Microsoft News memory holes its coverage of Governor Cuomo infecting NY nursing homes

A circle drawn around New York City, including small pieces of Connecticut and New Jersey and New York counties beyond NYC account for about half the COVID-19 deaths in the United States,

About half of those deaths were of elderly people.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo warned other states that soon they would be where he was a few weeks ago.

It has not happened.

Even among other Code Blue States.

Governor Cuomo's state department of health ordered nursing homes to accept all coronavirus positive residents, rather than relocate them to the empty hospital ships or the pop up hospital at the Javits Center.

The result was mass infection and a spike in NYC deaths.

The "conservative" press has covered this, and with few exceptions the Democratic press has not.

Early on there was Microsoft News story, which still shows up in search engines.  But if you click on it, it is memory holed.

Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 25-26, 2020 Weekend Edition)

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 asking for freedom of assembly and the right to earn a living. The hard hit areas do seem to be full of such people, perhaps in part because they were fans of government mass transit, which seems to be a vector for infection.

1) Urgent care doctors who have collected data from thousands of coronavirus tests call for ending lockdown.  (American Institute for Economic Research)

2) Governor Cuomo forced nursing homes to accept coronavirus infected residents; now New York has the highest mortality rates.  (NBC News) 

3)  Many New York residents have already had coronavirus with no symptoms.  (Times Union)

4)  People without income because of the lockdown plan a rent strike for May; leftist journalists laud them and assume they are not the same people at Re-Open protests.  (The Intercept)

5) The lockdown may have tripled suicide rates.  (The Hill)

6) The lockdown has flattened not the curve, but the U.S. healthcare economy.  (The Federalist)





7) States with no lockdown have no higher rates of infection or mortality than locked down states.  (Spiked)

8) Another state caught faking coronavirus statistics.  (Daily Wire)

9) The lockdown will accelerate Social Security insolvency. (reason)

10) A lockdown for thee but not for me:  a Democratic bundler, a D.C. city councilperson, and a CNN producer have a dinner party in Georgetown.  (DCist/WAMU)

Stay Home - or Protest! - and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 16, 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.

1) New York pads it COVID-19 numbers by 4,000 in one day.  (Daily Caller)

2) China delayed telling its own citizens or other countries about coronavirus for 6 days. (The Diplomat)


3) Or did the Chinese Communist government lie to the world for 3 weeks? (UK Times)

4) New Yorkers are beginning to ignore the lockdown. (The Federalist)

5) Marylanders plan weekend protest in Annapolis.  (Re-open Maryland)  

6) Blocks of - mainly Democratic - Governors form regional alliances to ensure that no one does anything different from anyone else.  (WMAL)

7) Actress Rita Wilson employs oral version of "esoteric writing" to communicate that hydroxychlorquine saved her life past the censorship of Hollywood tyrants.  (PJMedia)

8) University of Chicago tests new antiviral.  (STAT)

9) Michigan residents sue Governor Whitmer.  (Breitbart)

10) State governments that outlaw buying gardening or home improvement products declare lotteries "essential."  (The Intercept)

Stay Home and Read This! A Coronavirus Reading Sampler (April 13, 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.

1) One third of renters did not pay rent in April.  (Wall Street Journal)

2)  Microneedle "Band Aid" vaccine in development.  (Market Watch)

3) Andrew Cuomo considers using National Guard to seize ventilators. (Politico) 

4) Journalists with the Trump Derangment Syndrome co-morbidity falsely claim Trump makes money off of hydroxychloroquine.  (The Dispatch) 

Which raises a question:

If hydroxychloroquine is proven to be a cure (or good prophylaxis), and we can't make enough for everyone and have to ration it, should we deny it to all registered Democrats, or just elected ones?

5)  Democrat brownshirts throw nails in Kentucky church parking lot, Democrat Governor Andy Beshear orders state troopers to harass Easter Sunday church goers.  (NY Post)

6)   Laboratory where COVID-19 may have originated in humans in Wuhan, China funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.  (UK Daily Mail)

7)  COVID-19's most important lessons.  (Garrison Center)

8) CDC's massive failure. (American Institute for Economic Research)

9)  Will we have to show our papers to walk out of our homes? (Lew Rockwell)

10) CDC's Nanny State funding priorities led to no preparation for a panedmic.  (Inside Sources)

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.

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.

Stay Home and Read This! - A COVID-19 Reading Sampler (March 30, 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) Long waiting times in socialize medical systems, and Italian social customs regarding touching, lead to a nosocomial spread of COVID-19 in Europe.

2) Australian provinces consider closing internal borders.

3) New York public health bureaucrats deliberately decided years ago not to buy enough ventilators, and drew up plans to ration them instead.

4) Bill Bennett asks if the cure is worse than the disease.

5) Amazon makes Audible books free.

6) COVID-19 economic restrictions may lead to food shortages in the U.S.

7) How government regulation prevented testing in the United States.

8) Gov. Cuomo admits to hoarding ventilators in case he needs them later.

9) Alaska outlaws most internal travel between communities.

10) Jake Tapper nails Mayor de Blasio on saying people should ignore coronavirus - as late as March 13.

Stay Home and Read! This - The COVID-19 Reading Sampler (March 29, 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's dying now?

2) Deer, monkeys, and other forest critters are "invading" urban areas.

3) However it is a viral (no pun intended) hoax that dolphins have invaded Venetian canals.



4) D.C. school system nurses ordered to work on COVID-19 or lose their health insurance and jobs.

5) Rhode Island quarantines fleeing New Yorkers.

6) Russia goes on a hospital building spree.

7) The Intercept knocks Charles Koch for opposing CDC funding while also opposing closing down businesses.

8) Two Stanford medical school professors ask if the pandemic is hyped and shutting down the economy wrong headed.

9) Trump may quarantine New York and its suburbs.

10) California Democratic governor got rid of medical equipment useful in a pandemic.