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Come on, Jeffrey Tucker and Great Barrington Declaration, just admit you were wrong

Admit you were wrong?
Why does this post feature an image of Taylor Swift? Simple. The article by Peggy Noonan that so triggered Jeffrey Tucker was about, of all things, how great Taylor Swift is and how she should be TIME's Person of the Year.

In response to an article praising Taylor Swift, Jeffrey Tucker demands that Peggy Noonan “admit she was wrong” about COVID-19. Hilarity ensues.

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How “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic destroyed public health

Great Barrington Declaration authors Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattacharya
Authors of the Great Barrington Declaration, which advocated a "natural herd immunity" approach to the pandemic in front of the American Institute for Economic Research in Great Barrington. (Left to right: Martin Kulldorff, Sunetra Gupta, and Jay Bhattarcharya.)

Jeffrey Tucker recently bragged that “natural herd immunity” approaches to the pandemic like his Great Barrington Declaration had “changed everything.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t wrong and worse, these changes were not a good thing.

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The antimask antivax Brownstone Institute is still ranting about COVID-19 “censorship”

Censorship? How antivaxxers view themselves.
Censorship? How antivaxxers view themselves.

The Brownstone Institute is at it again, claiming that the mainstream media are all about “censorship” of “divergent” ideas about COVID-19.

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Antivaccine nonsense Medicine

Alan Lash recycles an old prepandemic antivax trope

Lash vs doctors
It its impressive that Lash resisted going to the old antivax standby of doctors shilling for tobacco companies. That's what makes him a skilled propagandist.

Everything old is new yet again, as Brownstone Institute’s Alan Lash recycles old antivax tropes about doctors supposedly being in the thrall of big pharma and therefore untrustworthy.

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The COVID-19 “vaccine holocaust” accelerates in antivax messaging

Vaccine holocaust?
No, COVID-19 vaccines are not causing a "vaccine holocaust."

The antivax lie that vaccines are killing lots of people long predates COVID-19, but now the idea of the “vaccine holocaust” has reached the ridiculously implausible proportions of 20 million dead and 2 billion injured. How did antivaxxers do this?

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