Suppressing negative information about a product doesn’t build trust—and much of the distrust surrounding the COVID vaccine can be traced directly back to pro-vaccine misinformation.

The last two years will reveal our expert class to be anything but objective, honest, and competent.

Neil Young is a perfect exemplar of the Baby Boomers: He made some great music, but his politics and self-absorption are a danger to us all.

That more than half of our country willingly obeys completely irrational orders raises the question: What irrational orders from the state would they not obey?

The backlash against COVID rules should be a lesson for Democrats and Republicans alike: America is still a land of freedom.

Those in confederacy against reality don’t want this pandemic to end—never again will their negative personality traits purchase such power.

The media will tell you that it’s a right-wing conspiracy that whites are discriminated against in COVID treatment and, at the same time, tell you that it’s a good thing it’s happening.

When presented side by side, these two episodes of human frailty offer us a bittersweet cocktail like no other in medical history and an irony of enormous proportions.

How the Church should respond to pandemic untruths.

Two years from now, the famous slogan covering the green grass of the Sunshine State—“Make America Florida”—won’t just be a popular yard sign.

On Omicron, the freest policies are now necessarily also the best policies.

Thousands of Americans have died needlessly because of weaponized disinformation about China’s culpability, vaccines, useful drugs, lockdowns, racial preferences, and long-term care facilities.

It is important to keep in mind that any mass-formation on one side is likely to increase anger and stress on the other, in a destructive feedback loop.

Because in 2022, there’s something happening here.

A vaccine or any other such mandate isn’t an end in itself; it is a discovery process. It points the ambitious to the boundaries. 

Ash, HAL and the 2020-2022 pandemic odyssey

The cover-up of information, and the dissembling we’ve seen over the past year on vaccines and masks is serious, not only for health reasons but also for reasons of public trust in institutions.

Cuomo’s narcissistic sociopathy allowed him to callously sacrifice the lives of thousands of older people for the putative greater good of getting rid of President Trump.  

The only hope is that enough Americans will have been inoculated after this bout of madness to be immune to, and deeply skeptical of, the next attempt to erode their rights.