Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 16, 2020)

We are offering our top 10 selections, probably daily, of the best (most interesting, weirdest) articles and podcasts on COVID-19 and American policy responses.

Overall our reading leads us to think there ARE and  SHOULD BE "libertarians in a pandemic," and that indeed non-libertarian policies are what make responses to the pandemic inadequate.

1) New York pads it COVID-19 numbers by 4,000 in one day.  (Daily Caller)

2) China delayed telling its own citizens or other countries about coronavirus for 6 days. (The Diplomat)


3) Or did the Chinese Communist government lie to the world for 3 weeks? (UK Times)

4) New Yorkers are beginning to ignore the lockdown. (The Federalist)

5) Marylanders plan weekend protest in Annapolis.  (Re-open Maryland)  

6) Blocks of - mainly Democratic - Governors form regional alliances to ensure that no one does anything different from anyone else.  (WMAL)

7) Actress Rita Wilson employs oral version of "esoteric writing" to communicate that hydroxychlorquine saved her life past the censorship of Hollywood tyrants.  (PJMedia)

8) University of Chicago tests new antiviral.  (STAT)

9) Michigan residents sue Governor Whitmer.  (Breitbart)

10) State governments that outlaw buying gardening or home improvement products declare lotteries "essential."  (The Intercept)