Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronovarius Reading Sampler (April 23, 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) Coronavirus timeline of Chinese Communist Party deceit. (Victims of Communism Foundation) 

2) Californians turns skate park into dirt bike trail after state government fills it in with sand. (Trending Views)

3) Illinois judge grants independent candidates petitioning leeway because of coronavirus. (Ballot Access News)

4) Statisticians argue about recent studies showing that coronavirus infection is more widespread and less lethal than original predictions. (reason)

5) Protests show two Americas: one thrown into unemployment and uncertainty, one getting government paychecks and subsidies. (USAToday)

6) Vimeo censors film critical of the World Health Organization and the pharmaceutical industry. (Collective Evolution)

7) The data is in: shutdown policies have been a destructive failure. (The Hill)

8) D.C. woman spun up by official fearmongering pepper sprays other shoppers at WalMart. (WJLA)

9) De Blasio's snitch line closed after public sends genital pics and prank memes ridiculing his fascism. (DailyMail)

10) Coronavirus has been in the U.S. earlier than public health experts and models assumed. (New York Times)

Stay Home and Read This! - A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 6, 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) WHO and public health bureaucrats encourage local officials to code all death by anyone who is positive for coronavirus as caused by COVID-19.

2) The IMHE model governments are using is predicting the number of deaths (but given the over-coding mandating, see #1 ?) but over-estimating the number of hospital beds needed.

3) Italy begins mass treatment with hydroxychloraquine.

4) Socialized medical systems decide to let older patients die: Spain.

5) Socialized medical systems decide to let older patients die: France.

6) Eighty percent of COVID-19 test kits donated by China are faulty.

7) Tigers and lions now infected with coronavirus.

8) A clinical immunologist calls the response to COVID-19 and anti-American panic.

9) How Democrats planning for climate change missed preparing for a pandemic.

10) Calls continue to re-open economy.

Stay Home and Read This! - A Coronavirus Weekend Reading Sampler (April 4-5, 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) 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.