Stay Home and Read This! A Coroavirus Reading Sampler (April 10, 2020, evening edition)

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) Economic lockdown is national suicide, Tucker Carlson reviews Anthony Fauci.  (Real Clear Politics)

2) Cut the capital gains tax to revive the economy.  (Washington Examiner)

3) Obamacare architect advocates 18 months of government mandated depression.  (Fox News)

4) Ways to rebel against the lockdown.  (Lew Rockwell)


5) Former mainstream media reporter observes COVID-19 models have all been wrong, with disastrous results. (Fox News)

6) Dr. Birx confirms governments count almost any death of a coronavirus positive person as due to COVID-19. (Fox News)

7) Dr. Fauci discusses national ID cards identifying infection status. (Politico)

8) Virginia Governor Ralph Northam uses pandemic to pass gun control.  (Bearing Arms)

9) Postal Service threatens to shut down without more subsidies. (Fox News)

10) A coronavirus timetable in links.  (Miss Liberty)

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.