Quotes from Alex Berenson

In August, Dr. Jerome Adams, the United States Surgeon General, warned about the risks of cannabis for young adults—explicitly noting the cannabis-schizophrenia link.

Experience has shown that communities faced with epidemics or other adverse events respond best and with the least anxiety when the normal social functioning of the community is least disrupted.

Marijuana use was more likely to be linked with the death of children than almost any other factor, including domestic violence or mental illness. Once again, researchers who weren't looking for evidence that cannabis was linked to violence found it anyway.

In a democracy, a politician who didn't know where he stood might lose an election. In Russia, he'd lose everything.

In fact, the CDC would later implicitly acknowledge the system's value when it admitted in June that the mRNA vaccines could cause myocarditis—a potentially serious heart problem—in young men. Side effect reports from VAERS formed the core of the agency's analysis.37 Yet even after that finding, the stories dismissing the value of the VAERS reports went on.38 I am not an "anti-vaxxer.

A luxury once tasted becomes a necessity.

Doctors sometimes joke that if patients get good medical care, they will recover from the flu in a week. Without help, they'll need seven days.

Everything depends which side of the shotgun you're on,

But other countries have gone the other way. Australia is now building internment camps for Covid quarantine. It calls them "centers for national resilience."14 George Orwell would be proud.

Yet despite the enormous cost of these measures, despite their intrusion on our civil liberties, none of them been shown to slow the spread of Covid.

In August 2020, the Centers for Disease Control reported that 25 percent of adults ages eighteen to twenty-four said they had seriously considered suicide during the month of June. That figure was more than double the percentage who had reported doing so in a similar survey in 2018. These young adults are at essentially no risk from the coronavirus.

No, the reason we initially agreed to lockdowns was to "flatten the curve," which is a polite way of saying "to prevent coronavirus patients from collapsing our health-care system." But the system was never in danger of collapsing, lockdowns or no.

tests. Those tests can lead to drugs or surgeries, even for patients with no symptoms. Men have their prostates removed. Women are given chemotherapy for breast cancer. The temptation to do something is overwhelming. The financial incentives don't hurt either.

They were among the leaders of what I had begun to think of as "Team Apocalypse," the media outlets that – for reasons I could not fully understand – seemed committed to painting as bleak a picture of the coronavirus as possible.

But a "case" of coronavirus refers only to a positive test result showing someone has been infected. It does not mean that a person will become sick – much less that he or she will be hospitalized, need intensive care, or die. Thus discussing the age distribution of infections, while technically not untruthful, is extremely misleading.

Ferguson, testified about coronavirus to a committee of the British Parliament. Ferguson calls himself an epidemiologist, though he is not a physician and his doctorate is in theoretical physics.

Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter. —"On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Ernest Hemingway, Esquire, April 1936

Still, real information continued to drip out – often tucked away in scientific papers that went unnoticed, such as when a German research institute reported in mid-April that lockdowns had been broadly useless. Yet – more than two months after they began – the lockdowns continue. Only Alaska has gone

Be good for him. Teach him that disappointment starts early and never stops.

Even more importantly, the media has largely failed to report that the Sunbelt spike in hospitalizations is over. Arizona, Florida, and Texas have all seen big drops in hospitalizations in late July.

Tarik reappeared from room 104 carrying a soft-sided blue travel bag, large enough to hold a week's worth of clothes, small enough to fit in an airplane's overhead bin.

Be subtle. Use your spies for every kind of business. —SUN TZU, The Art of War

it's still listed as a COVID death.

Though it runs to billions of dollars a year, the cost of forcing healthy adults to wear disposable surgical masks will be relatively minor for wealthy countries. And cloth masks are easy to clean in places that have access to clean water. In poor countries the calculus is different. Making people wear cloth masks that cannot be easily cleaned or spend a significant part of their income on disposable ones is much harder to justify if masks don't work.