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Seth Connell also assisted in this column. He is a third-year law student at Regent University School of Law.Federal Judge Kathryn Mizelle did what a federal judge is supposed to do—she reined in the CDC when it went too far. She struck down the mask mandate for mass transit. Most travelers rejoiced and said goodbye to masks, perhaps for good. But not everyone was happy. The ruling sent COVID doomsdayers into panic mode. There was a flurry of claims that Mizelle made an improper decision because TheScience™ is not for the courts – or so they say. Doctor “TheScience™” Anthony...

Someone recently asked me when Congress would hold hearings to ensure the accountability of government officials who faltered during the pandemic. After all, there is lots to be learned from mistakes made at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, Federal Reserve, and in the Trump and Biden administrations. For instance, who will be held accountable for government-orchestrated lockdown policies that were in retrospect poorly designed, ineffective and incredibly costly? Who at the CDC will be held accountable for that agency's failure to detect the virus sooner? Which CDC officials will speak to the utter confusion...

The myriad apparati of the Left – blue state governments, broadcast, print and social media and academia – have exercised suffocating control over America and Americans for the past two years. Their unprecedented power grabs have been facilitated by massive propaganda campaigns and deliberate deceit, the reckless promotion of fear, and deprivation of fundamental rights. But their stranglehold on the country is finally loosening, You can certainly feel it. You can practically see it. It’s like a watching cracks form in a massive sea of ice, or tugging on the thread of a knitted piece of fabric to make the...

Editor's Note: This piece was authored by Sarah Montalbano.How can it possibly be that, 16 months into the scramble to “flatten the curve,” the CDC still hasn’t exhausted its credit to make irrational mask recommendations? To be fair, we all suspected mask mandates weren’t over — a hunch it took the CDC all of three months to confirm. But it’s worse than we could have imagined. Now the agency is directing fully vaccinated individuals to mask up indoors. And it’s also recommended that schools institute universal masking for students, staff, and visitors. This is ridiculous. It’s high time we buck...

Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney vacationed in Europe as he told Americans to 'follow CDC guidelines'.. The chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee defied State Department guidelines by traveling to France this month. That didn't stop him from lecturing Americans about the importance of following federal health and safety protocols. "We all have to do our part to crush this virus," Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney (D., N.Y.) wrote on Aug. 14, in the middle of his maskless European vacation. "Get your shot, wear a mask, and follow CDC guidelines. It's just the right thing to do." A Washington Free Beacon...

Like many Americans, I do not like wearing a face mask that hurts my ears, steams up my glasses and makes my bearded face itch. And while I think businesses should be free to require face coverings as a safeguard against COVID-19, I am skeptical of government-imposed mask mandates, especially in K-12 schools. At the same time, I recognize that my personal peeves and policy preferences are logically distinct from the empirical question of how effective masks are at preventing virus transmission. From the beginning, however, the great American mask debate has been strongly influenced by partisan and ideological commitments,...

For the past year and a half, we've been told repeatedly to rely on science. First, Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health told us not to wear masks; only those in medical settings needed them. Fauci then said we should wear masks. Then people were seen sporting several masks. We were told that there would be two weeks to flatten the curve; then the longer shutdowns came for what seemed like a lifetime. Scientists initially said that a vaccine could not be produced within a year; when it was, the vaccines were marketed as COVID-19 prevention by...

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wane regardless of the presence of useless non-pharmaceutical interventions like lockdowns, business closures, or forced masking, President Joe Biden recently called continued mask-wearing a “patriotic duty” just a few days before finally ‘giving’ vaccinated people ‘permission’ to unmask in indoor settings. And while his addled brain may have been aiming for a pleading, albeit sick, dystopian version of Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you,” the president’s words only served to prove just how unhinged Democrats and leftists have strayed from reality over the last several decades. If patriotism is defined...

Accumulating evidence supports ending isolation and precautions for persons with COVID-19 using a symptom-based strategy. This update incorporates recent evidence to inform the duration of isolation and precautions recommended to prevent transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to others, while limiting unnecessary prolonged isolation and unnecessary use of laboratory testing resources. Key findings are summarized here... 3. A large contact tracing study demonstrated that high-risk household and hospital contacts did not develop infection if their exposure to a case patient started 6 days or more after the case patient’s illness onset (Cheng et al., 2020). 4. Although replication-competent virus was not isolated 3...

The owners of the Atilis Gym in Bellmawr, New Jersey intend to re-open tomorrow after today's New Jersey State Health Department notice at the door of the gym closing it down...... The latest twist in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia is the arrest of the man who made a video of the killing used as evidence to arrest the first two suspects..... Actress Lori Loughlin and her husband Mossimo Giannulli set to plead guilty in the federal college admissions case alleging a scam tomorrow..... The FBI says that an attack this morning at the Corpus Christi Naval Air...