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) Stanford University Medical Center study suggest COVID-19 lethality much like annual seasonal flu. (reason)
2) The economic lockdown is going to kill hundreds of thousands of children globally. (Reuters)
3) IMF: Lockdown is greatest global recession since Great Depression. (Bloomberg)
4) Free and open Sweden continues to have low rates of coronavirus. (Daily Mail)
5) Italy, with the worst rates of coronavirus, early on produced government public service annoucements urging Italians to hug Chinese tourists to show that they were not racist. (YouTube)
6) China sold Great Britain $20 million worth of fake coronavirus tests. (The Hill)
7) Shutdown policies curiously and coincidentally target self-employed people and small businesses more likely to vote other than for Democrats. (American Greatness)
9) Government failure: contamination at CDC labs delayed rolling out coronavirus testing. (CNN)
9) The list of TV and movie productions that have been postponed. (IndieWire)
10) Mass protest in many lockdown states began this weekend. (KTVB)
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