Thursday, April 23, 2020

Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronovarius Reading Sampler (April 23, 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.

If we were religious, we'd wonder if coronavirus were a
biblical plague sent to punish the kind of people who are
wishing death and disease on peaceful protesters, since
they all live in jurisdictions with mass transit,
which seems to be a vector for infection.

1) Coronavirus timeline of Chinese Communist Party deceit. (Victims of Communism Foundation

2) Californians turns skate park into dirt bike trail after state government fills it in with sand. (Trending Views)

3) Illinois judge grants independent candidates petitioning leeway because of coronavirus. (Ballot Access News)

4) Statisticians argue about recent studies showing that coronavirus infection is more widespread and less lethal than original predictions. (reason)


5) Protests show two Americas: one thrown into unemployment and uncertainty, one getting government paychecks and subsidies. (USAToday)

6) Vimeo censors film critical of the World Health Organization and the pharmaceutical industry. (Collective Evolution)

7) The data is in: shutdown policies have been a destructive failure. (The Hill)

8) D.C. woman spun up by official fearmongering pepper sprays other shoppers at WalMart. (WJLA)


9) De Blasio's snitch line closed after public sends genital pics and prank memes ridiculing his fascism. (DailyMail)

10) Coronavirus has been in the U.S. earlier than public health experts and models assumed. (New York Times)


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