The Administrative State’s overreach during Covid also had grave consequences for Americans’ health care. Draconian mandates imposed by state governors in the early (and even waning) days of the pandemic created widespread social isolation and disrupted many routine aspects of life, such as visits to the doctor’s office. For many people these disruptions were not…

 It is counterintuitive, but when my infant son tested positive for Covid-19 in early 2022, my husband and I breathed a sigh of relief because it meant a short but welcome 90-day reprieve from Covid testing and daycare exclusions. Take, for example, the District of Columbia’s exclusion and return-to-care criteria issued by the Office of…

One of the worst examples of bureaucratic gaslighting about the Covid-19 coronavirus concerned its origin. Remember when Senator Tom Cotton, in February 2020, became the first public official to say out loud what most ordinary Americans considered plain common sense: that this deadly new coronavirus, believed to have started with an infected bat near Wuhan,…

The US response to Covid included mandated masking and social distancing imposed mostly by bureaucrats and public health officials shooting from the hip without any authorizing legislation or public hearings on the important questions of whether such measures would be efficacious and whether they would be worth the massive economic, social and human costs. Time…

Once Covid-19 vaccines became widely available in March of 2021, New York’s now-disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo launched a vaccine passport program. Governor Cuomo, unlawfully circumventing the state’s administrative procedure act, forced businesses to require patrons to show proof of vaccination or a negative Covid test, or else be barred from entering. Many other cities…

On August 24, 2021, the Secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD) issued a memorandum (the “DOD mandate”) requiring that all members of the U.S. armed forces “immediately begin full vaccination” against Covid-19.[1] Notably, then-President Biden—the Commander-in-Chief of the nation’s military forces—never issued an order mandating Covid vaccination for the U.S. military, although he had…