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 asking for freedom of assembly and the right to earn a living. The hard hit areas do seem to be full of such people, perhaps in part because they were fans of government mass transit, which seems to be a vector for infection.
2) High school seniors are planning on skipping or delaying going to college if it means online classes only. (Education Week)
3) Mayors begin defying Governors and re-opening local economies. (Washington Examiner)
4) Shutdowns have had no effect on infection and mortality rates. (Wall Street Journal)
5) Shutdown exacerbates opioid crisis. (New York Post)
6) Mainstream media/tech giants call for censoring internet during pandemic...and after. (Caitlin Johnstone)
7) Facebook will begin "nudging" people who promote or agree with coronavirus stories critical of official government propaganda. (CNBC)
9) The conquest of the United States by the Communist Chinese Party. (American Institute of Economic Research)
10) Recycling industries ask for $1 billion in shutdown bailout. (The Intercept)
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