During the Covid pandemic, numerous federal officials and agencies implemented an expansive censorship apparatus, which was used to compel—and, in some instances, collaborate with—social media companies and other private intermediaries to suppress a range of Covid-related viewpoints that ran counter to or questioned the government’s policies or preferred narrative. The censored viewpoints included those which…

In many ways, adults and their policy choices failed children during the pandemic. None as obviously as the Center for Disease Control’s guidance on masking, which adopted a policy of masking children ages 2 and up. Childcare facilities, schools, retail establishments, transit systems, and airlines quickly adopted CDC’s guidance. Who can forget the viral video…

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…