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J.S. Mill: Book V, Chapter XI: Of the Grounds and Limits of the Laisser­faire or Non­Interference Principle

This is from Mill’s Principles of Political Economy Download Word | PDF  

George Bush’s exaggerated concerns led to lockdown thinking in USA

Got hold of this piece from here. The Untold Story of the Birth of Social Distancing The idea has been around for centuries. But it took a high school science fair, George W. Bush, history lessons and some determined researchers to overcome skepticism and make it federal policy. By Eric Lipton and Jennifer Steinhauer April […]

There was absolutely no covid “pandemic” in Sweden – FINAL PROOF.

Every few days I check whether Swedish Statistical agency has updated their mortality rate data till 2022. Today I find that they have done so (they do that in end-March every year). https://www.statistikdatabasen.scb.se... This 2-year average chart is very important since it gets rid of the try tinder effect of 2019 mild flu in Sweden. […]

Fascism and communism/socialism are woven from the same thread

I’ve explained this many times earlier, e.g. Hitler’s socialist views were exactly like Nehru’s or AAP’s Prashant Bhushan’s Further proof that Hitler was socialist. More on Hitler’s socialist (collectivist) worldview Why did Hitler hate communism? Because he was a GREATER communist than the communists. Mussolini made as clear as humanly possible: https://twitter.com/sabhlok/status/16...   Further, Peter […]

Up-to-date list of cost-benefit analyses of the 2020 lockdowns

This is a placeholder post that I’ll keep updating. I’ve taken data from here, and added a few. If any CBA is missing, please let me know at sabhlok@gmail.com. I intend to include in the public health review book that I’m writing. 1.1.1         Douglas Allen’s September 2021 CBA for Canada, and review of over 100 […]

Shiva Ayyadurai is libelling Jay Bhattacharya without knowing how he fought for the truth from DAY 1

Shiva Ayyadurai has put out a rather nasty tweet. I don’t exactly know what Jay said in his very early writings/ comments, but I have known his work from pretty early on and it was always VERY sensible. So I did a quick search and found this youtube interview of 27 March 2020: No time […]

Extract of Gigi Foster’s comments on covid and economic issues at the Q&A session on ABC yesterday

[youtube] TRANSCRIPT Gigi there is a broader question here as well because we know when it comes to other essential Services whether it be services for Aged care the NDIS we know we’re going to have a revenue problem. We know we’re still promising tax cuts down the line for the richest people in Australia. […]

OCRd version of “The Role of The Government In Public Health” by Aubrey Robinson, 1967

The original PDF. This is a placeholder. I’m going to update as time permits. WORD VERSION  I’ll provide an HTML once I have time to clean out the Word version.

Notes on the Objectivist magazine Persuasion

This magazine is archived here: https://mises.org/library/persuasion-... I’m trying to figure this out – and anything else about the editors, etc. Seems to have started in 1964: https://cdn.mises.org/ersuasion_1964_... EXTRACT 1: https://www.atlassociety.org/post/the... Persuasion magazine was perhaps the first major tool that Objectivists wielded in their consistent opposition to the draft. The magazine began as the newsletter for The […]

Balaji Srinivasan’s comments on freedom contradict his support for lockdowns

Michael Senger has put out a fascinating analysis of Balaji’s foresight and support for lockdowns and other measures: https://michaelpsenger.substack.com/p... At least some of this seems to be based on extrapolating what China was doing. He seems to have closely followed news agencies from China. And he might have had some insights from people he knew […]