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The case for COVID-19 vaccines for healthy kids falls apart

February 28, 2022 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this headline: Pfizer’s COVID shot far less effective in ages 5-11 than in older kids It certainly makes one question why it was rushed out for kids, given everything else we knew at the time about the risks of COVID for this age group. Surely it […]

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Articles that caught my eye – February 2022

February 19, 2022 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

How the CDC Abandoned Science – Tablet Magazine “The CDC is, in part, a scientific agency—they use facts and principles of science to guide policy—but they are also fundamentally a political agency… “Throughout this pandemic, the CDC has been a poor steward of that balance, pushing a series of scientific results that are severely deficient. […]

Filed Under: Random Rants Tagged With: COVID-19, mask mandates, P.J. O'Rourke, seattle

Thoughts on ‘Whatever happened to American conservatism?’

January 2, 2022 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

David Brooks wrote a piece in the Atlantic last month entitled, ‘Whatever happened to American Conservatism‘. It started out well, but it seemed to me it lost the plot as it concluded. I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Brooks over the years, so wasn’t surprised. The following are some observations I shared in December with […]

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Coronavirus contemplations III

December 5, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

Some more thoughts on the pandemic from recent articles and op-eds in the press. In his Wall Street Journal column, Holman Jenkins hits the nail on the head in examining where governments failed from the start of the pandemic—not distinguishing between high risk and low risk populations, and focusing efforts on those at highest risk. […]

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Email from Roger Kerr to Sir Douglas Myers, June 2011

October 27, 2021 By Nicholas Kerr Leave a Comment

From: Roger Kerr Sent: Friday, 3 June 2011 3:58 p.m. To: Sir Douglas Myers Subject: Honours Attachments: Letter from the Prime Minister.pdf; Letter from the Governor-General.pdf Dear Douglas See the attached letters. I have a suspicion you were in the loop. The plotters got together a pretty solid line up of supporters – Bill Gallagher, […]

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I’m Nicholas, a marketing consultant and dad in Dallas, TX. I like to follow policy debates, chat about parenting and share stories. Read More…

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