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We’ve been ostracised for telling the truth about how the liberal elite got Covid so wrong

It is more than five years since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, and yet the measures used to respond to it still, it seems, have the capacity to shock.

Stephen Macedo, a liberal academic at Princeton University, has just spent months examining how the Western political class got its response to the crisis so wrong – an endeavour that has made him an outlier among many of his peers.

Macedo, 68, a professor of politics, says he was “shocked on a daily basis” by information that he and Frances Lee, a professor of politics and public affairs at the university, unearthed throughout the writing of their book, In Covid’s Wake: How Our Politics Failed Us.

“I have often not been able to believe what I’ve been reading,” says Macedo. Among the most perturbing facts was a “pandemic preparedness” plan published by the World Health Organisation in 2019, months before the coronavirus outbreak, followed by a report by Johns Hopkins University later that year, in which both sets of authors were “sceptical about a whole range of non-pharmaceutical interventions [NPIs, i.e. face coverings and social distancing],” Lee explains. A 2011 UK government pre-pandemic plan had reached similar conclusions. And yet these “interventions” formed a central part of the response to the pandemic in Britain and the United States.

Along with Lee, Macedo has become a loud voice in the effort to challenge how the “laptop classes” defined our pandemic response, and got it badly wrong.

In their book, which is published on Tuesday and has been described by The New York Times as “an invitation to have a reckoning”, Macedo and Lee argue that, in the face of a global emergency, democracy and free speech failed.

We meet at Princeton, in New Jersey, on a grey spring day, earnest undergrads clutching coffee cups passing along the cherry blossom-lined streets.

The authors explain that their goal is “not just to look back for looking back’s sake” but to reflect on where the liberal political class veered off course, and set out the change of approach they believe is required ahead of the next global emergency.

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Top Doctor Behind Defense Department’s Vaccine Mandate Who Tossed Thousands of Men and Women from US Military For Not Taking Jab – Sues to Get Her Job Back

Former senior defense official Dr. Terry Adirim, who was behind the unconstitutional military vaccine mandate, was reportedly fired from her position in February 2025 shortly after President Trump took office.

Dr. Terry Adirim, a senior CIA official and former Defense Department official under Joe Biden, was fired by the Trump Administration after she caused so much harm and damage to the US military and thousands of military men and women who refused to take the COVID jab.

Dr. Terry Adirim left her position on February 25 to “pursue other opportunities” outside the department, according to an internal memo sent by VA Deputy Secretary Donald Remy to employees.

Her position was filled by Dr. Neil Evans, currently a senior consultant for the Office of Information and Technology, until a candidate was identified.

Adirim has served as the VA electronic health record modernization program director since December 2021.

Investigative reporter Jordan Schachtel of The Dossier reported that Adirim signed the order requiring all service members to receive the emergency use authorization (EUA) COVID vaccine while serving as acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs after being appointed by Joe Biden.

“While she was in the Pentagon as the acting assistant secretary of defense for health affairs (serving as a Biden Admin political appointee), Dr Adirim, signed her name to an order forcing service members to take the emergency use authorization (EUA) vaccine. Adirim’s memo attempted to justify mandating EUA shots as if they were FDA approved, which was not the case at the time, and remains the same today. The mandate led to countless vaccine injuries, the worst recruiting crisis since the formation of the all-volunteer military, and thousands of service members discharged for refusing to take the mRNA experimental gene serum,” The Dossier reported.

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The Pandemic that Never Left

We often speak of COVID-19 in the past tense.  The masks have come off, the Plexiglas dividers are gone, and the nightly case trackers have vanished from our screens.  But the virus, less in its biological form than its cultural and economic residue, never really left.  Its fingerprints are all over how we live, eat, and work.  And the strangest part?  Many of us hardly notice anymore.

Take a walk downtown in any mid-sized American city around 8:30 P.M. on a Tuesday.  You’ll see it.  The restaurants are dark.  The neon signs are dim.  Kitchens that once bustled until midnight now flick off their stoves by nine, if they’re open at all.

Increasingly, diners find locked doors on Tuesdays or Wednesdays, with small placards explaining “New Hours Due to Staffing” or the more typical “Closed Tuesdays.”

It’s tempting to blame labor shortages or inflation.  Both are real.  But behind them lies a broader, quieter shift, a cultural transformation catalyzed by the pandemic and cemented by inertia.  Much of that has eroded the hustle, the grind, the after-hours dining, and lingering conversations over a second glass of wine.

And it’s not just restaurants.  America’s downtowns, once the heartbeat of business and commerce, are hollowing out.

This is not a red-state or blue-state problem.  The virus didn’t ask about party affiliation when it changed how we live.  Both political parties spent, scrambled, and stumbled through the early stages of COVID-19, each spinning its response as leadership while quietly punting the deeper consequences down the road.  In many cities, that road now runs past a series of vacant office towers.

A recent National Bureau of Economic Research study found that office attendance in major urban centers remains down over 40% from pre-pandemic levels.  Remote work, initially a stopgap, became a lifestyle.  Hybrid work is now the norm for many white-collar jobs, and although it offers flexibility, it also delivers a slow bleed to the urban economy.  The companies that once filled 20 floors of a high-rise are now leasing half of one or none.

And cities are paying the price.

Fewer office workers mean fewer lunches bought, fewer dry cleaning runs, fewer happy hours, fewer subway fares, and fewer tax dollars.  Cities like San Francisco and Chicago are staring down budget shortfalls and contemplating service cuts.  Smaller cities with less diversified economies are faring worse.  Once designed around density and foot traffic, downtowns now resemble ghost towns by 6 P.M.

The commercial real estate market is groaning under the weight of it.  Office vacancy rates in the U.S. hit a record 19.6% in late 2023, and the consequences are rippling.  Property taxes from office buildings make up a significant revenue stream for many municipalities.  When those buildings sit empty or depreciate, cities lose income.  That means potholes go unfilled, bus routes are cut, police and fire departments see reduced budgets, and residents feel the decline.

We’re living through a slow-motion crisis that doesn’t make headlines because it doesn’t explode; it seeps.

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What Is the PREP Act?

In conjunction with EUA (Emergency Use Authorization), the PREP Act is the legislation that enabled – and continues to perpetuate – the rollout and administration of mRNA “countermeasures” against Covid-19.

In this article I will discuss what the PREP Act says, how it was passed, what prominent politicians and legal experts said about it at the time, how it is related to COVID, and why I support efforts (1) calling for the HHS Secretary to immediately repeal the PREP Act emergency declaration for COVID, and (2) calling on legislators to repeal the law entirely.

WHAT THE PREP ACT SAYS

The PREP Act is a long and convoluted piece of legislation. You can read the entire thing here:

42 U.S. Code § 247d-6d – Targeted liability protections for pandemic and epidemic products and security countermeasures

This is a summary of the main sections of the law:

(a) Liability Protections

  • Anyone defined as a “covered person” is immune from legal liability related to the use or administration of anything defined as a “covered countermeasure.”

A “covered person” includes (A) “the United States” or (B) any person or “entity” that manufactures, distributes, plans a program for, prescribes, administers, or dispenses a covered countermeasure, or an official, agent or employee of any of the above.

A “covered countermeasure” includes any drug, biological product or device that is authorized under Emergency Use Authorization or approved through any other legal pathway.

  • Scope of claims for loss:
    • The immunity applies to any claim related to death, actual or fear of physical, mental or emotional injury, illness, disability, or condition; and loss of or damage to property, including business interruption loss.
    • The immunity applies to any causal relation to any of the above types of loss related to the design, development, clinical testing or investigation, manufacture, labeling, distribution, formulation, packaging, marketing, promotion, sale, purchase, donation, dispensing, prescribing, administration, licensing, or use of a covered countermeasure.
  • The immunity applies only if a countermeasure was applied or used during the effective period of the emergency declaration for that countermeasure, and was used for the disease, population and geographic area specified in the declaration.
  • For manufacturers or distributors, the immunity applies to any population in any geographic area, without regard to the population or area specified in the emergency declaration for the countermeasure.

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Three children ‘rescued’ from home after ‘COVID syndrome’ parents kept them locked inside for 4 years

Three children have allegedly been found living in prison-like conditions following COVID ‘lockdown’ rules, long after pandemic restrictions ended.

A German couple living in Spain have been arrested after allegedly locking their three children inside and forcing them to abide by pandemic restrictions, such as wearing masks, for the past four years.

The siblings, eight-year-old twins and a 10-year-old, were dramatically rescued from the ‘house of horrors’ in Oviedo on Monday (April 28) after being locked up inside since around December 2021.

Once freed, cops noticed the children acted unusually to being outside, as they touched the grass and appeared intrigued by a snail.

An investigator also said: “As soon as we got them out, all three children began to breathe deeply, as if they had never been outside before,” according to New York Post.

The authorities learnt of the children’s situation after a neighbor filed a complaint on April 14 that the youngsters had not been attending school, according to El Comercio.

Yet while Oviedo Police Chief Javier Lozano said there was nothing ‘initially’ that sparked concern, cops grew suspicious after surveillance on the home revealed the 53-year-old father was the only person to leave the residence to pick up groceries and mail.

Other neighbors reported the rest of the family had not left the home since December 2021.

When police approached the family, the father reportedly ‘agreed’ to let them in while they spotted the mom, a 48-year-old German-American woman, putting three masks each on the children, per El Mundo.

It is also reported that she told officers to ‘be careful’ since her children were ‘very sick.’

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Recipients of Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine Had Higher Mortality Than Those of Moderna: Study

Florida adults who received Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine were more likely to die following vaccination than Moderna COVID-19 recipients, according to a new preprint study that was co-authored by Florida’s top health official.

Dr. Joseph Ladapo, Florida’s surgeon general, and other researchers identified nearly 9.2 million Florida adults not living in institutions who received at least two doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine less than six weeks apart between Dec. 18, 2020, and Aug. 31, 2021.

They narrowed the group to nearly 1.5 million, half who received Pfizer’s vaccine and half who received Moderna’s vaccine, by matching them based on criteria such as age and sex. They then analyzed the records to see which group had the higher risk for all-cause mortality, or death from any cause, in the 12 months following vaccination.

That analysis found that more Pfizer recipients died, with 847 deaths per 100,000 recipients, compared to 618 deaths per 100,000 for Moderna recipients. Pfizer recipients were also more likely to suffer heart-related deaths and COVID-19 deaths.

Pfizer and Moderna did not respond to requests for comment.

The study was published as a preprint, which means it has not been peer reviewed, on the medRxiv server on April 29.

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The False Claims of WHO’s Pandemic Agreement

One way to determine whether a suggestion is worth following is to look at the evidence presented to support it. If the evidence makes sense and smells real, then perhaps the program you are asked to sign up for is worthy of consideration. 

However, if the whole scheme is sold on fallacies that a child could poke a stick through, and its chief proponents cannot possibly believe their own rhetoric, then only a fool would go much further. This is obvious – you don’t buy a used car on a salesman’s insistence that there is no other way to get from your kitchen to your bathroom.

Delegates at the coming World Health Assembly in Geneva are faced with such a choice. In this case, the car salesman is the World Health Organization (WHO), an organization still commanding considerable global respect based on a legacy of sane and solid work some decades ago. 

It also benefits from a persistent misunderstanding that large international organizations would not intentionally lie (they increasingly do, as noted below). The delegates will be voting on the recently completed text of the Pandemic Agreement, part of a broad effort to extract large profits and salaries from an intrinsic human fear of rare causes of death. Fear and confusion distract human minds from rational behavior.

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SHOCKING Revelation Leads to Potentially Thousands More COVID Deaths Linked to Former NY Governor ‘Killer Cuomo’s’ Policies

There are potentially thousands more COVID deaths related to former NY Governor “Killer Cuomo” based on a new revelation.

We learned on Tuesday, that former New York Governor “Killer Cuomo” was referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution related to his actions during the COVID crisis.

Based on the following revelations, the number of COVID deaths attributed to former New York Governor “Killer Cuomo” may be much higher than what has been reported to date.

Governor Cuomo, for months, desperately tried every trick in the book to hide the actual number of New York seniors who died under his March 25 Department of Health nursing home mandate. His own Attorney General, Letitia James, now herself under a criminal referral to Pam Bondi’s DOJ for mortgage fraud, issued a report in January 2021, which stated Cuomo had under-counted the nursing home deaths by as much as 50 percent.

On January 28, 2021 Fox News reported:

“New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s administration confirmed Thursday that thousands more nursing home residents died of COVID-19 than the state’s official tallies had previously acknowledged, dealing a potential blow to his image as a pandemic hero.

The surprise development, after months of the state refusing to divulge its true numbers, showed that at least 12,743 long-term care residents died of the virus as of Jan. 19, far greater than the official tally of 8,505 on that day, cementing New York’s toll as one of the highest in the nation.

Those numbers are consistent with a report released just hours earlier by Attorney General Letitia James…”

Among families harmed by the March 25 reg, it is generally believed that likely double that number, or upwards of 20,000 seniors, actually died in New York nursing homes and/or hospitals.

But there is much more.

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Study shows nearly half of ‘Covid deaths’ not caused by virus

Journalist Sharyl Attkisson shared a study on COVID-19 deaths, and things are not as they seem.

Conservative skeptics were calling for an audit into COVID deaths from the very beginning, certain that things weren’t quite adding up. It was an unpopular position at the time, as the rest of the world was still reeling from the fear and uncertainty of a global pandemic.

Now that we are several years removed, people are finally looking into exactly how COVID deaths were categorized in Greece.

A study published in Scientific Reports reveals that “[i]n Greek hospitals, all deaths with a positive SARS-CoV-2 test are counted as COVID-19 deaths,” but investigators wanted to know whether COVID was the cause of death, a contributing factor, or not related to the cause of death.

“We categorized all study deaths into two groups: (a) deaths ‘due to’ COVID-19, where the infection was either the direct or sole cause of death, or it triggered a sequence of events that ultimately led to death, and (b) deaths ‘with’ COVID-19, where the death was unrelated to the infection. To classify each death, we used data from three sources: (a) the death certificate, (b) the chart file of the patient (paper and electronic files) and (c) we interviewed the caring physician with a structured questionnaire. We extracted epidemiological, clinical, and treatment data, including demographics, comorbidities, vaccination status, the reason for admission to the hospital, in-hospital transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the department where the patient was admitted, clinical signs and symptoms of COVID-19, laboratory and imaging findings attributed to COVID-19, need for supplementary oxygen, COVID-19 specific treatment (including early antiviral treatment for high-risk patients), and outcomes,” the study reads.

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RFK Jr. Launches Long-Awaited Offensive Against Deadly COVID-19 mRNA Shots

As millions of Americans anxiously await action from the new HHS leadership against the deadly COVID-19 mRNA injections—injected into over 9 million children this year—Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has finally gone publicly on the offensive.

Let’s go over each key point made by RFK Jr.:

The recommendation for children was always dubious. It was dubious because kids had almost no risk for COVID-19. Certain kids that had very profound morbidities may have a slight risk. Most kids don’t.

In the largest review to date on myocarditis following SARS-CoV-2 infection vs. COVID-19 vaccination, Mead et al found that vaccine-induced myocarditis is not only significantly more common but also more severe—particularly in children and young males. Our findings make clear that the risks of the shots overwhelmingly outweigh any theoretical benefit.

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