Canadians back harsh penalties for unvaxxed
“Canada is to niceness as Saudi Arabia is to oil,” according to the BBC. “It’s awash in the stuff.” (Yes, a BBC journalist really wrote...
Vaccine mandates 1: Biden’s strategy quashed by Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court has struck down President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate requiring workers at larger businesses get vaccinated or have a weekly test. It...
Vaccine mandates 2: policies around the world
100% vaccination rates are not even theoretically achievable. But that seems to be the goal of many governments. Here are a few of the tougher...
Vaccine mandates 3: are those deplorable anti-vaxxers ‘irresponsible idiots’?
If there are any words which Hillary Clinton could take back if she could live her life over again, it is this sentence from 2016:...
If you want assisted suicide in Germany, first you must get vaxxed
Promoters of "voluntary assisted dying" often seem to be lacking a gene for irony. Take the Australian activist, Dr Philip Nitschke, and his attempt to...
How long can you put off seeing the doctor because of lockdowns?
One in five people avoided healthcare during lockdown in the Covid-19 pandemic, often for potentially urgent problems, according to a study PLOS Medicine. During the...
Austria makes vaccinations compulsory
Austria, reeling from a steep increase in Covid-19 cases, has become the first country in Europe to make vaccination compulsory. Those who refuse without a...
What is the future of surrogacy in a post-Covid world?
Anyone following the debate over the legal status of surrogacy should read Sociological Debates on Gestational Surrogacy: Between Legitimation and International Abolition, an open source...
Report from Brazilian senate accuses Bolsonaro of ‘crimes against humanity’ over Covid-19
A 1,200-page report called for about 70 people, including Bolsonaro and his sons, to be indicted on charges ranging from charlatanism to crimes against humanity.
Hand in glove with Covid counterfeiters
Nitrile gloves are the “most dangerous commodity on Earth right now.”
Bioethicist group supports vaccine mandates
A leading association of bioethicists has come squarely behind the idea of mandated vaccination. A statement issued by the Association of Bioethics Program Directors (ABPD) declared that...
Bioethicist refuses to comply with vaccine mandate
Aaron Kheriaty Not all doctors – or bioethicists -- support vaccine mandates. Internationally, prevalence of Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in healthcare workers ranges from 4.3 to 72%. The average...