Tag: national lockdown disaster

Guest Post by Jeffrey Tucker

Shell-shocked is a good way to describe the mood in the U.S. for a good part of the Spring of 2020. Most of us never thought it could happen here. I certainly did not, even though I’ve been writing about pandemic lockdown plans for 15 years. I knew the plans were on the shelf, which is egregious, but I always thought something would stop it from happening. The courts. Public opinion. Bill of Rights. Tradition. The core rowdiness of American culture. Political squeamishness. The availability of information.

Something would prevent it. So I believed. So most of us believed.

Still it happened, all in a matter of days, March 12-16, 2020, and boom; it was over! We were locked down. Schools shut. Bars and restaurants closed. No international visitors. Theaters shuttered. Conferences forcibly ended. Sports stopped. We were told to stay home and watch movies…for two weeks to flatten the curve. Then two weeks stretched to five months. How lucky for those who lived in the states that resisted the pressure and stayed open, but even for them, they couldn’t visit relatives in other states due to quarantine restrictions and so on.

Continue reading “We Need a Principled Anti-Lockdown Movement”

Guest Post by Simon Black

After a few weeks of freedom here in Puerto Rico where people could engage in dangerous, death-defying acts (like going to the gym), our all-knowing, all-powerful governor announced new lockdown rules late last week.

Or as I tell my friends, Mommy put us back in time-out.

This is not unique to Puerto Rico; several states and countries all over the world are imposing new waves of restrictions due to an uptick in Covid infections.

I find this all remarkable.

Several months ago when Covid was brand new, it was pretty scary. We knew nothing except that it was highly contagious and seemed deadly.

Politicians had to make hasty decisions with imperfect information in an extremely emotional environment… and it’s hard to begrudge them for that.

But it’s not March anymore. It’s August.

Continue reading “Mommy put us in time-out again”

Guest Post by Jeff Thomas via International Man

Coronavirus has long been known to virologists. It’s a seasonal virus that mutates somewhat each year. In the past, it’s routinely been dealt with through treatments that are both cheap and plentiful.

And yet, somehow, the release of corona in its latest mutation has been co-opted to justify a social and economic shutdown in over one hundred countries.

The knock-on effects of this shutdown have included, in the US alone:

• A stock market crash
• Closures of major food producers, breaking down the food supply chain
• Depleted supermarket shelves, similar to Venezuela in some locations
• 26 million people filing for unemployment benefits within a five-week period
• Long-proven coronavirus treatments being described as risky and untested, with the insistence that only a vaccine that may take eighteen months to produce may be considered viable for treatment
• The economy in free-fall
• The ramping-up of economic threats against China, as punishment for the presumed Wuhan origin of the virus
• The two political parties disagreeing dramatically over the handling of the emergency, but both agreeing that any recovery must begin with greater powers for the government and a dramatic loss of freedoms for the populace.

And all because of a common seasonal virus that has been known to researchers for years.

Continue reading “The Coronavirus Panic: It All Makes Complete Sense”

Guest Post by Ron Paul

Six hundred physicians recently signed a letter to President Trump calling for an end to the coronavirus lockdowns. The physicians wrote that, far from protecting public health, the lockdowns are causing “exponentially growing negative health consequences” for millions of Americans.

Since the lockdowns began, there have been increases in alcoholism, drug abuse, and domestic violence. There has also been an increase in calls to suicide hotlines. This is a direct result of the mass unemployment and limitations on people’s activities resulting from the lockdowns. As long as millions of Americans are sitting at home wondering how to survive until the government says they can go back to work — assuming the lockdowns did not drive their employers out of business, there will be more substance abuse and suicides.

Continue reading “Listen to the Doctors, End the Lockdowns”

Guest Post by Simon Black

For this week’s round-up of articles, we’re taking a look at some of the things the government thinks should be banned in response to coronavirus.

WHO urges governments to ban alcohol during lockdown

Last week we talked about how the World Health Organization was coming for your sick family members.

This week, they want your booze.

WHO says that alcohol compromises the immune system. And since we are fighting a virus, they think that prohibition is necessary.

In fact, alcohol restrictions can be justified by governments for the same reason coronavirus lockdowns are needed.

Continue reading “Coronavirus response: Ban alcohol, free speech, and homeschooling”

Via ZeroHedge

Fox News host Tucker Carlson railed against the lockdowns in most US states aimed at slowing the spread of coronavirus.

In a compelling presentation Wednesday night, Carlson questioned the “science” behind the decision to shut down much of the country, which has resulted extreme economic hardship as more than 26.3 million workers have filed for unemployment claims as of last week.

“What country is this?” asked Carlson. “It’s a country in a lockdown. We’re told we have no choice but to do this — to stop our lives completely.”

“Mass quarantines, they tell us again and again, are the only way to save lives,” Carlson added. “But that’s a lie. They don’t know it’s true, despite what they’ve claimed. There’s no scientific record to consult. It’s never been done. We’re currently living through the largest and most expensive experiment ever conducted in human history. We’ve spent trillions of dollars, and crushed millions of people, purely on the guess that a nationwide lockdown would save us from the coronavirus. Has it worked? Was the guess correct?”

Continue reading “Tucker Carlson Slams Lockdowns As “Largest And Most Expensive Experiment In Human History””