Stay Home and Read This! - A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 7, 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) New Jersey needs programmers who know a language from the 1970s to update public health care IT.  (Joseph Steinberg)

2) Some new research in a weakness in the structure of the coronavirus.  (NY Post)

3) Since the media and officials are lying, spinning, and changing their stories, others are free to speculate on whether COVID-19 was a bio-weapon, whether it is a form of population control, whether it is a tool to end the dollar as a reserve currency, and whether it is an attempt to end the cash economy to enable greater surveillance.  (Lew Rockwell)

4) Was economic closure necessary? (American Thinker)

5) Trump Derangement Syndrome as a comorbidity: a chemist at The Conversation (technocratic newsletter produced only by university and foundation  "experts"),  who also writes for for the partisan leftist site Alternet,  AND who is also a consultant for Big Pharma (Gilead),  knocks a cure "touted by President Trump" and reports that hydroxychloraquine results are "mixed."  Her readers drag her for misreading the research.  (The Conversation)

6) A New York doctor tries a variation of the hydroxychloraquine cocktail.  (NY Post)

7) One doctor cures hundreds of patients at a cost of $20 each.  (VARIndia)

8) A small Canadian jurisdiction adopts hydroxychloraquine treatment.  (COVEXIT)

9) Sole nursing home survivor, 104 year old man, was the one treated with hydroxychloraquine.  (Huffington Post)

10) No one really knows how much of the pharmaceutical supply chain is in China. (reason)