Healthcare journalist Krista Mahr has spent time exploring the various lawsuits against the U.S. state for its response to the pandemic. She finds a growing legal movement and more victories for plaintiffs than one might expect.
In particular, Mahr looks at the surge of cases challenging mask and testing mandates, vaccine requirements, quarantine measures and medical malpractice.
Mahr has written about it in Politico.
There is no denying some of the lawyers challenging the Government’s right to intervene in Americans’ health are winning. Between March 2020 and July 2022, there were more than 1,000 court rulings on challenges to Government orders and regulations designed to control the spread of Covid, according to Public Health Law Watch. Most decisions sided with the Government, but in several high-profile cases – and particularly in federal courts – the plaintiffs won.
Early in the pandemic, the Supreme Court blocked California and New York’s restrictions on religious gatherings to reduce COVID-19 transmission, as well as the CDC’s moratorium on evictions. In 2022, it stayed OSHA’s [Occupational Safety and Health Administration] order that large companies require employees to be vaccinated or regularly tested for the virus. Federal courts have ruled against Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement for federal employees and stopped the CDC’s mask mandate on public transportation. On March 31st, a federal judge in Texas struck down the administration’s requirement that employees of Head Start programmes be vaccinated.
Even with most Covid mitigation measures now lifted, many of those cases are still winding their way through lower courts. At the same time, lawyers are gearing up for a new wave of tort cases seeking compensation for alleged harm those measures have done – a wave, they say, that could rival opioid litigation or the tobacco lawsuits that were argued in courts for decades and which ultimately ended in Big Tobacco paying states more than $200 billion. …
Lawyers at the [Covid Litigation Conference] were worried about the next public health crisis as well – but for altogether different reasons. Warner Mendenhall, whose firm was one of the conference organisers, is worried when another disease hits, the Government will try to bring Covid-era restrictions back.
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“…lawsuits against the U.S. state for its response to the pandemic”
There was no pandemic. Only a fairly unremarkable seasonal flu.
Sorry to sound like an old scratched piece of vinyl, but these things need to be remembered.
Indeed, not only remembered but recognised as the most fundamental point.
The other fundamental point is that lockdowns and forced or coerced medical treatments are always wrong.
Everything else is a rabbit hole.
Never mentioned is the V word. Not vaccines but ventilation.
It gets even worse though because no one seems to have noticed a shocking statistic or been able to make any sense of that statistic.
It was published in late 2020 and was the risk factors for dying of Covid in hospital and is called “Underlying Medical Conditions and Severe Illness Among 540,667 Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19, March 2020–March 2021”.Most people are familiar with the highest risk factors Obesity (number 1) and Diabetes (number 3) but does anyone know what the number 2 risk factor was, with a whopping 28% increased risk of dying from Covid in hospital?
It’s Anxiety.
Yes you read it right, Anxiety.
First question should be why would a mental condition give someone a 28% increased risk of dying from an airborne respiratory virus?
You won’t find much study on this subject because it’s been airbrushed, censored or ignored.
There is an explanation though but it’s shocking.
Doctors ventilate patients with ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) or in other words severe breathing difficulties.
The problem is is that anxious people when told they have a deadly virus inside them tend to have panic attacks and the main symptom of a panic attack is HYPERVENTILATION.
To the Doctors in early 2020, hysterical over this ‘new’ virus, someone having a panic attack and hyperventilating ( and with a positive PCR) could very well be mistaken for Covid ARDS and frogmarched to the ventilator to ‘save’ them.
Why do I suspect this? Because I’ve done 21 years on a frontline Ambulance and seen plenty of real ARDS and plenty of panic attacks. I noticed that (well before this study emerged) many of the people on the TV in the early days, touted as severe Covid cases, where actually having panic attacks but still the Doctors were apparently ventilating them.
They’ll scream and shout that they were only ventilating ‘genuine’ Covid cases but I’m very skeptical of that and if anyone has a better explanation of why Anxiety is the number 2 risk factor of dying from Covid in hospital, I’d love to hear it.
Many thanks once again for your common sense contribution
I agree, there was no pandemic. But there was definitely a Plandemic.
My concern is that these little wins against state interference in our lives/health will only encourage the state to be more careful in drafting watertight laws for the next pandemic.
We need people to understand that lockdowns didn’t work and were unnecessary – as well as being unethical and legally shaky. That there’s no good evidence that masking worked. That vaccine development was rushed and coercion to accept the jabs for adults or force them on children was immoral. That vaccine damage is far higher than should be acceptable. And that closing schools has damaged a generation.
Apart from that, the pandemic response has been a smashing success.
The “pandemic” response was a psy-op and had nothing to do with looking after national health, on the contrary the aim was to severely undermine public health.
To even go along with the suggestions that the pandemic response was flawed is a failure because it takes as read that there was a pandemic.
“There was no pandemic. Only a fairly unremarkable seasonal flu.”
The current world wide program is about upending nation states, immiserating their populations and ultimately population reduction. Failure to accept these facts will ensure a repeat, probably even worse when Billy releases his next brew this year or next.
There was no pandemic. The whole thing begins and ends there.
It’s a hollow victory though if you win. The compensation was yours to begin with. The vast network of grasping psychopaths behind this global looting spree dressed as a health pantomime won’t lose a red cent.