The Post-Partisan Emporium

UK Data Shows No All-Cause Mortality Benefit for COVID-19 Vaccines The Vaccine Wars Part I Mathew Crawford The original title of this article was, "Did Alex Berenson Fall for a Simpson's Paradox?" I'm rewriting the title and introduction to this article after having finished an analysis that demonstrates  no all-cause mortality benefit to the vaccinated in the UK . You'll have to read through the story to understand why. Are the vaccinated dying at two-to-three times the rate of the unvaccinated  in the UK as Alex Berenson's recent article suggests? Let's be clear:  Alex Berenson  has done an excellent and courageous job during the pandemic. I follow his work and recommend that you do as well. He definitely digs into data better than most journalists, though we should not expect for him to do everything and be everything.  He doesn't have to be perfect and you don't have to agree with every take to understand how important his work is .  I am writi...

The war on the ‘unvaccinated’ is a desperate attempt to demonize and destroy the control group The ruling class is very worried about non-compliant citizens. Jordan Schachtel I wanted to turn your attention to a side by side comparison map comparing the COVID pandemic of last year to this year. It is a true “photo is worth a million words” tweet from Rational Ground’s Woke Zombie: Woke Zombie 😊 @AWokeZombie #US #COVID19 Nov. 19 2020 vs. Nov. 19 2021 Pretty amazing the symmetry. November 20th 2021 812 Retweets 2,204 Likes The symmetry is indeed amazing. And the conclusion, after over 600 days of COVID Mania, could not be more clear. Not a single “public health expert”-hailed mitigation or suppression measure, including the COVID shots, has done anything significant to solve the reality that lots of people get sick during their area’s annual respiratory season. This global war on a virus is going about as well as the War on Afghanistan went when it came to eliminating the Taliban. ...

Fighting “Information Disorder”: Aspen’s Orwellian Commission on Controlling Speech in America The Aspen Institute has issued the results of its much heralded 16-person Commission on Information Disorder on how to protect the public from misinformation. The commission on disinformation and “building trust” was partially headed by  Katie Couric who is still struggling with her own admission  that she edited an interview to remove controversial statements by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The Aspen recommendations however are a full-throated endorsement of systems of censorship. The findings and recommendations are found in an  80-page report  on how to combat “disinformation” and “misinformation,” which are remarkably ill-defined but treated as a matter of “we know when we see it.”  From the outset, however, the Commission dismissed the long-standing free speech principle that the solution to bad speech is better speech, not censorship. The problem is that...

Pathologized Totalitarianism 101 CJ Hopkins So, GloboCap has crossed the Rubicon. The final phase of its transformation of society into a pathologized-totalitarian dystopia, where mandatory genetic-therapy injections and digital compliance papers are commonplace, is now officially underway. On November 19, 2021, the government of New Normal Austria decreed that, as of February,  experimental mRNA injections will be mandatory for the entire population . This decree comes in the midst of  Austria’s official persecution of “the Unvaccinated,”  i.e., political dissidents and other persons of conscience who refuse to convert to the new official ideology and submit to a series of mRNA injections, purportedly to combat  a virus that causes mild-to-moderate flu-like symptoms (or no symptoms of any kind at all) in about 95% of the infected  and  the overall infection fatality rate of which is approximately 0.1% to 0.5% . Austria is just the tip of the New Normal spe...