Monday, March 30, 2020

Stay Home and Read This! - A COVID-19 Reading Sampler (March 30, 2020)

We are offering our top 10 selections, probably daily, of the best 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) Long waiting times in socialize medical systems, and Italian social customs regarding touching, lead to a nosocomial spread of COVID-19 in Europe.

2) Australian provinces consider closing internal borders.

3) New York public health bureaucrats deliberately decided years ago not to buy enough ventilators, and drew up plans to ration them instead.

4) Bill Bennett asks if the cure is worse than the disease.


5) Amazon makes Audible books free.

6) COVID-19 economic restrictions may lead to food shortages in the U.S.

7) How government regulation prevented testing in the United States.

8) Gov. Cuomo admits to hoarding ventilators in case he needs them later.

9) Alaska outlaws most internal travel between communities.

10) Jake Tapper nails Mayor de Blasio on saying people should ignore coronavirus - as late as March 13.


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