotics and intravenous electrolyte-balanced fluids until the patient stabilizes and the infection clears. But doctors in premodern London had no clue what they were dealing with. They didn’t know about dehydration, fecal-oral transmission, or even the germ theory of infectious disease.

Scientific Consensus – A Manufactured Construct BY MARYANNE DEMASI. The appeal to “scientific consensus” is fraught with problems, just like “the science is settled” and “trust the science” and other authoritarian tropes that have dominated the pandemic.

The Corrupted Science Behind Biden’s COVID Vax Mandates BY JAMES BOVARD. Newly disclosed emails show that the Food and Drug Administration finding behind that order, official certification of the jabs as “safe and effective,” was the result of a bureaucratic bait-and-switch.

The ‘Pure Fear’ Excuse for Lockdowns BY MICHAEL SENGER. This interminable coverup of reality, being fundamental to the origins of totalitarianism, may have been what the CCP intended from the start.

Open Letter to an Emotionally Abused World BY LORI WEINTZ. There has been a fundamental shift in our relationship with the people and organizations who make policies and direct how the world is run. They laid the groundwork during Covid and are busy planning the next pandemic, and a whole host of initiatives, calling for drastic changes to how we live. The first step in healing from emotional abuse is to recognize the abuse. The next step is to make a change so the abuse does not continue.

Berenson v. Biden: The Potential and Significance  BY BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE.  Discovery and depositions from Pfizer and the White House would be the most valuable insight of the three years – insight into the power structures that orchestrated lockdowns, censorship, forced vaccinations, school closures, economic upheaval, government overreach, and the merger of corporations with the state. The media’s blackout may delay negative press coverage for the country’s most powerful forces, but the ramifications of the lawsuit could prove far more consequential than an undesirable headline in the New York Times.

The False Messaging on Vaccines Given to Pregnant Women BY DAVID BELL. These data indicate that there is NO basis for saying the vaccine is safe in pregnancy. Concentration of LNPs in ovaries, a doubled pregnancy loss rate, and raised fetal abnormality rate across all measured categories indicates that designating a safe-in-pregnancy label (B1 category in Australia) was contrary to available evidence. The data implies that not only was the Government’s “safe and effective” sloganeering not accurate, it was totally misleading with respect to the safety data available.

Healing the Culture with Poetry and Song BY CHRISTINE BLACK. We now endure times of deconstruction that feel unprecedented, crises of confidence in almost all parts of our culture. With institutions crumbling, we may also question the language, the words, that built and sustain these institutions. Many words no longer mean the same or have the same associations — “Left” and “Right; “Liberal” and “Conservative;” “safe” and “free.” Relationships rupture.  This rupturing may create openings for new meanings, associations, and alliances.

A Crumbling Regime: Lessons for the Social Sciences and Humanities BY J. CRISTIAN RANGEL, ARI GANDSMAN.  COVID-19 landed in an impoverished information ecology – especially in academic institutions – where increasingly all forms of information and arguments are vetted through ideological lines. In other words, arguments are measured against an always moving line of demarcation based on their suspected rootedness in simplistic political camps. 

What Is a Safety Signal and Why Does It Matter?  BY RAMESH THAKUR.  The authorities intentionally conflated the common public understanding with the technical precision of the medical specialists in insisting that serious side effects have been very rare. This was facilitated with the pandemic of media malfeasance. The Censorship-Industrial Complex was weaponized into a powerful tool of state power in an evolving system of governance that is a threat to the very survival of free society.

What They Meant by Essential and Nonessential BY JEFFREY A. TUCKER. Think of totalitarian societies like in The Hunger Games, with a District One and everyone else, or perhaps the old Soviet Union in which the party elites dined in luxury and everyone else stood in bread lines, or perhaps a scene from Oliver! in which the owners of the orphanage got fat while the kids in the workhouse lived on gruel until they could escape to live in the underground economy. It appears that the pandemic planners think of society the same way.

Society at Peak Shared Misery BY STEVE TEMPLETON. If a permanent government employee broke a regulation, they could not be fired. There was no real way to punish them. But what could be done was make a new regulation that was more burdensome than the last. Punishing an individual is hard. Punishing everyone for an individual’s behavior is much easier.

The Manipulation of the Public Mind BY RICHARD KELLY. Each of us is, way down, a black-box pool – our innermost thoughts and feelings known only to ourselves, and to God. Honouring that autonomy of thought, and decision making is to respect one’s own and other peoples individuality, freedom and place in the world. By the same token, the manipulation of someone’s free will through deliberate propaganda and psychological tactics is an abomination.

The WHO’s Updated Abortion Care Guideline and Its Implications for Member States BY DAVID BELL. Abortion is a morally complicated area. Policy must be based on compassion and respect for all of humanity. To impose one’s views on others irrespective of evidence and without respect for alternate opinion is a form of fascism. The WHO may have a place in advising on safety of a medical procedure, but not in pontificating over moral rights and wrongs. It is not there to tell people how to live their lives, but to support them with the tools to do so.

Coronamania and the End of the World BY MARK OSHINSKIE.  Too many Americans are gullible and fearful. Many blindly believe what the media presents and thus, suffer from mass delusion and anxiety. The media feels no obligation to tell the truth. To the contrary, news managers deliberately distort and sensationalize information to create alarm and audience/readership. No institution will punish them for their chicanery. Thus, they continually, routinely misrepresent.