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Liberty Lost: Why Global Freedom Still Hasn’t Recovered from the COVID Lockdowns ????

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New Economic Report Rings Alarm Bells: The “Stalinist” Edicts of 2020-21 Dealt a Blow to Human Liberty That Persists Today.

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Ridgewood NJ, For decades, the global trend toward economic and personal liberty appeared to be an unstoppable force, lifting billions out of poverty and driving innovation. However, according to the latest data, that long march of freedom suffered a devastating reversal.

The newest edition of the Fraser Institute’s Economic Freedom of the World Report, which includes data through 2023, paints a concerning picture: the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic—characterized by what many critics termed “Stalinist global lockdowns”—inflicted a massive blow to human liberty. Even years later, the freedom movement has not recovered from those sweeping mandates and government controls.

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China’s Declining Population Problem

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Ridgewood NJ, yet another victim of COVID lockdowns, China . The “zero Covid” scheme decapitated its economy . The nation’s GDP increased by 3.0% in 2022 a far cry from the official target of 5.5%, according to the World Bank.

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Governor Should Show Same Concern for New Jerseyans That He’s Showing for People Thousands of Miles Away

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Senator Ed Durr , “Where’s Murphy’s Vigil for Nursing Home Victims, Aborted Babies, Families Devastated by Unemployment Failures?”

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Trenton NJ, with Governor Phil Murphy set to attend a prayer vigil this evening for those suffering in Ukraine, Senator Ed Durr asked when the governor is going to show concern for thousands of nursing home victims, aborted babies, and families devastated financially by his administration’s unemployment system failures.

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It’s “Settled Science” Lockdowns don’t work

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Ridgewood NJ, it’s now official and beyond dispute, “settled science” as some like to spout . Lockdowns don’t work. We now have the results of the most comprehensive literature review to date on Covid lockdowns, as defined to include “any government mandate that directly restrict peoples’ possibilities, such as policies that limit internal movement, close schools and businesses, and ban international travel.”

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“OnlyFans” Drops Porn

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Ridgewood NJ, just when you thought tings cant get any worse with COVID lockdowns  , the social media site “OnlyFans” will ban sexually explicit material on its platform from October 1 to comply with the requests of its banking partners and payout providers. The company has yet to reveal its new rules, but nudity will still be allowed. OnlyFans is having trouble attracting investors due to its racy content. The company, founded in 2016, has 200 employees, 150 million registered users, and over 1.5 million content creators. It has paid out over $3 billion in creator earnings since its founding.

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What One Year of Lockdowns Have Taught Us All

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Ridgewood NJ, “I stand behind my comment that the lockdowns are the single worst public health mistake in the last 100 yrs,” Jay Bhattacharya, a prof of medicine at Stanford, said. “We will be counting the catastrophic health and psychological harms… for a generation”

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