onservative politicians have turned ‘vaccine passports’ into a cultural flashpoint,” writes the New York Times in an effort to polarize the debate and frame it as a left vs. right conversation. Why exactly one would put “vaccine passport” in quotation marks is a mystery in the first place, as both words accurately describe the concept. If you’ll need to […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP20: Vial trial, Electric drop, and Vaccine business (w/ Ivana Jeremić)
New episode of ConsEUmer with these topics: 💉 EU member states fight over extra doses of COVID-19 vaccines 🔌 Electric car sales drop in the Netherlands 🪧 Fridays For Future is back (yay…?) 🇷🇸 Serbia’s business with vaccines (w/ Ivana Jeremić)
We Will Suffer For Failing To Weigh Risks
Anti-lockdowners were opposed in promoting cost-benefit analysis, now everyone else will suffer the consequences Which shot did you get?” has become a recurring question in Europe, where many vaccines are now available on the market. After Pfizer/BioNTech became the first to be approved by the European Medicines Agency, European countries are also using the AstraZeneca […]
ConsEUmer podcast / EP17: Milk fight, AstraZeneca, and the Nanny State (w/ Jason Reed)
In this new episode of ConsEUmer: 🥛 Milk is milk, says the ECJ 💉 AstraZeneca controversy (w/ Fred Roeder) 🇩🇪 Germany reaches CO2 targets because of COVID-19 🇬🇧 Nanny State rules in the UK (w/ Jason Reed) You can follow Jason Reed on Twitter @JasonReed624.
The EU’s Grandiose U-Turn on “Vaccine Solidarity”
How do you vaccinate over 400 million people in a short amount of time? That is the question that the European Union tasked itself to answer when early in the COVID-19 it sought to organize vaccine distribution for the entire bloc. At heart, Brussels was coming from the right place: after many member states had […]
[Podcast] Consumer Choice Radio: Beware the Vaccine Passport
I was a guest on Consumer Choice Radio, hosted by my colleagues David Clement and Yaël Ossowski. We talked about vaccine passports, carbon border adjustments, and plastic taxes. https://consumerchoiceradio.com/ Listen in, and make sure to subscribe!
[Video] Interview mam Paulette Lenert
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Vaccine Passports Are a Terrible Idea
Vaccine rollout is advancing at snail pace in the European Union. At the same time, countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, and Israel are moving quickly to get large parts of the population vaccinated as promptly as possible. As Europe debates the success or failure of its vaccine policy, some countries want to […]
[Podcast] Oppen Dieren Episod 1: Impfstrategie vun der EU
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