- AEI endorses health system price controls. WHAT?
- Multiple agencies “misrepresented and deceived” lawmakers over experiments to swap genes between “more lethal” and “more transmissible” lineages of monkeypox.
- Money doesn’t buy happiness, but happy people are more successful.
- Why some people don’t get covid – even when exposed to it.
- Does spirituality affect health? (Speculative)
- Lawfare explained.
Category: COVID-19 and Public Health
Friday Links
- CBO: Federal debt held by the public to reach 180% of GDP by mid century.
- One solution to the debt problem: faster economic growth.
- Dr. Steven Quay on the origins of covid: Testimony. Book: “This book is a shocking account of the extreme experiments, of the cover-ups and of the collusions that led to the outbreak of the worst pandemic since the 1918 Spanish influenza and broadens the censure to include the American and British scientists who thwarted a proper investigation of the origin of COVID-19.”
- Standing between rural residents and health care: certificate of need laws.
- Families matter: Odds of going to college and graduating from college vs. going to prison, based on the presence or absence of parents.
- South Africa’s public health care system has run out of the human insulin pens for diabetics, as the pharmaceutical industry shifts production priorities to weight-loss drugs.
- Nearly three years after the creation of a $42.5 billion federal program to bring high speed internet access to rural residents, not a single home or business has been connected and no project will break ground until sometime next year.
Wednesday Links
- Results of polygenic screening: There are simply no more people with Down’s to be seen on the streets of Iceland and Denmark.
- Surgeon General Vivek Murthy calls for a warning label on social media platforms.
- Kansas sues Pfizer for marketing its Covid-19 vaccine as “safe” even though it “knew” the vaccine was connected to “serious adverse events.”
- “Cost-disease socialism” occurs when you respond to the high cost of something by subsidizing it, but then attach strings that limit the supply and drive costs up further.
- John Tierney explains the “March of Dimes Syndrome.”
- The case for marriage.
Tuesday Links
- US military ran a secret campaign to undermine Chinese Covid vaccines, even though they were effective.
- The Brennan Center has identified 135 statutory powers that accrue to the president when he declares a national emergency. Over 40 emergencies are currently in force. Some of them are more than a decade old.
- The Australian state of Victoria has been rocked by arson, fire bombings and gang warfare – resembling the American era of Prohibition – and it’s all over tobacco.