Stay Home and Read This! - A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 3, 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)  Democrats play catch up:  Governor Cuomo recently was complaining about not having enough ventilators, but The Nation reports he created a shortage of hospital beds.

2) Democrats play catch up: conservatives find another case of the left poo-pooing a coronavirus scare back in January, when the Huffington Post attacked Senator Tom Cotton's early warning.

3) Democrats proved wrong:  Senator Tom Cotton's belief that coronavirus may have originated in a Chinese biotech lab may well be true.

4) Democrats in contradiction:  The Washington Post's own scientific expert Richard Ebright now says Tom Cotton may be right about origins of coronavirus

5) Swedes continue to refuse shutdown.

6) Democrats and public health officials lied to the public about masks being effective.

7) Sean Lennon denounces mainstream media lies about coronavirus.

8) Red Cross partially deregulates gay male blood donors.

9) The CARES 2 trillion boondoggle includes Democrat's wish list AND the surveillance state.

10) Democrats delay nominating convention.