A number of students attending or wanting to attend public SUNY (State University of New York) colleges are signing onto a class action lawsuit against mandatory COVID vaccines. Teachers For Choice, an advocacy group, is working with NY Attorney Jim Mermigis in filing the suit, which alleges that the state has no authority to require...
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MODELING DECEIT: NEW STUDY POINTS THE WAY TO MANIPULATING “CO-OPERATION”
People can be deceived into following mandates if they believe others are following them, when they aren’t. That would be lying of course, and something that should be anathema to an electoral democracy, and engendering trust in political and medical authorities. But a University of Pennsylvania study is basically suggesting authorities do exactly that —...
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DC ATTORNEY CIRCUMVENTING BAR ON GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE OF FREE SPEECH
This time it’s District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine doing an end run around the Constitution. Racine, a Democrat, has subpoenaed Facebook for “COVID-19 misinformation” related records on its platform. The subpoena would compel Facebook to identify any groups, pages, and accounts that have broken the platform’s broad COVID-19 misinformation regulations. It also demands...
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EU RELEASES ‘DIGITAL GREEN CERTIFICATE’ FOR COVID TRAVEL
The European Union announced a “digital green certificate” that enables Europeans who have proof of vaccination to travel freely within the bloc during the summer months, according to a report. The Financial Times reported that the certificate comes in the form of a phone app released at the request of southern countries that rely on summer...
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NON-COMMUNICABLE DISEASES BLAMED FOR DEATHS
While the world focuses solely on the public health risk from the COVID-19 outbreak, virtually no attention is devoted to diseases that are not transmissible but can be, in many cases, avoided by living a healthy lifestyle. Non-communicable diseases were blamed for seven of the world’s top 10 causes of death in 2020 and fast...
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CALIFORNIA TO REQUIRE MASKS IN SCHOOLS DESPITE FEDERAL HEALTH GUIDELINES
California plans to force all in-person students to wear masks in the fall despite guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Masking is a simple and effective intervention that does not interfere with offering full in-person instruction,” Mark Ghaly, the secretary of California Health and Human Services Agency, said. “At the onset of...
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U.S. VAX RATE DOWN, BIDEN FIGHTING TO PUSH IT UP
President Biden—who recently came up short of his goal to have 70 percent of Americans to have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 vaccine by the Fourth of July—is trying to figure out how to get Americans to sign up to be vaccinated without enforcing a government mandate, and the way to do...
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REMEMBER “IT’S A FREE COUNTRY!”?
Once upon a time, many of the older Americans may remember when “It’s a free country!” was a common phrase in the U.S., especially as a response to someone telling us we “really ought to do” something we really didn’t care to do. “Don’t try to dictate what I can or can’t do,” we’d defiantly...
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VAX KIDS? THE COVID RISK IS “TINY”
The Wall Street Journal, in an article published 9 July, reports on the findings of three studies that confirm what the Trends Journal has long detailed: the risk to children 18 and younger of dying from COVID-19 is extremely small. Indeed, we wrote back in December that “It should be noted that among this age...
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SMART PHONES = BRAIN ROTTING STUPID
Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley, in partnership with Korea’s National Cancer Center and Seoul University, have been analyzing data from 46 studies in 16 countries including the U.K., Japan, Sweden and New Zealand in addition to the U.S. and Korea, and their findings indicate a statistical link between cell phone use and...