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) Federalist editor Madeline Osburn reports that the scientist whose model had been used to predict an unprecedented pandemic is now walking his predictions back.
2) New Scientist reports that the Imperial college scientist whose model had been used for prediction has drastically lowered his predictions.
3) Federalist contributor Mollie Hemingway reports on media using debunked models and statistics in COVID-19 reporting, for political reasons.
4) Johan Norberg reports from Sweden that the Swedes are not closing businesses or schools.
5) Javier Sanchez and Willliam Hongsong Wang report from Taiwan that Taiwan is also not closing schools and businesses.
6) George Mason University economist Alex Tabborak discusses how the CDC's and FDA's attempt to centrally plan and monopolize test production worsened the pandemic.
7) Richard Epstein revises upward his earlier prediction that COVID-19 was little worse than annual flu seasons, but maintains that the standard predictions were still wrong.
8) Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy reports on how the private sector saved the day.
9) France decides not to shut down businesses in minority immigrant neighborhoods, which would seem to raise all kinds of questions about equal treatment under the law.
10) Fifty five million public school students are now digital homeschooling. Will they want to go back to government schools?
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