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The Biden Administration have announced that their insane vaccine requirements for government employees and international travellers will finally end on 11 May, when the American pandemic state of emergency expires. The WHO have likewise declared that Covid-19 “

That eternal turd who will not flush, Christian Drosten, has resurfaced with an odious media interview, demanding that the vaccines receive credit for ending the pandemic and that oppressive non-pharmaceutical interventions like lockdowns and school closures remain on the table for future pandemics.

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Thoughts in the last days of my professional academic life.

Thoughts on the worsening catastrophe of German energy policy, and how things came to be this way.

The real Long Covid is a political disease and we have yet to learn the extent of it

Pandemic mythology continues its slow decay.

The question to ask of every leftist protest, is not why nobody is stopping it, but whose interests it serves.

Patrick Graichen, energy transition mastermind, former head of the vile Agora Energiewende think-tank, and powerful Staatssekretär to the German Minister of Economic Affairs Robert Habeck, resigned his office Wednesday in disgrace. It is the first serious defeat to be dealt

“China prepares for new wave of Covid cases from XBB variants”, screams the Washington Post. “New Covid variant in China could infect 65 million people a week from June”, proclaims The Independent. “40 Million Infections per Week”, hyperventilates Welt

In response to my piece on leaving academia, a few asked me for my thoughts on Wokeness, and how one might go about doing away with it. There’s nothing I would like more, than to have a good answer to this question. Alas, I’m very pessimistic about achieving any victory here, but I also don’t think Woke is going to be a permanent menace. Sooner or later, the forces driving this ideological cancer will try to dial in the Woke, and if they fail, they will themselves be consumed by it. The damage has been done and the pre-Woke world can never be re-achieved, but Wokery isn’t a stable ideological system. It is instead the mere ideological expression of a revolutionary process.

Experts don't tell the truth; they tell whatever story enhances their relevance.

Western liberal democracies, with their widely distributed and complex institutional apparatus, have serious problems with coordination, and increasingly rely on press-fuelled hysteria to rouse themselves to action. They were never so powerful as during the great Covid panic, and as that wave of excitement recedes ever further, one thing has become clear: The locus of this coordinating hysteria is very important. Whatever the ambitions of the globalist vaccinators, the pandemic activated national bureaucracies and sidelined the global climate agenda for as long as it endured. Disease is something each country must solve for itself, while the climate crisis is the preferred unifying ideology of postwar globalism, because it favours solutions requiring high levels of international coordination.

My review of Robert F. Kennedy’s The Real Anthony Fauci has understandably provoked many critical comments from readers who are disappointed about my views on the promise and suppression of early treatments. That’s fine. I’m far less interested in convincing anybody that a given drug does or doesn’t work against Covid, than I am in convincing everybody that letting medical bureaucrats try to solve a problem like Covid,

Der Spiegel, after running multiple stories peddling the canard that mysterious “Russian ships” were implicated in the Nord Stream attacks of 26 September 2022, has in a familiar pattern now totally reversed course and declared instead that there is

Corporate lobbyists aren't the only organised force in politics, and profits are not the only or even the most important motivation.

How did we ever get to this strange place, where the mRNA vaccines alone in the entire world of medicine can do no wrong?

The inaugural post of the Plague Chronicle Book Club.