COVID-19 Vaccination Should Not Be Legally Required for Parenthood
Only in extreme circumstances should a court come between a parent and their child.
Vaccines
The Secret To Vaccinating Children: Off-Label Vaccinations
It’s legal for doctors to give kids the Pfizer vaccine, but Pfizer isn’t allowed to say so.
Vaccines Are Good. Vaccine Mandates From the Government Are Bad.
If you support "my body, my choice," you cannot support vaccine mandates.
Learning To Live With Coronavirus
How the past two years of COVID-19 can better inform how we go about the next two
'Do I Look Like the COVID Police?'
Business owners in the Bronx respond to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s vaccine passport mandate.
Kristi Noem Is Right About Employer Vaccine Mandates
"It is not conservative to grow government and to tell businesses what to do."
U.S. Vaccine Mandate for Incoming Immigrants Takes Effect October 1
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Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick Is Right That Democrats Have a Vaccine Hesitancy Problem, but It's Not Nearly As Big As the GOP's
Although Patrick notes that blacks are less likely to be vaccinated than whites, the gap between Republicans and Democrats is much larger.
Louisiana Medical School's Vaccination Rules Temporarily Blocked
But the decision turns heavily on Louisiana law, and on the nature of this particular set of rules.
This Psychologist Thinks Mask Mandates in Schools 'Offer Distinctive Opportunities for Learning and Growth'
Writing in The New York Times, Judith Danovitch also argues that masks inhibit nail biting and nose picking.
When De Blasio's Vaccination Passport Plan Went Into Effect Yesterday, One-Quarter of Adult New Yorkers Were Barred From Going Out
Going out in Manhattan the first night patrons were required to prove their vaccination status
New Zealand Closes Restaurants, Schools, Vaccination Sites in Response to 1 COVID-19 Case
"Do not congregate. Don't talk to your neighbors. Please keep to your bubbles," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when announcing the new lockdown.
If Texas Businesses Are Free To Require Face Masks, Why Can't They Require Proof of Vaccination?
Gov. Greg Abbott's position on private vaccination requirements is confused and confusing.
Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow
Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power.
Homeland Security Says Americans Upset by 'Public Health Safety Measures' Could Be Terror Threats
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
Opening America's Doors Only to the Vaccinated Isn't Good Enough
A vaccine mandate for international visitors cuts Africa off for no good reason.
A Black Market in COVID-19 Vaccination Cards Was Inevitable
Mandates, instead of incentives, were always going to drive people away.
The Biden Administration Is Pushing Social Media Platforms To Expand Their Definition of Intolerable COVID-19 'Misinformation'
Online censorship by proxy undermines the ordinary process for checking claims and counterclaims.
Eviction Moratorium Madness
The Reason Roundtable discusses property rights, vaccine passports, and media ethics.
Florida Ban on Private Businesses Requiring Vaccine Verification Likely Violates the First Amendment
So a federal court concludes, in a decision about cruise lines but using reasoning that likely applies to other businesses as well.
Don't Surrender to the Pandemic Control Freaks
They'll never be satisfied in a world of balanced risks.
L.A. Superior Court Mandates Vaccination for All Staff,
once the vaccine gets final FDA approval (and subject to medical and religious exemptions).
Study: As Delta Proliferates, Vaccines Are Less Effective at Preventing Infection but Still Sharply Reduce That Risk
The results also indicate that vaccinated people infected by delta have lower viral loads and less severe symptoms than unvaccinated people.
L.A. Council Members Propose Draconian, Unenforceable Vaccine Passports
Los Angeles County is largely vaccinated. This is a punitive, authoritarian performance.
The Evidence Cited by the CDC Does Not Show That Vaccinated and Unvaccinated COVID-19 Carriers Are Equally Likely To Transmit the Virus
That conclusion is not justified by the CDC's Provincetown data, and it is inconsistent with a new study from Singapore.
Lawsuit Over George Mason Vaccination Requirement Seeks Exemption for Those Who Had Already Contracted COVID
The lawsuit is filed by our own coblogger Todd Zywicki, a professor at the George Mason law school.
Resist De Blasio's Vaccine Passport
De Blasio's dataless call to create a class of citizens barred from civic life is an intolerable imposition on New Yorkers' liberties.
COVID Variants Upend Our Reopening
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The Biden Administration's Mixed COVID-19 Messages Discourage Vaccination
Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
New York City Adopts Vaccine Passports
Mayor Bill de Blasio's "Key to NYC" initiative will require people to get their shots in order to enter the city's bars, restaurants, gyms, and other indoor venues.
Cal. Legislature on Track to Define "Harass" to Mean "Approach to Speak to," and …
to ban such "nonconsensual and knowing approach[es] within 30 feet of another person ... for the purpose of passing a leaflet ..., displaying a sign to, or engaging in oral protest, education, or counseling" "in connection with any vaccination services."
The Biden Administration Continues to Exaggerate the Risk Posed by COVID-19 Breakthrough Infections While Slamming the Press for Doing the Same Thing
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
The Provincetown Outbreak Shows Vaccinated People Can Be Infected by the Coronavirus, but the CDC's Director Grossly Exaggerates That Risk
Researchers are still trying to determine what role vaccinated carriers may have played in the Massachusetts cases identified by the CDC.
What Does the Unpublished Evidence Cited by the CDC's New Face Mask Guidance Actually Show?
The agency says it found high viral loads in vaccinated people infected by the coronavirus, but the significance of those results is unclear.
CDC Sentences Kids to Another School Year of Irrational Masking
Because adults can't evaluate risk, kids continue to suffer the most from COVID policy, despite suffering the least from COVID.
The CDC Wants Vaccinated Americans To Wear Masks Again
The government is also recommending universal masking in schools this fall.
More Mask Mandates Could Be Coming Even Though Vaccination Is Key to Curbing COVID-19
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The UK Beat COVID-19, But Can It Beat Lockdowns?
Even with coronavirus deaths at a trickle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson won’t rule out more lockdowns.
Klobuchar's Plan To Combat Vaccine 'Misinformation' Would Have HHS Decide What You Can Post Online
Plus: A possible breakthrough in cheap battery technology, a primer on inflation, the SCOTUS showdown over abortion, and more....
Bringing Back Mask Mandates Is Pointless Signaling
The vaccines are available. The masks are beside the point.
Biden Is Trying to Impose Online Censorship by Proxy
The administration’s public pressure campaign against COVID-19 "misinformation" cannot be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.
