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Tracking down Environmental Toxins

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Are lockdowns one of the most catastrophic policy errors of the century? » MercatorNet

When respected scientific experts sitting on prestigious governmental advisory committees warned citizens early last year that the only way to protect themselves against Covid-19 was to shut down their businesses and stay at home until public health officials deemed it safe to come out again, most complied, even at great personal and economic cost. The result has been one of the most far-reaching and unprecedented social experiments of modern times: the systematic and mandatory paralysis of a large swathe of normal social activity, including schooling, work, leisure, and mobility. If this giant experiment had been run on a one-off basis for a few weeks, the impact might have been moderate; but as it morphed into “rolling” lockdowns, the cure became far worse than the disease.

Has America become a 'house divided'? » MercatorNet

If American democracy were in good health, one might make the case that last week’s storming of the Capitol building was a last gasp of despair by an unruly band of Trump supporters, egged on by the president’s incendiary allegations of electoral fraud. The truth is that it was the latest chapter in a wider process of disaffection from public institutions that has been going on for decades. The world’s oldest surviving democracy is facing a threat potentially more insidious than war itself: internal division.   One of the essential foundations of any political regime is its citizens’ belief that they have good reason to respect the constitution and obey their rulers, even when neither their rulers nor the rules they live under are perfectly to their liking. In a dictatorial regime, this belief is premised largely on fear: citizens know that if they dissent, they may be fined, imprisoned, or harassed.