The Post-Partisan Emporium

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COVID Cruelty It’s been said that a crisis doesn’t create character, it reveals it. Far too often, the pandemic has shown that many Americans in positions of authority are of poor character. At least we know who the sadists are, since they so helpfully identified themselves. The line between being overly cautious and just plain cruel has been crossed repeatedly. This is where we are today in what had previously been thought of as  civilization : Hospitals across the country are removing unvaccinated organ transplant patients from  waiting lists . Medical ethicists are fine with this, because the patients need to be protected from illnesses while their bodies accept the new organs, and they are prioritized based on their chances of survival. These “ethicists,” however, come off as vindictive, “othering” the unvaccinated in line with the narrative. Moving these patients lower on the list based on a risk they assume seems acceptable, dropping them altogether is not. It’s intentionally pun

Defining Away Vaccine Safety Signals IV: The DoD/DMED Story Mathew Crawford Whether or not the CDC and FDA are properly evaluating the safety of an experimental mass quasi-vaccination campaign involving illegal mandates and untold systemic risks is one of the greatest issues that my nation and the entire world has ever faced. There is no way to understate that point. If the government that has soaked up power, authority, and trust, is betraying such a fundamental responsibility, then we need to take that responsibility unto ourselves. For those who have not read the previous stories,  they are here  where  I have begun to wikify past articles  in an organized way. The DoD/DMED Story Timeline January 24 On Monday, January 24, the day after the March to End the Mandates in Washington, D.C.,  attorney Thomas Renz  was  among numerous speakers during a five-hour hearing held by Senator Ron Johnson  on COVID-19 issues. I was shocked listening to Renz in real time because I hadn't yet he

Social Contagion Chris Waldburger Last year, I discussed how  the naming of diseases and disorders  helps to entrench and spread those diseases and disorders. Oliver Sacks, in his classic work,  The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat , points out that Tourette’s Syndrome and muscular dystrophy exploded in cases after a name was invented for them. After he made his first diagnosis for Tourette’s he recalls seeing three other cases the very next day. Shakespeare’s Hamlet famously said, to those who disbelieved the reality of his father’s ghost, ‘There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.’ The same is true of our modern, materialist philosophy. In my piece, I discussed two possible causes for this phenomenon: The nocebo effect. Just as placebos can cure people, because patients believe they can, so too can patients who dread disease and despair of treatment, help bring about negative outcomes. Quantum entanglement. This was admittedly out th