Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “Last week, the media again tried to ratchet up the public’s fear over covid-19 by labeling it more deadly than the 1918 flu epidemic. ‘COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Disease in U.S. History,’ reads one headline from an NBC TV affiliate. Considering the realities of cancer and heart disease, that headline is absurdly false. Perhaps the author meant ‘communicable disease.’ A TIME headline was at least arguably factual, declaring, ‘COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History.’

“Age-Adjusted Mortality Is at 2004 Levels. Yet They Tell Us Covid Is Worse Than the 1918 Flu” – @ryanmcmaken @mises https://t.co/H1OOh4LpJ9 pic.twitter.com/nr4kWTeXd4

— Jonathan Hamel (@jhamel) October 9, 2021

But even the TIME headline is only arguably true if stripped of all context. If we actually look at disease mortality proportionally to the population, the 1918 epidemic was far worse than covid. Considering that the US population in 1918 was one-third its current size, we find that deaths per million from the flu epidemic totaled about sixty-five hundred per million. Covid, by comparison currently comes in—in the official numbers—around twenty-two hundred per million.

But this is all part of a larger pattern—one well embraced by the media—of presenting information with as little context as possible.”

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Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “Ultimately, when a media pundit or Janet Yellen predicts the end of the world if debt doesn’t continue to skyrocket ever upward, they are simply calling for a continuation of the status quo.

And what does the status quo mean? It means a world in which the US government continues to spent trillions of dollars it doesn’t have, made possible through monetizing massive amounts of debt and forcing taxpayers to devote ever more of their own wealth and income to paying off an ever-more-huge chunk of interest.

.@ryanmcmaken on why a federal default benefits Americans, whatever statist fantasy media is peddling this week.https://t.co/6egzeRPrvk

— Peter St Onge, Ph.D.?? (@profstonge) October 5, 2021

It also means more government spending, which—regardless of whether it’s funded by debt or by taxes—causes malinvestment and, through the redistribution of wealth, rewards the politically powerful at the expense of everyone else. In other words, its keeps Pentagon generals and Big Pharma executives living in luxury while the taxpayers are lectured about the need to “pay America’s bills.”

Read the entire column.

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Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “The media and Democratic politicians assure us that any default will bring about a second Great Depression and financial collapse.

One key component of this strategy is convincing people that the United States has never defaulted before, and has always made good on its financial obligations. This is key because it helps create the impression that were the United States to default, the result would a step into the great unknown, and a ‘financial crisis and a calamity.’

“The US has never defaulted. Not once.”
~@SecYellen @WSJ

“Yet the United States government absolutely has defaulted on debts before—more than once.”
~@ryanmcmaken @mises @jasonzweigwsj https://t.co/1f5kGVhuzl

— Casey Carlisle (@UncleNap) September 29, 2021

This is likely (in part) why, in her September 19 column for the Wall Street Journal, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen repeatedly claims the US has never defaulted. ‘The US has always paid its bills on time,’ she insists, and then repeats the claim in the next paragraph: ‘The US has never defaulted. Not once.’

Yet the United States government absolutely has defaulted on debts before—more than once.”

Read the entire column.

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Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “In a September 10 interview, senior covid technocrat Anthony Fauci claimed that the matter of natural immunity was not even being discussed at government health agencies. Fauci’s response suggested that the facts of natural immunity warranted discussion at some point in the future. But the comment certainly fit the dominant regime narrative nonetheless: the facts of natural immunity don’t matter for now. Everyone should just get vaccinated.”

For government officials hell bent on vaccine coercion for all – Fauci primarily – which is more important: truth or submission?

Natural immunity to covid is powerful. Policymakers seem afraid to say so. – The Washington Post https://t.co/S1KoExjauH

— Senator Rand Paul (@RandPaul) September 18, 2021

Real Clear Policy reported, “CNN’s Sanjay Gupta asked if people who have already recovered from COVID-19 should still be required to get the vaccine.”

‘I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that,’ [Fauci] said Thursday on CNN. ‘I think that is something that we need to sit down and discuss seriously.”

CNN: Why should people with natural immunity still be forced to take the vaccine?

FAUCI: “I don’t have a really firm answer for you on that.”pic.twitter.com/vGAIehMOJF

— Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) September 13, 2021

“Maybe someday they’ll get to talking about it,” McMaken wondered.

He added, “But some physicians aren’t as obsessed with pushing vaccine mandates as Anthony Fauci, and the evidence in favor of natural immunity is becoming so undeniable that even mainstream publications are starting to admit it.”

Read the entire column.

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Mises.org’s Ryan McMaken writes, “The official line on vaccines is that they are extremely effective at protecting against serious illness. And yet these same people are also claiming that the unvaccinated are a major threat to the vaccinated.

More specifically, President Biden claimed on September 10 that vaccine mandates were to ‘protect the vaccinated workers from unvaccinated workers.’

In other words, it is claimed that vaccines are remarkably effective, and that the vaccinated must also be protected from the unvaccinated. How can both claims be true at the same time? They can’t. The idea that vaccinated people are being frequently harmed by the unvaccinated is a complete fabrication, based on the promandate crowd’s own mainstream data.

“Debates over constitutionality are now, for the most part, a relic of an earlier age,” writes @ryanmcmaken on Pres. Biden’s sweeping new power-grab.@mises https://t.co/AmAgat7sJm

— Young Americans for Liberty (@YALiberty) September 14, 2021

As Robert Fellner points out, according to the official data,

‘The odds of a vaccinated person dying from COVID are 1 in 137,000.

The fatality rate for seasonal flu, meanwhile, is at least 100 times greater than that. The chance of dying in an automobile accident is over 1,000 times greater. Dog attacks, bee stings, sunstroke, cataclysmic storms, and a variety of other background risks we accept as a normal part of life are all more deadly than the risk COVID poses to the vaccinated.”

Read the entire column.

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