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Dispatches from a Scamdemic

Mark Oshinskie
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Several lunch hours/week for 25 years, I played full-court-on-a-short-court basketball in the third-floor gym of the elegant, albeit tattered, century-old, brick-faced, marble-staired Y in a rough, Trenton, New Jersey neighborhood.

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SCAM CENTRAL STATION: NEW YORK CITY AND THE COVID HYPE MACHINE

On a late April 1985 Saturday night near the end of my last law school semester, the professor who moderated our Law and Humanities course hosted us ten students at his spacious, high-ceilinged, white-walled, crown-molded, pre-War, Central...

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Though the level of discourse tends to be basic, men in locker rooms sometimes say funny things to each other. After playing basketball at the Trenton Y one mid-day, a large, white, ex-college-football lineman named Dave offered a brief, ex...

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COVID DOCUMENTARIES, SCHOOL CLOSURES AND CROCODILE TEARS

I don’t watch much TV. But some nights my mind gets tired, so I settle into the sofa, put my feet up and see what’s on. We have a rooftop antenna and therefore only get the networks and some Spanish and public stations.

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On August 30, 2025, Steve, a Central Connecticut Substack reader, drove down to Central New Jersey so we could meet and share a few hours. Steve found my posts early in the Scamdemic. From the outset, we strongly agreed about how phony and...

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