Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 24, 2020)

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, since
they all live in jurisdictions with mass transit,
which seems to be a vector for infection.

1)  Around half of coronavirus deaths have been in nursing homes: what if we had only quarantined nursing homes and the elderly and focused most PPPE and testing on their caregivers? (Microsoft News)

2) California violates rights to free speech and assembly on public streets, parks and properties.  (DailyWire) 

3) Will coronavirus be like the 2003 SARS pandemic? (New Yorker)

4) The political economy of hydroxychloroquine. (Patrick Howley)

5) The same elites who brought you the Iraq War and Russiagate now want to respond to the coronavirus.  (The Federalist)

6) How the CDC botched coronavirus testing in the U.S., a country where anyone can go to their local drugstore chain minute clinic and get a TB test.  (MIT Technology Review)

7) Why Democrats want to bail out Blue States:  the economic lockdown is busting posh, underfunded government pension system.  (reason)

8) Falling tax revenues from lockdown may bankrupt big spending states with public sector pension liabilities.  (Bloomberg)

9) Governor Northam has been hiding in a vacation home in another state while protesters rally against his lockdown.  (Big League Politics) 

10) Is America's judicial system vigorous enough to protect us against encroaching planned-demic Stalinism?  (LewRockwell)