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.
1) "The Political Economy of Pandemics" Call for Papers (Cosmos&Taxis)
2) Historians want your contemporaneous journals and photos of coronavirus in Washington, D.C. (WAMU radio)
3) Historians also want your journals and photos in Indiana. (Indiana Historical Society)
4) Inconvenient history: Dr. Fauci told Newsmax TV earlier this year that coronavirus would be no problem. (Newsmax)
5) Big Pharma hopes AIDS drug will work on coronavirus. (Washington Blade)
6) Nurses ordered out of hospital after protesting conditions. (The Independent)
7) Duke University economist Michael Munger discusses riots, rationing, price gouging in our future. (reason)
8) Statists will use pandemic as an opportunity to permanently make society unfree. (Advancing Time)
9) Fans create an Alien themed face mask. (Nerdist)
10) Governments are trampling civil liberties during pandemic. (The Stream)
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) Swedes continue to be free.
2) Mathematical models don't seem to be able to predict coronavirus, and yet politicians want to use it as an occasion for central planning.
3) Should we sacrifice most of the country for New York (New Orleans, etc.)?
5) Mayor de Blasio lied to citizens about need to wear masks.
6) Some Chinese sell bear bile as coronavirus cure.
7) A Wuhan pictorial.
8) Current pandemic reveals need to abolish the FDA.
9) Europe bans export of medical gear.
10) Dr. Fauci says we aren't half-way through pandemic.
We are offering our top 10 selections, probably daily, of the best - or funniest or oddest - 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) GOP will continue to hold nominating convention in August.
2) New Orleans mayor argues Trump made her keep Mardi Gras open.
3) China continues to censor information about the Wuhan virus.
4) Grandma's cure may be effective.
5) Should we infect healthy, young people so we can test a vaccine on them?
6) HHS kept its gym open even after the governments closed private gyms.
7) If you have a 3D printer you can make masks at home with these instructions.
8) China sold shoddy test kits to European countries.
9) An NHS pathologists argues that COVID-19 statistics are collected inaccurately.
10) Dr. Fauci asks if Chinese tourists brought the virus to Italy.
