- Evidence against The Great Barrington Declaration’s idea of focused protection.
- The feds are cracking down on Medicare Advantage plans.
- CDC: Flu season appears to be normal, despite the media hype.
- CTUP study: Government payments and free health care benefits can pay more than the annual equivalent of a $100,000 job in three states, and the equivalent of an $80,000 a year job in 13 states.
Category: Experts
WSJ: Remote Mental Health Counseling Suffers from Growing Pains
The Wall Street Journal ran an article on The Failed Promise of Online Mental-Health Treatment (gated on one device but I was able to read it for free on another). During the pandemic lockdown there were few options available for counseling at a time when many peoples’ mental health was taking a hit.
Monday Links
- Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burrus on the misguided history of government regulation of addictive drugs.
- “The FBI set up a command post ahead of the 2020 election to send election-related posts to Twitter and other platforms for possible action. A similar group flagged posts on the day of the 2022 midterms…”
- Scott Atlas: Twitter Censorship Contributed to Destructive Pandemic Policies and Is Criminal.
- New documents reveal how the United States government used a secret Twitter portal to censor COVID-19 content that contradicted the government’s narrative.
- A libertarian Medical Oath.
Saturday Links
- Pew Foundation “striking findings.”
- In addition to drug shortages, the US has been experiencing medical device shortages.
- Free covid tests by mail are back.
- CNN: Covid-19 vaccines have saved more than 3 million lives in US. But no mention of Donald Trump or Operation Warp Speed. CTUP: this is like trumpeting the polio vaccine and not mentioning Jonas Salk.
- A defense of Canadian euthanasia: The average age of those who seek assisted death is 76.3, and 65% have cancer.
- All the bad things in the Hippocratic Oath that I bet you don’t know about.