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challenges us to rethink the classic bright-line distinction between combatants and noncombatants. This line, which lies at the core of the international law of war, has been exploited in the interest of terrorism.

So Israel and Britain had a story to tell. And throughout January and February, it wasn’t a good one. As their mass vaccination campaigns ramped up, so did infections and deaths. By late January, the United Kingdom was averaging more than 1,200 Covid deaths a day—the equivalent of 6,000 a day in the United States.28

Vaccine advocates in the United States dealt with this failure in the most disingenuous way possible—by blaming it on unvaccinated people. They were lying. I don’t like using the word lie, but I have to. Nothing else fits. Fauci and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy both pretended that 97 or even 99 percent of American hospitalizations and deaths were i

We grew to understand that one single datapoint mattered most in charting the epidemic: the number of people hospitalized with Covid each day, not the number of new cases or deaths.